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Jan 11, 2008 SNU Nano Tech to Transfer Professor Hyeon Taeg-hwan's team(Dept. of Chemical Engineering) is selling its nano-particle production technology to Hanwha Chemical for 4.3 billion won. Hyeon will sign a contract with Hanwha to transfer its know-how and grant an exclusive license to commercialize it.

Dec 28, 2007 Prof. Rhee's English-taught Economics Class Prof. Changyong Rhee, the tallest frame, connects his laptop to the projector himself and starts the class by throwing a sharp question contrary to his bright smile: Why couldn’t the cartels in the oil industry during the1980s be sustained over a long period?

Dec 28, 2007 The First Japanese Professor at SNU SNU has appointed a Japanese national to a professorship for the first time.

Dec 28, 2007 Various Mentoring Programs Seoul National University is offering its students diverse mentoring programs that connect graduates and current students of SNU, in the effort to help students receive realistic and practical advice.

Dec 24, 2007 Engineering Colllege Spearheading International 2007 has been the year of internationalization for SNU. This year it signed new academic exchange agreements with over a hundred overseas universities, and also invited foreign scholars to open the Summer Institute.

Dec 24, 2007 The Dream of Global Engineers The College of Engineering has established the ‘Global Leadership Program-Overseas Student Scholarship (GLP-OSS)’, funded by its alumni association’s ‘Vision 2010’, to send engineering students to other Asian universities that have signed agreements on student exchanges with SNU.

Dec 24, 2007 Overseas Job Opportunities and Internships The Career Development Center is currently promoting the ‘Global Talent Program (GTP)’, which was launched in spring semester of 2007. GTP, the first SNU program ever with the objective of promoting overseas job opportunities for SNU students, is designed to facilitate students’ overseas employment by providing interview opportunities for employment and internships.

Dec 24, 2007 Language Course Abroad Training Program Launched Seoul National University has launched a new course for winter session, ‘Introductions to Foreign Languages 3’.

Dec 24, 2007 Cultivating International Human Resources 10 years of Cultivating International Human Resources

Dec 24, 2007 Student-Directed Curriculum Launched SNU Faculty of Liberal Education is introducing the Student-Directed Education program beginning from the 2007 winter session. The Student-Directed Education program allows students to choose their own topics and to design their research.

Dec 24, 2007 College Life Counselor, The Center for Campus Life The Center for Campus Life & Culture of Seoul National University provides students with an exclusive counseling program each semester to help them adjust to campus life smoothly.

Dec 24, 2007 Training for Professionals The Graduate School of Business at Seoul National University, which was founded in August, 2006, is world-class in key measures such as the ratio of salary increases after graduation, achievement in research bby professors, the proportion of professors from other countries, and the number of students from other countries.