President Baik Gives Speech at QS-APPLE
President Baik Gives Speech at QS-APPLE
  • Reporter Cho Sung-won
  • 승인 2009.12.09 16:03
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President Baik participated in the QS -APPLE (QS Asia-Pacific Professional Leaders in Education) conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s City Centre on Nov. 24 and gave the keynote speech about ‘Building a world-class university through globalization and POSTECH’s experience’. He emphasized through the lecture that globalization must be on the front burner for universities to become world class.

President Baik then went to Singapore with professors related to the biology field after his lecture and looked around the laboratories in Biopolis, which Singapore established and which has managed to occupy a dominant position in the biomedical industry. They not only discussed the strategy for biotechnology growth but also benchmarked the experience which Singapore has accumulated. In addition, he visited the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.