As society has grown, our education has also grown a lot. For example, the different types of classes have allowed teachers and students to be able to communicate more freely like discussion or presentation classes. These participatory classes are actively conducted at Yeungnam University, one of wh

There were some problems for students to sign up for courses after the part-time lecturer law was enforced. As university eliminated classes taught by lecturers or gave them to full time professors, which consequently caused unemployment of many lecturers(over the half of lecturers hired in 2018 wer

The revised Higher Education Act, named the Part-time Lecturer Law, has taken its first step since August 1. The law was made to improve the working conditions of part-time lecturers at universities, including employment stability, better treatment, and security of their status as faculty members. I

Many people may know this building – the Daegu Arts Center. The DAC has a special history, as it was the first cultural infrastructure in Daegu. Since 1990, many buildings were constructed regarding art, music, and performance, and they have organized DAC. In the beginning of the 2000s, an opera hou

Have you ever seen interesting things at YU? There are many attractive things at YU. For example, Love Road and the Korean Folk Village are both wonderful and popular places. Spots like these have some features. First, they are both massive. The size of each place is bigger than other spots at YU. S

Have you ever heard of Mt. Baekdu? The mountain, called Mt. Baekdu by its Korean name and Mt. Jangbaek by its Chinese name, is the highest mountain in the Korean Peninsula and has a huge volcano. I’d like to tell you about Mt. Baekdu, Cheonji pond, and Biryong Falls. Mt. Baekdu is located on the bor

Forbidden City & Tiananmen The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of Ming and Qing dynasty. It was designated as a World Heritage Site in 1987. Tiananmen is a gate located in the south of the Forbidden City. Some people misunderstand it as the main gate of the Forbidden City, but it is actually

Nanjing Dongru is a busy street that rivals waitan, the center of Shanghai tourism. The eastern road to the Huangpu River, based on the intersection where it meets Xizang Zhonglu, is called Nanjing Shiru, and the western road to Jingansu. Therefore, this walking course has become a well-known and mu

The Daegu Art Factory(DAF) was established in 2013 as a public institution for contemporary art. At first, it started as a tobacco manufacturing plant in 1919 but the factory was shut down in 1999. As it is now, it has been used as an art space since 2008 when it was dedicated to creating an art spa

The first exhibition is the “POP/corn” exhibition being held from June 11 to September 29. The title “POP/corn” means contemporary Korean “Pop” art as an “icon” of the time (“corn” expresses icon) which represents the diverse flow of Korean pop art. The artists who participate in the exhibition show

It is no exaggeration to say that most secondary education in Korea has a curriculum set up for the College Scholastic Ability Test. Because of this education system, even today’s college students have not, or are not, deeply concerned about what they want to do and what they plan to do. But in the

The incident completely intensified to the point of collapse. Between Korea and Japan, there’s only cold tension remaining now. People can misunderstand that this is the first time of conflict between Korea and Japan, but it’s not. Go further back to a thousand years ago, an uncomfortable cohabitati

These days, summits between South Korea, North Korea, and US are actively being held, and inter-Korean relations are gradually being eased and a more peaceful atmosphere is being created. As a result, discussions on unification are becoming more active and the possibility of a peaceful reunification

One of the hallmarks of the ‘Boycott Japan’ movement is that many university students voluntarily participate in it. For university students, Japan is a country that is much more intertwined with them than we can expect. They use a lot of writing instruments made in Japan, travel to Japan with frien

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced on its website on 1 July, 2019 that Japan will revise regulations on export management of the Republic of Korea to tighten export restrictions on three items that are key materials for semiconductors. The semiconductor industry, which has bee

Have you ever heard of the pet registration campaign? Pet registration is a system that makes it easy for pet owners to find lost pets. Actually, pet registration is not optional, but obligatory. Dog owners, whose dog is older than three months, are required to register their pet. Pet registration i

On 16 July, 2019, the workplace anti-bullying law came into effect. This law was put into place to prevent harassment in the workplace. However, few people know about this law. Let’s see what can be changed in the workplace. There have been many different types of bullying in the workplaces for a lo

There are some distinctive customs about age in Korea. One of them is based on the year, not on the date of birth, the standard of determining one’s age. Most countries determine age based on the date of birth. This is called the ‘American age.’ In Korea, all Koreans are one year older on the 1st of

Since 31 March, 2019, huge protests have been taking place in Hong Kong as citizens protest a since-suspended extradition bill. In June, more than one million citizens have participated, making it the largest protest in the history of Hong Kong. The bill calls for the extradition of criminals from H