Digging deep to innovate

It was a proverbial scene of calm before the storm: Two students were playing basketball in the corner of a large dirt playing field while a group of students sat on the steps of the steep stands, taking shelter from the blazing heat of the September afternoon in the shadow of a thick canopy of trees. All of that will change this month when the New Hongik Project, a 441 billion won ($324.5 million) expansion of Hongik University’s Seoul campus, breaks ground on Oct. 14. The project, which measur