[Professor Yong-Hwan Lee's Research Team] The College of Agriculture may sound like a less than glamorous academic base for Professor Yong-Hwan Lee, but he shrugs off any jokes about just sitting around watching the grass grow."Half of the world's population relies on rice as their staple food. If we exterminate rice b...

[Professor Jeong-Sun Seo's Research Team] Professor Jeong-Sun Seo and his team have been on the front lines of genomic research with their biotech startup Macrogen, launched out of Seoul National University's laboratories in 1997. This joint private-public venture fuses entrepreneurial ambition to academic know-how: Dr...

A royal library was first established as early as the mid-fifteenth century, but the 25-year-old King Jeongjo would radically transform the quiet archives in 1776 at the start of his reign. What had been just a convenient compendia of Joseon Dynasty monarchs became an powerhouse institution of"cultural governance" to f...

Starting up in a new field of very small technologies The buildings that house SNU's NANO Systems Institute (NSI) sit high atop the side of Mt. Gwanak, gazing down upon the rest of the campus. With vast steel exoskeletons and gleaming glass panes, the very macro-sized buildings may be monumental but they are home to a ...

"Overwhelmed by the endless stacks of books, I was awed by the sheer amount of knowledge that had preceded me," recollects Professor V. Narry Kim. During her undergraduate years, she would sit in her favorite spot in the main library browsing through books, longing to absorb all the accumulated knowledge.Professor Kim,...

[Professor Young-Joon Surh] Talent is meaningless without virtue. This ancient Asian proverb has found its perfect embodiment in the research team of Professor Young-Joon Surh at SNU's College of Pharmacy. Professor Surh's research team has swept the Scholar in Training Grant from the American Association...

Professor Hyunchin Lim, one of the most prominent scholars in the field of Human Sociology, is indeed an authority on Sociology proved through his comparison studies on the development of Korean society. Lim is a prolific researcher with more than 20 books and over 150 papers published. In particular, he is renowned fo...