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Feb 03, 2009 Searching For Students With Potential Kim Ho-yeon, 19, a high school senior in what was once a mining town in Hwasun County, South Jeolla, learned last Saturday that he has been admitted to Seoul National University. Kim’s mother, Yang Jeong-nim, 46, gave him a hug. His father, Kim Yong-gon, 50, smiled brightly even though his facial muscles were stiff due to a medical condition.

Jan 29, 2009 SNU Outreach Programs The scholarship students get to experience the gift of sharing by helping youngsters marginalized by society, and children whose families are too poor to afford private lessons get to study with high achievers and have a chance to dream of a better future.

Jan 15, 2009 [Faculty Essay] Education and Social Change When asked in the 1950s, "How long do you think we have to wait to see a black American president?" the famous Nobel laureate William Faulkner replied, "Not until two or three hundred years from now, I presume."

Jan 15, 2009 [Faculty Essay] Survival of the Fittest Tigers and lions are not rivals but winners because they are both the best.

Jan 15, 2009 [Alumni Story] A History of Ownership On a summer’s day in 1955, PARK Byung-seon'50, a dreamy young Korean girl, boarded a plane for Paris. She was a graduate student from Seoul National University’s history department and had been given the opportunity to continue her education in France.

Jan 15, 2009 [Faculty Essay] After the Storm If we prepare for what’s to come after the crisis, we can become an advanced country when all is said and done.

Jan 15, 2009 [Faculty Essay] Set Sail for Seoul It would be ideal if the main result of redeveloping the four rivers is not improving the rivers themselves, but creating ocean networks and establishing port cities.

Jan 15, 2009 SNU Museum of Art Highlights William Blake's Art Works Museum of Art Seoul National University highlights Blake's artistic side and his influence on British culture for the first time in Korea. "Blake's Shadow: William Blake and his Artistic Legacy"

Jan 15, 2009 [Alumni Story] Artist PARK Jae-kon'60' Life Abroad in Paint The late artist Park Jae-kon (1937-1993) spent a great part of his adult life living and traveling in South America. As his art shows, Park was unafraid to immerse himself in the artistic tradition of his new environment and be influenced by South America's landscapes and traditional culture.

Jan 15, 2009 [Alumni Story] Dr. SUNG('57)'s "True American Dream" Sung M. Lim has lived what he considers the true American dream. His life in the United States started in 1961 when he left South Korea with $100 in his pocket and a few changes of clothes. He was headed to Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss., to pursue graduate studies in plant genetics and breeding.

Jan 15, 2009 Additives May Subtract Health Professor CHO Myung-Hain and his colleagues at Seoul National University compared the effects that a diet of either 0.5 or 1 percent - an amount relative to that found in humans - inorganic phosphate had on the lung tissue of mice with lung cancer over four weeks.

Jan 15, 2009 KIM Yeon-hee '89 Became the First Female Regional Director Kim Yeon-hee '89, an SNU gradaute of business administration and former partner of Bain & Company’s Seoul branch, was promoted to a global director for the Asia Pacific region on January 4th.