A team of reporters from the Dongguk Media Center visited Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary from June 28th to July 10th to cover how young artists are raised and supported in European countries. Eastern Europe, including the countries that the team visited, is well-known for its various cultures
This semester, problems regarding signing up for courses occurred in Dongguk University. On the second day of registration, the connection of its system was cut off for a few minutes. Moreover, the Department of Statistics suddenly notified that one course of that major reduced its capacity into hal
From August 11th to 14th, 2017 Manhae Festival was thrown at Manhae Village and Inje Cultural Complex. The event was joint hosted by Dongguk Univesity and five other organizations including Gangwon Province and Chosun Media. On the first day, the national high school student essay contest and the ev
One day I saw a news about the 5.9 election. There was an interview talking about a freshman who was not able to participate in the election since her birthday was after May 10th. It was very strange for me because she must have the same level of consciousness as her friends had. From this point, I
It has been a month since the Moon Jae-in administration started. As the start of the new administration, there has been a lot of efforts trying to establish intense reformations. The efforts are focused on actualizing the election pledges based on the reality. It will be possible to predict the cha
Recently, people, especially the youth of the 2030 generation, are concentrating on the present rather than investing their assets for the future. A neologism “YOLO Life” mirrors this social aspect while it was also selected as one of the keywords representing 2017 by professor Kim Nan-do of Seoul N
On May 26th, the 12th ACE Forum was held at Dongguk University with the title, “Innovation for Higher Education Through Reinforcing Autonomic Capability of Universities.” From 11:00 A.M., the opening ceremony was held at Main Auditorium and case presentation sessions went along from 1:30 P.M. During
This semester, many changes on the campus of Dongguk University have been made and some are still going on. Meanwhile, Students continually have been requesting for renovations of facilities on campus. With the establishment of the new General Student Council (GSC), “HIFIVE,” the renovation is on sp
On April 11th, a lighting ceremony celebrating Buddha's birthday was held in Paljeongdo at 6:00 P.M. Beginning with the celebrating ceremony of OPUS (Orchestra Club of Dongguk University) and the Dharma drum performance, congratulatory message of President Han Tae-sik (Bogwang) and the illustrious s
Recently, many neologisms referring to young people suffering due to the low employment rate and lack of money are appearing such as “youth refugee,” “cube earner,” and “the slug.” According to data released by Seoul Metropolitan Government, the 2030 generation will experience 42.76 percent of unemp
In the first semester of 2017, a counseling program “Doran Dorang” has been operated by Jeonggakwon. It is a program that helps Donggukians overcome their hardships in the Buddhist approach: faith and practice. The counseling program “Doran Dorang” takes place every Monday from 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.
On March 22th, the second open hearing of V-APPLE(Jang Su-jeong, Park Kyoung-gun) and COUNTER PUNCH(Han Chae-hun, Kwack Jae-sin) for Student Council of the College of Social Science was held. At the public hearing, they announced and explained their pledges regarding how to respond to the interventi
For the upcoming Student Council by-election, the joint open hearing of candidates for the Student Council of the General Student Council (GSC) with the General Coed Student Council (GCSC) was held. For the GSC Student Council, two parties including two candidates each (Woo Dong-hee and Jang Yu-jin
On March 13th, the candidates for the By-elections of student councils, who had been decided as the candidates of each unit last week, began to electioneer at campus. In case of the General Student Council (GSC), two teams stand for the election. Woo Dong-hee (Senior, Department of Education) and Ja
From March 6th to 17th, the Center for Teaching & Learning is recruiting tutors for Dongguk Tutoring. It is a program with which students can conduct a collaborative learning in pairs that consist of one tutor and one tutee. In this semester, it is planned to select 90 tutors in total. Each students
This year, there are some changes to the complete system of Common Liberal Subjects. Four of liberal subjects are going to meet some change: software, Citizens of 21st Century, Regional Studies, and Entrepreneurship & Leadership. In the area of software courses, the number of the lectures has increa
In March of 2017, by-election of student councils will take place after the previous elections foundered due to insufficient number of voters. On March 6th to 7th, there was an announcement of the election and from 8th to 10th will be the period of candidate registration. Then, education for the ele
On February 7th, Dongguk University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Angelicum University. For this event, the parties in relation to the Angelicum visited Dongguk University. Angelicum (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome) is a university under immediate control of
More than 20 countries around the world are going through hard times owing to low birthrate. For example, Singapore, Romania, Poland, Japan, Italy, and Germany are a few of them whose birthrates are at around 0.88 and 1.44. Yet, South Korea is no exception. Its total birthrate was 1.25 last year, an