SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A grandson of a legendary Korean independence fighter said Tuesday that he will reject a request from the Harvard president to reconsider his decision not to donate his family’s historical archives over a controversial paper portraying wartime sexual slaves as prostitutes. Philip Ahn Cuddy, the grandson of Ahn Chang-ho, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A grandson of a renowned Korean independence fighter said Thursday that he had sent a letter to Harvard University’s president to end any discussions about donating his historical archives due to a professor’s article depicting Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as voluntary prostitution. In an email and phone interview with [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Administrators at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have revealed that the institution for higher learning is currently co-hosting a research internship program with Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for the second year in a row. The UNIST-Harvard SEAS Summer Program enables students [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – At the 18th World Knowledge Forum held at the Shilla Seoul Hotel on October 18, Harvard Economics Professor Robert Barro evaluated the current Moon administration’s focus on income growth as “not going down the right path” during a “2018 Global Economic Outlook” segment. Drawing comparisons to policies enacted in [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean conglomerate CJ has been the talk of the town for its thriving entertainment and cultural business to spread the Korean Wave beyond Asia, even drawing attention from the academic circle, company officials said Monday. A group of 30 students from Harvard Business School on Friday visited the CJ [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Endowments of colleges in the U.S. earned decent returns while Korean universities suffered great losses. The Wall Street Journal reported on September 23 that “Harvard, the World’s Wealthiest University, Reported a 15.4 Percent Investment Return for Fiscal 2014.” Its performance is weaker compared with certain peers but “those returns exceeded [...]