This year Ewha marked its 130th anniversary since its foundation in 1886, which began with a single student. She was a concubine of a high government official, and she came to Mrs. Scranton, so that s

The meaning of the word “property” is rooted in the idea of what is proper. If you look up the word in the Merriam-Webster English dictionary, the simple definition is “correct accor

I recently attended the 7th Annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Conference. The conference’s theme was “Corporate Social Responsibility in an Aging Society,” and participant

Young voters in their 20s are seen to have made changes in the 20th general election, in which the governing party lost the parliamentary majority it had held for 16 years. The voting turnout for thos

“Who is your favorite novelist?” If asked, I would answer without a moment of hesitation, “Tolstoy.” I love all of Tolstoy’s novels, even including Resurrection, which ma

In recent years, fears and concerns about safety have been flooding our social network. This feeling of unsafety is due to a series of national crises such as the Sewol ferry incident and the Mers sca

A few years ago, actress Jang Jin-yeong passed away. Jang, who had good looks and was recognized from movies like The Foul King, and Singles, died of gastric cancer.The band Ulala Session’s lead

In 1935, Boeing’s Model 299 test plane took off to show off its grandeur as the “flying fortress” for the US Army Air Corps. It was quite impressive with a hundred-and-three-foot win

A renowned pro-golfer Tiger Woods once said, “There is no achievement without goals.”Clear target dates should be set to create a tensional environment necessary in accomplishing a goal. W

Cultural spaces created by our ancestors often include nature – the waters and the mountains – as their setting. Our ancestors gathered there with people with whom they shared similar tast

My dear young friends at Ewha,It has become our best season, a beautiful autumn with a bountiful array of colors beginning to emerge. Like this season, all of you are in your emerging bountiful prime

I always loved writing, so I dreamed of being a writer and joined a literary club in my school days. I could have studied Korean Literature in college, but I thought it would be better to understand p

On Aug. 14, Abe Shinzo, prime minister of Japan, made a public announcement commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War. In the announcement he mentioned that even though the curr

There is a Confucian proverb that even a little bean can create joy as it is shared among friends. The spirit of sharing and caring in a capitalistic society may be a good solution for the problem of

I went to University of Tennessee College of Social Work in Nashville, United States, as the first foreign professor of the school in 2005. My stay in the States was a time for me to examine my outwar

In your youth, you might have heard the perplexing question, “Who do you like more between mom and dad?” To disappoint the questioner’s anticipative curiosity, a normal kid would hav

I was trained as a psychoanalyst in New York for five years. Psychoanalysis is a system of psychological therapeutic theory founded by Sigmund Freud. He believed that psychoanalysis can cure psychopat

Do we ever forget our first encounters with the city, that first time out in the convulsive, roaring waves of pedestrians on its downtown streets? In my earliest escalator rides in a downtown mall in

Last February, American President Barack Obama’s speech on the medieval Christian crusades reignited a series of hot debates surrounding Christianity and national identity. In the speech, Presid

It was my first day at the university, feeling half excited and half fearful. For a freshman who had just finished high school, this college class starting with a question, “Who do you think own