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The Inchon steering committee (Chairperson Do-Yeon Kim) processed candidates for the education, journalism·culture, humanities·social studies, science·technology categories from the 1st of May until late August this year.

It has been 2 years and a half since COVID-19 struck the world. With variants emerging without end, the end of the pandemic seems far away, and preventive measures are getting weaker. As medical experts predicted, the mortality rate of successive variants is getting lower.

Se-Jung Oh, the President of SNU, appointed 3 full-time professors as “SNU honorary chair professors of 2022” on the 1st of September to support the research activities of the faculty members that are reputed internationally for their exceptional academic achievements.

Minster Lee is evaluated as one of President Yoon’s most trusted members of the State Council.....

Through joint research with Professor Kyung-Cheol Moon and Professor Jung-Hwan Park of SNUH, Professor Sung-Hoon Kwon of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering developed a diagnostic indicator that predicts the survival rate of patients by analyzing the interaction between cells in cancer tissues.

Professor Byung-Ho Lee’s research team under the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering identified the cause of the limited response to focus control when viewing a 3D holographic display and proposed a solution to this problem.

Recently, semiconductors have gone beyond a field that affects the national economy; it now affects national security.

Traditionally, the semiconductor industry is led by private companies.

“Regarding semiconductor policies, there is a division of roles between related government bodies such as MOTIE (Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy), MOE (Ministry of Education), and the Ministry of Science and ICT. I believe that cooperation is necessary to achieve results.”

The SNU College of Engineering (Dean Yoo-Seok Hong) signed a MOU with SK Telecom (SKT) and SK Hynix on the 19th of July for industrial-academical cooperation in AI and semiconductor-related programs.