On January 10, 2017, Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States delivered his farewell address, wrapping up his eight-year presidency. The first African-American to have served as president, as well as the first born outside the contiguous United States, Obama broke down in tears
The role of General Student Council (GSC) is similar to one of a department student council, even though they are different in size. GSC does many things for the students’ convenience and to make their school lives satisfactory. If there is no student council, students may not get information about
I am majoring in business administration. When I heard that the 49th General Student Council (GSC) had not been formed, it reminded me of the vacancy in the Student Council for the College of Business Administration (SCBA) last year. I felt sorry about this because the college students did not have
Autumn days remind me of Rilke, who spent lonesome and restless nights dreaming of a complete and perfect life. Surely it is too early to speak of a complete life as we have so many more days left to live. Rather, let’s focus on the days ‘before and after’ our college years. Have you ever pictured y
On September 27, 2016, a Seoul citizen posted a hand-written poster entitled “Okay to Be Inconvenient” at Oksu Subway Station. The poster aims to support the strikes of the labor union of a railroad and subway industry. The unknown writer says that “public bodies such as the Korean Railroad Corporat
We are all our own stars in the video games of our lives. The world revolves around us. We are constantly judging, re-evaluating and pondering our actions. A lot of this thought is directed at what others think about us. Questions like: What should I wear? What if I give the wrong answer in class? W
Seoul’s youth allowance, a monthly subsidy of 500,000 won for six months is helpful for unemployed young people at the end of their rope. The Seoul government has tried to do this project with 9 billion won and it is about only 0.45 percent of the government’s budget for creating youth jobs. However
The Improper Solicitation and Graft Act, as known the Kim Young-ran law, will come into force on September 28 this year. When it goes into effect, public officials, journalists, private school teachers and their spouses will be banned to get treats or presents over a certain price. I totally agree w
The results of the 2016 general election are very interesting and shocking. The Minju Party got the largest number of seats beating the ruling Saenuri Party. Ahn Cheol-soo’s Peoples Party was unexpectedly supported and it changed the political system of South Korea into a three-party system. I had s
About a month ago, AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google DeepMind to play the board game of Go, had a match with Lee Se-dol, the world’s top human Go player. AlphaGo’s victory in the historic match awakened the whole world about Artificial Intelligence (AI), which might overwhelm human bei
Since the 1990s, large enterprises and conglomerates in Korea have engaged in corporate social responsibility activities (CSR), such as donations for feeding the poor and building houses for the homeless, because they want to see how they recover from the side effects of their business activity, as
A few days ago, I found small scribblings on the corner of the toilet wall. The scribblings written on the wall showed someone’s stuffy reality and she did not know what to do for her future. Surprisingly, there was a comment for the first scribbling as well. It said, “I thought these were only my w
A few days ago, Shinzo Abe expressed profound grief for Japan’s wartime past in his war anniversary statement but there is no fresh and direct expression of apology of the kind that we Koreans expected. Some locals criticized him for his lukewarm attitude. I was also angry that he still remained vag
One widely held belief is humans are better than other creatures at learning. It is also the majority’s opinion that humans possess learning strategies and reasoning skills that are qualitatively unique among animals. But, I think what is special about humans has more to do with teaching. Our abilit
The reliable access to energy and raw materials is vital for Korea as the country does not have own resources to ensure their adequate and in-time demand by the industry. Korea’s new drive in developing own energy and mineral resources overseas has been the response followed by the government and ma
The Chonnam Tribune asked a student for his opinion about university evaluation conducted by the press. Let’s think about the issue whild reading his opinion. "I oppose college and university ranking system of the press. The result may make people have biased ideas about the universities that were
The Chonnam Tribune asked a student for his opinion about the government cyber censorship. Let’s think about the issue whild reading his opinion. "My friends, and I, as well as many other people are using the application, ‘Kakao Talk’ as a mobile messenger. This application has many users and it is
The Chonnam Tribune asked a student for his opinion about tobacco price hike. Let’s think about the issue whild reading his opinion. "If someone asks me “Do you agree with the tobacco price rise?” my answer is definitely NO. The government said it will make the smoking rate lower and improve people
The stories about people who fight against unfairness have been on the news for the last few months. These kinds of news stories have been the most visible to me because usually people do not really make an effort to change unfair situations. If people aren’t affected by the problem they usually don
According to a recent news report, a trial court in Korea (the Wonju Branch of the Chuncheon District Court) ruled that a young man in his 20’s, identified as Mr. Choi, should be imprisoned for 18 months in prison for causing a brain-death to a burglar in his 50’s, identified as Mr. Kim, in March of