The SNU Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology has succeeded in developing Korea’s first intelligent vehicle, AEV-1. Director LEE Chung-Goo of the Intelligent Vehicle Platform Center announced that it has undergone test driving of 100 kilometers on the Institute’s premises. The car’s maximum speed is 80 kilometer...

Professor Chung Chinsung Professor Chung Chinsung (Department of Sociology) brought to the world’s attention the existence of 'comfort women (wianbu)' at the UN Human Rights Committee twenty-two years ago. “We have come very far since then,” she said in an interview with Maeil Business Newspaper as she recalled how man...

Professor PARK Seung Bum Professor Park Seung Bum (Department of Chemistry / Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology) and researchers from Kyungpook National University have discovered a small molecule which suppresses neuroinflammation and induces brain damage recovery. Activated microglia have a central role in...

Professor Lee Sin-Doo Professor Lee Sin-Doo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the 59th Korea National Academy of Sciences Award on September 17, 2014. Professor Lee worked for Bell Communications Research from 1988 to 1992 where he first researched early versions of the OLEDs (organic-light-e...

SNU Department of Linguistics and the Department of Hispanic Language and Literature are currently working on creating Hangeul orthography for the Aymara language which the Aymara, an indigenous people of the Andes, use. The Aymaran language has no script of its own, and borrows the Roman alphabet. Most Aymaran vowels ...

The SNU Genomic Medicine Institute (College of Medicine), the Macrogen (Chairperson: Professor SEO Jeongsun), and the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo are cooperating in the Uruguay Genome Project. The first genome project to take place in Latin America, this project aims to disclose hereditary features in Uruguay diseas...

Professor Hilary Finchum-Sung Professor Hilary V. Finchum-Sung joined SNU as the first non-Korean faculty member of the SNU Department of Korean Music in 2009. She encountered Korean traditional music seventeen years ago through sinawi, a form of Korean shamanic music, and received her doctorate degree in ethnomusicolo...

SNU Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology announced its plan to open the ‘Winter Olympics Legacy Related Anti-aging Business Cluster’ at the SNU Pyeongchang Campus. The anti-aging business is a complex business which deals with the development and supply of medical and non-medical products and services to delay...

SNU's industry-university cooperation revenues from March 2013 to February 2014 were recorded as amounting to 622.2 billion Korean won, the largest amount among all Korean universities. Yonsei University and Korea University earned 372.6 billion KRW and 226.8 KRW, respectively. Industry-university cooperation revenue c...

Professor LEE Changhee is receiving the Merck Award Professor Lee Changhee (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) was awarded the Merck Award on August 28 at the International Meeting on Information Display 2014. The Merck Award was established in 2004 -- which marked the 100th year of Merck's liquid cryst...

Professor HAN Mooyoung SNU changed 24 of its toilets in Building No.35 on August 15 in an attempt to lessen water usage on campus. Professor HAN Mooyoung (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), who is famous for his rooftop garden projects, took charge. Previously installed toilets used 13 liters of water ...

It is estimated that as many as 5.6 trillion of toxic used-cigarettes are deposited into the environment worldwide every year. SNU Professor YI Jonghyeop (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) developed a simple way to convert the used-cigarette butts into an energy storage material. Scientists around the world...