We watch films in theaters, as visual aids in lectures, or at home. Yet, have you ever thought of making one? There is a group of passionate activators who are making films themselves and holding their own film festivals. The Sookmyung Times (SMT) met the club’s representative Yun Jinyoung and Lee Eunjeong (KUFCA) to learn KUFCA’s free spirit and hear their thoughts.

A month has passed since the start of the new semester. And we all felt extremely hectic this month. Living busily would be evidence that we live very diligently. However, spending such a busy life..

After entering the universities, all students come to experience team assignments (group work). Some people say that one of the various differences between university and high school is whether the team assignment is done or not. However, can we all agree that team assignments are necessary work for us? Through the team assignment, you can learn cooperation and new thought that you couldn't have before, or you can meet and have new friends who have different majors. On the other hand, we can see also that so many students complain about team assignments: for example, “Although it was a team assignment, I did it alone from research to presentation. However, every team member got the same grade.” In April when the assignments overflow, how do you prepare your team assignment?

How about going to the State University of New York in Song-do, Incheon? And how about going to FAU (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), a German University, in Busan? Going to aforeign university in Korea is becoming a reality! The Ministry of Education & Science Technology made a measure that foreign education organizations can come to Korea freely. This is because great universities are making foreign branch schools expansively and many countries compete to hold those branch schools, so our government decided to try to occupy the global education service industry. Our government supports those foreign branch schools to lease their sites and buildings. Plus, those schools can be given 1 million dollars per a year. However, there are those who oppose this movement. Opponents insist that the fact which foreign branch schools are held is not sure. Now, the certain thing is just the State University of New York, in Song-do, and the other schools are not correct that they can come in Korea. Moreover, our real estate market is not good, so foreign schools are difficult to come in. For that reason, the Sookmyung Times researched our SMU students’ opinions on inviting foreign universities to Korea.

Challenge for “A range of voice” and ”Taboo!” This is a motto of “the Students’ PD Note. ” What does this mean? “The Students’ PD Note” aims

There was no big difference between January 1st during the sweet winter vacation and the previous day, December31st. I had the same daily life, waking up early and going to university for the Sookmyun

LETTER from President Sunhye HwangI am pleased to celebrate the release of the 300th edition of the Sookmyung Times (SMT), the official English journal of Sookmyung Women’s University (SMU). Sin

I start my final letter in 2012 with this poem.Memories To TreasureMay the days until Christmas be full of sweet pleasure,And your holidays create joyful memories to treasure.Merry Christmas and Happy

One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dreamOne tree can start a forest, One bird can herald springOne smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soulOne star can guide a ship at s

The Thieves, Kwanghye, Transformers. Can you realize the common factor between them? They are famous for the monopoly of movie screens. Before the movie Pieta picked up the Venice Film Festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, only a few theatres ran the movie. The director of Pieta, Kim Ki-Duk criticized this phenomenon saying, “Small movies are unable to get a chance to screen and are dying out in this market.” On the other hand, according to the statistics by Realmeter, 45% of the audience is against establishing a rule to limit the monopoly. Let’s examine this phenomenon deeply and find out why there exists a controversy regarding regulation of the big screen monopoly...

Once upon a time, there was a King. Maybe he was a king of Rome. At that time, there was not a notion of month, and people just thought when the sun rises, the day starts. In this country,there was a rule...

According to a Korean dictionary, historical drama means a play or drama which brings topics from historical incidents or people. In 2010, the drama Seoul 1945 was sued for defamation of Lee Seungman.

We are living in an era of changing, which based on the convergence. The best example of these changing icon; Apple’s Steve Jobs that showed the result of the convergence is changed our life of

A drugstore is a place that sells medical supplies, cosmetics, and necessities all together. A drugstore was first launched for consumers who wanted buy medicines and necessities in one place. Actually, this new spending pattern originated from the United States and some other European countries in which pharmacies have added daily necessities as items with drugs after separation of prescribing and dispensing drugs. Now in Korea, this drugstore business has grown so fast that one brand, CJ OLIVE YOUNG, generated approximately two hundred billion won in sales last year. The other brand, GS Watsons, also recorded one billion won last year. Drugstores are emerging as the hottest commercial item in Korea. However, there are some concerns about it.

There are two women who are most blamed in history. Can you guesswho they are? These women appear in Greek and Roman Mythology andthe Bible, respectively. Then, mythological one is Pandora.

There are two women who are most blamed in history. Can you guess who they are? These women appear in Greek and Roman Mythology and the Bible, respectively. Then, mythological one is Pandora. Pandora

What do you think of the unique characteristics of our university? Many Sookmyung Women's University students would answer the WOMEN. Like the name suggests, we are female Students who are in a women's university. Therefore many people might think that women's university is the place where women's welfare facilities are better equipped than at coeducational institutions. Then how about you? As SMU's student, can you be sure SMU has good women's facilities? Are we enjoying the consideration for female students in our university? Now, let's look at SMU.

Due to comfortable transportation and easy transference throughcountries today, backpacking is loved by people globally. The age forbackpackers is concentrated on college students. It is because collegestudents have long holidays and are often more proficient at English thanthe older generation. Backpacking has an advantage over travellingthrough an agency in that one can travel with a very low budget and canhave vivid and practical experiences. Then would the attitude andrecognition toward backpacking be identical in other countries? TheSookmyung Times (SMT) interviewed diverse students from differentcountries to resolve this question.

Have you ever heard about Myvlar or Mercilon Tablets? How about NorLevo or Firstrel? The former are the names of contraceptives (birth control pills) and the latter that of postcoital contraception (morning after pill). Until now, consumers can buy contraceptives in pharmacies without any prescription, but they should get a doctor’s prescription to buy postcoital contraceptives. However, the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced the new guideline on the 6th of June, this year. According to this new plan, before the end of 2012, the law will be switched so that contraceptives will become prescription drugs and emergency contraceptives will become over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The fact that morning after pills doesn’t have certain side effects, according to KFDA, and that many pharmaceutical advanced countries put them on OTC drugs served as the main background reasons to adopt this plan. At the same time, the decision that long term use of the birth control pills has a possibility to affect the female hormone contributed to the new plan, too. On this matter, the Korean Pharmaceutical and Medical Association, churches, civic groups, and consumers display a conflict of opinions. Now let’s hear the Sookmyungians’ voices about this hot controversial topic.

During the summer vacation, I read a very interesting book, “The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What machines teach us about human relations.” The author, Clifford Nass, a professor of commun