Seongju residents have protested against the government’s unilateral decision to install the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) at the Seongsan artillery base in the county. THAAD is used to find out about enemies’ weapons by using X-band radar and it can make Korea more secure against atta
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 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) disclosed recently a Panamanian law firm’s secret documents called the ‘Panama Papers’. The Panama Papers includes information about tax evasion and money laundering of wealthy people and public officials all over the world. When I fir
Recently, a series of child abuse cases, especially those caused by family members, have shocked our society. It made many people realize the seriousness of child abuse and led them to insist upon much more powerful laws and longer sentences for perpetrators. Although family members are most likely
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
GFN 98.7 FM is hosting another FREE event. Wando Jangbogo Fishery Festival 2016, GFN Amazing Race with GFN 98.7 FM. Team ‘Zalmi’ & ‘Pak’ group of CNU international students. Pakistani student’s teams won the Second prize and Third prize at Wando Jangbogo Fishery Festival 2016. The race featured vari
GFN 98.7 FM is hosting another FREE event. Yeogam Wagin Culture Festival 2016, First Annual GFN Amazing Race Team ‘PAK’ & ‘Zalmi’ group of CNU international students including won the Second prize, Team ‘PAK’ and won the fourth prize Team ‘ Zalmi’ at Yeogam Wagin Culture Festival 2016. The race feat
The doctor laughed out loud when we told him what brought us to the hospital. Nine years ago, when my little brother Tony was seven, he swallowed a four centimeter magnet. Earlier that day, he kept asking weird questions, such as “If you have a magnet inside your body, do spoons, scissors and other
Kim Hye-in (Sophomore, Department of Public Administration)The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claimed that Apple must unlock a terrorist’s iPhone because they needed information from the terrorist who committed the San Bernardino attack late last year. However, Apple refused to unlock the iPh
Kim Min-ji (Sophomore, Dept. of English Language Education)Recently, 39 lawmakers of opposition parties made a long relay speech to stall an antiterrorism bill in the National Assembly’s plenary session for nine days. We call this a filibuster. Through the unlimited relay speech of 192 hours and 25
During the Lunar New Year’s holiday, North Korea’s missile launch was a hot potato. North Korea has been concentrated on building up asymmetric military power in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia, with developing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. Its launching a satellite is against the
Recently, South Korea and Japan came to an agreement about the ‘comfort women’ problem that has distressed us for a long time. However, the manner of negotiating seemed to be problematic. There is no respect for the comfort women who should have been in the center of the compromise. First of all, th
The Chonnam Tribune asked students for their opinions about some international issues. How about reading this article and making your own opinion?[Embracing Syrian Refugees] Jeong Jae-sung (Junior, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies) A photo of a 3-year-old Syrian refugee washed up on a Turkish be
The Chonnam Tribune asked students for their opinions about some social issues including state history textbook and Syrian refugee problems. How about reading this article and making your own opinion?[State-authored History Textbook Controversy] Lee Jae-ho (Sophomore, Dept. of Mathematics) A recent
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