Kookmin University Signs MOU with TASKING Korea for Fostering Skilled Professionals and Technical Collaboration

Seoul, Korea — Sep­tem­ber 23, 2025, Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty and TASKING Korea have announced the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MoU) to deep­en col­lab­o­ra­tion in tal­ent develop­ment and tech­ni­cal exchange. The agree­ment was for­mal­ized by Pres­i­dent Seung Ryeol Jeong of Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty and Hyung-Jin Kim, Coun­try Man­ag­er of TASKING Korea.

The sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny brought togeth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives from both orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing Houssem Ben Abder­rah­man (Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer, TASKING HQ), Hyung-Jin Kim (Coun­try Man­ag­er, TASKING Korea), Se-Woong Park (Sales Man­ag­er, TASKING Korea), Ruda Yi (Admin­is­tra­tion Man­ag­er, TASKING Korea), Jin-Sik Son (Vice Pres­i­dent for Plan­ning, Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty), Gu-Min Jeong (Pro­fes­sor of Intel­li­gent ICT Con­ver­gence, Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty), and Yong-Soo Han (Pro­fes­sor of Intel­li­gent Elec­tron­ic Engi­neer­ing, Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty). Togeth­er, they dis­cussed phased strate­gies and prac­ti­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion plans to ensure suc­cess­ful imple­men­ta­tion.

Under the agree­ment, the two par­ties will coop­er­ate across mul­ti­ple ini­tia­tives, includ­ing the pro­vi­sion of TASKING’s indus­try-grade soft­ware and tools for edu­ca­tion­al and research pur­pos­es, the joint develop­ment of tech­ni­cal train­ing pro­grams, and the imple­men­ta­tion of col­lab­o­ra­tive R&D projects aimed at inno­va­tion and work­force readi­ness. The part­ner­ship also fos­ters ongo­ing knowl­edge-shar­ing between acad­e­mia and indus­try.

Jin-Sik Son, Vice Pres­i­dent for Plan­ning and Direc­tor of Indus­try-Acad­e­mia Coop­er­a­tion at Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty, remarked, “We look for­ward to fur­ther expand­ing our col­lab­o­ra­tion with TASKING. Their con­tin­ued sup­port has sig­nif­i­cant­ly con­tributed to the qual­i­ty of our edu­ca­tion, and we are com­mit­ted to build­ing on this part­ner­ship to gen­er­ate long-term mutu­al ben­e­fit.”

Houssem Ben Abder­rah­man, CRO of TASKING, stat­ed, “It is truly mean­ing­ful to part­ner with Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty as TASK­ING’s first indus­try-acad­e­mia part­ner in Korea. By intro­duc­ing our tech­nol­o­gy and solu­tions into the aca­d­e­m­ic set­ting, we aim to con­tribute to the advance­ment of Korea’s IT and semi­con­duc­tor sec­tors and help stu­dents pre­pare for suc­cess­ful careers in these fields.”

This MoU marks the begin­ning of a close, long-term part­ner­ship between Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty and TASKING Korea. The two par­ties will work hand in hand to fos­ter next-gen­er­a­tion engi­neer­ing tal­ent, accel­er­ate tech­ni­cal inno­va­tion, and enhance TASKING’s con­tri­bu­tion to the embed­ded soft­ware ecosys­tem in Korea.

About TASKING Korea

TASKING is a lead­ing provider of embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools, pri­mar­i­ly serv­ing safe­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions. Found­ed in 1977, the Com­pa­ny has a rich his­to­ry of devel­op­ing per­for­mance-dri­ven com­pil­ers and inte­grat­ed develop­ment envi­ron­ments (IDEs) that enable man­u­fac­tur­ers and Tier‑1 sup­pli­ers to cre­ate safe­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions that are inno­v­a­tive, reli­able, and high per­for­mance. Today, TASKING con­tin­ues to expand its port­fo­lio and capa­bil­i­ties through acqui­si­tions that broad­en its offer­ings to include advanced debug­ger, soft­ware trace, and analy­sis tools. This con­stant strate­gic growth makes TASKING a trust­ed part­ner for embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools and ser­vices. TASKING has a strong posi­tion in safe­ty-crit­i­cal mar­kets with appli­ca­tions, such as auto­mo­tive, indus­tri­al and aero­space among oth­ers. Focus­ing on trust, cus­tomer ori­en­ta­tion, exper­tise and a strong com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty, TASKING empow­ers embed­ded soft­ware engi­neers to devel­op reli­able, high-per­for­mance appli­ca­tions for a safer future.

To strength­en its pres­ence in Asia, TASKING Korea was estab­lished in June 2023 and has since been expand­ing col­lab­o­ra­tions with local enter­pris­es and acad­e­mia to con­tribute to the growth of Korea’s embed­ded soft­ware ecosys­tem.

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About Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty

Found­ed in 1946 as the first pri­vate uni­ver­si­ty after Korea’s lib­er­a­tion, Kook­min Uni­ver­si­ty (KMU) is one of South Korea’s lead­ing insti­tu­tions of high­er edu­ca­tion. Locat­ed in Seoul, KMU offers a wide range of under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate pro­grams across dis­ci­plines includ­ing engi­neer­ing, design, busi­ness, law, and the arts. The uni­ver­si­ty is rec­og­nized for its com­mit­ment to inno­va­tion, glob­al col­lab­o­ra­tion, and fos­ter­ing cre­ative tal­ent, with a strong focus on indus­try-aca­d­e­m­ic coop­er­a­tion and future-ori­ent­ed research.

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