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- SKKU is Named No.1 Korea Comprehensive Private University by THE Asia University Rankings 2017
- SKKU has placed 13th in Asia University Rankings 2017 by Times Higher Education, while ranking 1st among Korean comprehensive private universities. SKKU received a total of 60.2 points with the composition of points as; Learning Environment: 56.0, Research: 55.5, Citations: 66.5, International Outlook: 39.6, Industry Income: 88.9. Meanwhile, Seoul National University received 66.1 points, while Korea University and Yonsei University got 52.8 points and 48.8 points respectively. In particular, SKKU received great recognition among universities in Korea in the area of Citations (Research Influence) by having 66.5 points, followed by Ulsan University (60.8), Seoul National University (58.8), Korea University (49.2) and Kyunghee University (48.5). One thing to note from this evaluation is that many Chinese universities received improved results. The editor of THE stated that “as a result of concentrated investment over the past 10 years, many Chinese universities including Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have become distinguished. If Chinese universities can secure more outstanding faculties, their research performances, as well as internalization activities, will become more developed.”
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- 작성일 2017-04-03
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- Prof. Joon Mo CHO (Dept. of Economics) has been chosen for SKKU Fellowship Awardee
- Prof. Joon Mo CHO has been chosen for SKKU Fellowship Awardee by publishing 42 research articles in the field of labor economics at SSCI Journal, and receiving recognition for his outstanding performance. There are several researches representing his work over the past 4 years and are introduced as follows: (1) Jobs in the Bureaucratic Afterlife: A Corruption-Facilitating Mechanism Associated with Law Enforcement (with Iljoong Kim), Southern Economic Journal, vol. 68, 2001 This article starts with an observation that the employment of former regulatory officers by a regulated firm might be an integral part of the corruption-facilitating mechanism (CFM). The article hypothesizes that such employment constitutes the deferred payment for the corruption previously supplied. Although anecdotal evidence of this kind of corruption abounds, it has proven difficult to substantiate. The article provides an explanation for why this deferred payment arrangement might be attractive to both demanders and suppliers of corruption. It also offers tentative empirical support for the hypothesis that it plays a role as CFM in Korea, with the implication that this CFM hypothesis can be generalized to a host of regulatory countries. (2) “Why do good performing students highly rate their instructors?”, Economics of Education Review, vol. 49, 2015 This article analyzes the behavior of students in a college classroom with regard to their evaluation of teacher performance. As some students are randomly able to see their grades prior to the evaluation, the “natural” experiment provides a unique opportunity for testing the hypothesis as to whether there exists a possibility of a hedonic (implicit) exchange between the students’ grades and teaching evaluations. Students with good grades tend to highly rate the teaching quality of their instructors, in comparison with those who receive relatively poor grades. This study finds that students with better grades than their predicted grades provide a psychological “gift” to their teachers by giving a higher teacher evaluation; whereas the opposite occurs with those students receiving lower grades than their predictions. These empirical results demonstrate that a previous interpretation on the effect of student grades in an incumbent course with regard to the teaching quality may have to be somewhat discounted. (3) “The impact of epidemics on labor market: Identifying victims of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in the Korean labor market”, International Journal for Equity in Health, vol. 15, 2016 The vulnerability approach suggests that disasters such as epidemics have different effects according not only to physical vulnerability, but also to economic class (status). This paper examines the effect of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome epidemic on the labor market, to investigate whether vulnerable groups become more vulnerable due to an interaction between the socio-economic structure and physical risk. This paper examines the effect of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome epidemic on the labor market by considering unemployment status, job status, working hours, reasons for unemployment and underemployment status. In particular, the study investigates whether the U-shaped curve becomes a J-shaped curve due to the interaction between medical vulnerability and labor market vulnerability after an outbreak, assuming that the relative vulnerability in the labor market by age shows a U curve with peaks for the young group and middle aged and old aged groups using the Economically Active Population Survey. We use the difference in difference approach and also conduct a falsification check and robustness check. The results suggest that older workers faced a higher possibility of unemployment after the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak. In particular, they experienced higher involuntary unemployment and underemployment status as well as decreased working hours. It was confirmed that the relative vulnerability of the labor market for older workers was higher than for the other age groups after the epidemic outbreak due to the double whammy of vulnerability in the medical and labor market. The vulnerability in the young group partially increased compared to the 30s and 40s age groups due to their relative vulnerability in the labor market despite being healthy. We find that assuming the relative vulnerability in the existing labor market shows a U shape with age increase, the U-shaped curve became J-shaped after the outbreak. Disasters like epidemics can occur unexpectedly and affect certain groups more than other. Therefore, medical protection should be enhanced for groups vulnerable to disease, and economic measures are also required for the protection of their livelihoods in the labor market to prevent unemployment stemming from inequality.
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- 작성일 2017-03-17
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- 2017 Matriculation Ceremony: SKKU has been Waiting for Your Entrance for 619 Years
- SKKU held the 2017 Matriculation Ceremony on Feb 27th (Monday) at Suseong Hall, Natural Sciences Campus. About 4,000 freshmen were welcomed at the ceremony. The faculties of the academic board including President Kyu Sang CHUNG, visited ‘Sungkyun Dae Sung Jun’ before the matriculation ceremony, in order to practice ‘Go You Rye’ which is the unique ceremony of SKKU informing the beginning of the big event (matriculation, graduation, building new construction, etc) at Confucius shrine. Many alumni and students who play active parts in various fields attended and celebrated the entrance of the new students. Corresponding with SKKU’ vision ‘Truly, Global Leading University’, a student Gasimoba LEILA from Russia read the freshman oath as a representative of all freshmen.
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- 작성일 2017-03-17
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- 2017 College of Economics Winter Graduation Ceremonies held
- Department of Economics/Global Economics, Statistics and Actuarial Science held their 2017 Winter Graduation Ceremony on Feb 20th and Feb 24th. Department of Economics and Global Economics held joint Ceremony for the graduation on Feb 20th(Mon) at the 600th Anniversary Hall. A total of 190 students (Economics undergraduate: 141, graduate: 7, Ph.D: 3 / Global Economics undergraduate: 39) received their degrees. On Feb 24th(Fri), Department of Statistics held their Graduation ceremony at Toegye Hall of Humanites, while Department of Actuarial Science held it’s own at Business School Building. 68 students from Statistics (58 undergraduates and 10 graduates) and 11 graduate students from Actuarial Science received their degrees. KIM, the Dean of the college participated all of the ceremonies and delivered speeches to celebrate the students. Families, friends of the students and many honored alumni of each departments also joined and made the day more meaningful.
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- 작성일 2017-03-17
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- 2017 Winter Graduation Ceremony was held on Feb 24th
- SKKU held its 2017 Winter Graduation Ceremony on Feb 24th (Friday) at the 600th Anniversary Hall where a total of 4,643 students (undergraduate: 2876, graduate: 1486, Ph.D.:281) received their degrees. Before starting the graduation ceremony, the President and faculties of the academic board visited ‘Sungkyun Dae Sung Jun’ and practiced ‘Go You Rye’ which is the unique ceremony of SKKU informing the beginning of the big event (matriculation, graduation, building new construction, etc) at Confucius shrine. At the ‘Go You Rye’ ceremony, 324 students attended as the representatives. At the graduation ceremony, the president’s commencement message of “See the present with sympathy, design your future with creativity” was delivered and a student Eun Chan BAE (Dept. of Global Business Administration) gave a valedictory speech. Right after graduation, the President and students participated in a ‘Ta go’ ceremony where they beat a big drum to wish for graduates’ success and good health.
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- 작성일 2017-03-17
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- 2017 Briquette Delivery Volunteer Activity to Welcome the Lunar New Year
- On Jan 24th, SKKU held a ‘Briquette Delivery Volunteer Activity’ to welcome the Lunar New Year. 50 Participants including the President of SKKU, the Vice-President of Student Affairs Division, and University/College Student Council delivered 3,000 briquettes to neighbors in need. This event was organized in order to share love and happiness with neighbors, while providing opportunities for students to develop humanitarian capabilities through the volunteer activity. Jae Won KIM, the Vice-President of the Office of Student Affairs Division expressed his feelings as “it is a very meaningful event where students planned the day voluntarily, especially in the time of economic depression. SKKU provides full support towards this event in order to transmit students’ genuine hearts.” Yoo Bin WON and Hoon Young OH, the President of Student Council of Humanities and Social Sciences Campus and the President of Student Council of Natural Sciences Campus said “it was a very heartwarming experience and I hope we can have many opportunities to deliver our love to neighbors in the future.”
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- 작성일 2017-01-26
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- S-ANGEL Visited Solitary Senior Citizens and Delivered Presents
- 5 SKKU students in S-ANGEL and 3 staff from Hyehwa Community Service Center visited 3 households in the Hyehwa area in order to deliver winter presents. The presents were prepared from the endowment of S-ANGEL members, as well as profit from the event for helping neighbors in need.
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- 작성일 2017-01-26
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- Students of Graduate School of International Trade receive prizes at 9th Thesis Contest Exhibition
- The Korea Trade Insurance Corporation and The Korean Academy for Credit Insurance had an award ceremony on Nov. 15th for The 9th Thesis Contest Exhibition which has been open since May. 4 thesis papers were selected as winning pieces after two evaluations from internal and external experts. Min Jae KIM (Combined Master & Ph.D. program), Se Yeon HAN (Graduate student), and Chan Yeob PARK (Graduate student) all from SKKU'S Graduate School of International Trade, received bronze prizes.
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- 작성일 2016-12-16
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- SKKU placed 3rd in 'Korean Comprehensive University' by QS World University Rankings
- SKKU has shown improvement in many recent university ranking assessments. SKKU placed 12th in 2016 THE Asia University Rankings by Times Higher Education, while ranking 3rd among Korean comprehensive universities by QS World University Rankings. US News & World Report chose SKKU as the 2nd best university for Global University Rankings and Reuter put SKKU in 2nd place for their World’s Most Innovative Universities Rankings. “These outstanding evaluation results come from continuous initiatives in order to make improvements in name value, publication of international research papers, and internalization” said President Kyu Sang CHUNG. Source: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/12/07/2016120701842.html
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- 작성일 2016-12-16
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- Ye Sung JEONG (Economics) received The Grand Prize at “2016 Idea Competition for Creating Jobs
- Graduate student Ye Sung JEONG of the Dept. of Economics (Advising Professor: Joon Mo CHO) received the grand prize at the “2016 Idea Competition for Creating Jobs”, for presenting ideas about “Career Library for solving job mismatch”. The event was organized by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and was sponsored by the Korea Labor Institute.
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- 작성일 2016-12-13
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