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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.

Apr 27, 2011 No More Brooding Over Choosing Your Major On April 1, the College of Liberal Studies hosted a Majors Fair at which 44 departments offering majors participated in providing students with the information they wanted to know about their prospective studies.

Apr 14, 2011 Too Obsessed with Grades? An increasing number of students are visiting confounded professors, asking them not to raise their grades but to lower them to below a C grade so that they can retake the course in the future.

Apr 14, 2011 Mother Makes Donation After Her Son's Death Mrs. Kim has a new ritual: three times a day, she pours fresh water in a cup her son regularly used to drink from. The cup is placed in front of her beloved son's gallant picture. "He would often call for me when he got thirsty, and I would bring him fresh water in this cup", she endearingly reminisced, as she cradled her precious son’s photograph.

Mar 02, 2011 Cyber Discrimination Against Foreigners Should Be Eliminated However, foreigners who are visiting Korea at this moment are inconvenienced by this country’s discriminative cyber space. Even though Korea does not issue a resident registration number to foreigners, every Korean website requires one.

Feb 23, 2011 Making a Meaningful Graduation Ceremony The upcoming 65th SNU Graduation Ceremony, which is to be held on February 25 and during which almost 5000 bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees will be conferred, will be a different picture.

Feb 23, 2011 New Official Addresses for the SNU Campuses The Gwanak campus will officially receive its new address 'Gwanak-ro' and the Yeongeon campus 'Daehak-ro' starting next year.

Feb 18, 2011 Prof. HYEON Joined World Top 100 Chemists HYEON Taeghwan, SNU Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering, has joined the world's top 100 chemists. Thomson Reuters published a table of "Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010" which listed 100 scientists who achieved the highest citation impact scores for chemistry papers.