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Jan 03, 2011 SNU Freezes Tuition Rates SNU Refrains from Raising Its Tuition Fees Three Years in a Row - At the beginning of 2010, several major universities raised their tuition fees by as much as 4.8 percent compared to the previous year.

Jan 03, 2011 Best Investment to SNU Students Seoul National University Ranks #1 in Highest Investment in Its Students. The statistics on how much educational spending each university in Korea is directing towards their students has recently been released. The student investment of each institution was calculated irrelevant to their tuition fees.

Dec 31, 2010 SNU Doctors Visit Yeonpyeong-do Refugees Professor LEE Suk-Ha (College of Agriculturre and Life Sciences) successfully sequenced DNA of a Korean wild bean and published the result on PNAS.

Dec 29, 2010 'Doosan Humanities Building' to be Constructed The son of the founder of Doosan donates 5 billion won to SNU to re-construct the building his father donated.

Dec 06, 2010 Good Old Days at Dongsung-dong Campus The appearance of the modern day SNU campus is the result of numerous changes. A graduate of 1970, Professor Kook Joe Shin of the Department of Chemistry, SNU, reminisces old romantic memories of the Dongsung-dong campus.

Nov 22, 2010 SNU Professors Aiming to Be the Best - At Teaching The general perception of SNU professors is more that of them being serious researchers rather than inspiring teachers. Recently, an increasing number of SNU professors are taking a significant amount of time out from their busy schedules to learn how to teach students better.

Oct 21, 2010 Korean Traditional Child-Play Found to Reduce Stress One of the words Korean babies hear most after they’re born is “doridori (도리도리)”. It is a mimetic word for shaking the head left and right a definite number of times.

Oct 21, 2010 Industry-University Cooperation with Doosan Infracore SNU College of Engineering has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Doosan Infracore initiating further Industry-University cooperation between the two.

Oct 18, 2010 Brain as a Percussion Instrument Koreans have long believed in prenatal education, 'taegyo', like most other cultures over the centuries. Then, this belief was dismissed in the modern age as not being scientific.

Oct 13, 2010 Chaos Over Course Registration No More! In September of last year, half of SNU's enrolled students had to go through the course registration process all over again because the school administration mistakenly opened the whole class size of all the classes to students whose ID ended with an odd number.

Oct 13, 2010 SNU's New Campaign for a Safer Campus - More CCTVs Situated on a mountain slope, SNU's vast campus has various areas that are too dark and secluded which has prompted numerous students to voice their concerns. SNU is now stepping up implementation of safety-strengthening measures that aim to alleviate these worries.

Oct 04, 2010 Saving Thousands of Smiles Professor KIM Woong-Han of Seoul National University Hospital has saved the lives of over 100 children with heart conditions in Mongolia and Uzbekistan over the past 10 years.