SICA | Greetings

Greetings

ADVISORY PROFESSOR

SICA is a unique platform for discovering a purpose-driven life.

From 2005 to 2016, I worked for over a decade with a fantastic team of professors, staff, students and alumni to build Underwood International College into Korea's premiere Liberal Arts program. I had many fond experience from the early years of UIC, but the memories I cherish most were working with students to shape the identity of a brand new college.

When the founding members of SICA invited me to become their faculty advisor, I recognized that the organization embodies the founding principles of UIC: innovation, creativity and community. SICA is the place where the relationships and networks of Underwood International College inspires social innovation and offers the promise of a better future.

Prof. Michael Kim

Former Associate Dean of Underwood International College

Faculty Advisor for SICA

FOUNDERS OF SICA

To connect people is to connect thoughts. Communication between people of different backgrounds, cultures, values could build a new way to look at the world.

SICA began with the idea of like-minded youth creating social impact together. Although there are so many passionate students with amazing ideas and potentials to bring innovative changes to the community, they often fail to find the right ways to make it happen.

From there, we worked on launching Social Innovation Creators’ Academia (SICA) as a founder. SICA enables students to learn, discuss, and create social values through an innovative platform. As one of the major members of civil society, it is time for the youth to gather and nurture ourselves as social innovators with young creative minds. Through SICA, students can share and generate their thoughts to actually make them come true.

Founder and 1st President Group of SICA

Hyunggee Choi (Sustainable Development and Cooperation 14)

Hwajin Lee (Quantitative Risk Management 14)

Yohan Jung (Creative Technology Managment 14)

15th presidency

Greetings!

With respect to SICA’s three founding pillars,—technological innovation, economic value, and social impact—resilience is social innovation: to generate human-centered solutions for the problems that our community faces with the various innovative resources the world has to offer.

This spring, SICA will once again conduct a Startup Incubation project that delves deep into our society’s problems. SICA members will design technology-incorporated services or products that can generate economic output, ultimately increasing the welfare of anyone impacted by the identified social problem. In doing so, we, the 15th Presidency of SICA, will endeavor to provide you with the greatest support for your ideas to be systematically built and actualized.

We are here to help you be the change in our community.

15th Presidency Group of SICA

Dongmin Kwon (19, Economics)

Chaewon Kim (21, Quantitative Risk Management)

Hyorin Shin (23, International Studies)