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“WE STRONGLY demand the following: One, a public apology and legal restitution to the victims of the Japanese military sexual slavery by the Japanese government; Two, an immediate dismissal of the ‘Reconciliation and Remedy Foundation,’ an erroneous product of the ‘comfort women’ agreement between the South Korean and Japanese governments in 2015, which has completely muted the demands of the victims.” On March 21, a demonstration was held at the Student Union Building by Yonsei Nabi to voice the continual injustice experienced by sexual slavery victims for the Japanese imperial army, also kno
Campus Insider
Kim Min-seo, Song Min-sun
2018.05.07 22:01
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DISCREETLY TUCKED away in a corridor on the third floor of the Student Union Building is a wooden door that mysteriously beckons your attention. In contrast to the modern, metal doors on the same floor, it flaunts a uniquely vintage style with its low, timber doorframe. The entrance renders a dreamy impression, as if it leads to another realm. As dramatic as this may sound, this door does, in fact, lead you to a different world—a mellifluous one filled with classical music. Officially called the Classical Music Listening Room, this snug space in Room 314 of the Student Union Building is
Campus Insider
Kwon Young-sau
2018.05.07 21:47
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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
Campus Issue
Han Hee-ho, Kwon Young-sau
2018.04.09 17:23
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IF YOU have ever walked into the Yonsei-Samsung Library, you must have wondered at least once, “what is this wide space full of colorful chairs, whiteboards and a big TV screen?” That, dear Yonseians, is the Y-Valley: a place where you can explore creativity and freedom in order to turn ideas into reality. The Y-Valley has been a mystery for many students, with its novel introduction leaving many to wonder what its true purposes and uses are. The Yonsei Annals has therefore decided to investigate this mysterious space: this article will unravel details about the Y-Valley that we have obtained
Campus Issue
Kim Min-seo
2018.04.09 16:12
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THE BOX-OFFICE success of the movie 1987: When the Day Comes has naturally led to an increased interest in Lee Han-yeol, the June Democracy Movement, and Yonsei University. Shortly following this cinematographic triumph, Yonsei University publicly confirmed on Jan. 22, 2018 that it would be establishing an official commemorative organization for Lee Han-yeol, named the Lee Han-yeol Korea Democracy Foundation. The unexpected yet welcome resurgence of Lee Han-yeol Released on Dec. 27, 2017, 1987 is a movie that vividly depicts the events that acted as catalysts to the 1987 June Democracy Movemen
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Kwon Young-sau
2018.03.15 18:51
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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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IN THE first-floor lobby of the Underwood Hall, red and white leaflets of all sizes—handwritten and printed—are pasted across the walls. Shopping bags stuffed with personal possessions lie about here and there. Silver picnic mats carpet the floor, serving as a sitting area for a group of people in red vests. These are the cleaning laborers of Yonsei University and the union members from the western Seoul chapter of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union (KPTU). They have commenced an indefinite sit-down strike in the Underwood Hall lobby since Jan. 16, protesting ag
Campus Issue
Kim Min-seo, Kwon Young-sau
2018.03.14 17:36
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ON OCT. 15, the school finished reconstructing the Daewoo Annex Hall, which began in July, in order to make it into a new nest of the Underwood International College (UIC). The faculty members are expected to move into the new building at the end of the year. By the beginning of next semester in March 2018, entire UIC classes and student entities will have moved into the building.With the relocation, UIC has finally secured an independent building for the first time, ever since it gained its status as a college in 2007. Until this semester, the lecture rooms and professors’ offices were scatte
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Kim Min-seo, Han Hee-ho
2017.11.12 21:59
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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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“PLEASE LET me sleep. There was no loud singing before the beginning of fall semester. But the hollers and cries are driving me crazy every night,” an unnamed resident of Haemoro Worldview apartment reported on Yonsei Bamboo Forest, a Facebook page in which people share their opinions anonymously. Since the establishment of YIC in Songdo, noise pollution has emerged as a significant problem. Nearby apartment residents have protested that students are making too much noise well past midnight. There have also been complaints about students entering apartment complexes without permission, urinati
RC Special
Han Hee-ho, Peisi Ye
2017.11.12 21:35
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IN THE democratic Korea, monarchy resides where the emperor has the absolute power over its citizens. In Korean universities, where scholars should be freely exploring their academic passions, many graduate students are muted, and are often subjected to abusive power. For decades, graduate students had to bear through their professors’ mistreatments as well as abuse of power in order to graduate and continue their career in academia. The term gap-jil is used to demonstrate the professor’s abuse of power upon students, and only recently did this issue begin to gain more attention. On July 13, a
Campus Issue
Kim Bo-dam, Kim Kyu-eun
2017.10.17 21:42
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE is a topic commonly perceived as “taboo.” Even at Yonsei, one of South Korea’s most liberal universities, it is a topic not widely discussed. However, that does not mean that sexual violence is not prevalent at our campus. Sometimes, posters are openly displayed in front of the Central Library accusing other students of sexual violence. There have even been a number of cases of verbal sexual harassment on Kakaotalk. These occurrences are by no means isolated incidents. In fact, according to a survey conducted by The Yonsei Annals, 16.3% of Yonsei students have reported being se
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Lee Seung-yeon
2017.10.16 02:32
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ACCORDING TO a study by the Korea Higher Education Research Institute (KHEI), there are approximately 26,000 university students in Seoul who come from outside the capital. However, the average acceptance rate for the dormitories in these universities is only 13.5%. Because of this, many students have no choice but to find off-campus housing. Unfortunately, these housing options can often be inadequate, as about 138,000 students, both from and outside of Seoul, live in areas that fail to reach a minimum living standard. What is Jip-bo-sem?“Most of the housing policies are provided for newly ma
Campus Insider
Kim Min-seo
2017.10.16 02:11
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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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THIS YEAR, the Residential College (RC) Board of Education Committee pushed ahead amendments to the dormitory regulations without any consultation with the student body. During this process, RC students were not only deprived of the opportunity to express their opinions on the change, but also not officially informed of the reasons why such revisions were made. This one-way communication between the RC Board of Education Committee and the students is a serious problem as it silences the voice of the student body.For the year of 2017, the RC Board of Education Committee has made the following f
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Kim Min-seo
2017.09.03 22:40
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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
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IN SEPTEMBER, Yonsei University’s musical club Rothems, will feature Pi-mat-gol Yeon-ga, the first barrier-free musical on campus put together by currently active members of the club. By providing subtitles and audio explanations for the disabled, the club aims to make its musical more accessible for those who cannot see or hear. Such endeavor is indeed a groundbreaking achievement in Yonsei’s history. What does it mean to be “barrier-free”? Barrier-free arts refer to exhibitions, performances, and other cultural opportunities that are accessible to disabled people. For instance, a barrier-fre
Campus Issue
Lee Seung-yeon
2017.09.03 16:46
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THREE. AMONGST 424 universities in Korea, only three universities, Sahmyook University, Dongguk University and Seoul National University (SNU) provide a vegetarian menu in their university cafeteria. While Sahmyook University, as a Seventh-day Adventist institution, and Dongguk University, as a Buddhist University, provide a vegetarian option autonomously, SNU adopted the vegetarian menu as a result of hard-fought student activism. The SNU vegetarian student club *Kong-pat*, formed in 2009, endeavored to incorporate vegetarian menu into university cafeterias by conducting student surveys and p
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Lee Ha-yun
2017.08.25 22:39
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THE BURDEN of university costs includes not only the high price of tuition but also admission fees. But what is an admission fee? What does it cover? When students are accepted into a university, they have to pay a onetime fee for being admitted into the university. However, universities in Korea do not disclose the fee structure for the admission fees. In fact, they don’t even manage the fees separately from tuition fees. Costing an extra ₩1,030,000, the admission fee is a financial burden for most students. Not knowing what the fee is used for or how it is managed frustrates students n
Campus Issue
Jeong Hong-bin
2016.12.12 11:24
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JUST WHEN you thought school fees were expensive enough, the high prices of dormitories make your financial burden even greater. In both private and public universities across the country, students face not only high expenses of dorms but also unfair terms and conditions of residing in a dormitory that lead to excessive penalty charges and nonrefundable fees. In fact, Yonsei University records the highest prices for both single and double rooms, above all other public and private universities in South Korea. It is even mandatory for first year students to live in dorms and pay for them unless
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Jeong Hong-bin
2016.11.08 15:50