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A New Kyonggi University Made by the Power of the Students
A New Kyonggi University Made by the Power of the Students As chairman for eight years beginning in 1985 and president for 11 years beginning in 1993, Son Jong-kook, the center of corruption at Kyonggi University, has returned to the school after 20 years. He was appointed by the board of directors, which created the biggest disgrace in the history of Kyonggi University. Upon hearing the news, students and faculty were ashamed of the board...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Deep-Learning Technology
Through the development of modern science and technology, deep-learning technology, which is a field of artificial intelligence, has emerged. With the advent of this technology, the ability to educate computers to perform human-like tasks such as voice recognition and image classification has developed. In addition, a technology called “deep-fake” has been derived that synthesizes a person’s face or certain parts to create fake videos. Thi...
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The Reality of Employment That College Students Are Facing
The recent employment situation has been frozen to the point that it has been dubbed the “employment glacial era.” Most businesses postponed their hiring plans or even canceled them altogether. Thus young applicants are facing a despairing time these days. Therefore young people are searching for opportunities through a variety of occupations. However, the Z generation who is trying to find jobs has been affected the most by COVID-19. They m...
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Dig Deep into the COVID-19 Situation
“COVID-19,” which has spread throughout China and around the world since its first outbreak in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has not disappeared to this day. Korea also could not avoid this virus. The first confirmed case in Korea was reported on February 19, 2020, and the virus has not completely disappeared. As a result of the government’s actions, a “social distancing” system has been put in place. However, there have been people ...
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The Issue of Refunds Due to Online Classes
Contrary to initial expectations that COVID-19 would soon subside like other diseases before it, COVID-19 has now affected our lives for a long time. In Korea, the number of confirmed cases has increased sharply since February 18 this year, due in part to mass religious activities, such as those of Shincheonji in Daegu, North Gyeongsang Province. Although the number of new cases has been decreasing lately due to social distancing, th...
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The Correlations Among Environment, Society and School
About 40 years ago, the idea of purchasing drinking water was considered to be ridiculous. Nowadays, people really purchase drinking water whether it is in an actual bottle or from a water purifier. Around ten years ago, there was a well-known phrase describing Korea as the, “country with four clear seasons,” but now it is hard to find this attribution any more. The term “global warming,” which was considered to be just an academi...
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Accumulated Money, for Whom Does It Exist?
Accumulated Money, for Whom Does It Exist? The school’s management of financial resources became controversial after several facts about the school’s finances and their use were reported by a student to the school community. According to the writing of the student, the reserves of our school (the remainder after saving and withdrawing money) which were accumulated from 2014 to 2018 ranked in the top eight of univ...
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Politics and the Individual
“You wake up in your room in the early morning. You take a shower and have breakfast. You leave home and take the bus. You arrive at school and listen to a lecture. After that you have lunch and tea time in a cafe. Then, you go back home by bus. You have dinner and do your assignments. Then you fall asleep.” This is the normal description of a university student’s life. Have you ever wondered how many things are decided by the political ...
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Who is the Owner of the School?
Recently, there was a big issue in some majors, and the issue was about restructuring. It was also a big issue that the school intended to introduce restructuring without discussing the matter with students. The students whose majors were to be restructured opposed the plan vehemently. In particular, some majors showed their opposition to the school plan because those majors were to be shut down or merged. They sent the signatures of st...
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Are You a Member of a Marginal Group?
There are many marginal groups in our society, but there is a lack of institutions and facilities to help them. Nevertheless, society still introduces things that further alienate marginal groups such as Kiosk for the sake of convenience and saving time. Moreover, providing services through mobile devices and the Internet is also an example of a lack of consideration for these groups because there are lots of elderly people who are not famili...