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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...
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Who Are You, “University?”
If you received an offer to enter any university you wanted to go to, where would you choose to go? Perhaps, you would choose a famous university or a university that guarantees employment. Maybe, the majority of people would decide similarly. This shows that what the identity of a university means in people’s cognition. The reason why people prefer a university that has higher rates of employment is because these days it is actually diffic...
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Our Eyes Looking Over Soldiers.
The issue of military affairs has been reemerging as a result of military general Park Chan-ju and his wife’sbrutality to a soldier and the K9 self-propelled gun accident. Military incidents are sensational when theyoccur and the attention does not easily stop. Such incidents gain the attention of many civilians living in societyas well as inside the military. Living in a country in the middle of truce might be the reason we have a sensitivev...
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Let's Stop Discriminating Against Each Other
These days, you are able to see a greater variety of foreigners than before. If you visit a certain area where foreigners are allowed to do business, you will often see more foreigners than Koreans. This is because the number of foreign tourists visiting our country is increasing, currently. According to the Korea Tourism Organization, the number of foreigners entering the country increased by 30.3 percent compared to 2015. One study est...
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What Are We Learning?
This is the era of 8 million won as an annual average tuition for university. Are you learning enough at university to justify paying this much money? What is true learning at university? How do university students study? We want to know about their academic lives. Then, how do students study at Seoul National University, the school that the brilliant minds of Korea go to? An EBS program, 「Docuprime」, broadcaste...