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AFTER FOUR months of persistent emails and calls, the College of Music students were finally able to get confirmation from the College of Music Emergency Exigency Committee that practice rooms will once again be opened. Many students considered the administrations’ decision last November to close al
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Kim Da-eun
2021.04.04 14:59
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EVERY YEAR, researchers from 200 nations across the globe produce more than 418,000 collaborative articles under joint research programs. It represents more than 20% of the world's total scientific output. However, South Korea suffers from one of the lowest numbers of international research collabor
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Park Ji-hun
2021.04.04 14:59
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AFTER ITS victory in the 56th General Student Council election held online in November, Switch has come under fire concerning the viability of its policies. It has been a rocky start, even from the election period; A day before the election, the only alternative candidate party, Maker, was unexpecte
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Kim Da-eun
2021.03.07 17:34
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RECOGNIZING THE difficulties students had during their first semester of online learning due to COVID-19, many universities including the Korean National Sports University and Yonsei University implemented a credit abandonment system. The aim was to address students’ concerns over unfair evaluations
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Kim Da-eun
2020.11.30 03:45
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“I NEVER thought that the year 2020 would be this hard for me. I wonder when my time as a chi-jun-saeng* will end.” For Park Hye-min, who graduated from university last year, the search for employment has been anything but easy; new openings are dwindling, and major companies have pushed back their
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Kim Da-eun
2020.11.01 20:16
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THE RECENT general investigation of Yonsei University by the Ministry of Education (MOE) has placed the school’s hiring practices under heavy scrutiny, particularly with regards to the issue of academic inbreeding. Academic inbreeding, a practice by which a university shows favoritism towards its fo
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Ko Young-gyun
2020.10.11 20:17
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WITH THE COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing, Yonsei University has implemented a new “blended learning” system for the fall semester in an effort to partially return students to campus. The fully online experience of the previous semester saw many students struggling to adjust to learning through an un
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Kim Da-eun
2020.08.31 09:33
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CLASSROOMS REMAIN empty. Buildings have been shut down or have had their access restricted, and thermal cameras guard the entrances of whichever facilities are still in use. COVID-19 has fundamentally reshaped university life; the spring semester at Yonsei can best be described as a semester of absence: the absence of normal daily routines, of campus events or regular club activities, and most of all, the absence of the students. Zoom has kept universities functioning, but each online session only serves to emphasize what is missing from this new reality. However, absence does not imply a lack
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Ko Young-gyun
2020.06.14 07:03
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A FLIPPED Classroom (FC) refers to a mixed education model combining online learning at home with more practical activities in the classroom. FC learning has caught the attention of educators around the world for its potential to reshape traditional classroom experience for students. Since first implementing them in 2015, Yonsei University has provided over 300 FC courses on roughly 20 majors. So what does it mean to “flip” a class and how is it changing the way we learn at school? Origin of flipped classrooms** Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, the two chemistry teachers of Colorado’s Woodlan
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Mun Su-hyeon
2020.04.04 15:15
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“HOW DO you put an elephant in a refrigerator?” Ask this question to a university student in South Korea and some students will respond with: “If you are a professor, just ask your graduate students to do it for you.” For Koreans pursuing higher degrees, this sarcastic punchline has become emblematic of the country’s problematic culture of hierarchal professor-student relationships. To what extent are these claims valid, and how has the environment in which students find themselves contributed to such negative perceptions of professors? Gap-eul relationship Graduate students pursue the highest
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Nam Hyun-jin
2019.12.02 02:07
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IN A span of an hour, Professor Lew Seok-choon (Prof., Dept. of Sociology) spoke the words that quickly propelled him to an unexpected national infamy. On September 19, during a Development Sociology class, Professor Lew gave a lecture in which he claimed that “comfort women are a subset of prostitutes.” Later, when challenged on his view during the questioning period, he replied to the female student by asking back, much to the surprise of the students, if she would “give it a try [to find out for herself].” While the professor later attempted to absolve himself by insisting that he was refer
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Ko Young-gyun
2019.11.02 23:19
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“CONGRATULATIONS, WE are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Yonsei University starting Spring Semester.” An acceptance letter holds special meanings for every newly-admitted college student, but especially for transfer students who have left the familiar confines of their previous university to strive for more prestigious education. With high hopes of starting anew, transfer students strive to be integrated into new environments and lifestyles. As a newly admitted transfer student myself, I have personally encountered the difficulties that result from the lack of awareness of
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Nam Hyun-jin
2019.09.03 23:50
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“I’VE BEEN longing to study in Korea for years, and I finally got the opportunity to do it,” said Trinity Wood (Fresh., Global Basic Education Division), an American student who applied to study Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University during the spring semester. Without her knowledge, however, she was suddenly placed under a completely different department called the Global Basic Education Division (GBED) and charged double the tuition fee that was specified in the admissions guidebook. Starting this semester, all incoming international students, like Wood, belong to GBED for their
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Park Jae-ha
2019.06.02 23:57
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“THE MORE I studied my course, the more I felt that I was less likely to be employed once I graduated,” said Hwang Jin-hyun, a Yonsei alumnus of the Department of Philosophy. Despite studying a subject often referred to as liberal arts, he currently has an office job at Seoul Metro. Even at a surface level, his career path does not reflect his studies. “Though I chose philosophy because I enjoyed it, I now regret that decision quite a bit.” Today, liberal arts students illustrate this dire situation with the phrase “sorry for majoring in liberal arts,” which is more popularly known as moon son
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Park Jae-ha
2019.04.04 01:23
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“ONE UNIVERSITY, multi campus.” Made by the President of Yonsei University, Kim Yong-hak, on September 27, this statement has since sparked an ongoing debate among the student body across the entire university. The contentious remark has called forth deliberations of a possible unification of Yonsei’s Sinchon campus with the Wonju campus, a thought that has further instigated arguments both within and outside the university among students and the public. How it all beganThe problem first rose to surface when the Wonju campus of Yonsei University was enlisted as one of the “ability strengthenin
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Lee C.W, Lee S.J, Shin Y.S
2018.10.09 17:50
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IT WAS as if the heavens were falling apart. An ominous cluster of thick rain clouds eclipsed the bright blue of the midday and covered the skies with a layer of gloomy gray. Incessant streaks of lightening and roaring thunder hurled the day. Pouring rain soon became minatory hails, drumming and bashing all over. At 12:24 p.m., a warning siren went off at the Education Sciences Hall of Yonsei University, indicating the danger of menacing lightning strikes. On the same day at 1:02 p.m., two students were trapped in the elevator on the fifth floor of the very same building. May 3, 2018, was an u
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Han Hee-ho, Song Min-sun
2018.06.04 12:17
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“DEFINITE YONSEI—proud overdose, I felt like I was back to my freshman year.” This is a comment made by Lee Jae-hyun (Jr., UIC, Dept. of Quantitative Risk Management) after watching the movie 1987: When the Day Comes. Unexplainable pride emerges while watching the smog-filled Yonsei campus on screen, the scenes depicting the resistant crowd, and, of course, Lee Han-yeol: one of the most notable martyrs of democracy in Korea. However, with pride comes shock. We are not familiar with Yonsei then, in 1987, because we have only heard and never seen. We take the polished, dust-free Baekyang-r
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Song Min-sun
2018.03.15 18:13
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ON-CAMPUS jobs are an attractive option to consider for university students who are busy with schoolwork yet eager to earn pocket money. These jobs are especially convenient for students not only because the work sites are close to lecture halls, but also because the pay is generally above minimum wage. However, students have voiced concerns regarding the partiality of the recruitment process. That is, a substantial number of students get on-campus jobs through connections and informal recruitments. What are Student Employee Scholarships criticized for? Student employee scholarships (geun ro j
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Lee Seung-yeon
2017.11.12 21:48
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IN JULY, the UIC Student Congress held a meeting to discuss whether to create a permanent seat for an international student representative. The proposal was voted out, but the President of the 12th Student Council, Kim Min-suk (Jr., UIC, Political Science and Int’l Relations) decided to raise this agenda again in the General Student Assembly, which convened on September 6. Under-representation of international students in an international college As the current president of the Student Council, Kim Min-suk notes, many people are concerned that there is not enough representation for internation
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Lee Ha-yun
2017.10.16 01:55
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THE ‘BLIND screening’ system is a new hiring policy for public sectors to ensure equality among applicants. It prohibits candidates from writing down any qualifications that are subject to discrimination, such as their birthplaces, their school names and their physical attributes on their applications. During a meeting with his secretaries on June 22, President Moon Jae-in said that employers must not demand any personal information from employees in the hiring process, unless the job specifically requires a certain level of education or physical ability. The policy will be implemented some ti
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Han Hee-ho
2017.09.03 16:55