Jong-Il You, the Dean of the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, joined the Stay Strong campaign to overcome and terminate COVID-19.

The Stay Strong campaign is a public service campaign relay launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in March 2020. The campaign logo depicts the importance of personal hygiene management through the phrase "Stay Strong" along with a picture of soap bubbles on two praying hands.

Dean You said, "Through joining the campaign with KDI School students from all over the world, I want to become a support for people around the world who are suffering from mental difficulties."

Yoo Jong-Il was nominated by Baek Sun-hee, director of the Korea Institute for Child Care and Education. This time, he nominates Moon Yoo-kyung, director of the Korean Women''s Development Institute, and Kwon Ho-yeol, director of the Korea Information Society Development Institute, as the next participants.