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Experimental 'radiation missile' therapy offers hope to children with hard-to-treat cancers

Funded by donations from the family of the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, the treatment injects patients with a drug that seeks out and delivers radiation directly to cancer cells.

2026.7.3

Kim Yoo-na, 8, left, visits Seoul National University Hospital with her father for a routine checkup and speaks with Prof. Kang Hyoung-jin of the Department of Pediatrics on Oct. 13. [SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL]

Eight-year-old with leukemia can return to school after therapy enabled by Samsung family donation

Eight-year-old Kim Yoo-na, who battled leukemia, returned to school after receiving innovative CAR-T therapy funded by Samsung's Lee family donation, which significantly improved her health and avoided a bone-marrow transplant.

2025.11.5

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An MRI of a pediatric patient with a brain tumor called medulloblastoma shows the spread of cancerous cells to the spinal cord. [SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL]

With Samsung family donation, SNUH professors find breakthrough in pediatric brain cancer

Prof. Kim Seung-ki, a neurosurgeon at Seoul National University Hospital, led the discovery of a shared biological component among pediatric patients with medulloblastoma with funding from the family of the former Samsung chairman, Lee Kun-hee.

2025.3.3

Profs. Lim Hong-gook, right, and Kim Gi-beom, left, smile with a patient named Kim Ji-eun, who received pulmonary valve implantation surgery at Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul. The patient holds a 3D-printed replica of her heart. [SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL]

Samsung family donation helps improve odds for patients receiving multiple heart surgeries

Using 3D-printed replicas of patients' hearts based on CT scan results, three professors created model circulation systems that imitated their patients' actual blood pressure and flow. This allowed the doctors to run simulations before surgeries.

2025.2.4

Lee Ji-han, a five-year-old boy diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, poses for a photograph. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Homegrown leukemia treatment changes lives of five-year-old and his family

Five-year-old Lee Ji-han dreams of becoming a KTX high-speed train driver when he grows up. But those dreams were put on hold when he was diagnosed with leukemia last year.

2024.12.2

Participants at the 13th conference of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network International pose for a group photo at Seoul National University Hospital in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Sept. 5. [SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL]

UNDI conference underscores importance of funding research into rare illnesses

The annual gathering of Undiagnosed Diseases Network International touted the success of exchanges between countries and stressed the importance of funding for little-studied diseases.

2024.9.18

A sculpture of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee installed at a lobby at Seoul National University Hospital's Children Hospital in central Seoul [JANG JIN-YOUNG]

Korea's new standardized treatment to turn tide in fight against child leukemia

Pediatric doctors across Korea joined forces to develop a new way of combating leukemia, the most common child cancer in the country that makes up around 40 percent of yearly cancer diagnoses.

2024.7.30

A 10-year-old boy with a rare disease, Yoon San, smiles and shows off some computer coding he did on Thursday at Seoul National University Hospital in central Seoul. [JANG JIN-YOUNG]

Young boy with rare digestive disorder given hope for a better life. And meets YouTube hero, too

Ten-year-old Yoon San has never let go of his dream of sitting down for a good meal despite his chronic inability to digest food. When asked about his cravings, he answered, “I want to taste ramyeon and risotto, which are my favorites.”

2024.5.6

Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo speaks at a meeting at the Health Ministry in Sejong on Tuesday. [HEALTH MINISTRY]

University hospitals suspend appointments Tuesday as doctors walk out

SNU Hospital and Severance Hospital suspended outpatient appointments and surgeries on Tuesday after their medical professors walked off in support of junior doctors on strike against the government’s plan to increase medical recruitment.

2024.4.30

A statement by an emergency committee of medical professors of Seoul National University Hospital is posted on the walls of the hospital in central Seoul on Wednesday, announcing it would suspend all medical services except for emergency rooms and intensive care units on April 30. [YONHAP]

Medical professors to begin resignations Thursday, weekly days off amid protracted strike

Medical professors at major hospitals in Korea will begin resigning on Thursday as planned and take one day off weekly starting next week, arguing that they have been pushed to their limits from overwork with the junior doctors' strike.

2024.4.24