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Jul 05, 2011 A New Culture with Each New Language Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Greek, Malay-Indonesian, Swahili (spoken in eastern parts of Africa)... As unfamiliar as each may sound, all are second languages offered at SNU as regular courses. SNU currently offers students courses on 16 different languages, including the ones mentioned above.

Jul 05, 2011 Cause of Male Infertility Identified After conducting microsurgical varicocelectomy on patients with clinical varicocele, the Male Infertility Team of the Department of Urology at SNU Hospital (headed by Professors KIM Soo Woong and PAICK Jae-Seung) announced on May 17 that they have discovered such treatment to significantly improve the concentration and motility of semen.

Jul 05, 2011 Up and Down University Rankings During the last few years, various organizations worldwide have announced university rankings according to different criteria. Depending on which organization compiled the list, SNU was evaluated as world class or outside the top 100.

Jul 01, 2011 Academic Exchange Agreement Concluded with the University of Pennsylvania On May 23, Seoul National University signed an Academic Exchange Agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

Jun 29, 2011 Korea's Stephen Hawking Nurtures Disabled Scientists Professor LEE Sang Mook, also known as “Korea’s Steven Hawking”, is leading the way in educating scientists with physical disabilities. The professor currently teaches at Seoul National University’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Jun 23, 2011 SNU Baseball Team Demonstrates Healthy Sportsmanship One win, one tie, and 265 losses over 35 years; since the SNU baseball team was first established, this has been its record. Before it achieved its first victory in 2004, the record was even worse, with one tie and 199 losses. Such a devastating record makes one wonder if they don’t get tired of losing all the time.

Jun 23, 2011 [Student Essay] Balancing the Costs and Benefits of Stressing English Education As Koreans spend a tremendous amount of time and money on learning English, how much the educational system should stress English has long been a controversial subject in Korea.

Jun 23, 2011 What's in a name? That Which We Call a Professor We all have one or two embarrassing moments in our lives which we wish we could erase or take back. You may have been talking ill about someone behind their back, for example, and then realized they had been listening from the start. A similar situation has been talked about for a long time by SNU students, and the issue might be hard to understand at first for foreigners.

Jun 23, 2011 Nerds Can Sport Too: Harvard Dares SNU to a Soccer Match Harvard Football Club's off-season training in Korea, playing against Korea University, Seoul National University, and the national youth soccer team all in a span of two weeks, perhaps due to Korea's ridiculous fantasy towards Ivy Leagues, has attracted much media attention and broadcasting with headlines that can be narrowed down to these four words - "Nerds can sport too."

Jun 23, 2011 Renowned Writer Leaves 1.3 Billion KRW to SNU The great, recently deceased writer of the 20th Century, PARK Wan Suh, has donated all of her money to Seoul National University’s College of Humanities.

Jun 23, 2011 Marathon the Mountain While getting around the SNU Gwanak campus is an adventure even using motor vehicles (as it takes a full 30 minutes for one round trip of the circular road on the university shuttle), 205 members of the SNU community made daring decisions to jog around the entire campus plus all the way to Inheon Elementary School at Nakseongdae and back, as the running course was so.

Jun 23, 2011 Academic Aid for the Japan Earthquake Victims Nearly two months have passed since the disastrous Great East Japan Earthquake hit. The Japanese nation, and moreover the global community, has witnessed triple disasters all in a row-the earthquake, the tsunami, and then the Fukushima nuclear crisis. And in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, Japan received generous donations from all over the world to reconstruct her cities in the Tohoku region.