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Following two months of negotiations between the Korea University (KU) Office of Planning and Budget and the student-established Tuition Fee Refund Task Force (TF), KU announced their final plan to compensate for the limitations implicated by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.Although the Tuition
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Joo Hannah
2020.09.01 16:45
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On August 20, the online course registration server of Korea University (KU) was temporarily paralyzed due to outer Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. As a form of a cyber-attack that renders the network unavailable through flooding numerous false Internet protocols (IP), it thereby overl
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Jung Eun Chong
2020.08.26 22:55
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On August 12, the Student Union of the Korea University (KU) College of Medicine and the KU Emergency Central Steering Committee issued a statement criticizing the government’s recent plan to increase the admissions quota at medical schools and establish a new public medical school.In a statement ti
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Nam Eun Seo
2020.08.17 19:57
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On August 11, the University Innovation Support Project Center of Korea University (KU) hosted the third KU Innovation Forum at the SK Future Hall. Titled “Data and Reform in Higher Education in the Post-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Era,” it informed the audience of the need to utilize data analys
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Jung Eun Chong
2020.08.11 23:25
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On August 11, Korea University (KU) President Chung Jin Taek and Yonsei University (YU) President Suh Seoung Hwan announced the cancellation of the Annual Ko-Yon Games originally scheduled for this coming October.The cancellation follows recent concerns over the prolonged coronavirus disease (COVID-
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Nam Eun Seo
2020.08.11 20:36
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The Seoul Metropolitan Government selected Korea University (KU) as the technical core institution for the “Special Zone for Research and Development (R&D) of Gangso in Hongneung, Seoul,” also known as “Hongneung R&D Special Zone” designated by the Ministry of Science and Information and Communicati
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Kim Sur Hyun
2020.08.07 10:59
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Since classes went online last March, students around the country have called for universities to refund tuition. Korea University (KU) has been no exception. As the first semester came to a close in June, KU students established the Tuition Refund Campaign Task Force (TF) to effectively begin negot
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Joo Hannah
2020.08.04 15:16
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On July 24, Korea University (KU) and SK Telecom signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on the promotion of artificial intelligence (AI) related education in the light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.The MOU aims to cultivate AI experts within the country and establish an “AI ec
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Nam Eun Seo
2020.07.29 21:41
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On May 15, the College of Engineering of Korea University (KU), announced two former professors, Professor Han Min Hong (Department of Industrial Management Engineering) and Professor Yun Dong Seok (Department of Materials Science and Engineering), as the first KU College of Engineering (KUCE) Heroe
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Park Sumin
2020.05.29 18:50
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On April 21, the 2019 Korea University (KU) Diversity Report was released by the KU Diversity Council. As the council’s first publication, the report thoroughly diagnoses KU’s diversity level across the faculty, staff, undergraduate students, and graduate school students within the Seoul and Sejong
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Kie Hae Seung
2020.05.27 11:10
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On May 15, the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea University (KU) and five other universities, which LH selected as Korea’s first foothold for urban regeneration.The MOU aims to create a more effective education system to carry out the human
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Nam Eun Seo
2020.05.20 22:00
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At the American Health Association (AHA)’s “Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB) 2020 Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine” conference, held online from May 5 to 7, Korea University (KU) Guro Hospital’s research team led by Drs. Kim Jin Won, Kang Dong Oh, and Eo Jae Sun re
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Joo Hannah
2020.05.19 21:39
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On May 5, KRIBB (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology) has announced the successful development of a vaccine candidate material for the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19). This breakthrough was achieved through the collaboration of the research team led by Dr. Jung Dae Kyun from t
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Jung Eunchong
2020.05.14 21:19
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On April 29, the Korea University (KU) Office of Admissions announced the undergraduate application guidelines for incoming students in 2022. Major changes in the guidelines included an increase of quota for students admitted through the state-administered college entrance exam and socially underpri
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Jun Uhnjin
2020.05.12 22:53
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On April 25, the Korea University Central Election Commission (KUCEC) announced that the Sisun campaign team, with candidates Ha Ji Woong (’14, Business Administration) and Cho Yong Joon (’17, Business Administration), has been disqualified due to accumulating three warnings. The sole candidate havi
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Kie Hae Seung
2020.04.25 17:33
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On April 23, the Office of Academic Affairs of Korea University (KU) announced to restrictively allow offline classes beginning from May 11. The announcement was made on the KU Portal to Information Depository (KUPID).Due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, KU had previously announced to
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Nam Eun Seo
2020.04.23 23:36
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Korea University (KU) and SK Hynix are collaborating in the creation of a new degree program focused on researching semiconductors. The program’s official designation is Semiconductor Engineering, and it will be open for applicants in the year 2021 and beyond. Students majoring in Semiconductor Engi
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Yun Yeong Kang
2020.04.15 21:06
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On March 30, Korea University (KU) was selected as the organizing institution of the Early Start-up Package Program from 2020 to 2022. The program, arranged by the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Startups (MSS), aims to support the growth of early ventures. In particular, it funds
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Kang Min Seo
2020.04.09 23:02
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Korea University (KU) Professor Cho Sung Taek (Department of Philosophy) has become the center of controversy at KU after being accused of running the major course “Special Lecture in Buddhism” this semester by reusing his lectures that were filmed in 2004 for commercial use.According to a Koreapas
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Nam Eun Seo
2020.04.08 22:03
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On March 24, Korea University (KU) announced its success in hosting the Nature Conference in 2021. This is the first time a university in Korea succeeded in the placing of the conference independently with Nature, an international scientific publishing company known for its Nature journals. The conf
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Choi Chan Woo
2020.04.01 22:06