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Turning Financial Data into Research - Special Lecture on Exploring Bloomberg Data for Academic Rese

"Turning Financial Data into Research" Special Lecture on Exploring Bloomberg Data for Academic Research The Bloomberg Terminal contains one of the world's most comprehensive collections of financial market data. However, transforming that information into meaningful research variables requires multiple steps, from exploring available data and verifying variable definitions to extracting data and constructing research datasets. To help students navigate this process, Korea University Business School (KUBS) held a special lecture titled "Financial Data Exploration and Research Applications Using Bloomberg" on Friday, May 15, at the LG-POSCO Building. The session was led by Dr. Ha-yeon Park of the Korea University Business Administration Education and Research Group for BK21 FOUR and was attended by KUBS graduate students. The Bloomberg Terminal is a widely used financial data platform that provides access to real-time market information, company data, and financial analytics. During the lecture, students learned how to search for and extract financial data using both the Bloomberg Terminal and its Excel Add-in, while also exploring how Bloomberg data can be effectively applied to academic research. Dr. Park introduced the basic structure of the Bloomberg Terminal and demonstrated practical methods for exploring financial data. She guided students through the process of identifying research variables and verifying their definitions, emphasizing that carefully confirming variable names, definitions, and available options before downloading data is essential for ensuring research accuracy. She then explained how to extract data using the Excel Add-in and organize Bloomberg data into structured datasets suitable for empirical research. In the latter part of the lecture, Dr. Park demonstrated how Bloomberg data can support academic research by drawing on several case studies, including examples from her own work. She explained how ETF-related data can be identified, extracted, and organized according to different research objectives. She also advised students not to rely exclusively on Bloomberg, noting, "Rather than using Bloomberg as a single data source, I recommend using it for the types of data in which it has particular strengths." She emphasized the importance of cross-checking Bloomberg data with other databases whenever appropriate. The lecture provided students with a practical overview of how financial data can be translated into research—from developing research questions and selecting appropriate variables to constructing reliable datasets. By following the entire workflow, participants gained a clearer understanding of how Bloomberg data can be explored, evaluated, and incorporated into academic research. The lecture also reflects Korea University Business School's recent expansion of its Bloomberg Terminal infrastructure. As part of a financial data hub established through a KRW 1 billion donation from Eugene Investment & Securities, KUBS increased the number of Bloomberg Terminals from one to twelve—the largest Bloomberg Terminal installation among universities in Korea. Nine terminals have been installed in the Sudang CLC Lounge, while the remaining three are available through remote-access accounts. The Bloomberg Terminal is one of the most widely used financial data platforms in investment banking, asset management, equity research, and other finance-related fields. Hands-on experience with the platform provides students with valuable practical skills that can help them transition into careers in the financial industry. Students who complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certification may also find it beneficial when preparing for the CFA examination or applying for internships in finance. With the expanded infrastructure significantly improving access throughout the semester, more students now have the opportunity to work directly with real-time market data in their coursework, research projects, and academic studies. KUBS Student Press Reporting by Chaewoo Lee Photography by Jinyoung Park

2026.07.22 Views 310

IBRE Business Insights Series Final Seminar: Battery Industry in 2020

The final lecture of the IBRE Business Insights Series was held at the LG-POSCO Building on December 5 (Thu). The IBRE Business Insights Series is a project to present new perspectives on education and research to KUBS members, and is carried out every semester with topics including economic outlook and industrial analysis. Kim Young-woo, chief manager of SK Research Center, was the speaker. Chief manager Kim Young-woo explained the fourth industrial revolution and smart city in the first part under the theme of “2020 Industrial Analysis: Battery Industry." "Smart City, the concept of new city that will drive the new industrial revolution, has a power shortage issue," Kim said. "This is an important issue in expanding the data center along with increasing electricity consumption for home and industrial use." He added, "We need to closely watch the battery industry to cope with these essential electricity supply problems. Although ESS may not be a fundamental solution, but it could be a way to address much of the imbalance in demand for electricity during the day and night." In the second part, Kim continued to explain the power shift in the global secondary battery industry. "Next-generation batteries can have competitive edge only when they are equipped with high-capacity, light-weight and high-quality electric vehicles," Kim said. "The number of electric vehicle models, increased sales, and lower battery prices will create a synergy." Referring to Toyota’s plan to launch vehicles equipped with solid-state batteries, he added, "The limitations of existing lithium batteries have raised the need to develop next-generation secondary batteries and solid-state batteries, and carmakers in major countries are also announcing plans to develop them." IBRE Business Insight Series for semester has been concluded, and the series will be held for three consecutive weeks in the spring semester of 2020.

2019.12.26 Views 6159

Korea MBA Alumni Association Night of Year-End Event

Korea University Korea MBA (hereinbelow K-MBA) Night of Year-End Event was held on December 2 (Mon) at the Harmony Ballroom of COEX Intercontinental Hotel. The annual event, hosted by the K-MBA Alumni Association, was attended by more than 300 K-MBA alumni, including Korea University President Chung Jin-taek, Alumni Association President Koo Ja-yeol, KUBS Dean Jae Wook, Associate Dean for MBA Weon Sang Yoo and KMBA Academic Director Jeong Jae-ho. This year’s K-MBA event began with a cordial atmosphere, with a toast offer, prize draw, and small clubs (so-called “somoim”) being introduced along with the dinner. In the second part, introduction of guests was followed by welcoming speech by Jeon Yi-hyun, president of MBA Alumni Association. "Korea University MBA is indeed the best MBA program in Korea that plays a pivotal role in producing professional managers," Chairman Jeon said in a welcoming speech. "It is very encouraging and touching to be with many of our alumni from the first graduates to the 100th juniors today." It was also followed by a congratulatory speech by Chung Jin-Taek, president of Korea University. "Korea University MBA produces excellent management leaders globally," said President Chung. "We hope K-MBA will grow and prosper and we will do our best to make Korea University proud of you." There was then a congratulatory speech from Koo Ja-yeol, president of the Alumni Association. "The global leadership and management skills we have learned here will help us to achieve even better results in times of crisis," president Koo said. "I ask you to use your capabilities and potential to further enhance the honor of Korea University," he concluded. After the congratulatory speech, award ceremony was held for the 'Korea University MBA Management Award', 'The Proud MBA Alumni Award', and 'MBA Frontier Award' ceremony. Shim Sang-don(75th generation), CEO of Starkey Group received the honor of winning the 'Korea Univetsity MBA Management Award', while 'The Proud MBA Alumni Award' was awarded to Lee Young-mok(72th generation), vice chairman of Media One/Mdecal, and Shin Jeong-eun(90th generation), professor of medical school at Konkuk University, and ‘MBA Frontier Award’ winners included Oh Young-ran (53th generation), director of Booyoung Group, (67 years), Ha Myung-hyun(67th generation), CEO of EZTECHRON, Han Chang-Ho(68th generation), CEO of SAC&NS Aviation Korea. The second part of the event ended with a scholarship ceremony of 20 million won. In the third part, celebratory events such as tenor Chung Eui-geun, soprano Song Hye-young, and Mamma Mia Band performances followed, and the event successfully ended with the closing speech from Jeon Yi-hyun, president of MBA Alumni Association. K-MBA Alumni Association Night of Year-End Photography (Click) K-MBA Alumni Association Night of Year-End Group Photography (Click)

2019.12.20 Views 3803

Korea University Business School Ranks First for Twelve Consecutive Years in the Hankyung Business R

Korea University Business School (Dean=Kim Jaewook) ranked first for the twelfth consecutive year in Hankyung Business Review’s annual appraisal of business schools nationwide. KUBS has established itself as the best domestic business school, not allowing any other school to entrench its place since 2008 when the appraisal first started. The appraisal was co-conducted by Hankyung Business and Global Research by collecting the opinions of HR directors of the 300 largest companies in Korea. The questionnaires distributed for the HR directors consisted of categories such as △the relevance of the school curriculum to the capacity necessary for work, △work adaptability, △ability to assimilate to a team, △potential to grow, △creative problem solving skills,△international system, △diligence and responsibility, △preference for new recruits, △recommendation to admission. Until last year, the score for all the categories were added up to derive results, but for the sake of equity results have been derived by adding up the ranking of each category. The appraisal method changed, but KUBS kept the place of best Business School. KUBS ranked first for seven categories including △the relevance of the school curriculum to the capacity necessary for work, △work adaptability, △ability to assimilate to a team, △potential to grow, △diligence and responsibility, △preference for new recruits, and △recommendation to admission, also winning the title for the school with the most first-ranked titles. KUBS earned an especially high score for △the relevance of the school curriculum to the capacity necessary for work (650) and △recommendation to admission (629), widening the gap with second-ranked Yonsei University by more than 200 points. Hankyung Business Review states in its article that the reason why KUBS was highly appraised by the corporate workforce was because it aptly harmonized tradition and change. It also mentioned that KUBS’s procurement of 79 full-time professors, which is the largest number of all domestic universities, winning the title for the largest number of successful CPA candidates for four consecutive years, continuous effort to nurture talents necessary for this era were the causes of its positive appraisal. Kim Jaewook, Dean of KUBS, delivered that “the strength of KUBS is that we invested in people to strengthen our research ability,” and that KUBS will “benchmark foreign universities which were certified for STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)” and “continuously make efforts to grow in compliance with the needs of the society.” Meanwhile, the annual Business School Appraisal by Hankyung Business Review welcomed its twelfth year. It is conducted upon 4-year business schools nationwide with more than 100 new students that enter the school, and this year 54 schools were appraised.

2019.12.20 Views 3398

KUBS Ladies Good Evening Mentoring Program: A beautiful Year-end with the Ladies

On November 22nd, KUBS Ladies held a “Good Evening” mentoring program at LG-POSCO building. “Good Evening” is a career development event presented for the female students in KUBS who want to share their goals and objectives and to ask advice from the graduates. In the program, for the participants to communicate well each other, everyone forms a group with one graduate and two undergraduates. The main event started with the opening remark from Chung-jin Lee (KUBS81), the president of KUBS Ladies: "I'm so proud of the KUBS Ladies' culture, which presents a great heritage to the next generation of ladies in KUBS. Every year I see a lot of students coming to the event as a mentor who once had experienced being a mentee in the past, and I appreciate the members providing endless support to our community.” Next, Jieun Lee (KUBS01), the KUBS Ladies operation department manager addressed a congratulatory speech. The manager mentioned: “The last schedule of tonight’s event will be the mentoring hours with the senior Ladies members, so please enjoy until the end. To introduce my personal story, recently I have had an experience of employing my first KUBS Ladies mentee as a member of my company’s team. We never know what will happen in the future, so I suggest you all to keep your open-mind toward the people around you.” One of the mentoring participants, Jiwon Kwon answered to the interview conducted after the program, saying “It was a great time to share my insights with the undergraduate students and I am so glad that I can give back the benefits and supports that I had received from the Ladies Alumni in the past. I look forward to meeting the Ladies outside of the campus as well.” On the mentee side, “It became a great motivation to me, while going through the various activities with KUBS Ladies such as office tours and mentoring talks “, undergraduate student Yoon-won Park commented. Established in 2012, KUBS Ladies is a female student community, striving to expand their social network and to develop relationships on the purpose of fostering the future female leaders. KUBS Blossom group manages the members of KUBS Ladies to actively network between the female students inside and outside of the campus. There are numerous annual events and sessions originated by the group: ‘KUBS Dream Concert’, Job interview preparation program, and ‘The KUBS Ladies 7th Anniversary Ceremony’ in November.

2019.12.20 Views 3141

IBRE Business Insights Series 2nd Seminar: Platform Industry in 2020

The second lecture of the IBRE Business Insights Series was held at the LG-POSCO Building on November 28. The IBRE Business Insights Series is a project to present new perspectives on education and research to KUBS members, and is carried out every semester with topics including economic outlook and industrial analysis. Ji-man Shin, a researcher at Naver, was the speaker. Shin explained the overall direction of the platform industry that Naver is going, under the theme of "Platform Industry in 2020." "The platform industry is sometimes called a two-sided market, but users are also creators and become small businesses themselves," Shin said. "Naver works as a Technology Cube, allowing users to solve problems or issues that need to be resolved through our technology. The technology Naver provides can be easily accessed as a tool for end-customers," Shin said, stressing that Naver seeks for a technology platform that users themselves lead in designing. Shin continued to explain how local businesses can use the platform to create their own business model, and what services Naver is developing for them. Introducing services such as Naver Reservation, Table Order and Smart ARS, Shin explained that the platform provided by Naver allows small business owners to systematically manage data from consumers that have been easily missed so far. "We are constantly reorganizing our services to reflect the needs of small businesses," he said. "We are trying to be flexible in responding to the creation of various types of businesses. At the end of the day, it can be said that Tech Cube is a pre-work to advance into the global market," Shin said. "In the end, Naver is heading towards the global market by combining technologies that have been built user-friendly." The lecture ended with the question and answer session. One student who participated in the lecture asked if there were any special criteria for the platform industry to choose which market to enter. "In fact, the platform is chosen by the market and users," Shin said. "How the platform responds to users' needs and how much they satisfy them seems to determine how the platform business is created." IBRE Business Insight Series is offering offline lectures once a week, followed by two lectures on November 21st and 28th, and will be conducted on December 5th as well under the theme of EV battery industry.

2019.12.20 Views 3159

The First IBRE Business Insight Seminar, “Economic Outlook 2020”

Korea University IBRE (Institute for Business Research and Education, Director Jongseok Bae) opened its first business seminar series (The IBRE Business Insight Series) on November 21st (Thu), at LG-POSCO Building. The IBRE Business Insight Series is a project that presents new perspectives on education and research to the members in various kinds of business schools and will be carried out every semester with topics covering economic outlook and industrial analysis. Chung Kyu-chul, a researcher at KDI (The Korea Development Institute), was the first series speaker. Chung came up with the topic “Economic Outlook 2020”, providing a broad range of explanation about the current standpoint of South Korean macroeconomy and its midterm goals to pursue. He spoke at the seminar: "Since the last financial crisis, the U.S., China and other emerging Asian economies have led the recovery of global economy, but uncertainties such as the U.S.-China trade dispute still persists, and industrial output, trade volume are shrinking. Therefore, people argue that the global economy is slowing down." If these uncertainties are too high, companies tend to delay investment and this would be reflected in the Korean economy as well," he said, adding in detail the impact of the U.S.-China trade dispute, the no-deal Brexit and Japan's export regulations on the global economy. "China's growth paradigm is changing, and its impact on the Korean economy is growing due to the impact of China's falling domestic demand," was told by the researcher. Then he explained the current state and outlook of the Korean economy based on the recent pace of the global economy. The researcher said, "The government is leading the growth by increasing fiscal spending to stabilize the economic downturn caused by sluggish exports and investment in the private sector and a drop in the portion of manufacturing production." In addition, he showed his analysis in specific issues of the Korean economy, including sluggish investment in semiconductors and continued low prices. "There is a room for a limited improvement in domestic demand and exports, but there will be a difference from expected levels," he said. "The economic growth forecast has been revised down as demand at home and abroad continues to shrink." As counter measures, he emphasized the need to review the monetary policy management system and the need to seek growth engines for the service industry. After the lecture, the Q&A session has followed with an inquiry “What would be the finest solution for Korea in managing the trade relationship with China?” Chung answered, “"The process of cooperating in the production phase is getting smaller, and instead the Chinese domestic market is getting bigger, and the Chinese government is also trying to reduce investment and increase consumption". "Considering these changes, we need a strategy to directly target the Chinese domestic market." IBRE Business Insight Series will be provided with three seminars, once on a week on Thursday, through offline. The upcoming seminar is on November 28th (Thu) and December 5th (Thu) .

2019.12.03 Views 3424