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WHILE THE West is endeavoring to contain the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, Russia is one of the few countries that has not been critical of the terrorist organization. It is somewhat surprising that most of Russia's official statements have lauded the Taliban’s “valiant efforts
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Ahmad Qirrat
2021.10.10 00:15
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FOR THE first time in history, South Korea’s national men’s rugby sevens team participated in this year’s Tokyo Olympics. Though rugby has been present in South Korea for 98 years, it still is an uncommon sport to many Koreans. Last November, nevertheless, the Korean rugby team successfully jumped o
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Shin Soo-min
2021.09.05 01:43
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"LITERATURE IS fundamentally a mystery," says Andrés Felipe Solano, "I do not know where my voice comes from, I write to understand it." Born in Bogota, Colombia, Solano never imagined Seoul to be the place that would allow him to flourish as a writer. In college, Solano majored in literature. He th
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Senior Primo Laura
2021.06.06 00:23
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WITH ICONIC films such as Fist of Fury, Infernal Affairs, and In the Mood for Love, Hong Kong cinema has been an important part of the international film industry since the 20th century. Hong Kong films have always been known to their international audiences for their portrayals of vivid cityscapes,
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Kim Shin-young, Kim Nayoon
2021.05.09 01:04
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CLIMATE ACTION Tracker (CAT) is an independent research project on climate policies conducted by Climate Analysis and NewClimate Institute, who recently criticized South Korea’s carbon neutrality plans as being “highly inefficient.” Despite the government’s vocal stance regarding climate action, the
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Lee Ju-won
2021.04.04 03:56
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SINCE 1950, global plastic production has reached more than 8.3 billion metric tons. Nearly half of this amount was manufactured in the last two decades due to our increasing reliance on petrochemical-heavy single-use plastic [1][2]. According to the United Nations, despite such heavy use of plastic
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Kim Shin-young
2021.04.04 03:47
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YONSEI UNIVERSITY'S College of Engineering celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. The nation’s pioneer in education and research, the college has played a pivotal role in shaping the country’s engineering landscape. For our March issue, we take a look back at the remarkable journey of the colleg
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Park Ji-hun
2021.03.07 17:29
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"WE DON'T search anymore; we Google," says Dr. Bockett, a Yonsei University professor. A search engine that began as an algorithm has become so prevalent that its name is used as a verb synonymous with searching the web. However, Google's dominance never stopped at search engines; today, Google has
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Park Joo-hyun
2020.11.29 03:52
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“WHERE ARE you from?” is an easy question for many, but for Marco Altieri, it is one of the most complicated questions to answer. “A common conversation would begin like this: ‘My dad’s Italian, and my mom’s Malaysian Chinese. But I spent 10 years in China, 4 years in Italy, 2 years in Hong Kong, an
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Kim Shin-young
2020.11.01 19:52
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SHOUTS, HYMNS, and drumming resonated throughout Gwanghwamun Plaza as thousands of protesters marched on the 75th anniversary of the National Liberation Day, Aug. 15, 2020. The area flooded with people waving flags and signs while the police surrounded them restlessly, trying to keep them in check.
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Lee Ju-won, Park Joo-hyun
2020.10.12 13:25
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ON JULY 14, the Ministry of Education (MOE) released the results of its first-ever comprehensive audit of Yonsei University. In a massive 257 page report, the ministry detailed 86 instances of violations uncovered by the auditing task force. The audit was conducted in two phases last year, from July
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Ko Young-gyun
2020.08.31 10:02
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“THIS IS not my body; I have to let it go.” This line from the film The Danish Girl (2015) perfectly captures the sentiment of many transgender people who feel that they are living as the wrong sex. The Danish Girl tells the life of Lili Elbe, a Danish transgender woman in the early 20th century. In the movie, Lili undergoes numerous psychological treatments in an attempt to identify her “problem.” At one point, she is even locked in an asylum against her will. 90 years have passed since Lili died during one of the very first sexual reassignment surgeries; nevertheless, many transgender people
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Kwon Do-in
2020.06.14 07:26
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NTH ROOM’S strategies to ensnare women were simple: texts such as “Your private photos have been leaked on this website, you should check if it is really you,”—or even more innocent ones such as job offers—were sent to several young women. Once the perplexed victims checked the website, criminals extracted their personal information including addresses, telephone numbers, and family and work information, and the cycle of blackmail would begin. This method for horrific digital sexual exploitation along with its scale and abuse of minors brought the Nth room into the limelight—
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Kim Chae-yoon, Kwon Kyu-hee
2020.05.02 02:30
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INSTRUCTIONS TO stay put are systematically announced from the speakers to the cabins. Simultaneously, rows of cars start sliding down to one side of the ship, unable to withstand the water pouring into the cargo area. One of the students in the cabin asks her friends, “Isn’t this the kind of situation when they tell you, ‘Stay put, it’ll be alright,’ but only those who don’t follow the order survive?” It is unknown whether these girls had gotten out of their cabin before it was too late, but 299 passengers on the same ship—Sewol ferry—had lost their lives in the cold waters of Mae
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Noh Ruby
2020.04.04 14:34
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WHEN NEWS reached the residents in Juyeop, Goyang City, that the third confirmed patient of the Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19) had visited the town, people panicked. Everybody started to wear masks and avoid contact with each other at all costs, while nearby businesses scrubbed down every nook and cranny of their stores. For a town always bustling with people going to the nearby shops and hospitals, the subway station being this empty at 7 p.m. on a Wednesday seemed impossible a few months ago. However, as the number of infected people increases worldwide by the day, people have been takin
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Oho Yun-seo
2020.03.13 03:21
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FOR COLLEGE students, the beginning of the spring semester heralds the end of winter. However, Yonsei University and other schools across South Korea have delayed the start of the spring semester from March 2 to 16, an unprecedented emergency measure to contain the spread of COVID-19—the highly infectious new coronavirus that has paralyzed the world. As the Yonsei administration continues to grapple with the emerging health crisis in compliance with a slew of new government regulations, it has become clear that the ramifications for university life will be significant and far-reaching. T
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Ko Young-gyun, Nam Hyun-Jin
2020.03.13 02:31
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COUGHING, FEVER, runny nose—these are symptoms that arise when one starts to feel sick. In December 2019, numbers of such flu-like cases began to rise significantly in Wuhan, a city in China, to which at first glance, it appeared similar to the common cold. However, these cases turned out to be way more serious—within less than a month, Wuhan became the center of an epidemic of the virus identified as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). With rapid transmission amid the lack of information on this completely new virus, COVID-19 poses difficulty for health officials as they struggle
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Kwon Kyu-hee
2020.03.13 02:04
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A MUTATED monster created by formaldehyde illegally disposed into the Han River, a “parasite” family living in the basement of an affluent household after failing their Taiwanese Castella business—Bong Joon-ho’s (Class of ‘88, Dept. of Sociology) films seem to be standing on the line between reality and imagination. The entire world can be a film set for Bong, and it is not uncommon to have wild ideas running in your head after watching Bong’s films. He grapples with the blind spots of our society that we do not or pretend not to know. In an exclusive interview with The Yonsei Annals, Bo
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Jo Beom-su, Lee Chae-wan
2019.12.02 02:57
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INFAMOUS IN the history of Korean criminal cases as one of the “three unsolved cases” in Korea, the 1986 Hwaseong serial murder cases have allegedly reached a breakthrough after 33 years, with Police announcing successful identification of the key suspect on Sep. 19, 2019. Commissioner of the National Police Agency Min Gap-ryong stated in a press conference on October 7, “The investigation records of the case as well as the testimonies of the witnesses are to be thoroughly reviewed once again, and verification of truth will be carried out to uncover what lies behind the incident*.” As the Poli
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Cho Seung-wan, Jo Beom-su
2019.11.02 22:39
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“MAEK JU BA DA FIRST opened in 2011 and we are nearly reaching our tenth anniversary. Back then, beer pubs around Sinchon just solddrinks over the counter, but we wanted to try something new—adding chairs and tables to the equation. At first, our friends and acquaintances tried to stop us, saying that our idea wasn’t so innovative. However, to this day, we have no regrets in starting this business, as many other shops are now following our footsteps. Nowadays we have many young customers who are informed about different types of beer and know how to appreciate the tastes—and we thi
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Yang Soung-hyun
2019.10.06 21:12