This fall, I attended the Sorak-Symposium for the first time. This German Language and Literature conference was founded in the early nineties at a secluded hotel in the Sorak Mountains. Even though t

Did you know that only a person with a medical license can make tattoos in South Korea? Most of the Korean people with whom I had the opportunity to converse responded negatively. The reason for their

In this semester, I am holding a liberal arts lecture entitled “Human being and Philosophical Thinking”. It covers four topics: art, photography, life (existence), and friendship. In this

In October of 2017, The New York Times reported rape, sexual assault, and abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, a critically-acclaimed and successful film producer in Hollywood. The #MeToo movem

Last July, I and my colleagues killed Hitler. OK, we did not literally kill Hitler. We spent two hours in a coffee shop near Ewha playing a board game called Black Orchestra. The game is a cooperative

“Are you insane? Why are you going to South Korea to get your bachelors when you could get it in your own country?” It was a statement that I had heard many times when I announced I will b

Why South Korea? Why Ewha Womans University? How does it feel for you to be here? Questions I am constantly asked about for the last eight months of proudly being a full time and western student in Ew

I love the sights and sounds of late summer days. As the day wears on, the sun slowly paints a fleeting trail of golden light on mountain faces and trees to make way for the moonrise, accompanied by t

The moment I stepped into the Incheon Airport, it was a new life for me. I am sure everyone feels the same way when they leave for a new adventure in a different country. When I was in high school pre

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been at the centre of debates concerning how to engage regimes which are either unable or unwilling to safeguard their citizens against the four specific crimes

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

I r e t u r n e d t o E w h a a f t e r twenty some years of sojourning in another country. As a new t h e o l o g y p r o f e s s o r a n d a university chaplain, I quickly learned that my job includ

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

*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

“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

“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