SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University is set to introduce halal food at one of its cafeterias on campus from next month in a move to attract Muslim students. The renowned university has announced plans to provide halal options at Gamgol Cafeteria from April 2, in an effort to attract and cater to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Faculty at the elite Seoul National University business school have created a new class teaching corporate ethics that will be a core requirement for students going forward. Starting this spring term, the class, titled “Corporate Philosophy and Ethics” will be mandatory for business management students in their freshman year. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Researchers at Seoul National University have developed a new monitoring system for turbines at power plants, the first of its kind in the world. The research team led by professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Yoon Byung-dong said on Monday it had developed a turbine monitoring system capable of self-learning [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of engineering students at Seoul National University has developed a trampoline designed to produce compressed air that could help dentists in developing countries power high-speed equipment used for treatment, the university said Tuesday. The team, led by Kim Jae-in, a student in the Mechanical Aviation Engineering Department [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A new water recycling system that purifies rainwater and wastewater to provide bathroom water has been installed at a dormitory at Seoul National University. According to the College of Engineering at SNU on Wednesday, the water recycling system collects rainwater from the roof of the dormitory building, which is then [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of dermatology researchers at Seoul National University have found that exposure to UV rays may have an adverse effect on the brain. Through animal testing, the researchers discovered that UV rays can generate stress hormones in the skin, and that these hormones depress the generation of neuron [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A Ph.D student at the University of Iowa recently published a report indicating that students attending one of the three SKY universities (Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University), often considered the best post-secondary institutions in South Korea, are strongly inclined towards attaining upward social mobility through their educational [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Seoul National University researchers have successfully conducted a field test in which extracted male pheromones from the longhorn beetle were used to limit the spread of pine wilt disease. Also referred to informally as “Pine Tree AIDS” for its deadly and near-untreatable nature, pine wilt disease [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A temporary permit issued to conglomerate KT by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) has cleared the path for a locally developed self-driving bus to be tested on the road. KT highlighted the momentous impact of the occasion in a public statement: “Until now, the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Animal rights groups saw their lawsuit demanding that Seoul National University Hospital publicly disclose its records on in-house animal testing approved by the Seoul 11th Administrative Court on August 28. Prior to the suit, the hospital had rebuffed such demands by expressing that it was “not unconcerned that [the [...]