SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the freshmen at Seoul National University (SNU), one of South Korea’s most prestigious universities, two out of three came from the greater Seoul area, including affluent districts of Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa in southern Seoul, data showed Tuesday. According to data that Rep. Kang Min-jung of the Democratic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) decided to start selling meal kits on campus on Tuesday for the first time among local universities, after facing criticism from students for a hike in the price of school meals back in April. The SNU Cooperative, which runs cafeterias, will provide sales space to [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Law school students at Seoul National University (SNU) have helped Pakistani nationals facing the risk of honor killing acquire refugee status in South Korea. The Seoul High Court recently ruled against the Korea Immigration Office’s earlier decision not to recognize the Pakistani family as refugees. The Pakistani father has [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of all students and faculty at Seoul National University believe there is severe discrimination occurring on campus. The school, one of the country’s most prestigious universities, conducted a survey of 2,198 undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and school staff, 49.8 percent of whom said that there is a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group is teaming up with Seoul National University, one of the country’s higher education institutions, to develop next-generation battery technology for use in future electric vehicles (EVs). On Wednesday, the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of a center for [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University said Friday it will run weekly coronavirus testing that produces results in about one hour as part of efforts to detect infections quickly and expand in-person classes on campus. It is the first such move by one of the country’s higher education institutions, which have been [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The host organization that set up the ‘Lennon Wall’ at Seoul National University (SNU) to voice support for the democratization movement in Hong Kong plans to take action after the wall was partially damaged by several spectators. The SNU Student Organization to Tell the Truth About Hong Kong filed [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University will open a new graduate major in peace and unification studies that specializes in peace, unification, and North Korean society to foster experts that can effectively address unification as well as post-unification outcomes. The university is planning to create a master’s course on peace and unification [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) has decided not to send out a report card to students for the first time since the foundation of the university, starting from the first semester of this year. Without the paper report card, students can check their scores electronically through the SNU portal site [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A Cheong Wa Dae petition calling on authorities to rescue retired detection dogs being used for experiments at the Seoul National University (SNU) has collected more than 200,000 signatures, reaching the minimum requirement to receive an official response from the presidential office. More than 212,000 people had signed the [...]