Seoul National University CASA Project Wins Philippines’ Top Partnership Award for Environmental Sustainability

CASA project recognized by the Philippines’ Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) for contributions to sustainable environmental management Results of Korea–ASEAN cooperation to improve air quality and strengthen environmental sustainability across ASEAN The CASA (Clean Air for Sustainable ASEAN) Project Team at Seoul National University (SNU), led by Professor Lee Ki-Young, has received the Philippines’ most prestigious […]

Sogang University RISE Project Team Successfully Hosts Year 1 Performance-Sharing Conference on Attracting Global Talent for Advanced and Future Industries

Sogang University (President Sim Jong-hyeok) announced that its RISE Project Team (Director Jeon Seong-ryul) successfully held the Year 1 Performance-Sharing Conference for the Seoul RISE initiative “1-2. Attracting Foreign Talent for Advanced and Future Industries” on February 10 at Josun Palace Seoul Gangnam. The event brought together six university project teams selected for Seoul RISE […]

SNU Engineering Wins Top Paper Award at ISSCC 2026, Slashing HBM Power Consumption by 90%

The Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Professor Jae Hyuk Choi from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has won the prestigious “ISSCC 2025 Takuo Sugano Award” at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2026, widely regarded as the “Olympics of semiconductor circuit design.” The award ceremony […]

Top 10 Universities in Korea | DIOTIMES University Ranking 2026

Korea’s top universities are not defined by recent performance alone. Their competitiveness is the result of long-accumulated history, institutional identity, geographic positioning, and strategic adaptation to social and industrial change. The Top 10 universities in the DIOTIMES University Ranking 2026 each originate from different traditions, yet all share one commonality: their strengths are structurally embedded […]

[Jee Suk Kang’s Education Insights]
Korean Universities in Global Rankings 2025

Global university rankings have long been a subject of fascination and debate. In Korea, they serve as both a mirror of academic competitiveness and a tool for benchmarking against the world’s best. Recently, I examined the latest results from three of the most widely referenced systems—QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education (THE), and the […]