On Aug.21, 2024, Kookmin University (KMU) hosted its second-semester graduation ceremony, commemorating the graduation of more than 200 international students and signifying the e…
SooYeon Kim Department of English language and literature It is five months since I moved back to Seoul, where I was born and grew up, after eight years of staying in a small cam…
Hur Young-RimGraduate School of EducationBack in 1979, I went to America to receive my master’s degree in Early Childhood Education. Earning a degree in the United States proved…
On January 10, a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) student committed suicide because he was suffering from playing catch up with classmates. It was later…
Il-Hwan Lee DeanCollege of HumanitiesIt is an undisputed truth that Korea is a democratic country. However, there is room to be disputed about whether Korea has achieved true dem…
Professor Yoo, Yang-SeokDept. of General EducationTorrential rain seems to be an inescapable part of reality of this summer. Wherever I travel, the rain seems to be everywhere. T…
Nick LeedsDept. of General EducationI was asked to write something for the Review shortly before I was about to get into a lift (elevator). I hastily agreed, and then within seco…
Have you heard about the NG Jok (“no graduation tribe”)? It refers to college seniors who delay graduating, sometimes by purposely failing a course, till they secure employment. A…
Peter Anthony LucierVisiting Instructor, Institute of International Education Administration TeamRemember the days when learning a foreign language meant trudging through knee-dee…
Pro. Cunhyeong CiAssistant professor, College of Social ScienceAfter spending 10 years in the United States as student and professor, I finally came back to Korea to begin my new…
Paul BarclayAssociate professor, Dept. of General EducationI came to Korea after meeting a Korean woman named Young Mi in Canada, my home country. We decided to get married and li…
Anna MilesThe Ancient Greeks were a polytheistic culture, which means that they believed in the existence of many gods. They did not believe in a type of pure good which had to be…
When you see the prosperity of Seoul, it is easy to forget that this great city is located merely 30 km away from the border with North Korea, one of the poorest and most repressi…
English is the most widely spoken language in the history of our planet, used in some way by at least one out of every seven human beings around the globe. English has acquired th…
According to Wikipedia, Physics is defined as “the science concerned with the fundamental laws of the universe”and considered to be one of the oldest fields of study in human hist…
Here is a little embarrassing story of mine that I want to share, hoping you feel something as I did. It was not very long after I first arrived in the U.S. when I started taking…
Prof. Yi Ok-yeonDept. of MathematicsHow can Alice and Bob share their secrecy via the Internet? Do mathematics and information security have anything in common? The answer to th…
Prof. Hur Young-rimGraduate School of Education I would like to talk about the difference between discipline in Choson times and modern society in Korea. This is the transcript of…
During the 11-day visit to his birth country, Hines Ward, the U.S. Super Bowl MVP for the Pittsburgh Steelers, drew great attention to mixed-race people.Hines Ward is an offsprin…
Prof. Lee Eun-hyung (Business Administration Major)When I became a college student, the world seemed totally different from what I had expected. For a 19-year-old girl who had be…
Prof. Choi Kyung-hwanDept. of General Education “What is truly within me?”One day I thought about the precious things inside myself that I had been living with all along. There we…
Lee Il-hwan ProfessorDept. of English Language and Literature One of the most recent trends in cultural studies is the emphasis laid on the minority ethnic group, and it’s academi…
Shin Hyun-jung ProfessorSchool of Advanced Materials Engineering Studying science and engineering is an enjoyable thing in these days. Many people worry about the avoidance of stu…
Bang Min-hoProf. Korean Language and Literature I close my eyes. From this moment, I will enter into the garden of silence once more. A garden of silence, everyone knows it’s the…
