November 17th, 2012 at 7:39 am » Comments (9)

Seoul National University has confirmed that Korean presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo did not plagiarize his papers at the college: A Seoul National University panel determined Friday that independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo did not plagiarize his academic papers. The panel made the announcement at the end of a preliminary probe into allegations that Ahn used parts of others’ work in his dissertations without attribution and disguised sections of his own papers as new material in later publications. Ahn graduated from the prestigious university with a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree
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December 15th, 2009 at 6:50 am » Comments (9)

Here is a good story about a North Korean defector getting accepting into Seoul National University: A talented young former North Korean, whose dream for a university education was crushed as punishment for his relative’s defection to the South, was admitted to one of South Korea’s top universities. Kim Seong-cheol, 21, gained admission Friday to the department of economics at Seoul National University. While in the North, Kim was an elite student who had graduated from a prestigious science high school with the third-highest honor. He, however, did not have
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August 7th, 2009 at 11:42 am » Comments (2)

The Korea Times bringing you all the news that is fit to print: Conflicts are deepening between female and male students at Seoul National University after a woman student residing in the school dormitory put up a large poster accusing a male student ? whose identity she did not know ? of stealing several dozen pairs of her underwear. There have been several cases of underwear theft at the university dormitory, but it is the first time that a female student has complained about it publicly, according to the school
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December 29th, 2008 at 9:33 am » Comments (16)

It looks like the Indian student community is getting their chance to feel what it is like to be unfairly stereotyped due to the action of one person who wasn’t even Indian: “To avoid suspicious eyes, I used to walk all the way to a classroom instead of riding a shuttle bus.” So said a 24-year-old graduate student at Seoul National University who also heads the Indian students’ association there. He said he has suffered from unfounded rumors over sexual harassment perpetrated by a foreign student. The rumors began at
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