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Prof. Kwang Ho Kim of Pusan National University was awarded the Order of Science and Technology Merit Yellow Stripes, the highest honor during the ‘2021 Science and ICT Day’ ceremony. Prof. Sang-Heon Lee of Korea University Anam Hospital was honored with the Order of Service Merit Yellow Stripes in the field of ICT.

SNU ECE Professor Byoungho Lee’s research team announced on the 26th, “A novel VR display technology with which the volume of conventional VR devices can be significantly reduced has been developed.”

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.