At five in the afternoon, hidden away behind the busy main streets and roads of Hongik University are the busking bands. If all goes according to plan, every night Hongik University streets are soon bustling with irregular street performances. Now that, spring has arrived, people will soon see bloom

SOUTH KOREAIncheon Asian Games Incheon Asian Games will be held 19th September to 4th October of this year. It is held every four years, and most Asian nations participate. Korea has hosted the Asian Games three times including this year in Incheon; it was held in Seoul in 1986 and in Busan in 2002.

Once winter is upon us, we easily hear the sound of bells jingling everywhere, and when we follow the bell’s sound, we find men shaking bells...

ENGLANDBecoming One with ChristmasEngland is one country that celebrates Christmas magnificently. Since most people start to prepare this holiday from early December, most markets display Christmas items in early winter. When people go to the market, most Christmas items such as ornaments, Christmas

What comes to mind when you think of Sookmyung Women’s University? ROTC cadets? A snowflake? A Blue Ribbon? Now an increasing number ofpeople say Sookmyung Wine. Similarly, at Korea University many people, who are not university students, visit the university to taste its bread. Nowadays universities are making food products like Sookmyung Women’s University Wine, Korea University Bread and Seoul National University Chocolate. Have you ever heard of these products? Have you ever eaten or drunk those brands?

Upon entering the café, instead of people, Hello Kitty dolls are found seated on all the chairs. There are Hello Kitty dolls everywhere—on chairs, dishes, and tables, and there are even H

At a glance, the nice, manly actor Ha Jungwoo and the cute, chubby boy Yoon Hu appear to have nothing in common. However, there is one thing similar. What common image can you think of them? Do the ma

Last month, it was the season of university festivals in Korea. There is a certain image that reminds Koreans when we think of it, singers, and students selling foods, alcoholic beverages and so on. Yet, would this image about university festivals be common all around the world? With this curiosity,

At a glance, the nice, manly actor Ha Jungwoo and the cute, chubby boy Yoon Hu appear to have nothing in common. However, there is one thing similar. What common image can you think of them? Do the ma

“You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town.”Maybe, everybody has heard this Christmas carol at least once in their childhood. At Christmas time every year, we can hear this song when we walk on the streets. Lyrics of this carol tell that it is good for children not to cry and pout. By this content, we can know that this carol wants to make children be good boys and girls who readily obey what their parents say. Likewise, in Korean society, lots of people are required to be a good children in family, school and society. Then, is it really good for us to live as a good people in our society?

There are some special things which make us stop when we are nonchalantly walking on a street in a city. Flowers beautifully blooming and street musicians’ performances can catch our eyes. Howev

Think of the following examples. ① Daiso ② Gangnam Style ③ MuhanDojun(infinite challenge) ④ Lee Malneon Webtoon. What image do you get in your mind? Could you find any common ground in these? If the letter ‘B’ came into your thought, you’ve got the correct answer. ‘B’ is something lower than ‘A’ and we were taught that A is always the best. However, these days, paradoxically ‘B’ has changed this thought and become the main code of our cluture.

There is an old saying in Korea, ‘A tiger dies and leaves his coat. A man dies and leaves his name.’ As we can see from this, our ancestors respected their names and lived their whole lives striving to achieve its meaning. For them, name was sacred and they cherished not only their own name but also another’s. Now, looking back on yourself today. How many times did people call your name? In reverse, how many names did you call?

United Kingdom : London hosts the Olympic Games for the Third TimeThe 2012 Summer Olympics was held in London, United Kingdom, from the 27th of July to the 12th of August. It was also called the “Twitter Olympics” being the first to be held after Twitter was invented in 2006 (the internet site did n

What can you imagine about a secondhand bookstore? Does your image include an old owner, a stack of books, a bookshelf covered with dust, a faded bookmark with yellow color, and the smell of musty mol

DIY! It can be a very strange term. If you don’t know the word DIY, you can’t say you haven’t ever done in at once after knowing the meaning of it. Have you ever made the chocolate on Valentine day for your boyfriend or made soup using natural ingredients? If you can’t answer yes about them, maybe you have made a carnation with colored paper for your parents when you were young instead of buying a real flower. Yes, without realizing it, you did DIY once during your life time. Then what is DIY?

How much do you use public transportation? It differs by every person, but it remains a common fact for each and every one of us that public transportation is an indispensable service that people can’t do without. Perhaps, it’s because public transportation has been so naturally accepted into people

A principle of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts, and to share in scie

If you are interested in advertising, you will have an interest in advertisement and, by extension, dream to make an impressive advertisement by yourself. However, if you make an advertisement only yo

“If you don’t study, you can’t survive.” The words that you heard when you were preparing college entrance test as a high school student are now applied to all ages in our society. The university students should build specs* to succeed in a job market like war. Spending time for resting became luxury a long time ago and now students are very busy in doing part-time jobs or preparing various certificate tests during vacation. According to a research of 1118 office workers, seven in ten (73.8%) are doing self....