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THE TERM “Kindergarten” literally translates to “children’s garden,” reflecting Friedrich Fr?bel’s sentiment that these preschool institutions should nurture and take care of children like plants in a garden. But recent media exposure of child abuse cases in childcare centers in South Korea suggests nothing other than the contrary. Repeated occurrences of child abuse in childcare facilities have come to turn the kindergarten into a place of fear for many.Child abuse in Korea The appalling child abuse cases that occurred in a national public childcare facility located in Busan and the Sejong Go
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Jung Ji-won
2013.07.25 22:51
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THE HUMAN heart is perhaps an eternally unsolvable mystery, but the job of a psychiatric counselor is to delve deep into this enigma and heal the hurt that lurks inside. Although on the surface this appears to describe what psychiatric counselors do, in fact, the job entails much more. Through the employment of specific methods, psychiatric counselors work to reveal the entanglements of a person’s psychology.Choi Myung-ki(Psychiatrist, M.D., Cheongdam Harvard Psychology Center)Annals: What do psychiatric counselors do?Choi: Psychiatric counselors aim to soothe and console the advisee. Counsele
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Jung Ji-won
2013.07.25 22:47
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POVERTY IS society’s chronic disease. Once dragged in, it is nearly inescapable. And this is especially true in South Korea. Recent news reports that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Korea’s
Society
Jung Ji-won
2013.05.19 13:38
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The Yonsei International Campus has seen many changes since last semester. With the advent of a new semester, YIC too has undergone transformations such as additional shuttle services, erection of new
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Jung Ji-won
2013.04.03 20:55
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PERHAPS IT is time for our society to consider more seriously the true meaning behind the term ‘noblesse oblige’. Privilege entails responsibility, and the affluent too are responsible for doing what
Society
Jung Ji-won
2013.04.02 20:41
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FREEDOM COMES at a price. A luxury so coveted, freedom in South Korea for North Korean defectors is not without strings attached. Faced with a new world so vastly different from the one that they have
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Jung Ji-won
2013.03.02 12:26