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Jan 21, 2008 Pharmacy College signed MOU with Tokushima SNU College of Pharmacy signed an academic exchange agreement with College of Pharmacy of Tokushima University, Japan. It proceeded on November 21, with Younggeo Seo, Dean of College of Pharmacy of SNU and Yoshihisa Takaishi, Chief of College of Pharmacy of Tokushima University at presence along with other faculties from both universities.

Jan 21, 2008 Sometimes you gotta be a fighter! - Action School Isn’t it truly unfair for women not to be able to walk around at night alone and travel alone? One may be opposed to these kinds of inequalities but cannot deny the actual danger.

Jan 17, 2008 SNU Chairs the Government's Nanotechnology Roadmap The Ministry of Science and Technology said Tuesday that South Korea will try to become one of the three leading nations in the field of nanotechnology by 2020.

Jan 11, 2008 SNU Nano Tech to Transfer Professor Hyeon Taeg-hwan's team(Dept. of Chemical Engineering) is selling its nano-particle production technology to Hanwha Chemical for 4.3 billion won. Hyeon will sign a contract with Hanwha to transfer its know-how and grant an exclusive license to commercialize it.

Dec 28, 2007 Prof. Rhee's English-taught Economics Class Prof. Changyong Rhee, the tallest frame, connects his laptop to the projector himself and starts the class by throwing a sharp question contrary to his bright smile: Why couldn’t the cartels in the oil industry during the1980s be sustained over a long period?

Dec 28, 2007 The First Japanese Professor at SNU SNU has appointed a Japanese national to a professorship for the first time.

Dec 28, 2007 Various Mentoring Programs Seoul National University is offering its students diverse mentoring programs that connect graduates and current students of SNU, in the effort to help students receive realistic and practical advice.

Dec 24, 2007 Engineering Colllege Spearheading International 2007 has been the year of internationalization for SNU. This year it signed new academic exchange agreements with over a hundred overseas universities, and also invited foreign scholars to open the Summer Institute.

Dec 24, 2007 The Dream of Global Engineers The College of Engineering has established the ‘Global Leadership Program-Overseas Student Scholarship (GLP-OSS)’, funded by its alumni association’s ‘Vision 2010’, to send engineering students to other Asian universities that have signed agreements on student exchanges with SNU.

Dec 24, 2007 Overseas Job Opportunities and Internships The Career Development Center is currently promoting the ‘Global Talent Program (GTP)’, which was launched in spring semester of 2007. GTP, the first SNU program ever with the objective of promoting overseas job opportunities for SNU students, is designed to facilitate students’ overseas employment by providing interview opportunities for employment and internships.

Dec 24, 2007 Language Course Abroad Training Program Launched Seoul National University has launched a new course for winter session, ‘Introductions to Foreign Languages 3’.

Dec 24, 2007 Cultivating International Human Resources 10 years of Cultivating International Human Resources