Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Advanced Defense Technology and Industry Specially Appointed Professor Cheon-Seok Kim (Retired Army Major General) was appointed on October 6 as the new Director of the Defense Rapid Acquisition Technology Institute, an affiliate of the Agency for Defense Development (ADD).
 
Director Kim, a graduate of the 47th class of the Korea Military Academy who was commissioned in 1991, is an expert in the fields of defense and defense acquisition. He has held major military posts including Director of the Ministry of National Defense's National Assembly Cooperation Division, Commander of the 35th Infantry Division, Chief of the Army Planning and Management Staff, Director of Combat Development at the Army Training Command, and Acting Commander of the Army Training Command.
 
In particular, he has been involved in the Army's future capability development at the Army Training Command, focusing on combat development responsive to changes i

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Housing Environment (Department Head Bae Chi-hye) has joined hands with the Housing Management Corporation Jeonbuk Branch (Branch Director Lee Sang-gyu) to enhance students' and youth's practical field skills and to strengthen community housing welfare.
 
On the 7th, the two institutions signed a memorandum of understanding and agreed to establish an Industry–University Collaboration system that links on-site experience in public rental housing management and housing welfare with the university's educational and research expertise.
 
Under the agreement, the Housing Management Corporation Jeonbuk Branch will provide opportunities for on-the-job experience, training, and mentoring at public rental housing sites in connection with the Jeonbuk Youth Job Internship Program.
 
The JBNU Department of Housing Environment plans to support students' and youth's field training and participation in surveys and research based on maj

The team led by Professor Junho Moon at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) College of Veterinary Medicine (Veterinary Obstetrics) developed a wireless power transfer technology that reliably supplies power despite movement and deformation of cardiac implantable devices, and confirmed the effectiveness of wireless cardiac pacing in animal models. The work is expected to form the basis for developing next-generation implantable devices for heart failure treatment.
 
The study involved Professor Moon as well as Professor Seungpyo Lee from the Division of Cardiology at Seoul National University Hospital, Professor Sanghyuk Kim from the Department of Electronic and Information Convergence Engineering at Kyung Hee University, and Professor Daehyung Kim from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University. The results were published this month in the latest issue of Nature Electronics, a leading journal in electrical and electronic engineering. The pape

"Having grown through the trust of the local community, I believe it is my duty to return the support I received to future talent."





Choi Cheol, Chief Medical Director of Jeonju 21st Century Hospital, who nurtured his dream of becoming a physician at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) College of Medicine, has stepped forward to support the dreams of his juniors. He donated a development fund of 100 million won to his alma mater, JBNU, to pass the trust and love he received while caring for the health of local residents on to the next generation.





The JBNU Development Foundation presented a plaque of appreciation to Dr. Choi on October 6 in the President’s Office at University Headquarters. President Yang O-bong and other senior university officials attended the ceremony.





After graduating from the JBNU College of Medicine, Dr. Choi served as a clinical professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at JBNU Hospital and as an adjunct professor at Gunjang University. He

An academic forum exploring how African popular culture reveals diverse social voices and, in relation to power, forms new cultural spaces was held at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU).
 
The Institute of French and African Studies at JBNU (President Yang Oh-bong), directed by Professor Cho Hwa-rim, held a national academic conference on October 2 in Seminar Room 1 of the JBNU Convention Center under the theme "African Popular Culture and Power: Reconfiguring Voices and Spaces."
 
The conference was planned to view African popular culture not merely as cultural expression but as a sphere that produces social and political meanings and influence, and to explore from multiple angles the interaction between popular culture and power.
 
Participants analyzed how power is represented and negotiated across varied cultural domains, the forms of resistance to it, and patterns of repurposing existing cultures and meanings. They discussed how popular culture reconfigures diverse

Professor 정성용's research team (Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Electronic Materials Engineering) graduate students recently won the Best Presentation Paper Award and the Excellent Presentation Paper Award side by side at the 2026 Korean Sensor Society Autumn Conference, recognizing their research excellence in the field of sensors.
 
The conference covered the latest research across sensor technologies, including gas, bio, wearable, and healthcare sensors, physical and MEMS sensors, and AI sensor platforms. In particular, a Korea–Taiwan–Japan joint symposium, the Korean Sensor Society–The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers IT Convergence Session, the Young Scientist Forum, poster sessions, and industrialization sessions were held together, facilitating exchanges among industry, academia, and research communities and adding diversity to the event.
 
At the conference, student 윤성영 received the Best Presentation Paper Award for the study titled

College of Engineering student-built car club A.R.T (Automobile Research Team; faculty advisor Professor Hwang Yun-hyung) won the Silver Award in the Baja category and the KATECH Technology Award at the recently held '2026 University Student-Built Vehicle 20th Anniversary Competition.'
 
The competition, hosted by the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (KSAE) and the Korea Automotive Technology Institute (KATECH), was recently held at the Saemangeum Automobile Racing Track. The Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) team participated with support from the RISE Mobility Future Project (Director: Professor Im Ik-tae, Division of Mechanical Design Engineering). Using a vehicle they designed and built themselves, they competed in acceleration, braking, and driving performance events and earned the overall Silver Award.
 
In particular, they ranked first in the endurance racing segment—which accounts for 40% of the total score—by completing approximately 50 km in 1 hour, 32 mi

JBNU rose in the "2027 THE World University Rankings," climbing from the 800 band last year to the global 600 band (651–700), showing a steep upward trend. Clear growth in the industry and internationalization categories, combined with improvements in educational and research capabilities, increased the university's overall competitiveness.
 
In the "2027 QS World University Rankings" published in June by the global ranking organization QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), JBNU also surged 27 places compared with the previous year to rank 677, and has since firmly settled within the global top 600.
 
The assessment announced by the UK-based global ranking organization Times Higher Education (THE) covered 2,297 universities worldwide. It综合ed 17 indicators across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and internationalization.
 
JBNU improved its scores in every assessment area compared with the previous year. Its overall score rose by 4.9 poin

Through the National Research Foundation of Korea's support program for developing universities leading international cooperation, Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Vietnam Project Group (Director: Professor Nam‑su Kim), which is promoting capacity building at Vinh University in Vietnam, recently visited the university to review its education and research infrastructure. The group actively publicized the outcomes of the collaboration to newly admitted students and expanded the foundation for attracting outstanding international students.
 
During the second visit of the fourth year, the Project Group participated in the new student welcome ceremony of Vinh University's College of Agricultural Resources. It presented the main outcomes and the educational support programs of the Project to Establish the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Vinh University and Strengthen Education and Research Capacity in Animal Husbandry (hereinafter the ALiVE Project).
 
The Project Group i

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Startup Support Group (Director Guk Gyeong-su) held the "2026 Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province Industry–University–Research Integrated IR Elevation Camp," which connects local startups with investors, and secured letters of intent and investment commitment letters totaling approximately KRW 1 billion.
 
As part of the Startup Support University project, the event was held at the JBNU International Convention Center from September 30 to October 1. Thirty-one companies participated, presenting their business capabilities and growth potential and discussing investment attraction and follow-up collaboration with investors.
 
The event was supported by JBNU's Startup Support Group, Jeonbuk Technopark, Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province Economic and Trade Promotion Agency, Jeonbuk Bio-Convergence Industry Promotion Agency, Eco-Convergence Textile Research Institute, and the Agricultural, Forestry and Food Technology Planning and Ev

The Jeonbuk Support Group for Regional Child Centers (Director Choi Hyun-young) held a meeting to share field cases to strengthen support tailored to children’s characteristics and to expand community care and safety nets.
 
On the 1st, the Support Group held an open case presentation of the "Supporting Children Growing As Themselves" program and the "TogetherKeep365" Regional Child Center Care and Safety Net Project Case Conference at the Jeonju Signature Hotel. Both events focused on sharing accumulated field experience in child support and on seeking more effective support approaches through expert consultation and case review.
 
At the open case presentation of the "Supporting Children Growing As Themselves" program, dispatched specialists working at regional child centers across the province shared cases from their experience supporting slow learners with borderline intellectual functioning. They then discussed intervention methods tailored to the children’s characte

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) is steadily expanding the foundation of the regional international development cooperation ecosystem by connecting public institutions, universities, companies, and civil society organizations through the "Jeonbuk-Style ODA Cooperation System" launched last year.
 
The "Jeonbuk Regional ODA Revitalization Council," operated by the JBNU Jeonbuk International Development Cooperation Center (Director Baek Sook-hee), recently expanded to include three institutions — Korea Land and Geospatial Information Corporation, Kamtic Comprehensive Technology Institute, and Grant Bridge — bringing the council to 17 institutions and 22 members.
 
Korea Land and Geospatial Information Corporation is a public institution based in Jeonbuk with extensive experience implementing ODA projects, and is expected to further strengthen public-sector expertise in international development cooperation within the council. Kamtic Comprehensive Technology Institute and

Jae-ryeong So, a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology (supervisor: Professor Ki-Deok Song), received the Best Poster Presentation Award in the poster session at the 2026 International Joint Symposium and Academic Conference of the Korean Society of Animal Science and Technology for research that elucidated the breast muscle developmental characteristics of the Korean native chicken breed Ogye at the transcriptome level.
 
At the conference, PhD candidate Jae-ryeong So presented the research under the title 'Wnt Signaling Pathway-associated cis-lncRNA-mRNA Crosstalk in Ogye Breast Muscle'.
 
The research team performed next-generation sequencing (RNA-sequencing) on breast muscle tissues from 10-week-old birds of the Korean native Ogye breed and the representative meat-type Cornish breed.
 
They found that genes associated with the Wnt signaling pathway, which play major roles in muscle cell proliferation and development, tended to be expr

Kim Jong-rae, a doctoral student in the Department of Landscape Architecture (supervisor: Professor Kim Jeong-mun), has been selected for the National Research Foundation of Korea's '2026 Doctoral Student Research Encouragement Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences'.
 
The program supports creative and challenging research by doctoral students at domestic graduate schools that is linked to their dissertations, fostering outstanding next-generation scholars. Selected researchers will receive research funding totaling KRW 40 million over two years.
 
Kim will carry out 'A Study on Group Differences in Nighttime Safety Perceptions of Urban Parks.' The study will classify safety perception types among nighttime park users and analyze group differences by gender, age group, and usage behavior, as well as the effects of physical, social, and management factors on nighttime safety and their structural relationships. Through this work, the research aims to identify nighttime

The Institute of French and African Studies at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), headed by Professor Jo Hwa-rim, opened the first session of an outreach humanities lecture series aimed at broadening local high school students' understanding of Africa, a continent unfamiliar to many of us.
 
The JBNU Institute of French and African Studies held the first lecture on the 29th in the audiovisual hall of Hanil High School in Jeonju under the theme 'First Encounters with Africa: Stories of an Unfamiliar World We Did Not Know.' The lecture series will run for five sessions through November 25.
 
Aimed at students and teachers in the Jeonbuk region interested in Africa and the humanities, the program features domestic experts on Africa as speakers. They examine contemporary Africa from political, social, and cultural perspectives and offer discussions that enable a deeper, more multifaceted understanding of a continent that has been unfamiliar to many.
 
In the first lecture,