David Fincher’s film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells a story about a man who lives his life backward: he was born as an old man, becomes younger and younger, and dies as an infant. The

Nearly thirty years later and I still vividly remember a particular image of contrast. As if they were before me even now, I clearly see two elderly men wearing ramie hanboks, smoking long pipes, inte

A few days ago, I happened to make a brief trip to Insa-dong alone. As we all know, Insa-dong is no longer a space only for us now. It attracts many domestic and foreign tourists, so the street was, a

Food is the crucial source that keeps us alive. Since human beings cannot produce energy with their own power, they have no choice but to seek energy through other resources. Nonetheless, there are pe

Formerly, paternal grandmothers were addressed just as “grandmother."; mother’s mothers were addressed "maternal grandmother.."But since some time, the "maternal"

Who am I? Can I conceal myself for evermore? Pretend I’m not the man I was before?Jean Valjean asks these questions to himself with deep agony when he finds out that Javert arrested someone inst

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

I personally believe that Ewha Womans Univeristy has one of the most beautiful and scenic campuses. After graduating from Ewha Womans University, I went to the United States to further my education. T