- 기자명 엄소민 기자
- 승인 2010.07.05 15:37
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Beautiful Yongji pond of CNU is always a popular place. Sitting near the pond on a summer day, watching lotus flowers covering the surface of the water, ducks paddling around, you find yourself relieved. What a view! And on a scorching hot day, you might even feel like jumping into the water. But when you look down at the water you might think; ‘Is this water supposed to be opaque like this?’ Now is the moment when the myth should be told; ‘You will get every disease in the world except for AIDS, if you jump into Yongji pond’. Classic, yet, ominous! However, every year a few brave students try to prove this mysterious story, half-willingly and half not.
There is a superstition about success, too. Yong-bong which means dragon (yong) and phoenix (bong), symbols of CNU, represent the flight of CNUians into the world. There is a tower on the street from the main gate called Yong-bong tower. On top of the Yongbong Tower there is a big phoenix. The phoenix is not completely fixed to the tower, and it can slowly turn in different directions. That is the point where the myth, ‘the direction or college which seems to be faced by the phoenix of the tower, would be lucky and successful’ is from. CNUians who know this story check the direction of phoenix’s head when they pass the tower out of habit. Actually, the phoenix statue is a weathervane; therefore its direction only indicates the direction of the wind. Even knowing that, they still like to check the direction.