On August 13, orientation, campus tour and welcome party were held for students who participated in ‘Summer School on Korean Language and Culture 2009’ At P.M. 2:00 in 505 of Centennial Ha...

From August 1 to 2, 2009, the 5th S Leadership Youth Camp was held in the Samsung Convention Center, the 5th floor lecture rooms in Centennial Hall and the dormitory. S Leadership Youth Camp has...

On April 30, 2009, in room B101 in the Veritas building, Natasha Trethewey gave a lecture on the subject of ‘Poetry and History—Insights into Native Guard.’ The lecture was held in p

From May 6 to May 19, the 8th Sookmyung Debating Contest was held, which was sponsored by the SMUCommunication Development Center. According to the Communication Development Center, theSookmyung Debat

On May 11, 2009 a special lecture was given by Hyo-eun Kim of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ambassador for Climate Change and the writer of ‘A Diplomat is a National Multiplayer.&rs

From May 13 to 15, 2009 SMU’s semester festival, Cheong-pa-je was held. During the festival, programs sponsored by CHANGE, the 41st student government were held in the crossroads in front of Que

On March 7, 2009, Parliament Chairman Kim Hyong-Oh‘s invitation lecture was held in the Han Sang-Eun Lounge in Centennial Hall. His talk, based on his inquiry into the country in the course of h

On April 20, 2009, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology selected Korean universities and colleges which had obtained excellent results in education, and announced that these universities

From March 27 to 28, 2009, in Centennial Hall, a Leadership Workshop for Sookmyungians was held. The workshop took place over two days, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.. The event was limited to 40 people and in...

On March 26, ‘Style Orientation’, sponsored by VOGUE GIRL, was held in theSamsungConvention Centerin Centennial Hall. More than one hundred students participated in this...

On April 2, 2009, in the Samsung Convention Center in Centennial Hall, a ‘Visit Sookmyung Women’s University (SMU) Day’ was held from 2p.m. This event was organized to introduce SMU&

On March 26, Sookmyung Women’s University (SMU) presented a "Concert for freshmen" performed by the Sookmyung String Ensemble. All performances were held on the first floor of the Sookmyung Women’s University Main Library. The Sookmyung String Ensemble belongs to SMU College of Music and consists of students who major in string instruments. The program consisted of two parts, a string ensemble and a cello ensemble. First, W.A. Mozart’s Serenade ‘Eine Klene Nachtmusik’ was performed and then J. Pachelbel’s ‘Canon and Gigue’ followed. According to the conductor, Chae Hui Cheol, who is a professor at SMU’s College of Music, “Considering the audience is freshmen, we selected music which is bright and cheerful. We wanted to give a present to freshmen.” After the string ensemble, the cello ensemble took over and the concert ran for about one hour. Lee So Jung, of the Department of Multimedia, said “I studied hard to enter university so I’ve never had the experience of going to any concert. However, the concert in the library provided a relaxed atmosphere and through listening to music I could relieve my mind.” It attracted public interest. Not only freshmen but other students who were studying on other floors, graduates and professors, all together enjoyed the musical performance...

On April 4, 14th regular invitation lecture – ‘My life, my literature’ was held in Gemma Hall from A.M. 11:00 to A.M.12:40. This lecture which is held regularly is supervised by Comm

On March 29, 2009 from P.M. 4:30 the first English public reading: ‘English Public Reading with President’ was held at the Study Lounge situated in the 1st floor of Sookmyung Women’s

On March 4, the ‘English Reading Garden’ was opened on the 1st floor of Sookmyung Women’s University Library. The first floor is easy to access and has a comfortable atmosphere so the library selected this place to give Sookmyungians a chance to read books and feel refreshed, according to a library official...

From 4 to 5 March, 2009, Sookmyung Women’s University’s (SMU) the first ‘Haeoreum Festival’ was held. This ‘Haeoreum Festival’ was as the ...

In the first semester of 2009, the 7th cultural subject, History and Culture Liberal Arts, has just been established. This new cultural subject is part of President Young Sil Han’s pledge to...

On March 13, in the Hansangeun Lounge situated on the 7th floor of Centennial Hall, a ‘Welcome Party’ for foreign students who have come to SMU as exchange students was held. This party wa...

On March 3, 2009, on the 2nd floor of theSamsungCenterin Centennial Hall, a presentation for the international exchange program for the first term of the year 2009 was held from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P....

Sookmyung University (SMU) became the subject of conversation by announcing that they will manage a ‘Post-Bachelor Program’ targeting graduate students. Nowadays, many graduates have trouble finding employment and there are a number of students who delay their graduation. Under these circumstances, SMU decided to offer additional courses to graduates from 2009. This Post-Bachelor Program has three courses: an intensifying learning course, a career preparation course, and an internship course. The intensifying learning courses provide students with the chance to take three classes for free except for the experimental class. Therefore, students can choose to take lectures which they didn’t study well enough before. The career preparation course provides diverse education. This course is separated into four programs again: general official education, intensifying official education, concentrating on work skills education and career counseling. In the general official education course, there are workshops for future employees which teach presentation skills and solutions to problems, and special lectures are planned to be given twice in March. In the intensifying official education course, students will search for and analyze jobs, and receive education about personnel administration, marketing, finance, public relations and advertising from March to May. If students take the courses in concentrating on work skills education, they will learn about how to prepare a resume through individual counseling and attend five interview clinics. Not only that, but students are offered practical IT education such as the use of Excel and Powerpoint. Also, students can get counseling about their aptitude and skills. The internship course is a program that provides graduates with the experience of being an intern on campus, in professors’ study rooms and business enterprises. When students do internships, they will get some payment. Whenever internship positions are available, SMU will notify students on the school homepage. The ‘Post-Bachelor Program’ enhances the welfare of graduates. This is one of the programs that implement President Young Sil Han’s goal of providing the graduates with “after-services”, namely the Alumnae A/S Project. There has been criticism that it is impossible to execute because of the large budget required, yet President Young Sil Han’s plan that the university should take on the responsibility to care for its graduates is firm, so it has been able to be realized.