Professor Kim Tae-il’s research team in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has succeeded in developing a damping material that selectively removes external noise. Recently, bioelectronic devices such as smartwatches and smartphones have s
Q1. Please introduce yourself.Hello, my name is Miura Tomomi, and I am a 24-year-old Japanese student at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). I come from Saitama Prefecture, which is near northern Tokyo. I entered SKKU as a student of the Humanities Affiliated College in 2018. After my first year, I deci
Q1. Please introduce yourself.Hello, my name is Karel Sauvageau, a 25-year-old French Canadian. I am currently studying a Bachelor of Asian Studies, Profile Geopolitics, and Korean Language at the University of Montreal. I grew up in the beautiful city of Quebec. If you watched the South Korean tele
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