Kim Sang-woo, a professor in the School of Advanced Materials Sciences and Engineering, and his team have developed the world’s first biodegradable frictional electric generator that can dismantle and remove medical devices inside a body for a short time without any additional surgeries by modulatin
After the test operation last semester, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) will operate global lectures and innovation lectures from 2022. Global lectures and innovation lectures are new education models for future colleges that SKKU suggested for the rapidly changing environment due to student reductio
2020 was frustrating, 2021 was exhausting, and here comes 2022. It seems like the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can no longer stop us from living a normal life. The school is finished with renovations, students are coming back to campuses, and staff is getting ready to greet us all. I can alre
Our new semester just began again with the warm spring. Everyone will have different plans and resolutions for this new semester. The Sungkyun Times (SKT) sincerely wishes this spring to be different from last spring, which was definite chaos due to the pandemic. Let’s watch a healing movie, Miracle
When the flowers on the streets are about to bloom and a refreshing breeze softly blows, the school starts to fill up with waves of student laughter. In March, freshmen, who finally became university students after their competitive entrance examination, and present students, who have come back to s
Demand for contactless laundry services has increased due to the prolonged coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Initially, it was only popular among single-person households, but now it has spread throughout society. Therefore, the Sungkyun Times (SKT) will introduce the procedure of contac
In January 2022, the representative metaverse platform Zepeto collaborated with the beauty brand Hera by opening the brand’s official pop-up store, which attracted much attention for experiencing digital interactive space. As people have had few opportunities to meet face-to-face due to the coronavi
As the business environment has deteriorated due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), corporate sustainability management has emerged as an essential research topic. Therefore, environmental and social responsibilities and governance (ESG) have become significant components in business. In ot
Hong Soo-min (Editor-in-Chief)2021 will be the most memorable year of my college life thanks to SKT. This is the last month for me to publish the magazine, and it was a great honor for having worked as editor-in-chief. Thank you to the editors and reporters who always supported me and put all their
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is replacing most activities online, companies’ recruitment methods have also been facing huge changes. This year, numerous companies such as GS Retail have started to introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) interviews to their recruitment process. AI job in
On October 28th, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, revealed a new logo and name for Facebook, “Meta”, with the wish of creating a metaverse environment that allows people to communicate both in reality and virtually. A metaverse is a compound word using meta and universe, having the meaning of v
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on November 1st. Most countries proposed the amount of carbon emission goals and set a target of Net-zero. According to the Paris Climate Change Accord, countries all around the world should
On October 25th, the KT internet service was paralyzed for 89 minutes. This event received a lot of criticism since it happened due to a careless inspection system of the company. The network outage occurred around lunchtime on October 25th when they were exchanging a network communication path sett
On October 29th, the Korean government announced that they were securing 270,000 doses of oral vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The United States pharmaceutical company, Merck, developed the oral vaccine called Molnupiravir, and the Korean government completed the contract with them
With the implementation of the “living with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)” policy last month, everyone is curious whether university offline classes will be restored next semester. Jung Se-jin, an alumna of the Department of Design at Sungkyunkwan University in 2009, has been working on All I
As the overseas exchange program has been restricted due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the domestic student exchange program is receiving attention as a remarkable substitute. The student exchange program is meaningful in that it provides various learning opportunities by exchanging st
The presidency term of the 53rd student council, S:Energy, has ended this November. The Sungkyun Times (SKT) would like to wrap up this semester by looking through the changes that S:Energy brought to Kingos’ campus lives.Tuition FeesBy holding meetings of the Tuition Deliberation Committee five tim
The 1st special lecture of the course, “The Age of Upheaval”, was held on November 9th by Professor Koo Jeong-woo, from the Department of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) and Professor Jared Diamond, who is from the University of California, Los Angeles and a chair-professor of SKKU Unive
Recently, problems of image sticking of flexible displays have been rising. In response, Professor Choi Byoungdoeg’s research team, from the School of Electronic Electrical Engineering, analyzed the cause of the problem through joint research with Samsung Displays. According to the research, the cha
When I entered the university, I could not go to school due to the pandemic situation, and I knew nothing about the school. Without any sense of belonging to the school, I started to think I should do some activities related to the school. Looking around for activities that I can enjoy, I found the