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The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 31st that it selected SNU ECE Professor Seungyong Hahn as the April winner of the ‘Scientist of the Month’.

Jungjin Seo(64), Honorary Chairman of Celltrion, was awarded the NAEK Grand Prize. Seungyong Hahn(46), SNU ECE Professor, and Dae-Yeol Jeong(49), Senior Engineer of Hyundai Heavy Industry, received the Young Engineers Award.

The city of Gwangju announced on the 2nd that it will, with SNU Electric Power Research Institute, push for the establishment of the national high magnetic field research institute in Gwangju for the advancement of future high-tech industries.

SNU announced on the 11th that it is implementing an ‘ombudsperson’ program beginning March 1st to improve its institutional, physical, and cultural environment and to resolve the grievances of its members.

The non-profit organization S-OIL Science and Culture Foundation (Chairman Ungyu Paik) held an award ceremony and presented 30 physicists and chemists with a total of 378 million won to fund research.

KT, which is pursuing a transformation from a mobile telecommunications company to a digital platform business, is spurring on the reinforcement of its AI technology by recruiting talents in the field of AI and robotics.

COVID 19 has transformed various aspects of our society. One is the acceleration of digitalization. Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, said last May, “We have seen two years worth of digital transformation in two months.”

Research that six out of ten possess the genes to overcome COVID 19 is attracting attention.

On Wednesday February 3rd, 2021, Professor Seong Cheol Kim held a special lecture on the topic of ‘Case study of major private research programs’ in celebration of being awarded the ‘1st SNU Industry-Academy Cooperation Award’.

ECE Professor Byoungho Lee was named the chair of Y-KAST for two years beginning on March 1st, 2021 and is to lead the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST).