On April 16, 2014, 476 people on board the Sewol Ferry for various reasons such as on school retreat, travel, business, and work experienced a life changing event. The ferry sank and only 172 people survived. Over 300 people lost their lives that day, many of which are known to be dead but others ar

Summer is approaching and also fine dust is coming. The Korea Meteorological Administration typically predicts spring to have about 5.4 days of bad fine dust days; however, in recent years that prediction has never been accurate. Fine dust days have been steadily rising since 2012, until it soared t

Due to President Park's impeachment, the presidential election scheduled for December got moved to May 9th. Because of the Constitutional Court's decision to rule in favor of impeachment of President Park on March 10th, South Korea needed to rush to replace the empty position. According to t

The Constitutional Court decided the fate of President Park on March 10th. She was impeached, which is an unprecedented case in South Korea. It is the first ever president impeachment in the history of the nation. The four reasons for the judgement of impeachment were: permission of state affairs in

Last year, Kim Jungun, a North Korean top leader, committed a series of attacks that are still having consequences today. To tackle these attacks, South Korea and the U.S. have discussed arranging THAAD in Korea to protect South Korea, but China has voiced strong objections. China has said that if T

‘Please vote during the Student Union election’. ‘The deadline to cast your vote is Friday 5 o’ clock. Please vote’. These types of utterances were often heard during the early part of March inside most university campuses in Korea. At Sookmyung Women’s University, members of the Emergency Planning

Course registration has yet again come upon us. Sookmyungians will be busy setting up their timetables for the coming term. When deciding which courses to enroll in, students often take into consideration comments like “this course will kill your GPA.” Too often than not, these comments are taken mu

According to Jongam Police Station, a 65-year-old taxi driver was arrested and charged on January 9. On January 3rd, a woman uploaded a video on the internet that showed her and her friends trying to hail a taxi around 3 a.m. The driver refused to drive the women to their destination saying that his

On January 20th, Inauguration Day for the USA, Donald John Trump was sworn in as the new president of the United States. He is the oldest president ever to be sworn in US history. He has promised Americans to make the US great. His campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again”, and among his campai

On January 7th, a tragedy occurred in Jongno. A lot of people mourned the horrific event of a hotel collapsing. Two construction crew workers became trapped under the rubble when the building suddenly collapsed. One deaf worker was found 19 hours later and another worker was rescued 39 hours after t

'Choi Soonsil Gate' a story that rock the Korean Pennisula as well as the world is filled with tales of corruption that implicate Choi Soonsil and her allies, so the National Assembly decided to hold a public hearing to straighten out the matter. At the first session of the hearing, which wa

The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that E-land Park, a franchise company running Ashely, Nature Kitchen, and others, did not pay the equivalent of 8.372 billion won in wages to 44,460 part-time workers. In other words, an individual parttime worker was cheated out of 18.7 million won, or

On November 8, 2016, a new president of the U.S.A was elected. Because of Korea’s relationship with the U.S.A, whoever the American people vote for affects Koreans. The two main candidates were Hillary Clinton from the Democratic Party and Donald Trump from the Republican Party. Donald Trump was fav

Last 2011, the government announced PHMG, PGH, CMIT, and MIT to be the primary causes of lung ailments in patients who used sterilizers. However, because of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s patchwork regulatory system, everyday products containing those sterilizers were kept on store shelves.

Baek Namgi, a 69-year-old farmer, died at 1:58 p.m. on September 25th at Seoul National University Hospital. It was exactly 317 days after falling into a coma brought on by a water cannon blast to his head by police during a rally protesting the liberalization of rice imports on November 14, 2015. T

Television shows such as ‘Guerilla Date’ and ‘One Night and Two Days’ are being filmed on university campuses. With the accepted idea that campuses are open to the public, Sookmyung Women’s University has also recently been the background for a shoot in which SHINEE performed. Besides being a TV sho

With the world shrinking, people are moving about from nation to nation. Even at Sookmyung Women’s University, there are plenty of exchange students from different countries such as China, America, Morocco, and so on. Though most students are friendly, some students show signs of xenophobia, the fea

On September 12th, two days before Chuseok, internet communities were buzzing with people panicking and flustered. The posts were about the communication disruption to users of KakaoTalk due to the powerful earthquake on the Peninsula. The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.8, the biggest since measu

Early last September, tons of packages arrived at the first floor of the National Assembly Hall, all delivered in the name of Chuseok. However, next year’s Chuseok gift-giving practice will be almost impossible to see as the ‘Kim Young-ran Law’ was just went into effect starting September 28 of this

The average temperature on this past August was 34.5 degrees Celsius, an increase of about 3 degrees from last year (31 degrees Celsius). Until recently, home electrical charges were decided on a 6-category basis, and taxed accordingly. For example, the home that used under 100kWh was only charged 6