SKKU’s Natural Sciences Campus and Mobike, a smart bike sharing service company, have executed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to start a smart bike sharing service. Smart bike sharing services are services based on auto locking, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), the Internet of Things (IOT) net
Television (TV) has been an essential part of our lives for a very long time; a number of TV owners are paying the public broadcasting license fee. Since 1981, the public broadcasting license fee has been fixed at around 2,500, but even with this fixed license fee, the public broadcasting stations
In celebration of the International Jazz Day designated by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on April 30th, various events are coming up soon. Jazz seems to have been gaining in popularity recently and as a reflection of this, we are able to listen to more liv
The etymology of the word April is known to be from the Latin verb, aperire. Aperire means “to open,” a fitting word for describing the month of April as trees and flowers start to bloom. The Sungkyun Times (SKT) captured the blooming of flowers as they have started to emerge after the end of a part
Nowadays, it is hard to imagine life without computers. It is not only desktops, but also laptops and smartphones that people use daily, that are high-performance computers. The same goes for government agencies and nations, too. Now, quantum computers have appeared and have begun to change the perc
In October 2017, an employee for Hanssem, a large furniture enterprise in Korea, disclosed the fact that her boss sexually assaulted her. The employee, however, was then threatened to be sued for defamation, and her salary was docked as well because of her disclosure. As such, defamation law in Kore
Bitcoin was certainly one of the hottest issues in Korea at the beginning of 2018. There was an enormous interest in “virtual currency” within the students’ community due to its relative ease of accessibility and its unpredictable price fluctuations. As a movement for huge change is detected within
The third inter-Korean summit is scheduled at the end of April, and a North Korea-United States (US) summit is also expected to take place for the first time in succesion. 2018 Inter-Korean Summit News of the 2018 inter-Korean summit was initially reported on March 6th when the special delegation of
President Moon Jae-in and the Blue House, the Presidential Office of Korea, announced that a presidential proposal for a constitutional amendment was billed on March 26th, 2018.Constitutional Amendments in Korea The Constitution of Korea has gone through nine amendments during the past 70 years sinc
The public hearing for the 35th student council of the College of Social Sciences was held on March 22th, 2018. It went along in three parts: an opening speech from the candidates of the two parties, S:pick and SaDari, a debate on the education, facility and welfare, and other policies of each party
As the spring semester has just begun, many Kingos might be excited about their new campus lives. This may be true especially for freshmen and sophomores who have just started to study on their majors. SKKU has an academic system different from other universities, the “academic unit system”. This un
According to a survey conducted by the Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF) in 2017, the average monthly cost of living for a university student is more than 700,000. Many students work and study at the same time due to the excessive pressure of expensive tuition. Reflecting Kingos’ opinions, the