Another semester has ended in the blink of an eye. It was full of regret, but I will not regard it as regretful because I have to move on to prepare for summer vacation. How are you going to spend your summer vacation?Last summer vacation, I spent my days full of The Sookmyung Times training. But th

Hello, Sookmyungians. Have you adapted well to the new semester? The spring season is in full bloom, bringing warm sunlight and a pleasant breeze. I think the weather most Sookmyungians enjoy is back. It is the weather most Sookmyungians enjoy. I love this weather, too. Perhaps that's why I feel laz

This is the first 'The Sookmyung Times' of 2021. An unimaginable year has passed, and a new year has begun. How are you planning on spending the school year? Will you be complacent and go along with the status quo or will you show some fresh innovation?Personally, I would love to stay in the previou

Hello Sookmyungians! I don't know how many of you will read this, but it's nice to be able to write to you here. This will be the last letter I compose as editor-in-chief. As such, I would like to share with you my feelings towards The Sookmyung Times.I first learned about SMT through the Everytime

Last year, everything that I was interested in got adjusted. Becoming an adult meant I had to make numerous decisions on my own and take responsibility for any consequences that arose from those decisions. I also had to adapt to a university environment that was new to me. I was worried all the time

Eight months have passed since the first COVID-19 patient in South Korea. In February, many people lined up to buy masks, and Daegu suffered tremendously from the ever-increasing number of infected persons. In April and May, mass infections broke out in Itaewon, and in August, the virus was spread w

Half a year has already passed. While there are still about four months left, I think 'chaos' is the best word that defines this year. With COVID-19, lots of plans have been canceled and changed, and people now cannot imagine life without wearing a mask. Besides the virus, the year has been rocked w

“Don’t feel like putting make-up on my cheeks. Do what I wanna. Love every single part of my body, top to the bottom. I’m not a supermodel from a magazine. I’m okay with not being perfect cause that’s perfect to me.” - Anne Marie, “Perfect to Me” These are part of the lyrics to the song by Anne Mari

I grew up in Nowon, a corner of Seoul. Nowon has seen enormous development and has transformed itself into a wantless district of Seoul, but whenever I think of Nowon with its sea of apartments, I overcome with a feeling of togetherness. In the past, trains rolled into Nowon along railroad tracks, a

For several years now, vintage fashion has been popular, and traditional places like Gyeongju have become hot spots. Following this trend, retro-concept cafés have emerged. Also, the drama series has stirred up viewers’ memories by reenacting the era perfectly. Like these, past memories are

After a long cold winter, spring reminds us that a new semester has started. By now a quarter of the 2020 has passed. Last year, I experienced many new beginnings, but the most important was my joining a proud group of others at Sookmyung. During College Day for the Department of Economics & Busines

“I am not a client, a customer, nor a service user…. I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief…. I’m not a National Insurance Number or blip on a screen… I paid my dues, never a penny short, and proud to do so. I don’t tug the forelock but look my neighbor in the eye and help him if I c

It’s commonly spoken in Korea that stagnant water is bound to become corrupt. While some things that people do or believe such as passion and purity should stay firm, over time, everything changes and to survive those changes, people must adapt. Hearing the words, ‘stagnant water is bound for corrup

Reading global news, it would appear as though society is full of hate, terror, and violence. There does not appear to be any hope. Many cases around the world reflect this reality. Last March in New Zealand, there was a shooting, killing 51 people in a mosque. The assailant targeted Muslims. In Aug

To some Sookmyungians, summer is the time to relax. However, for The Sookmyung Times, summer is a time of ‘training’, which has continued for many years. Every cub reporter is required to write articles for each section of SMT, namely SOCIETY, WOMAN, and CULTURE. After continuous feedback from edito

On April 11, 2019, the Constitutional Court of Korea declared the current law banning abortion during the early part of pregnancy as unconstitutional with the rationale that it violates self-determination. As a result, the decision ended the ban on abortion, which has existed for 66 years. I remembe

Whenever I doubt my work and role as Editor-in-Chief, I watch the movie Spotlight (2015), which covers the story of the spotlight team in The Boston Globe. The team revealed the shocking truth about sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church and started to investigate this triggered by ‘Geoghan C

“I don’t know if you’re doing well, but you are still growing.” My parents used to say this to me whenever I felt distressed about my mistakes. A year ago, I was a mere SMT cub reporter, a first year student who feared making mistakes on my SMT articles and university studies. As a cub reporter, I t

Unfair investigation of illegal filming crimes, discrimination at work, harmful substances in sanitary pads, male raiders at women’s university, hateful comments to actors working on a film based on a feminism novel, and female victims murdered by ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends or other males. The list

French scholar Blaise Pascal once said, “Little things console us because little things afflict us.” This old quote reminds me of the word “sohwakhaeng”. “Sohwakhaeng” means small but certain happiness that people feel in daily life. The word is originated from Murakami Haruki’s essay