This year, Park Sang-young’s novel Love in the Big City was longlisted for the International Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. Did you know that novelist Park Sang-young graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature and the Department of Media
With summer just around the corner, college students tend to engage in various off-campus extracurricular activities to spend their vacation meaningfully. Among a lot of public activities, in the case of the university student’s mentoring program, Kingos take part in united clubs such as Youth Facto
2022 ESKARA Festival, Kingos United after Three Years The University Festival is a large-scale Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) festival held in May where all Kingos become united through various cultural events. The festival came back after three years as the 2022 ESKARA Festival after
On May 2nd, the conferment ceremony of the honorary doctorate degree was held online between the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) and the National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan. An honorary doctorate degree can be awarded to those who have made special contributions to academic development. In
A comforting café called not complete in Hye-hwa is well known to both Kingos and visitors for its delicious croiffle (croissant waffle) dessert. The warm sun shines on the incomplete place, and people are making their own stories in the sunshine. Therefore, the Sungkyun Times (SKT) interview
Spring of 2022 is already becoming a memory. College towns have been livelier than ever since the lifting of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) curbs. Student clubs, also known as the gems of campus life, played a huge role in this revival by overcoming multiple risks of extinction. As such, th
The Geumjandi Cultural Festival Coming Back after two Years The Geumjandi Cultural Festival and the Haeoreum Festival, which were canceled until last year due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), took place in March. From March 23rd to 24th, the Geumjandi Cultural Festival titled “Under the Y
Having conducted joint research with biotechnology start-up Progeneer, the research was about manifesting a cell-free protein using the Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) hydrogel. It is expected that this cell-free protein will be used in the biomedical field. By arranging the rolling circle transcription base
Professor Kim Mi-so’s research team from the School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering has developed a piezoelectric selfpowered motion sensor using atmospheric moisture. Piezoelectric polymer fiber, piezoelectric material that produces electricity by mechanical transformation, is leadfre
Universities are trying to support their students in various ways to resolve the current unemployment crisis. Internship programs, especially, help students develop practical skills related to dealing with different social affairs. However, there is still controversy regarding whether student intern
Spring Reviving the Campus Culture From February 21st to 25th, the 54th Student Council Spring of Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) held an event called “Back to SKKU” at the Humanities and Social Sciences Campus. Back to SKKU aims to revive the campus culture that existed before the coronavirus diseas
According to the 2019 Cancer Statistics published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare last year, the probability of being diagnosed with cancer within one’s lifetime is about 38% in Korea. Cancer has been the number one cause of death for the last 40 years. For World Health Day on April 7th, the S
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) invites domestic and foreign scholars to hold Sungkyun Myeongnyun Lectures named “Lighting up the World,” a series of special lectures that diagnose Korean society in 2022. The lectures will share issues in various fields from a global perspective. Starting from this s
Professor Shin Ju-young’s research team from the School of Pharmacy proved how the risk of newborn teratogenesis could increase when early pregnant women take benzodiazepine. This was verified from big data of the domestic healthcare system via wide-scale research. Even if benzodiazepine has been wi
In 2022, the 54th student council Spring has been newly launched and will be drawing a lot of attention. The student council’s name, Spring, symbolizes the development and the warm springtime of Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). They have announced that they will constantly strive to replenish the two
Change to Merit-based Scholarship Standards in 2022Until 2021, students who received a merit-based scholarship received a full tuition waiver if they were within the top 1% of their class, and those within the top 4% received a 70% tuition waiver. From the spring semester of 2022, though, those in t
To some, a start-up company may represent success, as numerous projects are implemented to support start-ups, especially policies that aid undergraduate entrepreneurs. However, the low success rates of undergraduate start-ups and abuse of support packages have been causing problems. Therefore, the S
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
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