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- First “Quant-people’s Night” Finished Successfully
- First “Quant-people’s Night” Finished Successfully The Department of Quant Applied Economics at the School of Economics held the first unity meeting after the establishment of the department under the name of “SKKU DQAE==The First Step Toward a Better Future” at the Plaza Hotel, Maple Hall on Saturday, May 23. It was an event that was finally achieved when the student council took lead for all preparations after the department’s first students continued to request a place of pledge and communication, that was being postponed due to the COVID-19 situation. All of the students (32 students) from Quant Applied Economics attended the meeting, in addition to the dean of the School of Economics Il-joong Kim, dean of the Department of Quant Applied Economics Hee-jun Han, and the professors who give actual lectures such as Sung-hyun Kim, Jae-jik Kim, Chang-shik Kim, Min-soo Park, Doo-yeon Cho, Joon-mo Cho, Soo-sung Hwang, and Eun-jung Heo. Also, Geun-baek Lee, dean of the Department of Statistics, and Dong-won Lee, dean of the Department of Global Economics, as well as the assistants of the Economics College and the staff of the administration office attended the meeting and encouraged them. (Chant saying “Let’s take a leap forward for a luxurious department”) The first part of the meeting was briefly conducted by Byeong-Koo Cho, chairman of the student council, in the following order: encouragement speech of the dean of School of Economics, introduction of faculty of economics, toast of the dean of Department of Quant Applied Economics, and dinner. In the second part of the event, which was prepared and conducted by the members of the student council, there was a presentation under the theme ‘Smart School Life’ that put together very useful and detailed information for studying at Myeongnyun Campus being enrolled in Sungkyunkwan University. Subsequently, the student council organized some joyful group events. (Chairman of the student council Byeong-Koo Cho leading the opening of the event) (Dean of School of Economics, Il-joong Kim giving the encouragement speech) In addition, while offering a toast to celebrate, Han Hee-jun, head of the department of Quant Applied Economics, said, “I highly appreciate the determination of the first students in the current program, as they bravely decided to enroll in the program, even if the Quant Applied Economics course had a big uncertainty, since it is the first time this new course is being attempted in Korea. When you look back on your career in the distant future, I sincerely hope that one of the best choices you have made related to your career was to participate in the 2020 DQAE course among many other decisions. I think you recently would have felt that after entering the university, it was not as easy as you expected to complete the course while working at the same time. However, I think it is a very valuable investment, so I ask you all to do your best until next summer. Of course, the professors and I will do our best for you, too.” (QAE Department chairman Hee-jun Han offering a toast for a vigorous start) On the other hand, the College of Economics exerted every effort to take preventive measures due to concerns of COVID-19 infections, by actively fulfilling social distancing in a wide space (accommodating 100 people) leaving enough space between people (5 people seated in each table that is for 10 people), disinfecting the event hall, putting on masks, providing personal vinyl gloves, etc.
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- 작성일 2020-06-05
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- Thanks for the Alumni(Yoon Young-sun)'s Love
- The award ceremony for ‘Yoon Youngsun Scholarship’ and ‘Alumni Scholarship’ of the College of Economics was held on March 25th(WED) at the Dean's Office. ‘The Yoon Youngsun Scholarship’ which begins this year, was awarded to two outstanding new graduate students. In addition, the College of Economics Alumni Association selected eight postgraduate student awardees in the first semester of 2020 and awarded the total scholarship of twenty million won. On behalf of the Alumni Association, the alumnus Yoon Youngsun (matriculated in 1976) attended the 25th ceremony to present the scholarship. Yoon Youngsun who served as the Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service and President of the Alumni Association, shows great interests and support for the development of the College of Economics. In the past he played a leading role in fundraising about 90 million won during the period of the President of the Alumni Association, in order to enhance the status of the College of Economics and to strengthen its research capabilities. Yoon congratulated all the awardees and commented that he will keep going on supporting two excellent students by granting more scholarship of three million won every year.
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- 작성일 2020-03-25
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- QuantEcon Workshop with Australian National Univ. (ANU) at Canberra
- Graduate students in economics, undergraduate students in global economics, Participating in the Workshop hosted by the Australian National University (ANU) QuantEcon. 4 graduate students in economics and 5 undergraduates in global economics took part in the "Economic Modeling with Python" theme at the Australian National University from February 24th to 25th to establish a global network. Prof. John Stachurski (ANU), Nobel prize-winner Prof. Thomas Sargent (NYU), and Prof. Timothy Kam of this school emphasized and taught students the importance of using Phyton language in many areas, including building models in economics. On the first day of the workshop, Prof. Thomas Sargent attended the workshop and had time to deepen the understanding of the participating students by answering questions and answers with Prof. John Stachurski. Prof. Lee Joonsang, who led the students in economics, had in-depth discussions on not only exchanges of exchange students between Prof. John Starchurski and our graduate students, but also ways to expand future opportunities for undergraduate students and to expand the scope of international cooperation with ANU-QuantEcon and SKKU through joint economic policy implementation.
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- 작성일 2020-03-12
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- Prof. Han Heejoon selected as 2019 SKKU Fellowship Professor.
- Prof. Han Heejoon selected as 2019 SKKU Fellowship Professor. The SKKU-Fellowship system is the highest honor given to professors by our university since 2004, and is a system that gives exceptional research support and honor by selecting best professors with world-class research skills or with high accessibility in each academic field. The aim is to improve the research environment so that professors with the highest level of research ability can generate world-class research results in quality by minimizing their lecture obligations and focusing on research. The 2019 SKKU-Fellowship selected the best professors by academic field based on the quality level of the research paper (number of papers for subjects for subjects, IF sum and so on).
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- 작성일 2020-03-11
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- Gratitude for Alumni's Endless Love
- On February 20th, Kim Jung-hoon(Chairman of SJ-Oil) prepared a place of congratulations and encouragement for 12 students who passed the state-administered exam (11 civil service exams and 1 Korea National Diplomatic Academy) at the Chinese Restaurant in Seoul Station, and presented them with high-end pens. The celebration was attended by 7 successful students, Choi Yangsoo(Matriculated in 1978, President of alumni), Kim Kiyeon(Matriculated in 1985, Chairman of the mentoring committee), and Prof. Lee Joonsang (Head of the Department of Economics). He also conveyed his valuable words to his juniors about their responsibilities as public officials and their spirit of service. Once again, the gathering became a meaningful occasion for the alumni association to feel the constant love of their juniors, which led to the further development of Alumni Mentor-program.
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- 작성일 2020-03-11
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- Final Rehearsal carried out for the International Symposium of Global Economics in Australia
- On June 25th (Monday), final rehearsal amongst contestants was held in order to move one step ahead of the upcoming SKKU-UNSW Symposium at University of New South Wales in Kensington, Australia. Each contestant was assigned to a different team, and hence different team assignments were provided. Told that the majority of the audience will be undergraduates from other universities at the symposium, contestants already knew about what to do with their given team assignments. Overall, their team assignments leaned toward actual case studies and data without anything that was too theoretical. In their previous rehearsal, they managed to come up with a variety of analyses based upon somewhat intriguing topics. At this time, they sought to reorganize their thoughts on a meaningful result gained from the analyses. Then, they did present those ideas for their last rehearsal prior to the actual symposium. After the event came to a close, the contestants had lunch together with the Dean of Global Economics to encourage one another.
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- 작성일 2018-07-03
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- The Internship Program for Spring Semester 2018 successfully came to a close: Regarding Samsung Investment Management
- Both Schools of Economics and Global Economics have established research program titled as “Samsung Investment Management Internship” at some point during their school years. Then, it was all hands on deck to evaluate this. At 3pm on June 1st (Friday), its final presentation and commencement took place at Samsung C&T Corporation in Seocho to appreciate students’ academic achievements in International Corporate Finance. Professor Young-Ju Nielsen was the subject’s instructor. 9 undergraduate students from both departments were divided into three teams to compete throughout the internship. With guidelines of 6 advisors, they embarked on researching on investment management in regard to its drawback and possible solution. The circle of company executives from Samsung Investment Management, including its research center manager, participated, but the students came up with more reasonable results through their back tests according to marketing strategies provided. They were also able to specify a severance package based upon the investment model as this model can stabilize payment methods out of immunization and non-immunized asset. They managed to debrief with the event participants about how a PFMS-based cash management can work to increase mindshare of consumers in the market. In this commencement, Professor Min-Seong Kim, Dean of Economics, and Professor Young-Ju Nielson, academic advisor, came to congratulate on their academic accomplishments along with their sincere words of encouragement.
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- 작성일 2018-06-28
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- The President of UNISINOS, Brazil Visited SKKU on May 30th
- A delegation from Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) in Brazil visited SKKU on May 30th (Wednesday) in order to discuss mutual cooperation between the two universities. At the meeting, future plans for UNISINOS’s new campus, Porto Alegre and possible exchange activities were discussed. In particular, research and faculty exchange activities are expected to develop further through the 7th Brazil – Korea Forum that will be held in August 22nd to 24th at UNISINOS’s Sao Leopoldo Campus. Unisinos is Brazilian private Jesuit university founded in 1969. Its main campus is located inSouthern Brazil. Unisinos has a strategic orientation in Science, Technology, and Innovation with a global dimension. Unisinos' campus has a technological park, TECNOSINOS, which consists of 75 companies from 10 different countries, including the South Korean HT Micron and the German SAP Labs Latin America. Together, these companies are responsible for 6,000 direct job positions.
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- 작성일 2018-06-15
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- International Research Conference 2018 of Global Economics: Its first rehearsal was hosted!
- To be poised for the 9th International Research Conference, co-hosted by SKKU and UNSW, contestants had their first rehearsal on May 4th (Fri), at International Hall, Room #9B217. Five teams competing for the conference gave their trial presentations in accordance with their academic advisors’ guidelines and supervisions. Alongside Ms. Seo-Yun Hong, a Teaching Assistant at SKKU, Professor Sung-Hyun Kim, SKKU Dean of Global Economics, participated in the session to give plenty of academic feedback. The subjects were varied from St. Peterburg Paradox to case of bakery industries. All in all, it was an invaluable experience for the contestants as they were able to edit and improve their thesis after all. The research conference is underway, and the official presentation is to be held on Monday, June 25th.
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- 작성일 2018-06-05
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- Special Seminar with the corporation’s high official
- On April 30th (Mon), Mr. Young-Woo Kim, who served as the team manager of data analysis for Hidden Grace Corp., led the special seminar in Room #31404 at Toegye Hall of Humanities. During the session, He elaborated upon a life of data analyst as well as numbers of projects in which R was applied as an effective statistical technique in areas of data analysis. He also added to stating that there are quality, roles to play, and competence if one works as a data scientist. Mr. Kim touched upon how to share statistical codes and sign up for online venues to suit any of open sourcing environments. Overall, students found this seminar to be very informative with plenty of valuable information.
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- 작성일 2018-06-05
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