Seoul Institute’s urging the borders of knowledge is delightful goal, and SI welcomes not just academic discoveries but industrial achievements alike.
As educators, SI also value R&D as a power of learning by practicing.

Si is preparing all level of research opportunities program with industries and academies.
SI R&Ds is now across five centers, as well as in several labs.
SI R&D is open to experts across disciplines to explore new intellectual frontiers.
Our digital base campus research capabilities are also enhanced through global collaborations.

Centers, Labs & Programs
SI continually develops organizations and partnerships that foster interdisciplinary work.
Listed here are just some of the SI research centers, labs, and programs.

Welcome to Design & Content Research Center of Kyungsung University. DCRC is an formal research organization of Kyungsung University in Busan, South Korea. Korean name is <디자인&문화콘텐츠 연구소>.

Professor Kwon is current director and leading subdivision Labs like AIDM(AI Design and Media Lab).

Service Innovation & Design, SI’s first book soon delivers to market. 9 authors wrote this book from academy and industry cooperation. 

Service design is now famous terminology in design area and service innovation is also known concept in business area. Combing these two heterogeneous field, authors suggest service innovation and design have close relationship.

You can buy this book at Yes24.com or Kyobobook.co.kr.

Don’t miss this book.

Wave Park, located in Siheung Korea, copied concept of Ibiza island, Spain. Wave Park adopted it’s food, culture, clubs, and streets. Asia’s first man-made wave pool, Wave Park will open in Oct. 2020.

Ibiza is famous for club, music, and leisure life. Europeans enjoy their holiday here. Festivals are open 24 hours, 365 days.

Come and enjoy Asian version of Ibiza cultures in Oct 2020.

Everything is there.

Before ICT technology era, the most traditional way to start a career was getting a four-year university or college degree. But current environment, with people changing jobs and careers more often than in the past, does not require a four-year degree any more.

Still it’s one of the most common things you may envision when getting prepared for a vocation, and it’s certainly a viable option. However, there are new routes you can take when considering a new career.

Suppose if you’re already had established career and it’s time to change. There are other options like certificates and micro-degree that can be valuable and quicker.

In the past decades, we’ve seen huge changes in the world of education. Some have been amazing and accompanied by excitement, like the increasing availability of higher education through online universities and courses. Others have been more troublesome and accompanied by worry, like rising tuition costs. 

While the democratizing of education may seem like a dream, it may not actually be so far off. Many European countries are leading the way in terms of providing free educations to their citizens. In addition to this, private and non-institutional entities are offering degrees to students all over the world with cheap tuition. Now that most colleges and universities are operating online, university presidents and administrators will want them to stay online.

As more education is delivered by IT, and not on a traditional campus, expect technology companies to enter the market. In some cases, they will do so in partnership with universities with strong brands. Expect things like “the University of Texas, powered by Google.”

In the context of the radical transformation to knowledge and learning that digital technologies and the Internet have brought to teaching and learning in the last decade, it is imperative that universities develop new models and strategies if they want to continue to be relevant in the 21st Century.

Imagine a world where all repetitive tasks have been taken over by robots. It is a world where factory lines of machines build self-driving cars, drones shuttle packages from house to house, and artificial intelligence chatbots answer customer questions over the phone. All of these things already exist, and they are just the tip of the iceberg. Each day, all over the world, formulaic jobs that used to be considered the domain of human beings are becoming automated or digitized.

Current models of education are preparing our children to work in an economy that will no longer exist once they graduate from university. The workforce of the future will likely be built around human-centered and creative services, operating through heavily digitized channels.

Students will be learning outside, armed with different devices, listening to a teacher of choice. Skills will not be assessed on paper but based on their performance in the field.

SI aims future of the  of education. As technology is rapidly changing the world around us, many people worry that technology will replace human intelligence. Some educators worry that there will be no students to teach anymore in the near future as technology might take over a lot of tasks and abilities that we have been teaching our students for decades.

SI supports diverse time and place education. Students will have more opportunities to learn at different times in different places. eLearning tools facilitate opportunities for remote, self-paced learning. And SI  pursue personalized learning. Students will learn with study tools that adapt to the capabilities of a student. Also SI guarantee free choice of learning. Though every subject that is taught aims for the same destination, the road leading towards that destination can vary per student. Similarly to the personalized learning experience, students will be able to modify their learning process with tools they feel are necessary for them. And our future education must be project based. SI preparing various projects as careers are adapting to the future freelance economy. Student ownership education is also very important. Students will become more and more involved in forming their curricula. Mentoring will also become more important. In 20 years, students will incorporate so much independence in to their learning process, that mentoring will become fundamental to student success. Teachers will form a central point in the jungle of information that our students will be paving their way through. 

Theme park is a place where interdisciplinary approach to culture, consumption, engineering, and psychology meet together.

AdStar, Asia’s largest advertising festival, director Eu-Ja Lee had meeting with SI team and agreed with cooperation about publishing international journal.

The journal will be launch in 2020, right after AdStar 2020 in Busan, Korea. Editors and editorial staffs are soon organized.

This journal is aiming internationally prestigious and impacting position in advertising and marketing field. AdStarJ, tentative name, is peer-reviewed and open access journal.

Wait AdStarJ’s CFP until committee member and editorial policy are setup.

Self-driven learners, also known as self-directed learners, are people who take control over their own learning and development. They’re a growing phenomenon within the workplace.

Given the current fast-changing business environment, driven by digital transformation, organizations need just this type of people if they hope to success.

Research reveals that workers today spend an average 505 hours a year learning: 484 informally and 21 formally. No matter the type of learning, people need a heavy amount of support and structure. And to get the most value out of informal learning, Learning leaders must start by ingraining the drive to find information and learn on an ongoing basis into an organization’s culture.

But how exactly do you foster this culture of continuous development and facilitate self-driven learning that moves the needle on performance? It is very important that keep our pool of knowledge expanding.

Self-driven learning is when you pick what you want to know, how you want to learn, and when you want to learn it. Motivation often stems from curiosity or necessity. Using a methodology for guiding your self-learning can help make it easier to measure your progress and hold yourself accountable. Objective Based Learning is the system usually implemented by schools that have self-driven learning programs. With modern technology, there are a plethora of resources available to anyone who wants to learn about a topic.

The future of education is made up of students who take learning into their own hands, learners who are motivated to work solo, in groups and online. Self-driven learning requires flexibility, acknowledging what students are interested in.