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TODAY, THE Yonsei Annals and the Yonsei Chunchu are shadows of their past selves. For one, its readership has significantly decreased. In a recent poll in 2015, only 22% of students reported having read a student newspaper distributed within the campus, indicative of the diminishing impact of the pr
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Park Ji-hun
2021.05.09 01:20
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IT HAS almost been two decades since New Songdo City Development began shaping Songdo’s basic infrastructures[1]. Songdo was destined to be the posterchild of South Korea’s globalization and urbanization efforts. As Korea’s first Free Economic Zone (FEZ), the city hosts several UN-affiliated interna
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Kim Da-eun
2021.05.09 01:05
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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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LET’S VLOOK is a startup by Yonsei Alumni Kim Ji-young (Sr., Dept. of Clothing & Textile) that aims to expand the market of slow fashion, a new social trend created to tackle the current environmental problem caused by the fast fashion industry’s massive production and the consequent waste of clothe
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Kim Daeun
2021.04.04 14:55
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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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OVER THE years, students at Yonsei have complained often about deficiencies in the university, ranging from academics to student services. The grumblings of dissatisfaction have only grown louder during the current pandemic. For most students, these problems are inevitable, if frustrating, part of t
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Ko Young-gyun
2020.11.01 20:10
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COVID-19 HAS changed people’s lives in countless ways; however, not all of these changes have been for the worse. The unprecedented halt in global commercial activity brought about by the pandemic has drastically reduced pollution levels around the world. Data shows that the United States has seen a
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Kim Da-eun
2020.10.11 20:18
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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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YONSEI UNIVERSITY’S Innovative Center for Teaching and Learning (ICTL) has provided its eagle tutoring service to undergraduates since 2003. The program aims to help students deepen their understanding of specific course material and perform better in their classes. However, despite its long history
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Mun Su-hyeon
2020.08.31 09:36
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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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SCIENCE FACTORY (SF@Y) is a research program conducted by the Institute of Basic Science for Nanomedicine (IBS CNM) for undergraduate students at Yonsei University. As part of South Korea’s “Nobel Prize project,” IBS CNM dedicates itself to developing cutting-edge nanomaterials and nanodevices to monitor various biological phenomena. The center established SF@Y last year as a way to foster promising young researchers who are passionate about science. Undergraduates from any major are eligible to apply, making it a unique opportunity for students to develop and carry out a full-fledged research
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Mun Su-hyeon
2020.06.14 07:12
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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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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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WRITING PAPERS is part and parcel of attending college. Depending on the course load, it can transcend any given assignment to become almost a state of being. Many are the nights where haggard looking students nursing a budding caffeine addiction can be found slumped in some remote corner of a cafe or library. However, for the undergraduate student, there is one paper in the face of which the rest can only pale in comparison: the senior thesis. But for all that its reputation precedes it, what is the experience of writing one actually like, and how can it benefit the students willing to underg
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Ko Young-gyun
2020.04.04 15:34
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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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AN IMMENSE structure rests atop its perch overlooking the Sinchon Athletic Field, gleaming in the light of the midday sun. Its curved facade and grand vertical louvers resemble the outstretched wing of a soaring eagle. The ambitious architectural design reflects the groundbreaking work being done within, for this building is none other than Institute for Basic Science Center for Nanomedicine (IBS CNM) at Yonsei University. This establishment is one of 30 research centers affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS)** which has often been referred to as South Korea’s “Nobel Prize proje
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Mun Su-hyeon
2020.03.13 00:04
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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