Some people have friends. Others have colleagues. This means that you attend the same meetings with your friends, and after the meeting you grab a fancy dinner and a glass of wine with your colleagues
Convenience is the Damocles’ sword of our generation. The metaphor of the sword of Damocles that is hanging over someones head, has its roots in ancient Greece, where the servant Damocles called
If one is asked the question of “what is identity,” the correct answer may possibly lie in the response that the Indian American economist Amartya Sen gave to the question of “what i
Waking up to a foggy sky, regularly getting startled by the disaster warning messages from the government, and always grabbing a mask when going out has become a daily routine for Korean people. Even
Hee-Kyu Heidi ParkDepartment of Christian StudiesI returned to Ewha after twenty some years of sojourning in another country. As a new theology professor and a university chaplain, I quickly learned that my job includes sustaining and living out Ewha’s founding spirit. Thus started my search for Mar
It is 11 p.m. and you’re very hungry. The thought of fried chicken makes your mouth water and your stomach rumble. Your hand is about to dial your favorite chicken place to order your usual menu
Being a fulltime ethnically whiteforeign undergraduate student at Ewha is as rare as it gets. There’s very few like me, with most being within the master’s program, transfer program or exc
Upon completing my BA and MA at Ewha, I travelled and studied abroad in many different parts of the world, where I learned the foreign languages that I had barely given any attention to during my Ewha
Stepping into Ewha Womans University again, I feel very familiar and comfortable. Maybe because I am a part of it. When walking in the campus and seeing the confused and nervous freshmen, they remind
April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. This is the first line from the poem The Waste Land by famous English po
*Trigger warning: This article covers extremely sensitive topics such as suicide and death. Please don’t read this if you’re opt to be triggered by such ideas.He may not be a familiar face
The story of my childhood and my current lifestyle is the typical Korean cliché. While my international friends may find it shocking, my Korean friends would simply nod along since they’v
“What are your plans for the break?” This question is no longer an easy one to answer. After graduating high school, vacations transformed into something that had to be spent in a meaningf
It is in Korea where I know the word ‘Busking’ in the very first time. I searched for the Korean word in the dictionary then I understand that it means street performance, performing in pu
After finishing my volunteer shift at Pyeongchang during the Olympics, I rushed back to my hotel to watch a match I was extremely looking forward to: Korea vs. Japan in women’s curling. However,
The 2018 PyeongChang Olympics started off with disputes regarding the participation of North Korea. Whatever the Olympics planners hoped for the ceremony, whether it was promising the security of the
“Chung on fire!” A twenty-one-year-old Korean tennis player nicknamed “professor”─acquired because he wears Google Glass during matches─poured energy and excitement into the ga
When children face a problem, most of them would run to their parents or teachers first. When they get into a fight at school, their teachers and sometimes also their parents get involved. Their youth
The first half of 2017 witnessed a plethora of discrimination episodes in South Korea. Early this year, a mixed family rose to fame after the father’s live interview with the BBC was interrupted
The written language is powerful. A concrete message defies time, and for centuries has conveyed ideas and innovation well past the foreseeable future.For the last two issues of Ewha Voice this year,