'How far have you gone with school meals? Inje University eats lobster.'
This menu appeared on the 12th at the Inje University Gimhae Campus cafeteria in Eobang-dong, Gimhae-si, Gyeongnam. From noon that day, 300 servings of 'Lobster Cheese Grilled Set Meal' were sold to students at a limited price of 4,900 won.
The set meal consisted of lobster as the main dish, Toowoomba pasta, mango cheese salad, yogurt dressing, homemade pickles, corn soup, and lemonade.
This menu was prepared by the school to wish for the final selection as a Glocal University and to provide students with lobster at an affordable price.
The school explained that the cost of one lobster meal is in the 20,000 won range.
As soon as the set meal sales began, all 300 lobsters were sold out instantly.
Bae Seong-yoon, director of the student welfare office and also head of the cafeteria direct management team, said, “Due to rising prices, the burden of a meal for students is increasing and deficits in university-run cafeterias are inevitable, but quality school meals are a kind of ‘good deficit’ that the school must bear from the perspective of student welfare. We will continue to do our best to help students enjoy university life through various school meal events.”
Earlier, Inje University was the only private university in Busan and Gyeongnam to be provisionally designated as one of the Glocal Universities 30.
The Ministry of Education selected Glocal Universities 30, a project name combining 'Global' and 'Local,' to innovate universities in cooperation with local communities, providing 100 billion won over five years to each selected university. A total of 94 innovation plans from 108 universities nationwide were submitted, and only 15 universities were provisionally designated, passing the first screening.
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