SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A bomb hoax at Seoul’s Yonsei University prompted about 100 people to evacuate Wednesday night, but police found no explosives, officials said Thursday. An unidentified person claimed in an internet post to have sent a tumbler containing a bomb to the university in anger over a professor. After police [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The rivalry between Yonsei University and Korea University has extended to the shelves of CU outlets, with a new competition arising after the convenience store chain started selling baked goods featuring the names and logos of these universities. The rivalry between these two colleges, founded over 100 years ago, [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Maddox Jolie-Pitt, the eldest son of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, began his first academic term at South Korea’s Yonsei University on Monday, in the limelight of the South Korean media. Maddox, the eldest of Jolie’s six children, appeared for the welcome ceremony for incoming freshmen for Yonsei University’s Underwood [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s eldest son will begin attending Yonsei University next week, the school said Monday. Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 18, has been accepted to Underwood International College at Yonsei, one of the most prestigious universities in South Korea. The school will hold an entrance ceremony next Monday followed by [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonsei University has installed donation card readers on campus, which allow students to donate to the school by touching their card to the reader like a transportation card. On Monday, the university reported that it has installed 10 donation-only card readers on its campus for the first time in [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonsei University plans to open up a new Department of System Semiconductor Engineering in 2021 that will offer graduates the guarantee of a job at Samsung Electronics Co. The university and Samsung agreed early this week to create the new department and have notified the Ministry of Education. The [...]
DAEJEON, Jan 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Research Foundation of Korea announced on January 3 that a research team at Yonsei University had, through a manufacturing process making use of lower temperatures than normally required, successfully produced a hybrid solar cell of organic material and silicon. Crystalline silicon solar cells are the most commonly [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean medical research team’s treatment of patients diagnosed with ROS1 gene rearrangement non-small lung cancer with the drug Ceritinib has led to a change in globally accepted treatment methods. From June 2013 through February 2016, Yonsei Cancer Center researchers conducted drug therapies on 404 stage 4 lung [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Yonsei University researchers has successfully developed a keyboard using paper and pencil. As society moves forward into the Internet-of-Things age, academic research on pressure sensors through upgrading the sensitivity and pliability of surface microstructures is going strong. Typically, the development process of surface microstructures is both [...]
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 [...]