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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.

Jun 22, 2011 I Love SNU Party Held at Global House The “I Love SNU Party” was held on Friday, May 20, celebrating Together Day, a holiday designated by the Korean government to foster tolerance towards people of different ethnic backgrounds. The party, hosted by SSA (SNU student ambassadors), was planned as a recreational event for Korean and foreign students, which is why it was held at Global House (the SNU dormitory pub), a convenient location for the foreign students living on campus.

Jun 22, 2011 Dealing with Uncertainties Inside the Students’ Center building on SNU’s Gwanak campus is a branch of Kyobo Bookstore, the largest book dealer in Korea. One brief tour around the store can reveal an aspect of the students’ reading habits: that reading has become a pragmatic activity.

May 30, 2011 SNU Museum of Art Exhibition: Japan Meets the West The moon is bright. The silhouette of people passing by the street of Saruwaka is lucid and the street vanishes from the picture towards its end. This is Nightview of Saruwaka Street (1856) by the most famous modern Japanese ukiyo-e artist UTAGAWA Hiroshige (1797-1858).

May 17, 2011 New Airport Limousine Bus from the Rear Gate to Incheon Airport The new line will depart from Hoam Faculty House, thus making it all the more convenient for foreign students and faculty members who reside in the school dormitories and apartments near the rear gate. In addition, the new bus line will use buses which only accommodate 29 persons per ride, compared to the 41 passenger limo buses of the existing line, thus providing for more personal space.

May 17, 2011 Making a Brighter Campus Every year many university students suffer from depression and about 300 students commit suicide. After the recent deaths of 4 students at KAIST, depression in university students is becoming a nationwide issue. The fact that most of the students who died were suffering from depression, raises concern over what is causing students' depression and whether there are effective solutions.

May 17, 2011 Teaching and Learning from Your Peers The Korean tutoring program is targeted towards foreign students who are not familiar with the Korean language. They can receive lessons from peer tutors to help them in their 'College Korean' class and practice reading and speaking in Korean with their tutors. Also, since the tutees are not familiar with the Korean language and culture, they can practice reading Korean novels, poetry and newspapers or watch Korean movies with their tutors.

May 13, 2011 Happily Diverse: the SNU Dormitory's Multicultural Community Counting SNU's own students and the exchange students from abroad, there are a total of 1,091 foreign students living in 'Gwanaksa', the SNU dormitory. What is it like to live in this multicultural community that consists of people with more than 50 national backgrounds?

Apr 29, 2011 SNU Dominates 'Global Ph.D. Scholarship' SNU students were greatest in number among those selected, with 67 students (22.3%), while students of KAIST and POSTECH followed, with 56 and 30 respectively. The results showed that 80.5% of the selected students are under the age of 30, 60% were male, and 62% of them were from universities in or around the nation’s capital.