In November, the government announced several measures to prevent the overwork of couriers after several lost their lives from overworking. The number of deaths assumed as death from overwork reached 13 this year. Due to COVID-19 and the efficiency of online shopping, delivery volume heavily increas
On November 10th, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) pre-announced the amendment of the Enforcement Decree of the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act. Starting December 30th, no personal information may be disclosed when the government informs the route of confirmed cas
Zero Waste appears to be a new trend among people who consider the environment. Zero Waste is a set of movements to minimize the use of disposable products, trying to make the volume of waste closer to zero. In Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), there is a startup company working with a strong environm
These days, it is hard to go outside to enjoy cultural activities. If Kingos mind that, there is a way that brings London’s West End musicals to the front row of your living room. Currently, Netflix provides live recordings of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall and Les Misérabl
Autumn is coming. It is getting cooler these days. If Kingos do not want to go far away in this good weather, they can stroll through the urban center and buildings. Gyeongui Line Forest Park is an urban park where an abandoned railway was reborn for citizens. The Sungkyun Times (SKT) walked along G
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. Due to the Korean War, many Korean cultural heritages were taken to foreign countries. In fact, there are still about 190,000 Korean heritages in 21 countries. The Sungkyun Times (SKT) investigates the current state of the Korea
Many countries are considering basic income as an alternative to overcoming economic hardships due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Unlike the original basic income, disaster-related basic income is paid temporarily, but the two are common in that both have the universality, which means t
Many Kingos may have failed to register for the classes they wanted this semester because of the fierce competition on class registration day, or lack of the classes that they wanted to attend. In these cases, students sometimes visit their professors and beg for an extra position or take a seasonal
Maybe many Kingos are enjoying cultural life at the end of the year. Some may have seen a movie, gone to a gallery, or read a book. People enjoy their own cultural lives, but few people necessarily care about culture itself. Among these people, there is one person who is striving for the cultural di
Black Friday is coming! Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving Day, the last Thursday of November in the United States (US). The biggest sale of the year is held on this day. Although Black Friday is a big event in the US, many Koreans are looking forward to the day. This is because of the overs
At some point, more and more Korean people will watch generalist channels as well as the more mainstream channels of KBS, SBS, and MBC. The viewer ratings of the main news also reect this. 5.5% for Newsroom of JTBC, 11.8% for KBS, 3.8 % for SBS and 3.1% for MBC respectively. The gap between ter
The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) has selected Park HoSeok, a professor of Chemical Engineering at SKKU as the winner of the Scientist of the month award. This award selects a researcher who has contributed to the development of science and techno
The women’s lounge, Yeoggeum, at Dasan Hall of Economics on the Humanities and Social sciences Campus has disappeared after 14 years of its use and has been renamed as the Humanities Zone in the same place. This lounge had not only provided a room for resting but also conducted a book rental busines
Sungkyunkwan University has formed the SKKU Technology Innovation Advisory Group which consists of professors in hightech fields to support companies in trouble due to Japan’s export restrictions. Taking full advantage of the university’s research and development (R&D) achievement, this advisory gro
The research team of Kim Sang-woo, a professor of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering at SKKU has developed original technology for wireless charging that can get over the limitations of implantable medical devices. Previously, implantable medical devices like cardiac pacemakers and insulin p