SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical school professors at Seoul National University (SNU) are reviewing taking a day off every week as they have been thinly stretched amid the prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, officials said Tuesday. The emergency committee of the SNU medical professors’ council will hold a general meeting later in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the freshmen at Seoul National University (SNU), one of South Korea’s most prestigious universities, two out of three came from the greater Seoul area, including affluent districts of Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa in southern Seoul, data showed Tuesday. According to data that Rep. Kang Min-jung of the Democratic [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Unification Ministry on Tuesday gave the green light for students of Seoul National University to contact students of Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s most prestigious school of higher learning, to discuss academic exchanges, the South Korean university’s students said. The approval, coming amid increasingly warming ties between [...]
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, 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, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Alumni and retired professors from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Seoul National University (SNU) are establishing an agricultural school in Uganda to pass on their knowledge and technical expertise. A group of alumni announced on Sunday, July 3, that they had formed a committee for Uganda’s Sangrok [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A lesbian was elected Thursday as the student president of the nation’s top-ranked Seoul National University (SNU) for the first time in the school’s history. Kim Bo-mi, 23, who ran unopposed, was elected with 86.8 percent of voters’ approval, according to the university’s election watchdog. Earlier this month, Kim [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A specialist hospital managed by Seoul National University Hospital, one of South Korea’s top medical centers, opened in the United Arab Emirates, South Korea’s health ministry said Wednesday. The opening ceremony of the Sheikh Khalifa Specialist Hospital on Wednesday came eight months after the SNU was selected as the [...]
SEOUL, Dec 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Korean scientists succeeded in developing a breakthrough technology to administer an antibiotic susceptibility test in a faster, more precise way. Prof. Kwon Sung-hoon at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, said that his research team has developed a new antibiotic susceptibility test [...]
JEJU, South Korea, Sept 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC), Seoul National University Hospital and Greenland Group signed an MOU on September 13 at Jeju Science Park. Under the agreement, the hospital and Greenland Group will develop medical facilities, including a medical check-up center and a special clinic, as part [...]