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....

Recently there are prospects of lack of water in Korea because of abnormal changes of weatherlike extreme drought and flood. Now, water is not just water like catch line of product ‘Whenyou feel lack of 2%.’ People buy water to drink and boom in wellbeing makes various kindsof water like vitamin water. In this way, in our society water became an important item ofwellbeing life and an icon of new culture. Then what is the meaning of water's change?

Can you remember cartoon, A Dog of Plandes? A poor boy Nero who was the maincharacter desired to see Rubens’s masterpiece named Descente de Croix for his wholehis life. This painting was covered with heavy curtains and to see it, the viewer had to paymoney. In the last scene, the boy died slowly in cold and hunger, but at the same time hefelt happy in front of the painting he desired. In the trick art exhibition, you become a maincharacter when entering the painting in person. Andy Warhol’s Mariyln Monroe wasprinted on the T-shirt you are wearing. Awe of the art or popularization about the art.How should the art come to us?

When I entered in university first, becoming an exchange student was included in my campuslife dream. However, I couldn’t know well about how to prepare for it and didn’t have enoughmotivation because of strange university classes. Starting my second semester in 2007, I enteredSM-PAIR, Sookmyung’s international conference club. In this club, I studied on internationalissues and could see many students sent overseas as exchange students. It motivated me todream of being an exchange student and designing a conference, and this thought became stronger

Finally, almost three months of summer vacation is over. During thatlong time, students did lots of interesting things and spent a busy time.Doing part time work was one of them. How about foreign students?The Sookmyung Times (SMT) met four foreign students to hear abouttheir own country’s students’ part time work

There is a bunch of bananas. The Jews induce consumers to buy rationally by selling by a piece and doing inventory control through exact figures. On the other hand, Chinese wait insistently for a person who buys all the bananas to maximize profits despite the risk of waste disposal. Then how about Koreans? Koreans use a distinctive method diffent from others. They give an extra banana when consumers buy a bunch of them. It is the culture of Dum.

These days, a postbox in the apartment is fashionable. It became much prettier than before; for example, it became colorful and the shape of it became softer. However, inside the postbox, most of lett

2009 was the 100th birthday of Korean comics. For more than 100 years, Korean comics have made many changes to survive. The greatest change waswhen comic books became webtoons. However, Korean comics are still in trouble, so many people are looking for a way to grow the Korean comic industry...

You already did diplomacy in spite of not doing and passing the Foreign Service Examination. If you have an experience that recommends Korean food or music for foreign friends, you are one of the diplomats. Different from the common belief that it is completely done by diplomats for now, culture diplomacy which is a kind of diplomacy has done by us without our awareness...

Can you feel pleasure by seeing some scribbles done by other people not by drawing yourself? There are special doodles which can give a job, show human’s inner heart, and give dreams...

Almost all fairy tales end with “Finally they live happily ever after.” Bad stepmother, pretty but pitiful princess, and happy ending are typical elements in the old stories. Unlike these

“She walks holding a ‘Starbucks’ coffee in her hand...”In Korea, it’s very familiar to see women carrying Starbucks coffee. Recently, the cafés are changing to cultural and creative places, not just places to drink coffee. Then, why...

"Oh, Cinderella, will you marry me?" said the price happily. "Yes, I will" said Cinderella smiling brightly. "Oh, no! It's not happening. I must be your bride" shouted the step sisters. But no one heard them. They just bitterly cried to the prince and Cinderella meriily walking out to palace...

Majesty is a synonym of dignity. And ‘Your Majesty,’ is a way to call for their royal highness. Royal highness, especially, royal family shows the nation’s dignity. Then, what could...