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Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

International Exchanges

1998	The scientific and educational exchange agreement between Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University was signed, and exchange seminars for the faculty members and gradate students began.¹⁾ The first KAIST-Kyoto University Symposium (K-K Symposium) was held at KAIST in Daejon, Korea.
1999	2^nd K-K Symposium was held at Kyoto University.
2000	3^rd K-K Symposium was held at KAIST.
2003	1^st Japan-France Bilateral Symposium, a science and educational exchange program with Renne University, was held at Renne University. 1^st Trilateral Workshop on Organic Chemistry, an educational program for graduate students in National Taiwan University, Academia Sinica and Kyoto University, was held at Academia Sinica in Taipei. 4^th K-K Symposium was held at Kyoto University
2004	2^nd Trilateral Workshop on Organic Chemistry was held at Kyoto University.
2005	2^nd Japan-France Bilateral Symposium, a science and educational program with Renne University, was held at Kyoto University. 5^th K-K Symposium was held at KAIST.
2006	3^rd Japan-France Bilateral Symposium was held at Kyoto University. For the 3^rd Trilateral Workshop on Organic Chemistry, a laboratory exchange study program was organized, in which Taiwanese students spent three weeks in their host laboratories in Kyoto University and conducted experiments, while Japanese students did the same at their host laboratories in National Taiwan University.
2007	6^th K-K Symposium was held at Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry in Kyoto University.
2008	7^th K-K Symposium was held at KAIST. This was also the first KAIST-KYOTO-NTHU Chemistry Symposium as participants from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan joined the K-K Symposium.
2011	8^th K-K Symposium was held at the Seminar House in the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.
2012	2^nd NTHU-KAIST-Kyoto University (N-K-K) Symposium (2012 N-K-K Junior Chemist Symposium) was held at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

1) The exchange program with KAIST could not have been realized without the special contribution of the late Professor Taikyue Ree (1902-92), who was instrumental in the founding of KAIST. Professor Ree was an alumni and a former faculty member of the Department, Kyoto University. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1928, and served as Lecturer (1931-35), Associate Professor (1935-38), and Professor (1941-45). After leaving Kyoto University, he was appointed as Professor at Seoul University, Korea (1945-48) and at the University of Utah, USA (1948-70). Professor Ree was the one of the founding members, and the first president of the Korean Chemical Society.