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Dec 05, 2011 [Exhibition] Drawing Joseon, Encountering Joseon: Stories about Maps, Roads and Travel The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, located at SNU, is currently holding this year's annual special exhibition under the theme, "Drawing Joseon, Encountering Joseon".

Nov 16, 2011 University of Tehran Delegates Visit SNU Delegates from the University of Tehran visited SNU on October 27 to discuss the expansion of academic exchange between the two universities.

Nov 15, 2011 Immunotherapy: A Promising Area in Cancer Research Professor LEE Choon-Taek, director of the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Immunotherapy Research Center, stressed the importance of immunotherapy in cancer treatment during an interview.

Nov 15, 2011 Joint Degree Program with Major Universities in Eastern Asia in the Works Students graduating from SNU will be able to earn degrees from the University of Tokyo, Peking University and Hanoi University as well in the not too distant future.

Nov 14, 2011 Personal Information Protection Act in Effect by September 30 The Personal Information Protection Act, which was written to be a general law defining the principles of personal information policy and a countermeasure for the victims of personal information infringement, became effective on September 30, 2011.

Nov 14, 2011 SNU Signs a Student Exchange Agreement with York University President Brian CANTOR of York University visited SNU President OH Yeon Cheon and signed a student exchange agreement on September 28.

Nov 14, 2011 SNU’s 65th Birthday Approximately three hundred faculty and students of SNU gathered together at the University Cultural Center (Bldg. 73) to commemorate the school’s 65th anniversary on October 14.

Nov 10, 2011 Transplanting the Culture of Organ Donation They say that after death your body returns to dust but your legacy lives on. Donating organs and thus saving the lives of those in need is a great legacy.

Nov 10, 2011 Source of Ongoing Cholera Pandemic Identified Professor CHUN Jongsik of SNU's Department of Biological Sciences and KIM Dong Wook, Ph.D of the International Vaccine Institute have succeeded in identifying the origin and expansion path of the current cholera pandemic.

Nov 10, 2011 SNU Establishes New Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations SNU announced that it will establish a new department to be called the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations (ALC).

Nov 10, 2011 Heavy Eaters - Newfound Evidence of Massive Black Holes The sight of a star being absorbed by a million-solar-mass black hole was observed by a group of scientists for the first time in history.

Oct 31, 2011 New Library Opens at the Language Education Institute On October 7, on the 4th floor of the Daerim International Building, the SNU Language Education Institute (LEI) held an opening ceremony for the new mini library 'GaGyo'.