Living as a Minority in Korea
By Oh Dong-hyuk, Senior, Dept. of Sociology
Living as a minority in
The article about how able-bodied people who became disabled were so informative and it encouraged me to stand against horrible prejudices.
From the article, now I've come to realize that not only structural changes in our society are required for the disabled to live without despair, but also every single one of us should regard these people as human beings, exactly the same as the majority.
God bless you!
Which Stone Will You Pick Up?
Due to the worsening employment prospects, the Campus which was once full of youthful vigor and passion is now only a place for getting a high grade and qualifications. Students desert their hot youth and dreams in overheated vying for jobs. Former students spent their college life doing many extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student-led movements, and voluntary activities for a rural community. So their school life was filled with energy because they did what they wanted to do. However, students’ college life nowadays has changed into drab uniformity. Students only shuttle to their school, library, and academies. Also, their choice of job is not an opportunity of the realization of self but a tendency to pursue economic stabilization. When I asked a foreign exchange student about the most impressive thing in Korean campus life, he replied that most Korean students seemed to enter the university in order to be a government official. I think that this response reveals our current situation plainly.
The cover story titled "What's Up?” was very interesting. Protagonists in five episodes showed me their unique point of view and positive attitude to their lives. In particular, I was much impressed by the episodes "Finding Hope in the Poor" and "Through Serving the Community." Their volunteering to help others can't offer them financial support or certain advantages for their job hunting. Therefore, their cast of mind which tries to give a little help to the poor looks more beautiful than anything else.
The times are hard for us. So it is difficult for us to get around to doing something, but is the passion of youth capital of itself? Time creeps slowly by. So in preference to reproducing other's thinking, all students have to question themselves in return for their own accord: "What are my interests?", "What can I be good at?". That is, before they choose the tenor of their own life, they should seek to find a way to go through undergoing trial and error. I really hope that students don't become stuffed, but rather living, young talents.
Chonnam Tribune Shoots Up!
By Kim Saung-hyun, Chair of National Association of Campus English Press
The location of the campus English magazine is not very well known to most university students. The truth is, according to research about the recognition of 'Campus English magazines' in one University, just 8% of students read an English magazine. Why do students avoid magazines written in English when it is a 'world language'?
English magazines are so thickly filled up with difficult vocabulary, one is short of breath when one turns the first page. Then economic words that we don't know harass the reader. Also, the burden of reading in English is not small. It is natural that people would choose a Korean newspaper over an English newspaper as people, whoever they are, want to be comfortable.
Yet campus English magazines have something special. First, their reporters are students who are the same as other students. But even so, they can write from the point of view of the position of students by seeing it in the eyes of a student. The reason for reading a newspaper is not to find a Chinese character and explain the word but to give more information and to give a chance to think about the issue.
It is certain that making English enjoyable to stimulate studying English is one of the advantages of reading an English magazine.
By Ahn A-ram, Graduate Student in Ph.D. Course, Dept. of English Language and Literature