What Is on Your Bucket List?

What’s on your bucket list? A bucket list is a list of things that you should do or that you want to do before you die. To welcome the new semester, we are going to look at the bucket lists of three students from Kyonggi University.Joining a new club - Department of Public Administration, Park I think that being unable to join clubs made me miss the opportunity to have a relationship with others. It was hard for me to commute to school, so...

Self-Development: Succeed This Time with a Small Step Strategy!

Self-improvement is one of the promises that we always make in the new year. The types of self- improvement are usually various activities such as exercising and reading. The desire to grow into a better person makes us set goals. Realizing a complete transformation is definitely difficult, but if you make a practicable plan for the new year, you will be able to achieve your goal. Psychological counseling expert Amanda Stemen recommends a narrow...

2009 All Over Again! Aiming for the Top at the WBC

The Qatar World Cup marked the end of 2022 with enthusiastic cheering. To keep the sports fanaticism rolling, the World Baseball Classic (WBC) has been announced for the start of 2023. Originally supposed to be held in 2021, but postponed due to COVID-19, the 5th WBC will be held in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan from March 8 to 21. 20 countries will participate in this WBC, and 5 countries will be organized into four groups: A, B, C, and ...

A Fast-Changing Trend, A Fast-Dying Planet

"Fast fashion" refers to clothing that can be created and sold quickly and at a relatively low price like fast food, which is designed to immediately reflect the latest trends. Reflecting the rapidly changing trend due to various SNS and media influences, amount of clothing created is increasing. As clothing consumption increases, the amount of clothing discarded is also increasing. In the process of disposing of clothes, you can find a secondha...

Don’t Cross the Line, Beep!

Having dinner and drinking with other people are common social things to do in social life in school or at work. It is also a common situation to go home drunk and alone late at night. In this situation, people often accompany each other home. However, if someone who is not really close tries to accompany another, should he/she lead the other right to their door, or just near the building? Which would be more appropriate? Pharos gathered some o...

Playing for the Spirit of the Fans

All sports have winners and losers. The winning team enjoys the glory of winning and receives cheers and the spotlight, while the team that loses must swallow the pain of defeat. However, the winning team and the losing team have in common the support of fans regardless of victory or defeat. This can be seen in the 2022 KBO Pennant Race, which is currently being contended.ﾠ The KBO, the Korean professional baseball league, determines the ranki...

Hi, High Exchange RateHi, High Exchange Rate

Currently, the won-dollar exchange rate is approaching 1,400 won, reaching the highest level in 13 years and 6 months. This is close to the won-dollar exchange rate of 1,422 won in March 2009, right after the financial crisis. With the expectation of further rate hikes at the Fed's monetary policy meeting, many experts believe that further increases in the exchange rate are on the horizon. An increase in the exchange rate means that the won ...

World Cup Trivia

The World Cup, an enormous sporting event with soccer teams from all over the world that is held every four years, will be held in Qatar this November, not in June as it normally is. In the Middle East and Asia, the temperature between June and July rises to more than 40 degrees Celsius, so it was decided to start in November due to health risks for athletes and spectators. Pharos would like to introduce some fun World Cup facts. First, let...

Reviving Thylacine, Is It a Miracle or a Disaster?

Recently, the news came out that scientist are trying to revive the extinct creature thylacine. There have been some attempts to revive extinct creatures like mammoths, but they’ve all failed. People are giving attention to the Thylacine Project, wondering if it is going to be successful this time. For the Thylacine Project, scientists at Melbourne University are collaborating with Colossal. Their goal is to succeed in the project within 1...

For People Who Need Courage to Move on in This World

The movie Jojo Rabbit is a comedy film set in World War II. Unlike the original novel, which heavily expresses the theme of the relationship between a German boy and a Jewish girl during the war, the film was successfully adapted as a comedy and won an Academy Award. Jojo Rabbit ostensibly deals with a young boy's first love story, but if you look deeper, it also deals with family love, friendship, romantic love, and even humanity on a pers...