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 CAMPUS | Park Kim Haena | 2009-05-09 10:44
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.
ON CAMPUS | Park Kim Haena | 2009-03-04 12:49
On January 5, students from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), one of our sister schools, visited SMU to take part in the ‘Seoul Study Tour’ program, which went on for five days. On the first day, they met with SMU buddies and enjoyed a welcome dinner and party held in a restaurant. HKPU students attended lectures on Korean history, culture and language and appreciated a NANTA performance over a period of two days. In the lecture about language, they learned about Hangul and practiced basic Korean conversation. On the third day, they experienced cooking Korean food for three hours in a Korean cooking class instructed by the Korean Food Institute at SMU. After having made Bibimbab and Kimchi, they all had lunch together. Besides these programs which went on within SMU, there were also outdoor activities such as visiting the national folk museum and Kyongbok Palace accompanied by an English tour guide, as well as Dora Observatory in which people can see a city in North Korea and going to Everland in Yongin. One student said “It was so pleasant because SMU arranged an interesting program with the greatest care. The most impressive thing was the NANTA performance; I’ve never seen such an exciting and special performance.” Another student said “I remembered the experience of making Bibimbab. Unlike it looks, it was really hard and demanded many preparations to make, but it tastes spicy and delicious to me. I like Bibimbab, so in my country, I’ve eaten it several times.”
ON CAMPUS | Park Kim Haena | 2009-03-04 12:43