Merging minds

From left, Oh Deog-seong, president of Chungnam National University; Kim Kyu-tae, director of the Higher Education Policy Office at Korea’s Ministry of Education; Israeli President Reuven Rivlin; and Moshe Lewenstein, deputy president of Bar-Ilan University, pose together after the two universities signed agreements to exchange knowledge and expertise in the field of science and technology at the Korea-Israel University President International Forum held at Grand Hyatt Seoul in central Seoul on Wednesday. Israeli institutes, including Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Hebrew University and Haifa University, and Korean institutes, including Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Pusan National University and Konkuk University, signed additional agreements on higher education. [CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY]