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IN RECENT years, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has emerged as a major trend in both the private and public sectors. With many cases demonstrating a link between adherence to ESG and greater organizational performance, universities worldwide have been scrambling to embrace such principl
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Yoo Ji-whang
2023.12.05 09:48
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YONSEI UNIVERSITY requires all Yonsei students to take an Understanding of Christianity class from the common curriculum and four semesters of Chapel class. To non-Christians, history and tradition may not be enough of an explanation for why these courses are mandated. In contrast, believers find th
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Shin Hye-yoon
2023.10.10 21:58
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RECENTLY, IT was revealed that within the last four years, over 60% of newly-admitted students to Seoul National, Korea, and Yonsei universities had taken gap years. Gap years, referred to as jae-soo in Korean, are normally undertaken by students to retake the university entrance exam. Likewise, the
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Yoo Ji-whang
2023.06.08 00:28
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THE CAMPUS that most people would associate with Yonsei University is located in Sinchon, Seoul and boasts a rich history of 137 years. Yonsei also operates another campus in Wonju, Gangwon-do officially called “Mirae Campus.” Despite being a branch campus, it offers a variety of departments and pro
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Kim Min-ju
2023.05.04 12:23
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ONE OF the few housing options available to university students who live outside of Seoul is the school dormitory. While it is not expected to be the most luxurious of residences, there is still a minimum standard of quality that should reflect its fees. A recent incident, however, involving a leaki
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Kim Min-ju
2023.03.07 21:30
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SEARCHING FOR accommodations is a process that many university students undergo before or even during the school semester—especially for those without preexisting homes in Korea such as foreigners and overseas Koreans. Convenience is a significant factor for students who opt to live near their unive
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Joo Da-hae
2022.10.05 15:30
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CONFLICT REVOLVING around the labor union of Yonsei University has reached an all-time high with the involvement of several students. The situation mainly stems from the series of demonstrations and campus-wide strikes that occurred during the latter-half of the 2022 spring semester. Unionized labor
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Joo Da-hae
2022.09.03 13:20
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A RECURRING issue faced by Yonsei University’s student body is the unstable nature of its student councils. Such instability is a corollary of students’ lack of interest in school elections. Occupied with schoolwork, internships, part-time jobs or extracurricular activities, students fail to vote du
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Joo Da-hae
2022.05.06 22:03
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MONEY IS a sensitive topic as it touches upon multi-layered conflicts that we commonly suffer but struggle to openly discuss about. This is especially the case for university students who are now given more freedom in life compared to their teenage years. During this transitional period, students ar
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Jin Yu-jin
2022.04.03 12:04
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FOR THE past ten years, Yonsei University has paid billions in fines due to their non-compliance with the South Korean government’s disabled person employment requirements. In light of the school’s avoidance of responsibilities, many emphasize Yonsei’s vision of “pursuing social inclusion and servin
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Joo Da-hae & Jung So-jin
2022.03.06 16:54
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ON MAY 5, instructors of Yonsei University’s Korean Language Institute (KLI) rallied in front of the main administrative building in protest demanding higher wages and longer working hours. Attempting to draw public attention to the issue, the instructors held up signs stating, “Thirty years of serv
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Jin Yu-jin & Park Ji-hun
2021.09.02 11:30
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YONSEI UNIVERSITY’S former General Female Student Council, PRISM is embroiled in an on-going struggle with the acting General Student Council, MATE. The source of conflict is a disagreement over the use of conference room 324 in the Student Union building. Once used as the office of the General Female Student Council prior to its abolition in January, 2019, room 324 has continued to be used by PRISM to conduct activities in spite of increasing disapproval from MATE. The situation reached a breaking point when MATE, unbeknownst to PRISM, installed a lock on the door of the room barring all entr
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Nam Hyun-jin
2020.05.01 23:50
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ON OCT. 1, 2019, Yonsei students gathered outside the Student Union Building in a public display of mourning. What was unusual about this event was that the students were not mourning for an actual person, but rather for the “death of the Spirit of Yonsei.” Attendants strongly opposed Yonsei University’s decision to relegate its newest course, “The Spirit of Yonsei and Human Rights,” from a required course to an elective. Despite its significance as the first comprehensive human rights course in Yonsei history, the new lecture has endured harsh criticism from a number of outside parties, inclu
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Ko Young-kyun, Park Jae-ha
2019.12.02 01:59
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FREEDOM AND time to explore are a few of the greatest expectations held by students for their college experiences. However, balancing between school, work, relationships, job prospects, and one’s personal interests has proven to be a difficult task for many university students. Overwhelmed by social expectations and a limited time frame, many students require more than the compulsory four years of university to fully prepare for graduation and go out into the world. As a result, South Korean university students are taking leaves of absence at an exponential rate, but often for reasons beyond p
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Nam Hyun-jin
2019.10.06 20:15
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“IF YOU have resided for more than six months in the Republic of Korea, you will be mandatorily subscribed to the National Health Insurance (NHI) of Korea from July 16, 2019.” This is an excerpt from the letter that the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), sent to all registered foreigners on May 15, 2019. This sudden notice affected all foreign nationals residing in Korea, including international students who have already been required to pay for insurance to their Korean universities. Though the government has been planning to imp
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Park Jae-ha
2019.09.04 00:30
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AFTER A schoolwide referendum on Jan. 7, 2019, the General Female Student Council (hereby the Female Council), was effectively abolished and a substituting organization, the Sexual Abuse Response Committee (hereby the Sexual Abuse Committee) was established. However, almost four months later now, the Sexual Abuse Committee is yet to be organized. Its absence left the students in confusion as they were not informed of the organization’s duties and responsibilities. To shed light on the situation, The Yonsei Annals interviewed various members of the Yonsei community to take a deeper look into th
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Park Jae-ha, Yang Ji-weon
2019.05.07 12:02
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“SINCE NOVEMBER, my life has been on standby...everything has been so unsure,” said Lecturer Lee*, a lecturer at Yonsei University in an interview with The Yonsei Annals. After teaching at Yonsei for more than ten years, she has been told that her job will not be guaranteed in the following semester. “I feel like I’m being punished. I’ve given my time and efforts to this school, but nobody seems to care,” lamented Lecturer Lee. Her story is not just of an individual, but of a group of lecturers. Ironically, the uncertainty they now face is all because of the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s newly
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Go Hyun-jin; Yang Ji-weon
2019.04.04 01:14
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, global engagement and empowerment—these are terms that may seem unfamiliar and inaccessible to many students. Yet, they are also “the pathway to the future we want for all” that offer “a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance,” as stated by Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), during the G20 Working Dinner in 2013. Understanding the importance of sustainable growth, Yonsei University is working in harmony with its professors and student body to make s
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Kim Min-seo, Song Min-sun
2018.10.02 23:56
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“PASSION PAY.” A newly coined term that perfectly reflects the reality of student internships in Korea. The neologism, often used by young job seekers, refers to the unfortunate reality that interns are expected to be “passionate” enough to endure poor treatment, namely underpayment. Desperate job seekers tolerate low wages in hopes that such passion could lead to high prospects for decent jobs. University students are especially placed in a vulnerable position because student internships in Korea are often tied to both the corporation and the university. These student internships generally ta
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Kwon Young-sau
2018.09.02 11:35
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“ME TOO.” Two simple words adjoined to become a strong unanimous voice standing against sexual harassment and assault. What first started out on one platform—Twitter—has now become a viral hashtag on all forms of social media, with both celebrities and non-celebrities using this phrase to share their stories and spread awareness on the prevalence of sexual violence in societies all over the world. Awakened by the allegations of sexual misconduct against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, this movement has engulfed the United States since October 2017. Since then, the movement
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Han Hee-ho, Kwon Young-sau
2018.04.09 17:23