“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” The words of the late Winston Churchill speak of how buildings have an immense effect on us without many of us even realizing it. For example, a 2007 study by Jan Meyers-Levy and Rui (Juilet) Zhu found that ceiling heights can have a huge impact on

In a world where 2.5 billion people own a smartphone, any information or knowledge is easily one tap away. However, this also means each individual is imprisoned in their online filter bubbles, a state of ideological isolation introduced by internet activist Eli Pariser in 2010. Web algorithms cherr

“Any questions? Any thoughts?” often brings deadly silence into classrooms in South Korea. It happens in 2020 as it did a decade ago at the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit when Barack Obama specifically offered the Korean press a chance to ask the first question as host country. Half a minute of silence init

To investigate how students responded to problem-based learning (PBL), Ewha Voice took a journey to Gotland and Uppsala University to discover PBL in action. While brainstorming solutions to cases, students were freely invited to share their opinions in the entire PBL process. Professors taking on t

Korea’s education system starting from elementary school up to higher education has kept the tradition of high-stakes tests and nationally adopted textbooks. However, educators began to question how can we lead students to be more engaged in their learning? And how can we induce them to connect what

The first part of this series gave a general overview of the principles of Finnish education and glimpses of Finnish college classes. In this issue, we take a look at various types of IT education, spanning from college to grassroots learning.While education on coding is growing in Korea due to gove

Two perennial challenges of Korean education that are present from kindergarten to college are reducing the pressure of a hyper-competitive system and preparing students for an uncertain employment landscape. How should students learn differently? And what should they be learning? To answer these qu

YouTube is the world’s most-used video sharing platform these days. Among the wide range of people joining the platform, YouTubers in their 20s are especially prolific. Balancing life as a student vlogger Among the young people who are sharing their own videos online, many university students are ju

With social media being so common, it is not surprising to see a crowd of young people all looking down at their phones double-tapping on pictures. This is a phenomenon not just in Korea, but in most countries. In 2017, 68 percent of the overall Korean population were social media users and among th

The previous edition of Ewha Voice covered Korean new media startups G pictures and Deepr which are engaging young readers in news. However, our survey revealed that many Korean millennials remain disinterested in current affairs. Ewha Voice’s overseas coverage has found a very different media lands

Most young Koreans responding to a survey by Ewha Voice are not interested in news. 66.4% of the 145 respondents in their 20s said they were not interested in traditional media stories compared to their parents’ generation, mainly because they were too difficult, too biased or did not appeal to thei

MIT Puppy Lab: Therapy Dogs for Everyone!Most people might think that therapy dogs are only found in senior care centers. However, one student group is providing the university community with a chance to connect through unconditional puppy love. Massachusetts Institution of Technology Puppy Lab is t

In our last article of this overseas special, mental health professionals told Ewha Voice that the biggest challenge for Korean universities’ psychological services is lack of support. Counselors and professors attending the 57th University Education Policy Forum on March 30 at Ewha Campus Complex h

MIT Mental Health and Counseling Service is an unusual university counseling center where unlimited sessions and medication is possible. The center offers numerous programs, but among those, “Let’s Chat” and group counseling are programs that are most notable.“Let’s Chat” is a national program that

Princeton Counseling and Psychological Service was founded during the 1920s, and is one of the first university counseling centers to open in the United States. Due to its high utilization rate of 22 percent, the center is trying to handle wait times, just like Ewha. “22 percent is about 1,700 stude

“Happiness” classes in the United States Positive psychology made the cover of TIME Magazine in 2005, highlighting the notion that psychology should not only focus on the ails of the human mind but also the ways to make it flourish. Two years later, a positive psychology course at Harvard also recei

The status quo of university counseling in Korea Although the history of Ewha’s Student Counseling Center dates back to 1962, it was not until recently that universities nationwide started to establish concrete organizations for student mental health care. “We owe most of that to the Ministry of Edu

Stress, anxiety, and depression are all familiar concepts to today’s university students. Although numerous incidents suggest that more and more students are suffering from these issues, we have not been able to give a concrete resolution and have let the situation go worse. Ewha Voice took a deeper

When discussing college journalism in the U.S., the University of Missouri Journalism School, known as JSchool, cannot be overlooked. Founded in 1908 in Columbia, Missouri, JSchool was the first journalism school in the country.JSchool has adapted quickly to the changing landscape of journalism by i

One of the most renowned journalism schools, the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, has an extensive curriculum and renowned alumni including the Pulitzer Prize winning editor, R. Bruce Dold, at Chicago Tribune, and Sheinelle Jones, a weekend anchor for NBC’s Today Show.Located in