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- Special Lecture by President Young-Min Baang of Seoul Guarantee Insurance
- SKKU’s unique program, Understanding Corporate Business with the CEO, is in its middle stages already. On May 6th another special lecturer, president and CEO Young-Min Baang of Seoul Guarantee Insurance (SGI) made a presentation to students. Mr. Baang became president and CEO in 2007. Since his appointment, SGI has made significant progress in expanding overseas businesses with the opening of an office in Hanoi, Vietnam in October 2007, followed by another office in Beijing, China in June, 2008. Furthermore, by having made business agreements with local banks in the U.A.E. and Kuwait, SGI has built the foundation to service Korean companies abroad and to provide guarantee exposure of USD 268 million. In Mr. Baang’s lecture, General Understanding about Finance, Mr. Baang explained finance in detail to help raise students’ understanding of the subject.
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- 'Risk, Crisis & Successful Management' by SKKU Institute of Management Research
- On April 28th Sungkyunkwan University Institute of Management Research (Prof. Dong-ok Cha, director) released 'Risk, Crisis and Successful Management' with the Federation of Korean Industries. This book, published by KDI Media, contains 19 practical cases of management successfully replacing crisis with opportunity. Cases covered in the book include Doosan Infracore, which acquired Bobcat, the world’s largest compact construction equipment company; STX, where crisis was met with a spirit of challenge and magnanimity; Samsung Anycall, which broke through crisis with steady endurance; and SK, which globalized through a unique education program focused on “globality”, a term combining global and ability.
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- Mr. Yong-Joo Jeon donates 10 million won for SKKU Business School development
- Mr. Yong-Joo Jeon, currently a student of the EMBA program, donated 10 million won for the development of SKKU Business School on April 15. Mr. Jeon is a certified public accountant at Hyundai Accounting Consulting, and he is president of the Business Administration Development Foundation. Mr. Jeon is also currently the president of Kyong Gol Hoi, an alumni golf club that includes students from SKKU Business School, SKKU Graduate School of Business, iMBA, and W-AMP. In October, Mr. Jeon also made a generous contribution for the development of Sungkyunkwan University at the celebration of SKKU Business School’s 50th Anniversary. Dr. S. Ghon Rhee, dean of SKKU Business School, Prof. Chung-Koo Kim, the EMBA program director, and Mr. Chan-Suk Lee, head of the Business Administration Office also attended the donation. Mr. Jeon remarked that he hoped SKKU Business School will be ranked among the top business schools globally and will produce many graduates of distinguished talent.
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- Special Lecture by President of Lotte Shopping
- A special lecture was delivered by Chul-Woo Lee, president of Lotte Shopping, on April 8th following up on his previous lecture of October 2009. Lotte Shopping owns the country’s largest department store chain and is an affiliated with Lotte Group, the owner of Lotte Hotel. The distribution business, with its important role in developing the economy, is expanding along a wide front. Lotte Shopping Co. is the leading comprehensive distributor in South Korea. The company has played a major role in the modernization of South Korea’s distribution industry since its establishment in 1979. Mr. Lee’s lecture, Sustainable Development Strategies of Lotte Distribution, was designed to improve students’ understanding by illustrating diverse cases in detail and by explaining the view of Lotte Distribution.
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- CEO Ho-Lim Yi of Oriental Brewery Beer
- Ho-Lim Yi, CEO of Oriental Brewery Beer, provided a special lecture on April 1st as part of the Understanding Corporate Business with the CEO program. After finishing middle and high school in the U.S., Mr. Yi received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University. Before landing his current position at OB Beer, Mr. Yi worked at Texas Instruments, an American company in Dallas, Texas renowned for developing and commercializing semiconductor and computer technologies. Mr. Yi has worked at world leaders such as Pepsi Co., Pizza Hut, and Walmart, and he served as the CEO of TRY Brands in Korea. In his lecture discussing brand value, Mr. Yi urged the audience to think twice when making crucial decisions. Students enjoyed Mr. Yi’s talk and were generally impressed by his charisma and witty anecdotes.
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- Freshmen class system and tutor appointment ceremony
- The SKKU Business School administration has been operating a class-based management system in order to reinforce and enhance relationships among classmates since the fall semester of 2009. The 2009 SKKU Business School freshmen have been divided into ten classes with an SKKU faculty advisor assigned to personally mentor and tutor teams of four students. In addition, Global Business Issue I is being offered as of March 27 in order to promote freshmen globalization and international competences. Prior to the first lecture, a tutor appointment ceremony and orientation was held with 43 tutors, including three head tutors, composed of current students of the Asia MBA, EMBA, IMBA, and MS in Management programs. Tutors selected from the EMBA and IMBA programs are working in all sections of society, offering freshmen opportunities to gain practical advice and information. Tutors of the Asia MBA and MS in Management programs are expected to provide actual know-how in studies and campus life. Since they are full-time students, freshmen can have opportunities to meet them more often on campus. Letters of appointment were awarded to each tutor by Prof. Dong-Ok Chah, associate dean of SKKU Graduate School of Business, and Prof. Jong-Bom Chay, associate dean of SKKU Business School. Tutors were asked to provide sufficient support for the freshmen of SKKU Business School in order that they may develop into competent global leaders. Global Business Issues I and II are being offered from this spring semester and only to the freshmen of SKKU Business School. A total of 334 freshmen registered for this course. The freshmen classes have between 32 to 34 freshmen, with four tutors and one SKKU faculty advisory professor. Students will be asked to make presentations on specific hot topics like the global economic crisis, the emergence of the G20, globalization and diversity, of business ethics and social responsibility.
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- Special Lecture by BC Card President and CEO Hyung-Duk Chang
- On March 25th another special lecture of the Understanding Corporate with the CEO program was held by BC Card president and CEO, Hyung-Duk Chang. Prior to his current position, Mr. Chang has worked at Citibank, Seoul Bank, Kyobo Life Insurance Co., and Kookmin Bank. BC Card Co., Korea's leading credit and debit card company, provides a variety of different services to the 24 million customers and 2.5 million merchants of its 11 member banks. Mr. Chang discussed the recent rapid growth of the credit card industry and helped students appreciate his work through the sharing of his personal experiences. He suggested that the payment system in the Korean market economy was ready for a global level of competition and possessed great potential. His lecture met with an enthusiastic response from students and the question and answer session lasted long after the lecture was over.
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- SKKU Business School Alumni Association holds Alumni Chairmen’s Meeting
- SKKU Business School Alumni Association invited past and current chairmen and general managers of all SKKU Business School departments to a meeting on March 25th to discuss the revitalization of the alumni association and construction of the 2nd Business Building. The meeting was attended by 21 alumni from 1962 to 1993 representing the departments of Commercial Science, Commerce, Industrial Psychology, Accounting, and Business Administration. Ik-Rae Kim (Commercial Science ’62), chairman of Deloitte Anjin LLC, said that construction of the 2nd Business Building will require more participation from alumni than ever before. Mr. Kim added that pledges of 1.1 billion won in contributions have been made by 355 alumni so far with the goal of reaching a total of 1,000 alumni within this year. Attendees of the meeting recognized the importance of constructing the 2nd Business Building in order to nurture the excellent young scholars of Sungkyunkwan University and to enhance the School’s status.
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- Dr. Jeongsik Kim awarded ‘Best Lecturer’
- Dr. Jeongsik Kim of SKKU Business School was awarded the ‘Best Lecturer’ based on the results of 2009 Course Evaluation. Dr. Kim received his bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, master’s and doctoral degree in Business Administration from Sungkyunkwan University. He has been teaching Organizational Behavior and Organizational Design at SKKU Business School since September, 2007. He also teaches Global Leadership and Leadership Workshop to undergraduate students. Dr. Kim has been proved himself as a best lecturer by getting high points from the course evaluation each semester. He has been working as a research professor and also has been in charge of Student Support Development Center and gives students on career counseling. Dr. Kim received the award from the dean of SKKU Business School, Dr. S.Ghon Rhee On June 25.
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- MOU established with the Ohio State University
- Go Global! Go SKKU Business School ! Dr. S. Ghon Rhee, dean of SKKU Business School, and Dr. Anil Makhija, professor of finance from Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University, completed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between their two schools on June 18th. Professor JB Chay, Professor Dong Ok Chah, and Mr. Chan-Suk Lee, head of the Business Administration Office, attended the signing. The Ohio State University (OSU) is a co-educational public research university in the state of Ohio. The university was founded in 1870 as a land-qrant university and is currently the largest university in the United States. Ohio State is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best public university in Ohio, among the top 60 universities in the U.S., and among the top 20 public U.S. universities. Fisher College of Business is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 MBA programs in the U.S. Fisher College is world-renowned for its individual areas of expertise, including corporate finance, brand management, and supply chain management. Notably, Fisher College was ranked third in the U.S. for its leadership in supply chain management. The SKKU Business School – Fisher College of Business MOU calls for the creation of a dual degree and student exchange programs. With this addition, SKKU Business School now has two dual degree program partners that include Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and Indiana University Kelly School. SKKU Business School students will benefit through new opportunities not only to acquire degrees by pursuing their studies in top business school environments, but also to participate in international internships, job fairs and interviews. SKKU Business School has established MOUs with 573 universities from 60 countries around the world. Since Dr. S. Ghon Rhee’s inauguration as dean of SKKU Business School, he has been actively working to expand partnerships with top-level universities abroad.
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