Stony Brook University SUNY Korea

      On July 15, 2022 the newly elected city councilman made a visit to the Incheon Global Campus Universities. There were a total of eleven people including the seven councilmen and four industry board directors.  As part of the tour provided by IGC, there was a short visit made to one of SUNY Korea’s lecture rooms located in the Academic building A. The Dean of Strategic Planning and Relations provided a brief presentation about SUNY Korea. 

SUNY Korea convened an academic symposium from June 15 to 16. The academic symposium, which was held to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of SUNY Korea, consisted of 3 sessions. The attending speakers from various research areas shared their own insights about global education, sustainability, academics, etc.

Detailed Event Info:  SUNY Korea Academic Symposium 2022 IGC Auditorium & Academic Building C Wednesday, June 15- Thursday, June 16, 2022   SUNY Korea 10 Year Anniversary Dinner IGC Multicomplex Building 1st Floor  Thursday, June 16, 2022, 18:20 - 20:20    Inauguration of SUNY Korea President Arthur H. Lee IGC Auditorium  Friday, June 17, 2022, 09:30 - 10:30    2022 Incheon Fashion Festa 'The Runway' Moonlight Festival Park  Friday, June 17, 2022, 20:00 - 21:30   

Spring 2022 Career Talk to You #2, an event hosted by SUNY Korea CDC, was successfully held on May 25. Ms. Sophie Park, the CEO of Sophie Company, gave a talk on her career journey and tips for starting a start-up company. Sophie Company is a K-beauty marketing agency that provides access to innovative beauty and fashion products to global customers and major global retailers like COSTCO, IHERB, and Anthropologie, etc., and has been continuously recruiting SUNY Korea students as interns. Through this opportunity, SUNY Korea students were able to gain insights into the company’s global marketing and sales strategy and learn about the crucial aspects for success in a career. 

  TMR-founders is a start- up company established by SUNY Korea CS graduate student, Youngho Kim. The company was recently selected as one of the 12 start-up teams in the Jung-Ju Young Start-up Competition hosted by Asan-nanum group. Jung-Ju Young Start-up Competition started in 2012 to encourage and sponsor start-up companies within the nation. The average competition rate for this competition is about 100:1.     [Questions for Youngho, CEO of TMR-founders]   1.    Briefly introduce yourself.      Hello, I am Youngho Kim, and I am currently building and running a company called tmr-founders.   2.    Could you explain about your start-up company “TMR-founders”? (How it was started, etc.)     Tmr-founders began with various visions of our team members that led to the same destination (self-actualization). We all dream of a world where we can make “work” happy. We define “work that anyone wants” as a start-up. Through a start-up, we expect a better world to live in.   3.    We heard your company was recently selected for the final round of the Jung Ju-Young Start-up competition. Could you tell us about the competition and how your company was able to make it to the final round?      Jung Ju-Young Start-up Competition is one of the biggest start-up competitions in Korea held by Asan-nanum campaign. The average competition rate is about 100:1. To be honest, we expected that we would not even pass the document screening in this competition. When we met several venture capitalists with the ppt document that we submitted for this competition, they all said this service is not attractive. We asked for tons of feedback and questions in order to not give up. At a time when our self-esteem fell to the very bottom, we passed the first document screening at the Jung Ju-Young Startup Competition. It was lucky to pass the document stage, and after that, we passed two more presentation reviews. With the passion and help of our teammates, we were selected as one of the final 12 start-up teams.   4.    Do you have any messages for SUNY Korea students who wish to start their own business?      Do a job or work that you can always smile about before you go to bed. Never start a business from the opinions and trends of the people around you. Believe in yourself and keep going. And please act first since there will never be perfect preparation.

Spring 2022 Career Design School was successfully held on May 11 at SUNY Korea. SUNY Korea Career Development Center invited two executives from OMNIOUS, a fast growing visual AI solutions developer for fashion retailers. The notable speakers gave a talk on the topic “Can Fashion & AI Collaborate?” and SUNY Korea students, both SBU and FIT had the great opportunity to learn about the grand topic “AI integrated in the fashion industry.”After the event, a lot of the students commented that the talk helped them become aware of the importance of data and data management in the fashion industry. *Related article: Click here 

SUNY Korea Admissions announces that the application deadline got SUNY Korea Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) programs for Fall 2022 Admission has formally been extended until 11:59 PM, June 30, 2022 (Korea Standard Time). Because applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, we advise you to submit your applications as soon as possible. For all international applicants, we highly recommend you to complete and submit your applications by May 31, 2022 (Korean Standard Time). For more details, please contact SUNY Korea Admissions. *Online application: http://www.sunykorea.ac.kr/page/apply *Inquiry: +82-32-626-1030 / admission@sunykorea.ac.kr / Kakao Channel (ID: suny-korea)

An Opening ceremony was held at the Global Lounge of George Mason University on April 18th to celebrate the launch of a Global Campus Program for the newly established Incheon Citizen Life College (인천시민대학).  Over 50 people including faculty, staff from IGC, and new students participated in this event.    As the first “citizen’s university” in the country, composed of eight different universities, Incheon Citizen Life College is operated by the Incheon Institute for Talent and Lifelong Education.  All the lectures provided by the Incheon Citizen Life College are free and the registration rate of the courses showed a high record of 180%  upon the beginning of its courses. The citizens will receive honorary degrees from the universities as part of the program.    SUNY Korea, along with the other universities at the Incheon Global Campus (IGC), will partake in supporting the education of Incheon citizens by offering a wide variety of academic courses, thereby contributing to the local community.   Related article: Click here                           Click here 

  On April 20th, at the IGC Small Theater, IGC students were given the opportunity to learn from and have a networking session with IGC Alumni working as professional CEOs.  Four notable IGC alumni working in the fields of real estate service, customized website application development, social media, and IT solution startups shared their journeys of starting their own companies after graduation. SUNY Korea’s proud graduates Soomin Seo (CEO of Livable) and Dongyeob Lee (CEO of Zero Class Lab) participated in this event. 100 % of the attendees responded that the event “exceeded their expectations” in the evaluation survey. One of the lessons students mentioned learning through the workshop included “the government funding process and starting prototypes with tools instead of starting the program from scratch”. Meanwhile, if you are interested in the startup companies founded by SUNY Korea students, please visit their websites below! - Zero Class Lab (https://www.zeroclasslab.com)   CEO: Dongyeob Lee, CS graduate - class of 2020 - Livable (https://livable.kr, https://www.instagram.com/livable_korea)   CEO: Soomin Seo, TS graduate - class of 2020

On April 13, SUNY Korea students had a wonderful time on campus, celebrating the Easter Event hosted by Student Affairs. Students participated in fun activities such as picking up eggs throughout the campus, painting their own eggs, and photo time with the bunny!     

SUNY Korea TS student Sunghwan Kim won the first prize for the “Library Learning Spaces Naming Contest” hosted by IGCF. Sunghwan’s idea “GloFore” was selected as the name of the reading room located on the first floor of IGC Library. If you are looking for areas to read or study, please visit IGC Library in May!       Relevant article: click here 

On April 6th, four currently enrolled SUNY Korea students shared their internship experiences at major corporations in Korea. The companies introduced by the students include JoongAng Daily, Livable, 4STEC, Zero Class Lab, SingLab and Mulawear. Students who participated in this event gave positive comments such as: through this event students learned “how one can emphasize their ability when they do not have previous work experience”, “the importance of seeking out opportunities” and “having the right mindset and attitude”. 

Spring 2022 Alumni Panel Event was held on Saturday, April 2 for SUNY Korea students. The event was hosted by SUNY Korea CDC. Four of SUNY Korea’s successful SBU& FIT graduate professionals, working in the fields of accounting, soft engineering, fashion marketing, and consulting shared their career journeys and tips for job preparation. SUNY Korea students were also given the chance to ask questions to the graduates in the Zoom break out rooms. One of the students that participated in the event gave the feedback as follows “It was a really meaningful time that we could ask questions that I have been wondering about but had nowhere to ask casually. All speakers answered sincerely and gave me insights such as the importance of internship experience, license, and communication with professors. Also, I was touched by the confident attitudes from the speakers while they were delivering their presentation.” 

Dresses made by students as AAS degree graduation works at SUNY Korea FIT won prizes for the Macy’s Flower Show in NYC. A signal that spring has arrived in NYC, the annual Macy’s Flower Show is on now at the Macy’s Herald Square flagship in NYC until April 10. The beautiful works of fashion design students are displayed in Macy’s windows, and the works include the dresses designed by SUNY Korea FIT graduates (Jiwon Park and Yoojin Lee).   To read more, check out the articles in the links below.  Click here Click here

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York recently ranked as the number 1 and number 2 fashion school in different categories.    “Fashion, business, design, marketing, and technology are all represented at this school” (Scholarships Hall)   “The innovative curriculum has been developed with business leaders to prepare students for real-life work, ensuring that they’re ready to jump into a full- time position as soon as they graduate” (Careeraddict)     References)   FIT Ranking No. 1 in 2022   Scholarships Hall Careeraddict    FIT Ranking No. 2 in 2022   CEOworld Magazine