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SKY is a collective nickname for the three most prestigious universities in South Korea: Seoul National University (SNU), Korea University (KU), and Yonsei University (YU).^{[neutrality disputed]} The term is an acronym formed by the first letter of the universities.

Seoul National University

Korea University

Yonsei University

Contents 1 Comparisons 2 Notes 3 See also 4 References

The three SKY universities have often been compared to three equivalents in Japan: Tokyo, Waseda, and Keio.^{[citation needed]} Seoul National University is seen as analogous to the University of Tokyo as both are publicly funded universities and usually considered the most prestigious in their respective countries.^{[citation needed]} The duos of Yonsei University and Korea University in South Korea, and Waseda University and Keio University in Japan, are viewed as equivalents as the institutions are the leading private universities of their respective countries.^{[citation needed]}

Further, each pair of private universities shares a long tradition of sport rivalries.^{[original research?]} In Japan’s case, the bi-annual baseball games between Keio and Waseda and the intercollegiate events in rowing and rugby. In South Korea's case, every year, the five sports of baseball, basketball, ice hockey, rugby, and soccer, are played by the two bitter cross-town rivals. [1] [2]

So intense and nationally renowned is the rivalry between the South Korean top schools that the supporters of Yonsei University identify the games as the Annual Yonsei-Korea Games - Korea-Yonsei Games by those of Korea University.(Actually, "Yonsei-Korea Games" is more pervasive.)^{[citation needed][1]} Though both exclusive private universities are serious about their rivalries, they acknowledge their mutual interests as leading universities in their respective nations and in the greater community of East Asia.^{[not specific enough to verify]} Both universities have therefore made efforts to cooperate and strengthen the bonds between the schools. [3]

1. ^ Hangul:연고전(고연전); Hanja: 延高戰(高延戰); Revised Romanization: Yon-Go-jeon(Go-Yon-jeon); McCune-Reischauer: Yŏn-Go-Jŏn(Go-Yŏn-Jŏn)

• Ivy League, a group of United States universities
• Russell Group, a group of British research universities
• Group of Eight, a group of Australian universities
• Group of Thirteen, a group of Canadian universities
• Tokyo 6, a group of Japanese universities
• Big Three, collective term for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
• Oxbridge, collective term for Oxford and Cambridge

• "Students Hold Anti-Exam Festival" by Park Chung-a, The Korea Times, November 24, 2005, retrieved December 18, 2005.
• "Life and death exams in South Korea" by James Card, Asia Times Online, November 30, 2005, retrieved December 18, 2005.