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Four graduation candidates land jobs at Naver

Four Gachon University Department of Software students were recently hired by Naver. It is a rare case that four students from the same department concurrently land jobs at the company, the largest web portal in Korea. All four students, currently seniors at Gachon University Department of Software, were hired through the company’s Summer Internship 2017. Yongsong Kim, Donghyuk Shin and Bosun Hwang applied for android app development positions, while Jiwon Jeong applied for a server developer position. Each of them was assigned to different departments: Clova (Naver’s AI assistant app), Naver Search, Naver Live and Naver Café. After the 8-week internship program, they were eventually hired by the company via presentation and executive interview. Although each department had their own method of assessment, such as participation in actual projects or completion of assigned tasks, our graduates had no problem navigating through the challenges. “To nurture talented software experts who can contribute to the fast-changing field immediately after graduation, we have completely reshuffled our curriculum to focus more on practical aspects and we’re seeing very good results so far,” said Won Kim, President of the Institute of Software-Oriented University Project. “We will continue to nurture the future leaders of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”

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Gachon University Department of Software wins Grand Prize (Minister’s Award) at Competition of Korean Information Processing Systems

Gachon University Department of Software Team (Professor Sangwoo Kang, Chiyun Song and Seongmin Yang) won the Grand Prize (Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award) at 2017 Competition of Korean Information Processing Systems. Twenty-five teams from universities, R&D centers and companies from all parts of Korea participated in the event, which was held on the 13th of last month at Daegu Catholic University. Gachon University Department of Software Team developed and submitted an object-name recognition program that sorts out names of people, places, organizations and other proper nouns. The program was well received for its performance and usability. The competition was divided into two categories: Designation and General. The theme of the former was development and application of object-name recognition systems. The latter was further divided into three sub-categories: △Processing of Korean (morpheme analysis, syntax analysis, etc.), △Any software related to the utilization and learning of Korean and △Any fields related to Sejong Corpus. Entries were reviewed on the 22nd of last month based on software performance to determine the finalists and the winners were announced on the 13th of this month based on a demonstration and overall assessment. “The practical curriculum of Gachon University helped us greatly in the competition because they had taught us how to analyze and solve problems,” said Chiyun Song and Seongmin Yang (Department of Software 4). “Winning Grand Prize in a competition where many talented master’s and Ph.D. students participated is very meaningful. We will take this experience as a stepping stone to become competent software experts who solve problems with confidence.”
“Object-name recognition software is very hard to implement properly,” said Professor Sangwoo Kang who led the team. “The Department of Software’s practicality-oriented curriculum served as a foundation for the success of our team.”

Jiwon Jeong, Maro Kim and Giwook Hong win Grand Prize at Smart City•Farm Idea Competition hosted by Sejong Center for Creative Economy and Innovation

A team consisting of Department of Software students (Jiwon Jeong, Maro Kim and Giwook Hong) won the Grand Prize at the Smart City•Farm Idea Competition hosted by the Sejong Center for Creative Economy and Innovation, which was held from May 27 to 28. About 70 participants, including undergraduate students (from Chungbuk National University, Korea University, Hongik University, etc.), foreigners, professionals and representatives of venture companies competed in the event. The Gachon University team exhibited “Farming package platform using data management automation for people returning to farms” and received one million won as the Grand Prize winning entry.

Seohyun Jo, Juyeon Han and Bosun Hwang win Best Award at Ericsson-LG “Girls in ICT”

A team of three Department of Software seniors (Seohyun Jo, Juyeon Han and Bosun Hwang) won Best Award at the “Girls in ICT” competition, hosted by the global corporation Ericsson-LG.

“Girls in ICT” is held to promote women to work in the field of ICT. To participate, female undergraduate and graduate students who want to pursue a career in ICT submit an innovative idea that could change the world. Each team can consist of up to three people (one male student is allowed to be a member of a three-person team), and three finalists (regardless of the ranking) receive 1 million won each and are given an internship opportunity.

Among 45 teams (101 people), 10 teams advanced to the finals. Seohyun Jo, Juyeon Han and Bosun Hwang entered the contest with a drone system that ensures the safety of women on the way home by notifying emergency situations and won Best Award. The three students said that preparation and distribution of roles were the keys to their success. Two other teams from Cheonnam National University and UNIST also won the award.

Jaewoong Eom wins Passion Award (Second Prize) at the “2016 Together Seoul Mobile App Competition”

Jaewoong Eom won the Passion Award (Second Prize) at the 2016 Together Seoul Mobile App Competition, hosted by the city of Seoul.
In the event where 208 teams participated, Jaewoong submitted a healthcare app, “Have a Cup of Water,” securing first place in the secondary screening (Expert Review) and eventually finishing second (Passion Award).
For details, watch the app promotion video and visit the official website of 2016 Together Seoul Mobile App Competition.
Promotion Video
Official website of 2016 Together Seoul Mobile App Competition

Multiple Department of Software students win prizes at 2016 Undergraduate Paper Competition hosted by Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers

At the 2016 KIISE Undergraduate Paper Competition, our undergraduate students won two Excellence Awards and three Participation Prizes. It is very rare for one department to win five awards at a national-level competition (Grand Prize: 5 papers, Excellence Award: 14 papers, and Participation Prize: 30 papers).

  • Excellence Award (two papers)

- “Door security system based on open-source hardware and real-time image” / Jiwon Jeong, Doosang Park, Junil Kim and Geonyoung Heo (Gachon University)
-“Natural 3D air interface for floating display based on hand gesture recognition” / Youngjoon Yoo, Seungyeon Sun, Bosun Hwang and Yongju Jeong (Gachon University)

  • Participation Award (three papers)

-“Social-network-based personalized travel scheduling system” / Daeho Kim, Hyunjung Kim, Jeongwook Kim, Hyunwoo Yoo, Soyeop Yoo and Okran Jeong (Gachon University)
- “Social-network-based news recommendation system” / Youngyeol Na, Hwangyu Yeo, Sangwook Yoo, Jane Song and Okran Jeong (Gachon University)
-“Development of educational experience tools based on VR and hand gesture recognition technologies” / Donghyuk Shin, Dongun Kim and Yongju Jeong (Gachon University)

A Gachon University team places 3rd at Startup Weekend International Startup Camp (Startup Hackathon)

Startup Weekend Seoul was held at Gachon University Global Zone from November 18th to 20th to promote collaboration among startups and help competitive startups grow rapidly.
With a goal of providing a venue for (future) entrepreneurs to discover, develop and implement ideas for 54 hours, Startup Weekend started in Seattle and has been held more than 2,000 times in 135 countries.
This event was hosted by Gachon University College of Business, Gachon University Institute of Software-Oriented University Project, Ministry of Science and ICT, IITP and PeopleSpace (a US startup incubator) and sponsored by 14 software-oriented universities. Nineteen teams with 150 participants designed and developed startup ideas and 8 teams advanced to the final round. A Gachon University team (Jaesang Lim, Giduck Kim, Sungmin Yang, etc.) placed 3rd in the event.

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Hyojun Park and Junho Seo win Passion Award (Second Prize) at “2015 Together Seoul Mobile App Competition”

Hyojun Park and Junho Seo, undergraduate students at Gachon University Department of Software, entered 2015 Together Seoul Mobile App Competition to compete with 25 other teams that had passed the preliminaries. With the app named “Uhdiseo Mannayeok,” the duo won the Passion Award (Second Prize). The app was developed based on the mobile programming project they had completed in the first semester of the same year. For details, visit the official website of 2015 Together Seoul Mobile App Competition and watch the Promotion Video.

Master’s (Jun Heo, Soyeop Yoo) and undergraduate students (Byungsun Jeon, et al.) win “Outstanding Paper Award” at 41st KIISE Winter Conference

At the 41st KIISE Winter Conference, held from December 18 to 20, 2014, a team consists of our graduate and undergraduate students, including Jun Heo and Byungsun Jeon, and a graduate student Soyeop Yoo won “Outstanding Paper Award” with “Analysis of RF Signal Attenuation in the Air using a Quadcopter (Jun Heo, Byungsun Jeon, Jinhwan Lee, Seokhun Yoon and Jaehyuk Choi)” and “Social Category based YouTube Recommendation System (Soyeop Yoo and Okran Jeong),” respectively. Taesu Park, an undergraduate student, won the Participation Award with “Social Network based Music Recommendation System (Taesu Park, Soyeop Yoo and Okran Jeong).”

Team Human Gulim wins Minister’s Award and MS Special Award at K-Hackathon

Gachon University’s Team Human Gulim (Taeksang Kim, Hyesung Jeong, Youngsook Seo and Sunghyun Moon) won the Minister of Science and ICT Award (with an additional prize of 3 million won) and Microsoft Special Award for Youth Software Developer at the 2nd K-Hackathon, a nationwide app development competition.


In addition to winning the MS special award, the team also received a tablet PC and was invited to Imagine Cup 2015, a software development competition hosted by Microsoft for undergraduate/graduate students from across the globe.


K-Hackathon was held from last June to October to discover and nurture talented app developers among college students across the nation. There were 147 teams (599 participants) from 81 universities in the contest. Preliminaries were held in five regions (Seoul metropolitan area, Chungcheong, Honam, Youngnam and Jeju) and 25 teams advanced to the finals held on October 2nd at COEX.


Team Human Gulim presented Run & Catch, an active game app based on a police-thief scenario where multiple users, divided into Team Police and Team Thief, play the game while they exercise in real life.

In the finals, the app was well received for both creativity and marketability. The completeness of the app was highly praised since a local elementary school and middle school have used the app for physical education classes. The result was even more meaningful because the team won not only Best Award, but also Microsoft’s Youth Software Developer Award.

“When users play existing smartphone games, they play them by themselves inside their rooms. Run & Catch was highly evaluated because it allows users to work in a team and engage in physical activity,” said Professor Chulyeon Kim, Head of the Software Design and Business Administration Department.

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