Ever since the Sewol tragedy, national mourning has continued. Leading intellectuals, ordinary citizens, and even candidates for the local election, have all promised that they would never forget the

Everyone may have heard about Game Theory. This is the study about mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent and rational decision-makers. This theory became one of the most

Rights have become a hot topic for young South Korean college students. Increasingly, students at Ewha are taking an interest in gender issues and a variety of other human rights areas as well. In my

It may be surprising to say, but many countries including the United State are practicing the laws and activities of the so-called “police state.” The term “police state” is a

A mentor of mine from early in my career as a university educator had written on his instructor profile that his hobbies included “hunting plagiarists for sport.”At the time, I was impress

New semester has started. As the new season arrived, many people take out their wallets to buy new clothes that suit the warm weather. When we walk through the various shops around the university, we

Nowadays, it is easy to find students staring down at their smartphones at the beginning of class. Such scenes make me feel uneasy just as much as when there are a lot of absent or late students. In f

Leaving before dawn and returning with the stars, poet Yun Dong-ju had to walk two hours to school. Malala, an Afghanistani girl was threatened by the Taliban for going to school. Like people from lon

The deep, loving gaze full of excellence. The light smile holding in her mouth. The magenta fan which she holds gently in her slender hands. And the black livery of grief. The posthumous portrait of Q

The old saying seems to be right; time really flies. Just one year ago, I was a freshman and everything about college life was new for me. Now, I am sure that I am fully adjusted to life in Ewha. Ever

Last night I watched the movie “Perfectly Precious Love” at a cinema preview. As a surprise, one of the lead actors appeared on stage. He said to us, “Please don’t analyze this

A few days have already passed since the Sochi winter Olympic games ended. For the 20 days during the Olympics, everyone’s attention turned toward the Olympic games. However, I am not sure if Koreans

I arrived for class in the Ewha Campus Complex (ECC) one day last semester to find an older man in a dark suit standing amongst my students outside our classroom. The class was going to start any minu

I went to the theater to see a play called “The College of the Laugh” written by Japanese writer Mitani Koki. This play appealed to me in that it is conducted in the form of a duo drama.As

On October 9, six college student mentees and their mentor, professor Kang Kook-hee (Sungkyunkwan University) of the Korea Scholarship Foundation, visited Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery.To cul

Do you know a system named Residential College (RC)? It is a well-rounded education system that will be implemented in Ewha Womans University in the year of 2015. This semester was the first test oper

This era in which we live is full of images. We may well say that it is an era of excessive images. Starting from the cellular phone screen that tells us to wake up in the morning, the television scre

I would like to start this writing with the rather unconventional topic of the traditional Korean board game Yout-Nori. There are three important features in the rules that are unique to Yout-Nori.The

It was the graduation day of my elementary school. Six years in elementary school seemed as if it were never going to end and I thought I would be an elementary school student forever. To my naive, gl

I take the subway on my way home. When I look around, all I see are eyes and fingers immersed in rectangular objects. From supposedly 50-year-old office workers to young children, almost everyone is c