Friday, 20th day August at around 4:00 pm, my sister Juvy and I went to Seoul National University to meet brother Bal Dev, whose having a research exhibit in his department.
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| Latin: Universitas Nationalis Seulensis Motto: Veritas lux mea (Latin, literal translation: "The truth is my light". non-literal: "The truth enlightens me".) |
SNU is colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae (서울대), is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index and 47th in the world and 7th in Asia by the 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings.
Founded in 1946, Seoul National University was the first national university in South Korea, and served as a model for the many national and public universities in the country. Seoul National University has been recognized for its leading role in Korean academia, and entry into the university is viewed as a ticket to success.
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| The main gate of Seoul National University, known by its nickname, the Sha (샤) gate. The shape of the gate is formed by the characters ㄱ,ㅅ, ㄷ, the initial letters of its full Korean name (roughly equivalent to 'SNU' in English). |
I was astounded as I saw the vast campus, high buildings, and dandy facilities--- everything is provided so that it will promote quality education to the young ones. An ideal school intended to hone an individual into different facets of life and to prepare them to a competetive world outside the four corners of the university.
I am blessed and thankful that I was able to visit an undisputed most prestigious university in South Korea.
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| Picture taken at the wide soccer field of SNU with Juvy and Bal. |
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