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Department of Business Administration, Graduate School, Korea University Recruiting New Students

Department of Business Administration, Graduate School, Korea University Recruiting New Students for Fall 2026… Applications Open Until April 9 A new opportunity is opening for those seeking to advance both their research direction and career development. The Department of Business Administration at the Graduate School of Korea University has begun accepting applications for domestic students for the Fall 2026 intake, with the application deadline set for 5:00 PM on Thursday, April 9. As the business environment continues to evolve rapidly, the criteria for selecting a graduate program are also shifting. Beyond the name of the major, the strength of the research environment and academic network has become an increasingly important factor. ▲ A group of full-time faculty members at Korea University Business School pose for a commemorative photo. Korea University Business School boasts one of the largest research infrastructures in the country, supported by 95 full-time faculty members. This is considered a key strength, as it enables applicants to choose academic advisors who closely align with their research interests and topics. The faculty’s diverse expertise, spanning a wide range of subfields and research areas, provides a strong foundation for graduate students to conduct rigorous and advanced research. As a research-oriented graduate school, Korea University Business School is also strengthening its interdisciplinary research environment to reflect rapidly evolving industries and societal needs. With a focus on the so-called “4Tech” fields—AI, semiconductors, robotics, and energy—the school is expanding the scope of business research beyond traditional boundaries and fostering the exploration of emerging challenges. Through this approach, students are able to analyze business phenomena from a more multidimensional perspective and develop their research questions into independent scholarly work. Its research infrastructure is another key strength. Graduate students are provided with dedicated research spaces, including offices, seminar rooms, and lockers, along with access to data analysis software such as SAS, SPSS, STATA, and MATLAB. In addition, Korea University Library houses approximately 3.31 million volumes and 86,000 non-book materials, offering a comprehensive foundation for academic research. In particular, students have access to major databases such as Bloomberg, Compustat, CRSP, WRDS, and LSEG Workspace. Recently, thanks to a donation from Eugene Investment & Securities, the number of Bloomberg terminals has been expanded to 12, further enhancing the research environment in finance and related fields. Korea University Business School also offers a range of scholarship programs to support students in focusing on their research. These include full tuition coverage through research and teaching assistantships, as well as research scholarships under the BK21 program and merit-based scholarships. Approximately KRW 2.3 billion in scholarships are awarded annually, along with programs that encourage research activities, such as support for participation in international academic conferences. For the Fall intake, the department will admit students to master’s, doctoral, and integrated master’s–doctoral programs in the following fields: Management, Global Business, Strategy, Finance, Information Systems (IS), and LSOM. The Marketing field will recruit only for doctoral and integrated programs, while Accounting and Business Analytics are excluded from this round of admissions. The Fall admissions cycle is particularly meaningful as it provides another opportunity for applicants who have reassessed their academic or career paths following the Spring admissions cycle. For those who have further refined their research interests or career goals, this can serve as a strategic opportunity to select a research environment that best fits their needs. Daeil Nam, Associate Dean for Research at Korea University Business School, stated, “As business studies become increasingly interconnected with industry, the importance of research environments and networks continues to grow,” adding, “We support our students in expanding their research and connecting it to real-world applications.” ▶ Apply for Fall 2026 Domestic Graduate Admissions at Korea University ◀

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2019 Fall Campus Tour and Mentoring Day

KUBS’ (Dean Jaewook Kim) “2019 Fall Campus Tour and Mentoring Day” was held on November 9th (Sat), at Hyundai Motors Hall. Coordinated by KUBS PR department and KUBE (KUBS’ Student Ambassador Group), the event invited more than 100 high school students, who finally passed through a heavy competition to be selected as a participant. In the beginning of every spring and fall semester, KUBS opens a campus tour program to the high school students who have interests in the study of business management. The purpose of this program is to present a live experience to students to elevate their awareness in KUBS education. This fall, the tour went through △Introduction to KUBS △7 Subjects of Business Management △Campus Tour △Mentoring Program △Closing Ceremony. At the opening, Hoibean Cho (KUBS 19), the president of KUBE, left a remark by saying: “We have prepared this event for a long time with our full attention to provide the greatest memory to you all. I hope this meeting today to be a highly supportive motivation for your future application in KUBS”. Tour attendees enjoyed the introduction to KUBS history and showed their great passion in the academic courses that KUBS provide. After the orientation session, high school students walked through the campus outside, following the tour guidance by KUBE. Next, small group mentoring session was followed, that students were able to freely ask their inquiries to KUBS members and get live consulting for their future study plans. KUBS has been reaching out to wider generations by coordinating various mentoring programs. Apart from the spring/fall mentoring day, there is an upcoming “Winter vacation mentoring day for middle/high school students” in this winter. All tours programs are offered for free. ☞Click to check out the tour photos (Website Link)

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Lecture by Hyundai Motor`s Executive, 2040 Revolution of Transportation that Will Change Human Life

A special lecture by Hyundai Motor executives hosted by Korea University Business School (Dean=Kim Jaewook) was held in October 31st (Thu) at Room 303 of Hyundai Motor Hall. Under the theme of 'Revolution of Transportation that will change the lives of the human race,' Choi Seo-ho, Executive Director of Hyundai-Kia Motors' strategic technology division, spoke up as a speaker. Executive Director Choi Seo-ho first introduced what the future means of transportation looked like in the past. "From a very long time ago, humans have been moving on their own, and we've been talking about flying mobility. Even in the 1950s, when computers were not yet commercialized, there was desire for self-driving technology.” “We are capable of imagining the future of the highway; due to Airplane eVTOL we will not need a runway to float vertically, a Robo-Taxi will be able to self-drive, Lastmile individual mobility devices will be self-paced.” "I'm imagining a future where mobile devices, hydrogen networks are possible, and so on," he said. Choi added, "Mobility technology will lead the future. He explained that he calls the future mobility technology sector 'MECA,’ which stands for Mobility service Electrification, Connectivity, Autonomy.” The most important thing in technology will be artificial intelligence and software technology," he stressed. Choi also added that "Hyundai Motor Co. is trying to make this mobile revolution a reality.” He explained about the direction of the new business of strategic technology headquarters. "To make smart mobility possible, the same success equation that we had on a traditional manufacturing base must not be used. I think what we need to do is open innovation; Mobility is the reason why ICT technology companies such as Uber, Tesla, Amazon and Google," Choi said. "It's an era where we're in business and we have to compete with them," he said. "Through open innovation, businesses leverage a variety of ideas, skills, and talent from outside to accelerate internal innovation. We should take a management strategy to overcome the NIH syndrome," he stressed. After the lecture, a heated question-and-answer session ensued. One student commented that 'the strength of smart mobility should be derived from ‘smart’ than ‘mobility’ Choi agreed and added that “we've created an AI-related interior because we need the ability to support it and that Hyundai is securing software technology, and we are working on Industry-academic cooperation with MIT, KAIST, the University of Technion (Israel) as well as a variety of related projects. I think it's a step that we're slowly preparing through investment.” Choi Seo-ho, executive vice president of Hyundai, said, "When I heard a lecture by Hyundai during my undergraduate years, I never imagined that I would join Hyundai. I've been working at Hyundai for 20 years and I'm here today as a speaker, I hope there will be someone that I will be standing here in 20 years, like me," he said After the lecture and question-and-answer session, the event was completed with a group photo taken.

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2019 Social Value Forum Held

2019 Social Value Forum, hosted by KUBS and IBRE and sponsored by SK SUPEX SV committee, was held on Oct. 24 at Hyundai-Motor Hall. This time, the forum was held under the theme of "Social Values and Sustainable Management." Attending the forum were Dean Kim Jae Wook, Professor Bae Johngseok, Associate Dean Chris Changwha Chung, Keynote Speaker Professor Pratima Bansal (University of Western Ontario), Professor Kang Hyung-koo (Hanyang University), Kim Jae-hyun (Crevisse Partners CEO) and Dr. Song Hee-chan (Chulalongkorn University). "Today's forum is the beginning of the 'Social Value and Sustainable Management' project of KUBS," Professor Bae said in his opening speech. "It is an honor to have Professor Pratima Bansal, an authority in the field, and I hope it will be a meaningful time for everyone." Dean Kim then began his congratulatory speech, saying, "I thank the Professor Bae and Professor Moon for preparing for the event." "In the past, business was more about making profit, but now we should focus more on how to make profit in moral ways, and how to use it wisely.” He said that the goal of KUBS is to apply those concepts in the curriculum to foster the future leaders interested in the area. Professor Pratima Bansal, who was in charge of the presentation under the theme "Sustainable Development in an Age of Disruption," first explained the definition of sustainable development. "Sustainable development is about people," she said. "It's not about the environment, as portrayed in the conventional concept.” She also stressed that sustainable development is to make sure that the next generation is better off as we are now, or simply put, to keep the "intergenerational equity." Professor Bansal also said, "Until now, business schools have been busy teaching students how to achieve growth and make money. We should avoid from this principle and find out a new way of teaching.” Professor Kang then took charge of a short presentation on "Insurance Mechanism of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Deeper Look." Professor Kang explained the concept of "Corporate Social Responsibility," or CSR, as an insurance concept. “Insurance is a put option,” he said, adding that a company's put option reveals whether the company's CSR activities are worth of an insurance. Next presenter, Kim Jae-hyun, Crevisse Partners CEO, gave a presentation under the theme of "Impact Investing." He said, "Impact Investing is where the social values and financial values intertwine.” “Before, the market was driven by invisible hands, but now it moves by invisible ‘heart,’ so to say. It's an investment technique that allows capitalism to become more democratic,” he added. During the panel discussion, the audience and presenters continued to engage in heated discussions. Dr. Song explained sustainable development from a Buddhist perspective and asked a question about what could make sustainable development. "It's important to keep the pace of the biological world and the technological," Professor Bansal said. "For this, the transition to a new mindset is essential," Another discussion was about the role of a business school. Professor Kang said, "Some people call it the crisis of a business school, but i think it’s because we failed to jump on the huge trend of sustainable development." “Students are also consumers,” he addressed, adding that it would be necessary to provide useful contents about social issues to business school students. Toward the end of the panel discussion, Professor Bansal said, "You are the generation that will make a difference from the stauts quo," which touched the heart of the audience.

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Korea University, the winner of The 54th KICPA exam… `정진초(KUBS’ class for KICPA study)’ took a leads

Without exception, Korea University has taken the first rank in the 54th KICPA exam, resulting the largest number of final certificants among the universities in Korea. Following the winning news of putting 205 candidates on the record of level1 exam this year, 109 students in total has made it at the end. Indeed, Korea University is now a winner in 8 consecutive years (from 2012 to 2019), issuing 854 accountants in total. No one can make a doubt on the KU’s honorable dignity: the best CPA education institute in Korea. Korea University is the only college that has resulted more than 200 candidates in KICPA level1, and more than 100 certificants in level2 exam. Furthermore, we are greatly honored to have the youngest accountant this year, Jungyeon Yoo, who is in penultimate year at KUBS. According to the data release from University news of Korea, Korea University made the top as a first rank (109 certificants), followed by Yonsei University (88 certificants). The third honor went to Sungkyunkwan University (84), and Sogang (74) and Joongang University (73) took the fourth and fifth, respectively. In fact, we are proud to reckon that “정진초(精進礎)”, the specialized class for KICPA study, must have played a significant role in this year as usual. 정진초 is placed at third floor of KUBS main building, on the purpose of supporting KICPA candidates to focus in all the way of studying for exam. For the students who entered 정진초 by passing hard competition with huge number of applicants, a bunch of beneficiary support are provided with the individual reading desk, financial aid on taking online courses and scholarship opportunity. Still, the applicants who failed to enter 정진초 are able to reach its online community and get pieces of important information regarding to the CPA exam, sessions or recruiting events from accounting firm, and interview schedules. Also, do not miss out the group buying opportunities in purchasing mock exam papers, through online communication with 정진초’s Kakao plus friend account.

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Center for Digital Transformation & Business Colloquium

On October 28th (Mon), the “Center for Digital Transformation & Business (CDTB)” colloquium was held at LG-POSCO Supex Hall. As to fixate its position as a leading education institute in the period of 4th industrial revolution shift, KUBS has been pursuing CDTB establishment, an industry-university collaboration platform which would make a strategic differentiation in research leadership. As a first step to achieve its goals, KUBS invited professor Seung-il Shin (Department of Statistics) and coordinated the first colloquium event, presenting the key topic of big data analysis regarding to the digital transformation issue “Bigdata: A Blessing or A curse for Statistics?”. At the colloquium event, more than 50 attendees including Dean Jaewook Kim, Associate Dean Joonghyuk Kim and Baeho Kim participated to celebrate its opening. Dean Jaewook Kim made a commencement speech, saying: “Business environment is now changing so quickly as the phase of 4th industrial revolution has come. Transformation in business operation is importantly required; KUBS would like to discover the reformative ideas in future business. It is my great wish that this CDTB colloquium may help us to understand exactly where we are and what situations we face today”. Professor Shin, the presenter, attracted the audiences’ interest by introducing the basic concepts in “What is statistics?” at the beginning. And then he emphasized the value of reasonable statistical prediction based on the given data. According to his lecture, big data is a consolidated form of “Volume, Variety and Velocity” which enable us to freely handle the data and to frame a scientific decision process. Also, he stressed that the additional function “Veracity” would be the important research point to focus on in order to find out the fittest process to understand big data. On the other hand, KUBS’ next plan is to draw the public attention to CDTB program by producing monthly invitation lectures and colloquium events of various academic researchers and industrial specialists. CDTB colloquium will be opened to everyone who has an interest in the lecture topics related to digital transformation technologies, regardless to their expert knowledge or background.

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2019 KUBS Challenge Case Competition Held

‘2019 KUBS Challenge Case Competition (hereinbelow KUBS Challenge)’ hosted by Korea University Business School was held at Hyundai Motor Hall on November 2, 2019. KUBS Challenge is a case competition where each team of four KUBS students presents business case studies within a given time. 56 students from 14 teams in total participated, showing off their outstanding case analyzing capabilities. In this year’s KUBS Challenge, a total of 14 teams including △Americano, △Bohee & Company, △District 1 and △Excelsior Consulting participated. Each team was assigned the task of analyzing the business case of Boxed.com to find the success factors of the company and deduce possible strategic recommendations based on challenges and opportunity factors. The competition was organized in the form of a Q&A for seven minutes after each team presented a prepared case solution for 13 minutes. The judges not only consisted of professors in Korea University, △Professor Tony Garrett △Professor Kim Young-kyu, △Professor Son Bum-jin, △Professor Lee Jong-ho, but also business executives, including and Han Seung-soo, Executive Director of N.Thing and Julian McKenzie, Vice President of Kyobo AXA Investment Managers. Four teams who performed well in the preliminaries, including △Young Professional Tigers (YPT), △TIGER CUBS CONSULTING CLUB (TCC), △Americano, and △Kuveners, went to the finals and answered in-depth questions from the judges. "We were all worried because this was our first experience and the preparation process wasn't easy, but we think efficient division of roles based on each other's strengths led us to a good result," said team ‘Americano’. They continued, "We are honored to be qualified for the case competition that I've always been interested in and I'll try to achieve good results in the upcoming competition, too." "It was not easy to make results in a short period of time, but it was rewarding to get good results," team ‘Kuvengers’ who won the silver medal said. "I'm looking forward to learning a lot from the upcoming competition." This year’s winner, team ‘Americano’ got an invitation to participate in “Marshall International Case Competition” hosted by USC in 2020, and the silver medal winner team ‘Kuvengers will participate in ‘Sauder Summit Global Case Competition 2020’. Their airfares, accommodations will be provided, as well as the business case training sessions.

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