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
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.” This famous quote by Mother Theresa emphasizes the value of having someone in our lives. It is easy to confuse the concept o
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
It is now the final month of the year, and we are drawing closer to the end of another 12 months. It seems like only yesterday that Ewha lowered tuition by another 1.5 percent and the Hanwoori Hall ab
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
A professor from my department said to us during class year, “Right now you all are at the smartest you will ever be in your entire lives.” Though she did not intend so, the professor&rsqu
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 in 2005 when “friendly” service was required from university administration. Universities started organizing kindness education programs for administrative employees, and a real-nam
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
In one of the numerous still shots of random memories in my head is a children’s book standing in the corner of the bookshelf at my old house, whose title translates to “Hope for the Flowers” in Engli
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
“How on earth should I decide the topic I am going to write about?” I had writer’s block for hours thinking about this; whenever I try to write something, this block comes to me regardless of the leng
Sitting in an interview with the assistant head of the Office of Financial Affairs (OFA), I have come to realize that numbers do not do much explaining. In an analysis report presented by the Educatio
Ever since I turned 18, I started thinking about which university I was going to enter, and I thought of myself as a pre-Ewha student. The foremost reason that Ewha had stole my heart was that Ewha&rs
Despite the best of intentions, too often, students avoid working on their writing assignments. If you have ever found yourself staring at a blank computer screen because you did not know where to beg
Waves at the Cala di Sotto, big waves and small waves, wind against the cliff, wind through the twigs, father’s plaintive fishnet, priest ringing the church bell, twinkling stars in the night sk