“Jaeyeon’s Diary” and “Bott Pharm Toon” are cartoons on Instagram which portray their school life at Ewha. Illustrated by Ewha students, these accounts have gained many followers by depicting details of school life and entertaining facets of their personal lives. As their accounts began to gain atte
Last fall, “The Portrait of Edmond Belamy,” an artwork made by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, was sold for $432,500 at a Christie’s auction in New York. The advent of AI that can generate new images has caused the art world to question the definition of an artist. In 2019, a Korean art s
A newly designed graduation gown has been unveiled 106 years after Ewha produced its first graduates in 1914. The renewal project started in 2018 by Professor Park Sun-hee from the Department of Fashion Design. “It was my honor to be given this opportunity,” Park said. “As a graduate and a professor
The school has implemented a new course registration system starting from 2019 winter break courses. The course registration for the 2020 spring semester was the very first semester where all enrolled students used the new system.One of the major changes was allowing students to change their chapel
With the sharp and steady increase of confirmed coronavirus cases, Ewha has decided to run all classes as cyber lectures for two weeks starting from March 16. Not only Ewha, but a total of 179 from 193 four-year course universities have decided delaying the start of the semester, and many will provi
The global threat of COVID-19 has decidedly affected the plans of exchange students and full-time international students managed by the school. According to the Ministry of Education’s 2019 statistics on the number of students in Ewha, 1,743 are registered as full-time international students. For ex
The academic schedule for Spring 2020 has been changed. The start of semester has been delayed for two weeks and starts on March 16, while the end of semester has been delayed for one week and ends on June 26. The February Graduation Ceremony has been cancelled and will be celebrated in unison with
Disheartened by some of the inconveniences of conventional media outlets – political division, sensationalized language and promotional articles – millennials are searching for something new. To quench their thirst for personally curated news which delivers exactly what they are willing to read, mil
Philosophy or people from ancient times thought about how life works since they were made. While inspecting it, they reasoned death, destiny, and god. Is there a certain destiny that we can’t deny? Is there an afterlife? Or the grand question: is there god?When people started asking questions about
Ondo is a fusion Korean traditional music team who dreams of making the world warm through their music. They recently appeared as a candidate representative of Ewha in the second season of Vocal Play, a Korean audition program which uncovers talented university student musicians from all over the wo
Ewha graduate of Department of Decorative Art and design, and the first Korean student to study in Milan, Chang Myung-sook has been working in the fashion industry for 40 years.Starting from October this year, she began posting on YouTube and has become a renowned YouTuber with over 165,000 subscrib
‘How many likes will I get this time?’ I would ask myself every time I post my drawing on Instagram. It has been about one year since I actively used Instagram as a platform to share my art. However, this question, which captured and stressed me out all along, never failed to make me feel uneasy abo
One day, my fourteen-year-old daughter, who grew up mostly in the US tells me my name Heidi is one of the whitest name there is. I laughed.In fact, I had a visceral encounter with this “whiteness” at an international conference. Casually striking a conversation with a German scholar, I told my name
Seoul Metropolitan Government announced an amended “Youth Allowance” policy that will be initiated from 2020. There are two key changes: increasing the number of beneficiaries that can be supported by the policy and providing monthly rental fees for the youth.The requirements for the application and
Three years have passed since the renewal of Ewha 52nd street in 2017. However, the street is filled with for-rent signs and vacant stores. The stores are closed, the signs are off, and the windows are plastered with random flyers and for-lease signs.“It seems like the street is losing its energy mo
Since 1954, Ewha Voice has been the voice of Ewha for 65 years. As 2019 comes to an end, the department looks back on the memorable moments of this year. For the last issue of 2019, Ewha Voice selected some of this year’s most significant events on and off campus. General Student Council holds first
With the increasing use of smartphones, illegal gambling has expanded among adolescents as well as adults. According to the Korean Center on Gambling Problems (KCGP), adolescents who received counseling treatment have tripled in the past three years resulting in 1,028 cases in 2018. In order to solv
The Korean Studies, a major of Ewha Graduate School of International Studies, hosted the first of their series lecture named the Exploration of Korean education and culture on Dec. 5 at ECC. The event was held for students who are desiring to earn a doctorate or master’s degree in relevant academics
Academic Seminar "The Industrial Paradigm Shift and Gender" was co-hosted by Ewha Institute for Gender and Law and ALL Institute for Gender and Law on Dec. 7 at Law Building. The seminar consisted of presentations on three main topics related to gender. Each presentation was followed by a discussion
Ewha Research Institute of Nursing Science held an academic conference on the Enhancement of Nursing Research Competence on Nov. 29 at Helen Hall. The conference mainly discussed a recent study on system guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Welfare for new nurses. Additionally, a research on the