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

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

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

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 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

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

Hee-Kyu Heidi ParkDepartment of Christian StudiesI returned to Ewha after twenty some years of sojourning in another country. As a new theology professor and a university chaplain, I quickly learned that my job includes sustaining and living out Ewha’s founding spirit. Thus started my search for Mar

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

“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

You get off the bus. Looking around, you see the corner where you agreed to meet your friend. You take another sip of your coffee, grabbed from your favourite coffee shop on the way over. You’re

Haejung Yun (Department of International Office Administration) How did you feel when you saw the competition, AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol last year? Were you afraid that AI (Artificial Intelligence) and

A number of years ago, I ran into a former student who had just recently graduated. She told me how frustrated she was at trying to find a job since most companies required her to fill out an online a

So off they go. Four Korean celebrities open a restaurant at an Indonesian resort island for a week. The concept sounds overly simplistic and unrevealing, yet the television show, Youn’s Kitchen

APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.T.S. Eliot wrote his poem as April depicting ‘the cruelest month.

During these testing times, it is important to consider what we actually want from those in power. We expect those who govern to do so in the interests of the governed, providing services that can bes

Ewha is now in a period of change, with student and faculty activism stronger than it has been in years. Under these circumstances, one change I strongly advocate is to eliminate the fixed grading cur

There is Muzi a yellow radish wearing a bunny suit and his companion Con a mysterious baby crocodile; Jay-G a groovy mole/secret agent; Frodo a spoiled dog; Apeach a sexy peach; Neo a suave urban cat;

In ancient Greece—the genesis of Western civilization and thinking—the Greek goddess Athena was known to be the securer of “victory.” She also awarded the dealmakers that brought forth victory. In Oresteia, the Greek goddess Athena proclaims, “I admire…the eyes of persuasion.”Viewed from an apolitic

A Korean proverb says, ‘‘Even one word makes you free of debt,’’ and a Western proverb says, ‘‘Mind your Ps(pleases) and Qs(thank you expressions).’’ Bo

At the Graduate School of International Studies we pride ourselves in being a diverse department with faculty and students from around the world. Different people bring different perspectives and opin