On November 2017, Seoul Cyber University (SCU) and Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU) have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the SCU campus. At the MoU signing ceremony, Rector Elena Kudryashova of NArFU paid her honourable visit to SCU, along with the Managing Director Ivan Scherbak from Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars (ATCS). 

Even before MoU signing ceremony, there has been some constant communication between President Eunjoo Lee of SCU and Rector Kudryashova of NArFU to promote the constructive relationship between the two institutes. Nonetheless, Rector Kudryashova could not find the opportunity to visit the SCU campus, due to her tight schedule.

At last, Rector Kudryashova managed to visit the SCU campus upon her arrival at the Incheon Airport on the 8 ^th of November 2017. Rector’s visit was indeed very important as it signifies the academic cooperation with the communities in the arctic region of Russia. NArFU has contributed to the development of the arctic region with the state-of-art science and technology. Furthermore, the department of humanities at NArFU had benefitted the regional communities by providing the various cultural educations.

At the MoU ceremony, both President Lee and Rector Kudryashova shared the common value of education to improve the livelihood of the community and enhance the social infrastructure. Rector Kudryashova expressed her astonishment that SCU had given an enormous impact upon the growth of e-learning in Korea and the world. In response, President Lee also acknowledged that NArFU had played a pivotal role in the development of the arctic region.

As the MoU documents were signed by the two institutes, SCU and NArFU might extend their areas of cooperation to a wider part of the academic activity. To begin with, President Lee implied that SCU could be of any assistance to help develop the e-learning platform at NArFU, while Rector pointed out that the academic excellence might be achieved with the cooperation between the two institutes.

Meanwhile Rector Kudryashova had also made her visit in Seoul to participate in the V Russian and Korean Rector’s Forum, held in Marriot Hotel. And it was strongly expected that Rector’s visit would lead to the betterment of higher education in Korea and Russia.