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Jan 15, 2009 [Alumni Story] Dr. SUNG('57)'s "True American Dream" Sung M. Lim has lived what he considers the true American dream. His life in the United States started in 1961 when he left South Korea with $100 in his pocket and a few changes of clothes. He was headed to Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss., to pursue graduate studies in plant genetics and breeding.

Jan 15, 2009 Additives May Subtract Health Professor CHO Myung-Hain and his colleagues at Seoul National University compared the effects that a diet of either 0.5 or 1 percent - an amount relative to that found in humans - inorganic phosphate had on the lung tissue of mice with lung cancer over four weeks.

Jan 15, 2009 KIM Yeon-hee '89 Became the First Female Regional Director Kim Yeon-hee '89, an SNU gradaute of business administration and former partner of Bain & Company’s Seoul branch, was promoted to a global director for the Asia Pacific region on January 4th.

Jan 15, 2009 PARK No-Hee'68 (Dentistry) Receives UCLA Endowed Professorship An endowed professorship named after a Korean professor is to be established at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jan 15, 2009 Organ Recipients And Donors Climb Himalayan Peak SNU Hospital's organ recipients and donors reached the 6,189-meter summit of Island Peak in the Himalayas on Dec. 22, in a bid to raise awareness of organ donation.

Jan 15, 2009 SNU Alumni Named 'Entrepreneur of the Year' Winners of this year's award are Min Keh-shik '65 (B.S. in Naval Architecture Engineering), vice chairman of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. as the Heavy Industry Entrepreneur of the Year; Yoon Jae-seung '85 (LL.B.), chairman of Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., as the Rising Star Entrepreneur of the Year.

Jan 15, 2009 Former Science Minister Koo'70 Dies Koo Bon-young '70 of economics, a former science and technology minister, died from an unspecified chronic disease on January 12th.

Jan 15, 2009 Professor HONG Seunghun Made A 'Nano Nose' HONG, an associate professor of physics at the Hybrid Nano-Device & Nano-Assembly Lab at Seoul National University, and his group, together with collaborators from Tai Hyun Park's group at the university's Institute of Bioengineering, have developed a strategy that overcomes the poor selectivity problem that characterized previous chemical sensors.

Jan 15, 2009 SNU Found NY City Bed Bugs Made A Comeback In the first study to explain the failure to control certain bed bug populations, toxicologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Korea’s Seoul National University show that some of these nocturnal blood suckers have developed resistance to pyrethroid insecticides, in particular deltamethrin, that attack their nervous systems.

Jan 02, 2009 Teaching Spanish in the Latin American Style Professor Rodriguez first came to SNU in 2001, and quickly proved her passion and expertise in teaching, becoming a tenured professor within just 7 years.

Dec 29, 2008 A Belgian Holding Court at SNU: The Quest to Find the S(e)oul of Korean Studies Rewind back to 1992. Professor Vermeersch had just arrived in Seoul to study Korean at the Jungsin Cultural Research Center (now The Academy of Korean Studies).

Dec 29, 2008 Nature Interviewed V. Narry Kim as One of the Prize Winners of the Year Naturenews by Journal Nature featured Professor V. Narry Kim as one of the "Prize Winners of the Year" on December 17.