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The Truth about Pet Shops
In South Korea, pet shops are still prevalent. You can see pet shops even in front of Kyonggi University. These shops acquire puppies from puppy mills that continuously produce popular dogs. Consequently, there is a growing voice advocating for the strengthening of animal welfare laws. Additionally, a movement to eradicate pet shop usage is spreading, accompanied by hashtags like, “Adopt, don’t shop!” Alongside these trends, a ...
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Do You Have Room for Dessert?
Shinsegae Department Store, Gangnam Branch opened the largest dessert specialty zone, Sweet Park, on the 1 basement floor on February 15th. Sweet Park features 43 brands, including brands previously only available overseas and famous domestic brands from all over the country. When Pharos visited Sweet Park, the modern interior with checkered floors and shining lights stood out. Furthermore, there were many pretty desserts in the endless sparklin...
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Haenggung-dong Report
One of the hot spots near Kyonggi University is Haenggung-dong, which is located about 15 minutes away by bus from the main gate of the university. Haenggung-dong has become a bustling place since 2016, with workshops, cafes, and restaurants, following the nationwide trend of “nidan-gil” streets. This area, now mainly called “Haenggung-dong Cafe Street” or “Haengnidan-gil,” first began to attract tourists due ...
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The Living History of Korea: Shamanism
The recently released movie Exhuma (Pamyo) has been hugely successful. This movie’s story is based on South Korea’s shamanism. Nowadays we usually see shamanism and shamans through various media like movies and dramas. These shamans are portrayed as quite scary, creepy, and evil images, so they are established as scary and creepy beings in our hearts. However, shamanism is part of our history and has existed for a very long time. Thu...
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All Emotions are Irreplaceable: Inside Out
In life, everyone feels complex emotions in every moment. Also, we start and end various relationships with many inner emotions. Therefore, we grow up by experiencing emotions. The 2015 Disney movie Inside Out represents one adolescent girl’s life with the major emotions of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. This movie evokes our sympathy through many everyday life situations that we have experienced, such as conflict with parents and...
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Three Opinions on the New Medical School Policy
These days there is a conflict between the government and doctors surrounding a policy of increasing the number of medical students. In fact, the government already made a decision to raise medical school admissions by 2,000 students per year. However, the medical world is unhappy with the unilateral policy of the government, so most resident doctors are resigning from their jobs as a form of protest. The conflict between the government and docto...
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Unanswered Questions: The Leak of Kyonggi University Students’ Personal Information
On February 2, 2024, Kyonggi University received the first complaint that the personal information of students had been leaked. The range of the personal information leak dates from 2020 to 2021 and the sensitive information had been...
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Learn Some Shortcuts around Kyonggi University!
To get to Lecture Hall 5, should I get off at the back gate or Gwanggyo Station?” “I take a lecture in Engineering Building 2, so where is the most convenient place to get off among the front gate, back gate, and Gwanggyo station?” “Please tell me the shortcut from the back gate to the General Lecture Hall.” These are the hailstorm of questions every year on Everytime, an application for university students. For fre...
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Are You Curious about How Pharos Operates?
1. The Planning Meeting Before writing articles, we decide who will take charge of each section. We submit a brief proposal containing our ideas to the editor-in-chief within the designated period. If our idea isaccepted, we start writing a proposal with more details. Usually, only one or two reporters write each section, with the exception of the Cover Story, in which 2-3 reporters will work on it together.2. Writing Proposals The purpose, intro...
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A Way to Accept the Farewell: Pet Loss Syndrome
As time goes by, the definition of ‘family’ is getting broader and its forms are also diversified. Therefore, more and more families value their pets like dogs and cats as family members. For this reason, more people feel extreme depression, sadness, or loss when their pets die. This is called Pet Loss Syndrome. This is a symptom that causes mental pain and it can be considered a category of PTSD. If it is not properly treated, it ca...