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Mar 29, 2012 'SNU in Beijing' Winter Session Ended SNU designed this program to promote interest in and greater understanding of China, whose influence is reaching beyond Asia along with its dramatic economic growth.

Mar 29, 2012 The New and Improved Design of the SNU Portal and eTL The former eTL site used the 'Blackboard' platform, for which we had to pay license fees. However, the new site uses an open source platform called 'Moodle', so the cost of managing and developing the site is considerably reduced.

Mar 29, 2012 Leaving SNU 4: A Walk Through Philosophical Thought Across Eastern and Western Traditions "Philosophers of the West and the East have each developed their line of thinking according to different philosophical traditions in view of the identical puzzle. Combining the two is an infinite field of study that can lead to new answers."

Mar 29, 2012 Leaving SNU 3: Frontier Scientists Leaves SNU Professor YOO Jung Yul stated that it was "too bad to have to leave the laboratory I had grown fond of" but that he was grateful to retire after time spent with "good faculty and students."

Mar 26, 2012 Leaving SNU 2: the First Foreign Professor Leaves Campus "Things have changed a lot over the last decade. There were some difficulties at first, but SNU feels like home to me now."

Mar 23, 2012 Leaving SNU 1: Retiring from the College of Medicine Five of respected doctors at the College of Medince have completed their years and retired from SNU this February.

Mar 23, 2012 Ninety-Year-Old Former SNU Professor Enters University as a Freshman Studying has no age limit and anyone who wishes to learn can do so if one puts his or her mind to it. At least this is what one former SNU professor demonstrates he believes.

Mar 19, 2012 Doosan Infracore Donates to SNU Brazilian Studies In accordance with Doosan Infracore's wish, SNU plans to use the fund to encourage an even better relationship between Brazil and Korea.

Mar 16, 2012 Half of SNU Law School's Freshmen Are Female The Law School confirmed that it's first time in history that almost half of the law major students are female. Among general undergraduate freshmen population this year, women constitute 35 percent, a figure considerably lower than that of the law school.

Mar 15, 2012 Review on Popular English-taught Courses This article is a student's review on four popular English courses of last semester: New Perspectives on Korean History (by Milan Hejtmanek, Professor of Korean History), Introduction to Cinema (by MIN Hyunjun, Lecturer of Aesthetics), Extraterrestrial Planets and Life (by Masateru Ishiguro, Professor of Physics and Astronomy), and Anglo-American Law (by John L. Leitner, former Professor of Law).

Mar 13, 2012 Tradition of Top Freshman Awards Becomes History The honor of entering SNU as a top student was considered a lifelong, tremendous distinction that caught nationwide attention since it meant being the smartest of all the brightest students accepted into SNU.

Mar 13, 2012 Who Moved All the Snow? The city buses that circle the campus (5516, 5511 and 5513) follow this road. Due to the heavy snowfall, city buses couldn't enter the main gate and bring students in and out of the campus.