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- SKKU President Chung Kyun Sang visits Israel and the Middle East region
- For 7 days from Dec. 6 to Dec. 12, a delegation consisting of President Chung, Kyu Sang, Executive Vice President Yoo, Ji Beom, and Vice President of International Affairs, related professors and administrative personnel from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) visited the prestigious universities in Israel and Turkey, and returned with substantial achievements in strengthening mutual relations, discussing the establishment of, especially in industry-university collaborations, start-ups and exchanging research networks while making exchange agreements. Especially, they shared various operational case examples of programs for student start-ups, with the major prestigious universities of Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology(Technion IIT), and discussed in depth on faculty research and student exchanges with major universities in Bulgaria and Turkey. As an academic exchange agreement was concluded with Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an exchange cooperation on east Asian Studies and a joint academic forum on international relation of China and Asia-pacific region was also agreed upon. while proposals were mutually made on the sharing of managing expertise and examples in start-up programs, and the running of a SKKU-Hebrew joint student start-up team. At Technion-IIT located at Haifa, Israel, practical entrepreneurship(start-up) education, creation of ecosystem for start-ups, research cooperation in the field of water resource(water conversion) were discussed in depth, while the Accelerator program of Samsung Electronics research institute in Tel Aviv, Weizmann Institute of Science technical commercialization were benchmarked and future cooperation plans were discussed. In Sofia University in Bulgaria expanding the exchange cooperation in the field of East Asian Study and Korean study, and reinforcing the cooperation of EU Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 program, were agreed upon. It was agreed upon that the promotion of joint research cooperation in the field of Information Communication, Advanced Material, Chemical Engineering and Business Management with Koc University, the prestigious and research-centered private university in Istanbul, Turkey, was to be done through academic exchange agreements, while, with Bogazici University, another prestigious public university, cooperations is to be made in ICT on a department level, and ISS professors recruitment/student exchange and start-up cooperation is to commence. Furthermore, cooperation in the field of Arts and Design with Kadir Has University located in the historical area of Istanbul was concluded. Through academic agreements with Ankara university located in Ankara, capital city of Turkey, exchange were strengthened by making it a strategic partner university in the Middle East region, while agreement was made to go forward with cooperations in the field of Law and East Asian Studies. Also with Bilkent University, which is very strong in research, located in the city of Ankara, ISS students exchange and cooperation in the field of Bio and Nano were agreed to be carried out actively.
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- 작성일 2015-12-29
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- SKKU researchers develops ‘Knitting Technique’ to design nucleic acid structure
- Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) Prof. Um Soong-ho’s research team announced on Dec 4, that they have developed a ‘Knitting Technique.’ to design a nucleic acid nanostructure. The research team explains a nucleic acid and an enzyme are each used as a thread and needle in a knitting process, to synthesize and precisely control the creation of a nucleic acid structure that is several nano-meters in size, and is also more easy to create the desired structure than current techniques. The research team says “The nucleic acid structure created this way will not only be utilized in basic science but also as a research material for new applied sciences as well.” Link to media report: http://news1.kr/articles/?2509372
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- 작성일 2015-12-29
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- SKKU Established Agreement for R&E with Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted
- The signing ceremony, for establishing the system to support programs of Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted(GSHS) and R&E(Research and Education), was held on Nov. 30, 2015 at the Office of the Executive Vice President of the Natural Sciences Campus, with Executive Vice President YOO Jibeom, Dean of the College of Science KWON Young-Uk, Principal of GSHS PARK Wan-kyu, Director of Scientific Talents of GSHS and other R&E steering committee members. This agreement was based on the 2009 ‘memorandum of understanding regarding GSHS-SKKU’s educational support for future scientists’ with an aim to help much more outstanding scientific students to participate in the R&E program provided by SKKU, through s steering committee made up of both schools. The two schools agreed to closely cooperate for the successful and continuous operation of the R&E program, and as the SKKU’s side steering committee members, College of Science Prof. SONG Changsik, College of Engineering Prof. NOH Sand-do, College of Information and Communication Engineering Prof. HAN Tae-hee have joined as representatives for the respective fields of study. With this agreement, the R&E program is expected to run more systematically than ever before. Also, the participating students are expected to be provided with a diverse range of opportunities to perform high quality research by matching them with optimal researcher and laboratory deeply relating to field of study they hope to research in. The goal of the program run by GSHS is to have GHSH students(Sophomore) join and conduct research for 10 months at a higher education institution or research center, and retain more interest in science as well as an enhanced ability in research that will cultivate them to become prominent future scientists. In 2015 23 faculty(lab) were involved in the program, and is expected to have more than 40 labs participate for 2016. < Excutive vice president Yoo, Jibum (center) with SKKU professors (to the left) and GSHS officials (to the right)>
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- 작성일 2015-12-15
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- CICE POSTER & VIDEO COMPETITION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AT COLLEGE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION
- Prof. Byeungwoo Jeon, Dean, College of Information and Communication Engineering (CICE), SKKU, Prof. Navrati Saxena, Advisor, International Graduate Students, CICE, SKKU and Mr. Sung-Dae Moon, Manager, CICE, SKKU organized an event exclusively for International students in their department. It was an online competition for the students to design a poster and a video. The theme of the poster and video was to advertise CICE in the participant’s country. There were about 15 participants from various countries like India, Vietnam, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh who participated in the event by submitting their creative videos and posters. Three best videos and four best posters were sorted by the judgement panel. The award distribution ceremony was organized in the department on December 04, 2015 where all the winning entries were awarded with achievement certificates, cash prize and a souvenir. All the participants were given the participation certificate and the souvenir followed by the dean’s speech. The dean, CICE in his speech thanked Prof. Navrati Saxena and Mr. Sung-Dae Moon to organize the event and give the platform to international students in their department. He also cheered the participants for their active participation. Followed by Dean’s speech, Professor Navrati Saxena encouraged all the participants for the future participation and asked to motivate their country students to join the upcoming events. Thereafter, the organizing committee and the participants had a pizza party to cherish their participation in the event.
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- 작성일 2015-12-09
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- President Chung, Kyu Sang Attends Korea-Russia University President Forum
- Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) President Chung, Kyu Sang, on Dec. 1 (Tue) attended the 3rd Korea-Russia University President Forum conducted by the Korean Council for University Education, and discussed with presidents of principal Russian universities on the topic of 《Strategy for Exchange Cooperation between Universities of Both Countries》. In this discussion, President Chung introduced the excellence of SKKU’s Academy of East Asian Studies(AEAS) and IBS as well as fields of natural science & engineering. And he emphasized that actual exchange has to be made to promote joint research exchange cooperation with Russian universities and between professors of the fields of studies. Futhermore, in separate meetings, he shared the opinions with presidents of principal Russian universities that were attending the forum, like Moscow State University, Far Eastern Federal University, Saint Petersburg State University, Nizhny Novgorod State University and others to push forward with student exchange, joint research and faculty exchange.
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- 작성일 2015-12-09
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- Sungkyun Journalism Award recipients
- Sungkyunkwan University graduates’ Journalist Gathering, ‘Sung Un Hoe’ announced this year’s ‘Proud Sunkyun Journalism Award’ and selected, in the category for journalism, managing editor for the Kukmin Ilbo Park, Dong Hyun and managing editor for the Korea Herold Kwon, Yong Kuk, also, in the category for external activities, Samjung KPMG CEO Kim, Kyo Tae. The award ceremony was held at the Seoul Press Center International Conference room NOV. 30. Park, Dong Hyun Kwon, Yong Kuk Kim, Kyo Tae Link to media report: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/11/26/2015112600281.html
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- 작성일 2015-12-09
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- In her classroom, Wall Street Tycoons appear
- "A Wall Street’s heroine who used to manage 6 trillion … SKKU Prof. Young-ju Nielsen" - Solid networking established for 16 years Investment experts from Merrill Lynch and others flew to Korea to give free lectures - Stop talking about ’Clay Spoons‘, don’t be a pessimist, be a challenger “Studied abroad with only 2 million won… I used to manage bonds in the amount of 6 trillion won” On Nov 11, at 10:30 am, in a telelecture room at Dasan Hall of Economics in Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU), Seoul, 100 students’ eyes were bent on a large screen at the front. When a man appeared on the screen, Prof. Young-ju Nielsen, College of Economics SKKU, introduced him as “Mr. Justin Jang is living in New York.” The time difference between New York and Seoul is 14 hours. Mr. Jang, supervising all investments in an investment management firm located in the financial capital of the world ‘Wall Street,’ started by saying “I just got off work and just now came to the camera” and gave a lecture on the flow of the world financial markets for an hour. Prof. Nielsen began a subject called ‘Special Lecture in Economics’ from last September. One week was to give a lecture in person on the theory of Economy and Finance, and the other was to provide with off-field stories of economy by experts in Wall Street, the financial capital of the world. 4 financial experts of Wall Street came to lecture room personally by travelling across the sea, and 2 experts delivered video lectures over the telelecture system. Such distinguished financial experts like Ben Meng (China), responsible for asset allocation of ‘California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS),’ the largest public pension in America, Francois Jeulin (France), responsible for trading in ‘Merrill Lynch Bank of America, and more personally came to give a lecture. In a her lecture called ‘Special Lecture in Economics' Prof. Young-ju Nielsen(left) is introducing Wall Street Investement Specialist Justin Jang who is joining the lecture on the screen (right) For Wall Street people ‘Time is gold.’ These people came to Prof. Nielsen’s lecture on their own expense, paying for airfare, stay and others. They also did not take the fee provided by the university (400 thousand won). This was possible due to the lasting relationship with Prof. Nielsen who was also from Wall Street. Prof. Nielsen explains, “Even before the semester began, all 8 people I requested for the lecture wholeheartedly agreed to come.” Prof. Nielsen graduated in Economics at Yonsei Univ. in 1995 and went to study in the US. She earned a Ph,D in Statistics, at the University of Pittsburgh and acquired 16 years of career experience at Wall Street. Due to this experience, people who first meet her often assume she was born in a rich family with a silver spoon in her mouth. Prof. Nielsen said, however, “When I went abroad to study, I had only 2 million won my mother gave, and this was all the support they gave me.” Prof. Nielsen explains that, when she attended Yonsei University, she dived into computer and mathematics while her friends were preparing for jobs. When getting a MBA was popular, she chose statistics. She said that, for her tuition and relocation and intial expences, she worked at a company in Korea for 6 months before going abroad. In the late 1990’s when she was studying in US, the US financial industry based on computers and statistics was starting to grow evermore bigger. Prof. Nielsen also decided to take her career into the finance naturally, but there was an glass ceiling for women and foreigners on Wall Street then. At her first job she managed to get, American colleague laughed at her English pronunciation. Sometimes she was even not invited to client meeting that she had to attend. Prof. Nielsen said “Even though I felt it was unreasonably discriminatory, I eventually knew there was no other way but to prove myself to fight back.” So from then on, she studied theories in economics and statistics for 2 hours everyday before going to work. With her hard work, she was able to work at famous financial firms like Barclays Global Invest, J.P. Morgan, etc, and at one point managed bonds in the amount of 6 trillion won. The reason why Prof. Nielsen began this lecture of inviting Wall Street people from this semester, was to show her students various possibilities she gained from these experiences. Prof. Nielsen says “Nowadays, while the young people who take on pessimistic views of their situation and talk about ‘clay spoons’ and ‘silver spoons,’ have increased. I wanted to show them that the challenge is more important than the background.” Link to media report: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/11/25/2015112500350.html
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- 작성일 2015-12-09
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- Hyundai Motor Group SKKU CFO Trio
- ‘3 Exceptions’ Hyundai Motor CFO... Unique in their expertise and forehandedness (3) In-depth Analysis on Hyundai Motor CFO Take over of Hyundai Construction, and KEPCO site purchase … taking the lead in solving weighty issues CFO Lee won-hee, ‘finance centric career’ since he first joined When it comes to Chief Financial Officer (CFO), 3 common things that other companies have are not in Hyundai Motor Group. First, there is no CFO who handles everything for the entire Group like how Samsung and LG does. Also, there is no one recruited from outside the Group. Finally, it is difficult to find a CFO in the Group who graduated from the so-called ‘SKY universities(Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University).’ Instead, it is common place to find people with “finance centric careers.' Even CFO’s who worked partially in sales and marketing are non-existent. In this sense it is why Hyundai Motor’s CFOs take on the title of ‘Director of Finance & Economy’ rather than ‘Director of Business Management’ who is responsible for of finance as well as personnel and general affairs. They lead in tackling weighty issues such as the take over of Hyundai Engineering & Construction and the KEPCO site purchase with their expertise and tenacity. And through their effective financial operation they contributed to Hyundai Motor’s rise to the top 5th automobile manufacturer in the world. Independent finance and economy division system for each affiliate Hyundai Motor Group has no one CFO who controls everything in the group. CFOs of affiliates work independently. Rather than handle managing the finance from the group level, each company attends to its own accounting, cost control, investor relations(IR) and so on. When a project between affiliates or an investment plan needs to be controlled, Department of Planning and Coordination led by Vice-chairman, Kim Yong-hwan(59) intervenes. Won Jong-hun(54), Vice-president for financial affairs of Planning and Coordination serves as coordinator in affiliate matters. Hyundai Motor Group explains that the smooth operations are credited to the many financial experts in all the affiliates. In the 3 main affiliates of Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors, Hyundai Mobis, all CFOs who oversee finance started their careers at their respective affiliates. Hyundai Motor’s CFO is Lee Won-hee(55). Mr. Lee was born in Kimhae, in Gyeongsang-Namdo, graduated from Seoul’s Daegwang High School, majored in Business Administration at Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU). He received a Master’s degree in Accounting at Western Illinois University in USA. Ever since he joined Hyundai Motor in 1984, he worked in finance. Leading the financial team, global banking team and as a director of finance and economy at a US affiliate he eventually became Head of Finance and Economy of Hyundai Motors in Dec. 2009. In 2011 he was promoted to Vice President and finally as President in last August. Kia Motors CFO, Vice-president, Han Cheon-su(56) graduated from Department of Economy at SKKU. After joining Kia Motors, he moved to Hyundai Steel in 2007 and worked as a director and an executive director of finance management. After being the executive director of finance management of Kia Motors in 2013, he was promoted to Vice-President and has been working as Head of Finance and Economy for Kia Motors since late last year. Also, Hyundai Mobis’s CFO is from inside the company. Choi, Byeong-cheol(57), Vice-president of Hyundai Mobis was born in Yecheon, Gyeongsang-bokdo and graduated from Daechang High school and in 1987 from SKKU. He joined Hyundai Precision, the former Hyundai Mobis, and for nearly 30 years has been working in finance. Promoting growth through business restructuring Hyundai Motor Group’s CFOs are leading important M&A deals and business arrangements to promote the growth of the company. In April of last year, Hyundai Engineering and Hyndai AMCO were merged into Hyundai Engineering. Sep. of the same year, they led the purchase of KEPCO’s site which is now waiting for the construction to start on the new head quarters. Recently, they contributed in expanding the width to other businesses, other than auto-mobiles. Hyundai Motor Group took over Hyundai Construction in 2011, and in 2013, merged Hyundai Steel and COLD ROLLED(CR) department of Hyundai Hysco, finalizing the merger between the two affiliates by July. In the banking, they took over HMC Securities and Hyundai Life, asserting a countenance as a finance corporation.
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- 작성일 2015-11-05
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- SKKU takes no.1 spot in business firm recruiting preferrence
- Sungkyunkwan university(SKKU) is tied for No.1 along with Yonsei university in the ‘reputation’ index of JoongAng Daily University Rankings. SKKU marked No.1 in ‘preferred new employee’s university’ and ‘university with great growth potential.’ Yonsei University marked No.1 in ‘university with great students education’. Kyungpook National University, Pusan National University, Chungnam National University took No.1 to No.3 in ‘university with great dedication to local community’ Associating with a research institution ‘Research & Research’, JoongAng Daily conducted a survey of 550 recruiting managers in companies and public institutions and 550 highschool teachers through a face to face interview. Also a new survey was added for the first time made by 550 administrative rank holding professors (presidents, deans, vice presidents ect.) of universities. This is a result of adhering to opinions to adopt peer review by the professors who are aware of the changes in universities, and to apply it to the general evaluation. Professors selected SKKU as No.1 and Hanyang university(erica campus) as No.2 in ‘university with great specialization’. The direction for SKKU’s specialization is ‘fusion.’ By the ‘Fusion Seed Research Support Program’ which started last year, they researched into projects such as ‘measurement of environmental radiation from cellphone’ which is a fusion of Department of Journalism and Mass Communication with Department of Physics. From next year, all new students will be given software education regardless of their majors so that they can promote the fusion ability of their own majors and IT technologies. Recruiting managers in companies, teachers and professors selected SKKU, Yonsei University(Seoul), Korea University(Anam), Seoul National University, Pusan National University as ‘School with great growth potential’ (No.1 ~ No.5). Among ‘Non in-seoul’ universities, Gachon University(No.6) Hanyang University ERICA campus(No.8) were selected in the top ten. Both of them took leaps on rankings compared to last year ranks (Gachon University No.21, Hanyang University ERICA campus No.26). Having done with an integration process of (Gachon University College of Medicine, Gachon Gil University, Kyungwon College, Kyungwon Univerisity), Gachon University focuses on cultivating talents specialized on IT by industry-academic cooperation with Pangyo Techno Valley. < Software education for humanities studies studetns at SKKU>
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- 작성일 2015-11-05
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- Captivated by Yiruma’s Music, I went on to learn Korean
- “I am already curious on what the topic will be for the essay contest. I hope it is not difficult.” (Chistina Ducepyeva, junior in Sofia University, Bulgaria) European Students who participated in ‘Sungkyun Korean Essay Contest’ Showed off their Korean writing ability with a topic ‘Legacy’ Greeting each other in Korean at the event, Gold prize winner dreaming is “becoming a professor in Korean” At 9 am(local time) on Oct. 20, in a hall at the Korean Cultural Center in Vienna, Austria, where Irissee lake could be seen placidly beyond the windows, 35 university students(4 males, 31 females) from 15 European countries gathered. They participated in ‘The 2nd Central and Eastern Europe Countries Sungkyun Korean Essay Contest’ held by Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). Their official language at the event was Korean. They greeted and talked with each other even whom they never met in Korean. This was because most of them were majoring in Korean studies or have learned speaking and writing with interest in Korea. With unveiling of the scroll, the topic for the contest was revealed. It was ‘Legacy.’ And then an explanation by SKKU Prof. Sung Jae-ho(Law), the president of this event, followed. “Be it the many treasures handed down from ancestors or the Cultural Heritage of Humanity like Schönbrunn Palace in Austria, you should express yourself naturally and openly about what you think.” Taking a pencil, eraser and 5 manuscript papers for 500 characters, students were jotting down with serious looks on their faces. The quiet contest room was filled with rasping sounds of pencils rubbing on paper. Hena Pumalla (Female, Senior in University of Helsinki, Finland) after making her overview was writing down Korean on papers meticulously. Dillan Varshack (Female, Senior in Ankara University, Turkey), not satisfied with her writing, eraser it, and focused on rewriting. “How much time do I have?” As the end of contest drew nearer, a student raised his hand and asked. After the bell sounded the end of the contest, students exited the room with mixed feelings of hope and regret. Alishkava Bashcova (Female, Senior in Comenius University) flying from Slovakia said “It was not easy but I tried to put as many words related to legacy as I could.” Mikhail Lebi (Male, junior in Babes Bolyai University, Rumania) said “I have fallen in love with Korea after watching the pianist, Yiruma perform. I really want to visit to Korea next year and enjoy Hallyu at its origin.” On this day, the women swept at all medals, gold, silver and bronze. Aldemir Jaynep(Senior in Ankara University, Turkey) who got a gold prize, was favorably received by the judges with her essay, ‘The most meaningful legacy.’ ‘Something like behavior, habit, courtesy is much more meaningful than valuable materials. This is because Legacy is not a product which can disappear someday, but something worth forever. For example, in a society where unfairness is rampant, somebody tries to keep fairness and if it becomes an example to others, and this can be a valuable legacy in itself.’(part of Aldemir ’s essay) After Aldemir got hooked on Korean dramas like ‘Dae Jang Geum,’ ‘A Man from Another Star’ etc as a middle school student, she went to learn Korean at Sejong Hakdang in Ankara. Her dream is to become a professor in Korean in her home country. The silver prize went to Anna Grebekina (Senior in State Linguistic University, Moscow), and the bronze one went to Nicola Haff (Senior in University of Vienna, Austria). After the contest, the Institute of Translation in Korean Classics gave a lessen in traditional Korean culture for the participants like literature, jegichagi(a game which players try to hit a small object called jegi with their feet), gonggi(fivestones, a game of marbles) and others. Prof. Lee, Suke-kyu, Vice President of International Affairs in SKKU, said “Foreign students are very interested and are enthusiastic about Korean culture and language,” so “We will try to hold more events abroad.” Link to mediat report: http://news.joins.com/article/18909527
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- 작성일 2015-11-05
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