SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Unexploded shells and bullets believed to be from the 1950-53 Korean War were discovered at a university campus in Seoul for two consecutive days, officials said Wednesday. Three unexploded bombs, believed to be mortar shells, were discovered near the entrance of Daeseongjeon, a shrine within Sungkyunkwan University, in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sungkyunkwan University said Monday it will present the country’s first university awards in the format of the non-fungible token (NFT) in a graduation ceremony this week. Moon Kyung-won, a pharmacy major, will be one of several students to be given the NFT-based certificates of the university’s awards in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Sungkyunkwan University announced on Monday that it has introduced LIBO, an intelligent library robot that provides information on academic services at the university. The robot was modeled on Furo-D, first designed by the Future Robot Company. LIBO is capable of engaging in basic conversation, like exchanging greetings or asking [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have developed a super capacitor material which can charge electricity 10 times faster than existing batteries, and store twice as much as graphene-based materials. Professor Park Ho-seok of the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, announced that his team created the super capacitor material by making [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean teachers are most likely to regret their career choice among other OECD peers, as almost 20 percent regret becoming teachers. According to Yang Jung-ho, a professor of education at Sungkyunkwan University, who analyzed 105,000 middle school teachers based on the OECD report “Teaching and Learning International Survey 2013”, Korean [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has succeeded in developing a new nanotechnology material to split water using solar energy. The research project, sponsored by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, was led by Prof. Park Jong-hyeok of SungKyunKwan University and Kim Jong-kyu of Postech as well as Xinjian Shi, and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 20 (Korea Bizwire) – In college campuses in celebration of the new semester, there are students who seek private places such as empty lecture rooms and lounges where they can dine alone. Many of them are likely to be maladjusted loners who haven’t got over the high school days when every classmate [...]