Professor LEE Byoung Ho Professor Lee Byoung Ho’s research team (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) has developed a color filter that can display all three primary colors. Currently, a series of colors is generally expressed by a combination of at least three primary color pixels. Professor Lee develope...

Professor KIM Sung Hoon Professor Sung Hoon Kim (Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences) has received the 2015 Hoam Award in Medicine for his contributions to greater understanding of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. Professor Kim first started researching aminoacyl-tRNA in 1994 when he returned to K...

Professor CHA Suk-Won Professor Cha Suk-Won has developed a few-nanometer-thick oxide coating produced by atomic layer deposition in a low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell with a noble metal-based cathode. The coating is demonstrated to enhance both thermal stability and oxygen reduction activity by a significant marg...

Professor KANG Jina, Technology Management Economics and Policy Program ”Alliance Addiction: Do Alliances Create Real Benefits?,” an article co-written by Professor Jina KANG (Department of Industrial Engineering) and Doctor Gunno PARK (Samsung SDS) was recognized by THNK, a global think tank. THNK built on Professor K...

Professor HONG Yongtaek, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering A team led by Professors Yongtaek Hong (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Zhenan BAO (Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University) has developed a novel technique which enables large area formations of organic se...

Keratoprostheses and Artificial Corneas, a famous US textbook on keratoprostheses Seoul-type keratoprostheses (Seoul KPro) developed by SNU Hospital was allotted an entire chapter in Keratoprostheses and Artificial Corneas, a famous US textbook on keratoprostheses. This is the first time a surgical technology developed...

Professor KANG Chang Hyun Professor Chang Hyun Kang (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, SNU Hospital) reported a successful case of treating a Jeune syndrome (asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia) patient using thoracic cage enlargement. Children with Jeune syndrome have rib cages that are significantly smal...

Professor BAEK Sung Hee Every mammal, including human beings, grows as an embryo divides into multiple cells and builds organs. Ability to differentiate comes from ‘pluripotent’ embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to develop into any types of cells or tissue depending on the specific type of signal or stimul...

Professor Shin discovered two adult males, one adult female, and one child, next to whom a pot with grain and shell bracelets found. Professor Shin Dong Hoon (College of Medicine) and an excavation team from Deccan College in India excavated the remains of a Bronze Age family in Rakhigarhi. Rakhigarhi, a village in Har...

Professor KIM Youn Sang Professor Kim Youn Sang’s research team (Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology) has developed a thin film diode which can be used to make transparent displays. Formerly, transparent thin film diodes were made by combining P-type and N-type semiconductors (PN junction diodes). But...

Complete Works of LI Bai translated by Professor LEE Yeong Ju Professor Lee YeongJu (Department of Chinese and Chinese Literature) made a complete translation of mid-Tang dynasty poet Li Bai’s poetry. One thousand seventy-two poems are ascribed to Li Bai and the complete translations had to be published in eight books....

Professor CHO Kuk Professor Cho Kuk (School of Law), who teaches criminal and criminal procedure law, is the most frequently cited Korean legal scholar. According to the National Research Foundation of Korea, Professor Cho’s work has been cited a total of 280 times from 2004 to February 2015. He published forty papers ...