<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">GIST ranks 14th in the world and 1st in Asia in terms of Citations per Faculty in World University Rankings 2009, showing solid competitiveness<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">The research capacity of the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) has proven to be world-class.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">As per the World University Rankings 2009 conducted by QS, a British global organization on university Rankings, GIST ranked 14th in the world and 1st in Asia in terms of Citations per Faculty, and was </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1">followed by POSTECH (25th), KAIST (132th) and Seoul National University (260th) for Korean-based institutes.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1">GIST has shown once again that its research sector is highly competitive, not lagging behind other global prestigious universities, following last year’s ranking (15th in the world and 1st in Asia in Citations per Faculty in World University Rankings 2008).</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">The top ranks goes to </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1">California Institute of Technology, CALTECH, followed by the University of California (San Diego) and Stanford University.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">‘Citations per Faculty’ </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1">is the best understood and most widely accepted measure of research strength. Citations per Faculty is the most objective barometer that shows the quality of articles, in that the more cited the article is, the better and the more important it is. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1">Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources, is used in these rankings as analysis indicator to ensure that the total citation count for the last five years per faculty member is calculated. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">QS is a global agency for university rankings that has published the rankings of the world’s major universities annually since 2003. It has released the rankings of the universities around the world after publishing the rankings of Asian universities in the first half of this year.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">In the Asian University Rankings 2009, GIST ranked 1st among 463 universities from 11 Asian countries in terms of Citations per Faculty. In Korea, POSTECH was 2nd, KAIST was 8th, and Seoul National University was 52nd.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">These results show that GIST does not lag behind other global universities in terms of academic performance and research. GIST is actually improving its position as it strengthens cooperation with other foreign major universities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">Recently, GIST held a joint workshop with SIT, and the president of ETH Zurich will visit GIST on October 30th to actively discuss the collaborations between the two universities in the areas of education and research. In addition, there is an ongoing exchange with CALTECH in discussing the undergraduate program of GIST, which will be established next year. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">GIST will maintain a firm hold on its position as a global research-oriented university and it is expected that this result will have a positive effect on recruiting high-level students to its new undergraduate program next year.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">The president of GIST said that with superior research capability and global competitiveness as a foundation, the undergraduate program that opens in 2010 will further improve rankings next year, when it emerges as a comprehensive university with a new undergraduate program</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림체; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-themecolor: text1">. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

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