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KU impacts the World,
World's Firsts and World's Bests Will Continue
Published an Earth Science paper in the journal Science for the first time as a Korean.
Listed in American Biographical Institute (ABI).
Won a prize in the Marketing World Cup.
KU was ranked 150th among the top 200 universities in the world as selected by The Times of the UK, the highest ranking ever for a private Korean university (2006).
KU was ranked first in Korea in the Joongang Daily's college evaluations in the categories of social advancement, leadership and organizational behavior.
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Korea University Great Korean Dictionary was Published, a First for a Korean University
Celebrating 2009 Hangeul Proclamation Day, Korea University Institute of Korean Culture published the "Korea University Great Korean Dictionary" which benchmarked the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary, an outcome of a 17-year effort, listed more than 390,000 word entries. It was the first dictionary published independently by a university institute. Reflecting words used in real life, the dictionary included 40,000 new words, such as Kkotminam (pretty boy), B-boy, and avatar, which had gone unlisted in existing Korean dictionaries. |
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Joined with 14 international universities in the conferment of a Joint Doctorate, a first in Korea
After joining Universitas 21, an international network of leading international universities, in 2004 as the first Korean university, KU hosted the 2009 Universitas 21 Symposium & Annual General Meeting and agreed to establish 'The world's 14 universities' joint doctorate program'. (Universities joining were The University of Auckland (New Zealand), The University of Virginia (United States of America), The University of Dublin (Republic of Ireland), University of Delhi (Republic of India), Hong Kong University (Hong Kong), The University of Nottingham, The University of Birmingham, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Glasgow (England), University of Melbourne, University of Queensland (Australia), University of British Colombia, McGill University (Canada). It was unprecedented for 14 global universities to confer joint doctorates, and KU was the first in Korea to join this program.)
Korea Techno Complex, the First Industry-Science-Research Collaboration Complex in Korea
Korea Techno Complex was established as the first of its kind in Korea in 1996. It is among the win-win efforts to attract industry and research centers to campus and create a practical cooperation system center for an exchange between field knowledge, the academic approach and talented research personnel. By doing so, KU was able to improve its engineering education and the industry was able to maximize the efficiency of industrial research development.
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