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Feb 17, 2012 Prof. CHUNG Became the Director of National Museum of Contemporary Art, and others Professor CHUNG Hyung Min of the Department of Oriental Painting was appointed as the Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea on January 19.

Feb 17, 2012 'College Preview' Vacation Program for High School Students The 6th Annual Winter Vacation Program for Adolescents, which lasted for two weeks, was wrapped up with great satisfaction on the part of the students.

Feb 17, 2012 Going through the Eye of a Needle: Getting Accepted into the SNU Dorm Recently, a number of SNU students have been complaining about difficulties getting accepted into the SNU Dormitory, Gwanaksa.

Feb 15, 2012 Graduation Arts Exhibition Serious research universities like SNU sometimes tend to forget they also have experimenters of the modes of expression. In fact SNU has been shaping the aesthetic tradition in Korea over the years.

Feb 15, 2012 New Ways to Study the Korean Language An Interview with Professor Marc Duval - the first foreign professor at SNU's dept. of Korean Language and Literature

Feb 09, 2012 Muslim Students Find a Sacred Place in the SNU Student Dormitory As the silent darkness of a winter night approached Gwanak Mountain, seven students gathered in front of the SNU Student Dormitory, Gwanaksa (Building No.920). They were all foreign Muslim students studying at SNU.

Feb 03, 2012 Meet the Female Campus Police Beginning not long ago you may have seen new faces hand signaling the road in front of the administration building while on your scooter or walking to and from the shuttle bus.

Feb 03, 2012 Colorectal Cancer Treatment Developed Using Nanoparticles With reports from the World Health Organization that Korean men rank #1 in Asia for the occurrence of colorectal cancer, Korean researchers have discovered a treatment that kills colorectal cancer cells with nanotechnology using minute particles that have the thickness of merely a ten-thousandth of a hair.

Feb 03, 2012 Choose Your Own Majors Students of SNU's College of Liberal Studies (CLS) are allowed to choose any major among all 82 departments in undergraduate programs.

Jan 15, 2012 An SNU Professor’s View on Investor-State Dispute (ISD) Professor SHIN Hi Taek spoke on the subject of investor-state dispute (ISD) settlement mechanisms, the currently controversial political issue surrounding the free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US at HanKyung Millennium Forum.

Jan 06, 2012 A Korean Journal Joins Nature Publishing Group A scientific journal published by a Korean association will become an open-access online journal and be offered through the website of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) as of 2013.

Jan 05, 2012 An SNU Professor's Integration of Engineering and Art Joseph Beuys, the famous German modern artist, said that anyone could be an artist. Marcel Duchamp displayed a toilet bowl and called it 'art'. These are manifestations of modern art that enlarge its boundaries without limit.