Let’s face it – we’re not used to dealing with international affairs. Or, at least a large proportion of us are. For a typical Korean student who was born, raised, and educated in this country, “Foreign affairs” stays in its vaguely alien space where you’ve read that it’s a big problem, you’ve heard

Hello, I am an undergraduate of Ewha Womans University studying English. Since the major will greatly influence my future, I chose what I like the most as my major. Consequently, I am always very delighted to hear lectures, participating in diverse programs exist in my disciplines. In other words, I

Ewha Voice, the school’s official bi-weekly English newspaper which first published in 1954, celebrated its 65th anniversary on Nov. 16 at the LG Convention Hall. Ewha Voice holds homecoming events every five years to welcome back former members and share recent developments concerning the newspaper

One early morning, I saw a person putting on makeup standing in a very crowded subway. I often saw people putting on makeup while seated on public transportation, but it was the first time to see someone doing so on feet. My first response in thought was admiration of the skill. My second thought ra

Side-effects of aging society and the rising threat of micro-dust, conditions of skincare are shifting from mere visual betterment to skin health.Shin Ho-jeong, a graduate of Ewha Division of Nursing and Kyung Hee University Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, published a book, “Herbs, Imb

On Nov. 22, the Central Election Administration Commission announced that Emotion was elected as the 52nd General Student Council. Oh Hee-ah, a junior majoring in Chemistry & Nanoscience, was elected president and Kim Hyo-min, a sophomore majoring in Korean Language Education, vice president.The ele

The Korean novel “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982” has been translated in 17 different countries. This story portrays the discrimination and micro-aggressions Korean women experience throughout their lives. Such interest in this book proves how the story carries issues of women around the world that they ca

In the past 10 years, the number of women living alone has increased along with crimes targeted towards them. For example, in October, a 20-year-old man was arrested for breaking into two apartments, both of which targeted women living alone in Gangnam. Based on 2019 statistics released by the Seoul

In September, Oxford University Press published a book written by Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies professor, Thomas Kalinowski. The book, “Why International Cooperation is Failing: How the Clash of Capitalisms Undermines the Regulation of Finance,” sheds light on the

In Korea, approximately 10 million animals are abandoned by their owners every year despite the growing interest in owning one. Although 70 percent of sheltered animals are adopted, half of them become ownerless again. Social enterprises which found this problematic have been working to support anim

Digital detox, which is also known as digital minimalism, refers to voluntary abstinence one attempts from their digital devices and social media. The movement represents millennials’ sense of desperation to separate themselves from their phone, with #digitaldetox on Instagram or other pledges on li

What is your body made of? Your body is made of skin tissues, bones, blood, fat, and more. You need nutrition to maintain your body. Your body needs to be healthy or else you might not be able to normally survive LIFE. So, everybody knows that your body is important. Without bodies, we cannot live a

Have you ever wondered about what the purpose of life is? This is a question that has been on my mind for as long as I can remember. From the day we start elementary school or, perhaps even earlier, we are told to work for the highest grades and attend the best universities. After that is done, we s

Cho Hae-jin, writer and alumna of Ewha, is famous for her novel “Happiness of a Walker,” which won the Lee Hyo-seok Literature Award in 2016. Cho earned both a bachelor’s degree in the Department of Education and a master's degree in the Department of Korean Language & Literature in Ewha. She starte

Dedicated solely to queer feminism, Oomzicc is an independent publishing company that took its first step in 2015 with just two members, co-chief editors Roh Yu-da and Na Naz-zam. They started to publish books independently on this specific topic because of the limitations they had experienced while

With the development of technology, reading culture has changed in modern society. The governmental survey conducted in 2018 showed that four out of ten Korean adults do not read any books throughout the year. Hence, attempts to revitalize the reading culture new approaches are in progress both offl

Divorce is still a controversial topic in Korea and Cho In-sup, a divorce lawyer at Law firm Shinsegaelaw, is breaking the divorce taboo in Korea with comics on social media. Cho is an Ewha alumnae who graduated from the Department of Law in 1999 spreading a message online that divorce is one of the

The 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (SBAU), an international academic conference on cities and architecture, opened from Sept. 7 to Nov. 10. With the very first SBAU held in 2017, this is the second year to hold the conference in which Ewha students have also taken part.The theme of

To facilitate collaborative research among different disciplines within Ewha, Office of Research organized Ewha Research Convergence Forum for the second time on Oct. 30 in Pfeiffer Hall. The event included the opening address of Vice President for Office of Research Bahn Hyo-kyeong and welcome spee