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- SKKU Ranks No.2 in Korean University Rankings by Joong Ang Daily
- SKKU was named No.2 in Korean University Rankings by the Joong Ang Daily, followed by Seoul National University. Out of 61 comprehensive universities in Korea, the Joong Ang Daily evaluated the universities’ performances based on 33 criteria, including number of citations, scholarships, and employment rate. SKKU received huge recognition mainly for its support to faculty members and students. Last year, the school offered a total of 3.62 billion won in research expenses to faculty members, while giving 3.93 billion won of scholarships to students. SKKU is also well-known for publishing many research articles in international journals. Sung Jin Song, Vice-President of SKKU’s Planning and Regulation Division, said, “SKKU has been making investments for research and education, and we now see its results in our high employment rate and potential Nobel prize awardees like prof. Nam Gyu PARK at the Department of Chemical Engineering.”
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- 작성일 2017-10-27
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- SKKU Ranks 111th in the THE World University Rankings, Rising from 137th Last Year
- Sungkyunkwan University ranked 111th in the THE (Times Higher Education) World Rankings this year, rising from 137th last year. SKKU also rose to 3rd place in the ranking of domestic universities in Korea. SKKU scored 54.1 points in teaching (rising from 53.7 points last year), 55.1 points in research (50.6 points last year), 69.5 points in article citations (66.5 points last year), 93.7 points in industry income (88.9 points last year), and 44.7 points in international outlook (39.6 points last year), showing a steady upward trend in the overall evaluation index. Kyu Sang CHUNG, the President of Sungkyunkwan University, said, “For the past several years, SKKU has been devoted to creating synergy through the mutual growth of education and research by supporting integrated research and recruiting world-class scholars as professors to introduce a global-standard education system. We will spare no effort to become a world-class university.” SKKU is implementing creative convergence education, such as multidisciplinary approaches and specialized academic-industrial cooperative education, that will lead the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In particular, SKKU is expanding academic-industrial courses of study, such as convergent foundation projects, fusion capstone design, and integrated team field training in order to connect students’ creative business ideas to enterprises. Also, in cooperation with small businesses, SKKU created excellent results by releasing about 20 commercialized products and submitting more than 30 patent proposals every year.
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- 작성일 2017-10-16
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- Department of Economics & Global Economics named as one of the very Best Departments for Economics
- On September 17th, SKKU's Department of Economics & Global Economics was named as "One of the very Best Departments" in the field of Economics, selected by Joongang Daily's University Evaluation 2017. Joongang Daily selected best departsments of fields of Humanities & Social Science among every universities. Along with D.of Economics in Korea univ., Seoul univ., Yeonsei Univ., SKKU's Department of Economics & Global Economics (Each) has selected as "One of the very Best Departments" in the field of Economics. Joongang Daily commented SKKU's Plentyful supports for research, a great number of quality papers on international journals, and high reception rate of scholarships had been main factor for being selected as the best department. (article: http://news.joins.com/article/21914141?cloc=joongang|home|topnews1#)
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- 작성일 2017-09-26
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- College of Economics Graduate School Fair held
- 17-Fall's SKKU Graduate School Fair was held on 19th September (Tue) at ChoByungDoo Hall, 600th Anniversary Building for undergraduate students and graduates who are interested in entering a graduate school. College of Economics also took part in the fair. Department of Economics, Statistics, International Trade and Actuarial Science installed boothes and provided information such as graduate school curriculums, career advice, scholarships and personal consulting to more than 30 students. During the fair, Dean Minsung KIM also awarded undergraduate students who got excellent results from 2017-Spring semester, by bestowing Dean's Lists on them.
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- 작성일 2017-09-26
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- Prof. Cham Na YOON Estimates Dynamic Games of Electoral Competition to Evaluate Term Limits
- Elections serve an important function in modern democracies by allowing voters to express their support for politicians who share their ideological views and plan to pursue the policies they prefer. In addition, elections provide voters the opportunity to remove from office incumbents that are not adequately performing the duties of their office. Over the last decade, much progress has been made in modeling electoral competition as a dynamic game with asymmetric information. One important qualitative finding of the theoretical literature is that the institutional design of election rules (e.g., term limits) can have a large impact on election outcomes and voters' welfare. However, few attempts have been made to quantify these welfare effects. This paper shows how to identify and estimate, using standard semi-parametric techniques, a class of dynamic games with perfect monitoring that have been at the frontier of recent research in political economy. Using US gubernatorial election data, they estimate the model to study the consequences of term limits. The team finds that the benefits from holding office are significant and large in magnitude. As a consequence, the prospects of reelection provide strong incentives for moderate governors to move towards the center of the ideological spectrum during their first term in office. Voters are willing to accept significant trade-offs in ideology to obtain a more capable governor. They find that there are significant differences in ideology across states and between parties within states. In contrast, there are only small differences in ability across states and no significant differences in the ability across parties. Term limits reduce welfare in the baseline model by six percent. They also find that tenure effects are negative for both parties. Consequently, term limits have the capacity to be constructive. The team show that with moderate levels of negative tenure effects term limits can be welfare improving.
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- 작성일 2017-09-07
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- Successful Completion of the 2017 Summer Farewell Party for Graduating International Students
- The Sungkyunkwan University International Affairs Division (Vice President: Ja Choon KOO) held the 2017 summer graduation ceremony and a farewell party for graduating international students on Friday, August 25th at 6:00pm on the 5th floor of the International Hall. A total of 237 international students, including 147 undergraduate students, 55 Master’s students, and 37 Ph.D students, were awarded their diplomas at the 2017 summer graduation ceremony. 120 graduating students and their families attended the farewell party, where they spent a meaningful time congratulating each other on their hard work and graduation and sharing their warm connection with each other.
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- 작성일 2017-08-31
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- 2017 College of Economics Summer Graduation Ceremonies held
- Department of Economics, Statistics and Global Economics and held their 2017 Summer Graduation Ceremony on Aug 23rd. The three Departments of College of Economics held joint Ceremony for the graduation on Aug 23rd (Wed) at the 600th Anniversary Hall. A total of 161 students (Economics' Undergraduate: 78, Master: 13, Ph.D: 2 / Statistics' Undergraduate: 33, Master: 6 / Global Economics's undergraduate: 29) received their degrees. KIM, the Dean of the college participated the ceremonies and delivered speeches to celebrate the students. Families, friends of the students and many honored alumni of each departments also joined and made the day more meaningful.
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- 작성일 2017-08-25
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- SKKU Achieves the Best Performance in all three ‘R&D Researchers Cultivation Projects’
- SKKU has been recognized for its top-level research ability by achieving the best performance in the main three R&D Researchers Cultivation Projects: the Global Ph.D. Fellowship Project (GPF), the Undergraduate Research Program Support Program (URP), and the Research Fellow Support Program (RF). For GPF, which gives financial support of 3 million won per year to a student for 3-5 years, 21 subjects were selected and a total of 261 million won will be provided. For URP, 40 students in 11 teams were selected, which will provide a total of 10 million won. Meanwhile, 32 assignments were selected for RF, which will provide a total of 480 million won for the next 3 years. Through these results, SKKU proved to have top-level research and education ability in Korea and is stepping forward to become a center for cultivating researchers for the next generation in the world. Prof. Ji Beom YOO, Chair for Research & Business Foundation Center, said “SKKU has already been receiving recognition for its research abilities by placing in the top 50s in the world rankings, and we are preoccupying research fields that are expected to lead the future. We would provide our best support for professors, graduate, and undergraduate students in order to realize our dream, ‘Truly, Global Leading University.”
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- 작성일 2017-08-25
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- 407 SKKU Students Participating in Farm Village Volunteer Work
- 407 students of SKKU are participating in rural community volunteer work from June 23rd (Fri) to June 30th (Fri) at over 26 villages. Even though the weather is extremely hot, students are helping to harvest potatoes, plant beans, work in vineyards and more. President Kyu Sang CHUNG and 10 academic board members visited 2 villages to encourage students. “I am very glad that many students are participating in this volunteer work. I hope that students’ volunteer assistance will help farm villages where they need more hands, especially in this farming season,” said President CHUNG.
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- 작성일 2017-07-12
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- Prof. Hee Joon KANG awared as Excellent Lecturer of 2016
- On June 16th, Prof. Hee Joon KANG was awarded as one of the '2016 Excellent Lecturer' by SKKU. Pr. KANG has given lectures on Microeconomics to Global Economics students for years. He showed great course evaluation scores during 2 semesters of 2016 again, and finally named as one of the excellent lecturer of 2016. Dean of the college of Economics(Prof. Min Seong KIM/Left) and President of Global Economics(Prof. Sung Hyun KIM/Right) are awarding prof. KANG(Center of Picture) at dean's Office, on June 19th.
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- 작성일 2017-06-29
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