  Among the five-year government-funded World Class University Projects in
Korea, the category-3 program approved at Hanyang University in Seoul led to an
exploratory effort to go from neutron-rich nuclei to dense matter in neutron
stars. The principal results in what transpired in the effort -- and what
followed afterwards -- are described with the focus on the possibly important,
hitherto unexplored, role played in nuclear dynamics of topology and hidden
symmetries of QCD. The potential link to the proton mass problem is pointed
out.
