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
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
VISION 2030 and Four Goals On September 15th at 2 p.m., Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) held a declaration ceremony for VISION 2030 at the Humanities and Social Sciences Campus. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019, only a few personnel attended the event on the spot, and it was live-st
Recent research has discovered the physiological mechanism behind how the exposure of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emitted from car engines induces neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in human brains. The study was conducted by a joint research team of Professor Cho Hansang from the Institute
On September 23rd, the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) announced that Professor Lee Jong-kwan from the Department of Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University was selected for the "2021 Best Scholars Support Program" in the field of Humanities and Social Scien
What is the Sungkyun Korean Writing Contest?On August 11th, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) held the 1st International Sungkyun Korean Writing Contest, in which international students compete using their Korean writing skills. This contest is based on the local contest called the Sungkyun Korean Writ
On August 13th, a databased service for a future path called “Subject Recommendation for Desired Field of Employment” was launched to support student success. The system recommends courses of each major and liberal arts/elective subjects, and the recommendation is based on graduates who are working
On September 2nd, the National Research Foundation (NRF) announced that an international research team that includes Professor Jeon Il, from the Department of Nano Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, discovered a novel method to enhance the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells (
On July 8th, the 23rd Ottogi Ham Tae-ho Academic Award Ceremony was held at the Daejeon Convention Center. Since its establishment in 1996, the Ottogi Ham Tae-ho Foundation has conducted various academic promotions and scholarship projects. Annually, it gives awards to food-related professors and re
Graduation System for Outstanding StudentsFrom August 25th of 2021, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) started to award the SKKU Summa Cum Laude to outstanding graduates. The purpose of this award is to motivate students for academic achievement and support students’ success. There are two types of grad