So, this is my final stage at The Dongguk Post. I am finally finished with my time as a student reporter. To use the word “finally” feels a bit weird though, because reporter life had not always been happy, but it was very meaningful and unforgettable. As a reporter, I could not spend time with my f
Yoon Seung-chul is an explorer and a writer, He writes his experiences of traveling the world such as memory in the Desert Marathon Grand Slam and crossing of the Silk Road. The way he chose to live his life is quite different from other people around his age. University students these days have dif
Eminent baduk player Lee Se-dol surrendered to “AlphaGo,” an Artificial Intelligence program developed by Google DeepMind. This amazing performance from “AI” has led the IT industry to start a new wave. With astonishing results of Artificial Intelligence research, Information Technology is now regar
The upcoming April 13th is the general election day in Korea. Voting is clearly the most basic way for citizens to exert their power in a democratic society, and at the same time it is a stepping stone for well-functioning democratic society. However, there are quite a lot of people who possess apat
I do not think I have ever seen America become as ideologically polarized as it is now.The left and right have always been there fighting and dividing—and considering I’ve only lived 21 years and two months to witness the entire scope—I guess that statement is up for debate.But when your potential p
In June 2015, Ministry of Education announced a government subsidy program called PRIME. Acronym for “Program for Industrial needs-Matched Education.” The rationale behind this project is the labor supply-demand mismatch projected for the next decade. According to statistics released by the Ministry
On October 20th, the Joongang Ilbo announced the overall rankings from their university evaluation survey in Korea. The Joongang Ilbo has been presenting the rankings of universities in Korea every year since 1994. Dongguk University ranked at 19th on this ranking list in 2015. Dongguk had been impr
Illustrated by Park Ji-hoonDoctor course completion, Department of History
On June 26th, the White House turned into rainbow colors. The Supreme Court of the United States made a historic decision by legalizing homosexual marriage across the whole nation. U.S. President Barack Obama was also pleased with the decision by saying, “Love is love” and “America is where you can
Having worked at colleges and universities in both Korea and the United States, I am particularly struck by one difference in how students approach their time at school between the two countries. That difference is, that in the United States, it is not typical just to go to study (and possibly work
1. Hesse's Drawing: Part 2at The War Memorial of KoreaThe exhibition is held from May 2nd to November 1st. The exhibition flows in order of four seasons. The special trait of this art show is that it does not only holds Hesse's genuine pictures, but also digital pictures recreated using modern techn
In the past few decades after the Korean War, the general consensus among the people in both South Korea and its American allies has been towards reunification of the long-divided Korean peninsula. An often proposed solution was to mimic the very same model that East and West Germany implemented sho
With the new start with the new school president Han Tae-sik (Bokwang), Dongguk University is pushing ahead its new plan, called “Dongguk Vision 2020.” The project is composed in order to have an open structure of school organization and listen to every member’s voice. “Dongguk Vision 2020” has four
The recent global social revolution of single household trend is making changes to global society, as well as in Korea. In the case of Korea, the rate of single households has steadily risen from nine percent in 1990 to 23.9 percent in 2010, and it is expected that this rate will increase further to
Although it has been only six months since I first joined the Post, it feels like I have been working much longer, which I cannot define whether it is a good or bad thing. Whatever this feeling is, The Dongguk Post has become more than just a university institution to me. At one point, I was very sk
The Central Library has continued its efforts to give students more conveniences when using the library. Several changes have already been successfully made, and several more are planned in the upcoming months, including relocating data, construction to improve the environment, fees for overdue book
Recently, Korean society is heating up over the issue of “being bossy”, as known as “gap-jil” in Korean. “Gap-jil” refers to an unfair behavior of a person (‘gap’ from the term upper person) abusing their superior position over others. Attitudes of being bossy were quite common in Korean society fro
From this semester, Creative Communication Center opened a new program called ‘Korean Clinic’. This program is to help international students who have troubles with writing reports or essays in Korean. Any students who need help with writing Korean essays or papers could apply for this program throu