Why do voluntary work?I am now in Ireland doing voluntary work, and I'm the first Korean volunteer in the Simon Community. Whenever I do volunteer work, I learn a lot of things such as humility and being a socially responsible adult. Six months ago, I determined to make a contribution to international society, through approaching the new world and building international friendships through my voluntary work. What am I doing?The name of my volunteer organization is the "Simon Communities of Ireland", which was established by an Irish charity, and it provides a range of services for adults affec
In 2003, Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-American novelist, appeared in the American literary world and created a great sensation through his work, The Kite Runner. His second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, also became a topic of conversation. Khaled Hosseini portrays the Afghan’s gloomy situation through two women’s miserable destinies and self-sacrifice.The two women, Mariam and Laila, are left in the swirl of war and come to meet each other as the wives of one man. Mariam is an extramarital daughter of a wealthy businessman and is forced to marry 40-year-old Rasheed at the age of 15. However, M
Congratulations!Lee Hye-jin (Sophomore, Department of Korean Studies)Kim Sung-mook (Sophomore, Department of Library and Information Science)Ye Byeong-un (Junior, Department of Energy and Environmental Science)
[ACROSS]1. Grand National Party3. The place in a studio where filming takes place4. Help and advice 7. A situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want 9. People who have the legal right to vote in elections [DOWN]2. An unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people or things 5. A big difference between two groups of people or things6. A particular subject that you discuss or write about 8. Political organization whose members have similar aims and beliefs 10. If you _____ something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, you move toward the top of
Kim Kyung-rim, who is a mature student, graduated first on the list among forty thousand graduate students. From 2006, she studied here and only three years later she graduated from Keimyung University.Among her three years here, she was never absent and never late for class. Her passion for studying resulted in her achieving a 4.5 average from all of her grades, and she graduated early with honor. On February 17, during the graduation ceremony, she received a diploma summa cum laude. Following tradition, her name tag is now included on Keimyung University’s 'Bisa best hall of fame.'
Four students from the Keimyung Global-Up team won at the 2009 Global Frontier for University Students, which has the aim to help university students becoming globally competent people and to gain helpful knowledge for employment sponsored by Job Korea and Hanatour. Job Korea selects several teams who submit the best projects and they sponsor those teams by giving them an opportunity to tour overseas countries. Project subjects should be in one of 4areas, engineering and technology, natural science, humanities and culture and art, and economies and business. Projects from participating teams w
Do you know the Erasmus Programme? The Erasmus Programme is a European Union student exchange program. Through the program, many European students attend a European university on exchange scholarships. In the film The Spanish Apartment, Xavier, the main character, goes to Spain from France through the Erasmus Program and comes to live in an apartment where people from various cultures and different ways of thinking coexist. The movie title The Spanish Apartment is French slang meaning a place where anything can happen and every law is violated in the chaotic state of mixed cultures. Reflecting
No.133Written by Prof. Lyons / Drawn by KMG Reporter Jang Min-seo
"The train will soon be arriving at Seoul Station. Passengers getting off at Seoul, thank you for riding with us today, and have a pleasant trip." Through this train announcement, my trip started. The subway ticket from Seoul Station to Ungil-san Station was quite expensive. However, full of new hope, I started my trip to a new place. I transferred at Yong-san Station and approximately one hour later, I finally arrived at Ungil-san Station. I was shocked when I got off the subway and saw the huge scale of Ungil-san Station. It is one of the biggest subway stations I have ever seen. I was surpr
The political dispute in the National Assembly from the end of last year to the beginning of this year showed the vice of Korean politics. The majority Grand National Party (GNP) members pressed legislation for the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement with their superior voting power without the help of other parties or agreement with rivals. In response to the GNP's conduct, other opposition parties violently protested with fire extinguishers and hammers, which caused an extra session of the National Assembly to approve some of the opposition parties' demands, but this revealed the lack of Korean
The 2009 entrance ceremony Students welcoming freshmen Freshmen participating in the entrance ceremony
On February 12, a conferment of degrees ceremony was held in Adams Chapel. About 3000 graduates, their families and congratulators packed the campus.In the first part of the ceremony, a total of 903 graduates (677 masters, 119 doctorates, and 107 non-degrees) received their degree and/or diploma.The second part of the ceremony was the conferment of honorary doctorates. Synn Il-hee, as the 9th president of Keimyung University, awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Political Science and an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration to Kim Moo-yun and Ham Jeong-woong respectively.
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