Graduate school application rates, especially for graduate schools providing Master of Business Administration (MBA) courses, have increased significantly this year. Experts say the economic recession
When the president of the Korean Council for University Education participated in the audit conducted by the National Assembly on October 21, he made an official statement against the proposed bill to
The Student Government Association of the Department of Social Studies of Seoul National University (SNU) carried out a movement to require their professors to provide feedback on every report student
Recently, the police concluded Choi Jin-sil, the nation’s iconic actress, had impulsively committed suicide because of depression and stress. The death of this long-adored actress made us to pay
Early this semester, Sogang University decided to abolish the menstruation leave which started in 2007. The school announced it was due to the possibility of misuse of the policy and that the leave ma
High price levels due to inflation and the current economic downturn have made students live under a limited budget as their income from part-time jobs remains pretty much the same as before. In order
Three categories may describe university students’ choice for non-academic books they read: literature, newly published works and Japanese novels. Recent data regarding the number of books borro
Thomas Edison invented a vote recorder when he was 21, which gave him his first patent. Michael Dell was a freshman at the University of Texas when he sold computers by using a direct marketing system
One university student’s case is typical. To pay tuition, he took out a government loan, but to pay back the mounting interest, he took out another loan, this one from a private moneylender. As
The Legal Education Eligibility Test (LEET) for law school entrance, held for the first time on August 24, marked the first step toward the graduate law school system that will start next March. Howev
Every semester, students contemplate whether or not to pay their student activity fees. The basic activity fee, paid to the student council, is 7,000 won per each semester. But, in addition to this fe
From the late 1990s, universities have gradually changed their admission systems from a department-based system into a college-based system, as the Kim Young-sam presidential administration announced
Around 7:00 p.m., many Ewha students finish their classes and walk from the main gate to the Edae Subway Station to go home. Students’ eyebrows become drawn together, and they hold their noses t
It is taking longer than usual to pick a lunch menu for Kim Ji-young (English Literature, 4). Kim, an ordinary Korean college student who has been using the school cafeteria for the past four years, i
South Korea and Japan have long been engaged in a fierce debate over the sovereignty of the island, Dokdo, which is located 90 kilometers east of ’sUllungIsland and also 157 kilometers northwest
Despite the importance of credit ratings, not many people know about their own credit rating. According to The Chosun Ilbo published on May 6, only 17 percent of the people whose credit files are enli
It was Sunday. All the soldiers and citizens of South Korea were ready to enjoy their day off, when the North Korean military crossed the 38th parallel (the boarder-line between the two Koreas) at the
May was the month of disasters. At the start of May, typhoon Nargis hit the world’s 13th poorest country, (), flooding its entire South. The figures of the Red Cross registered 127,990 dead and
By Son Min-jiEnvironmentally friendly movements are a famous trend in society that are permeating into people’s daily lives, awakening them from the ignorance of serious environmental issues. In conju
To promote adoption, May 11 was designated as Adoption Day in 2006. Along with this effort, there are organizations that take care of orphan babies who are to be adopted. Many university students have