))((. Can you imagine what it means? It just looks like a typical emoticon that we often use on the Internet. It looks like little birds singing "caw-caw"; it also looks like two fishes heading in opposite directions. However, the youngest character in Me and You and Everyone We Know thinks that it means "back and forth." There are lots of such marks that are so modern and creative like this mark in the movie, making it seem a little bit strange and phantasmal. However, as time goes by, you will naturally get into it more. Me and You and Everyone We Know is a wild-eyed observation of the wa
What word comes to your mind when you think of forsythia, azalea or rape flowers? Spring! Among these flowers, maehwa is the most famous for notifying the start of spring. Even though I was busy during the start of the new semester, I wanted to feel the mood when spring comes so I went to Maesil Farm, located in Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do.♣ Maesil FarmMaesil Farm is located beside Sumjin River. Approximately 100,000 trees are planted in the land space of 300,000 pyeong, and 400,000 people visit here every year. Maehwa flowers come into full bloom in March, making a beautiful scene for visitors
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
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
"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
Falling in Love with a “Young world”(“Young World” is the slogan of Yeongwol-gun) Yeongwol-gun is an area of culture with beautiful natural resources and cultural remains. It's located in southern Gangwon-do. I visited Yeongwol-gun from November 1 to 2. The maple leaves were awesome and still colorful even at the end of fall. Let's look around Yeongwol-gun's famous places: Seonam village, Cheongryeongpo, Gwanpungheon, and Jangneung. Seonam village is popular because it's shaped like the Korean peninsula (Hanban-do). Seogang River's clean water flows around Seonam village. It is similar to the
In this world, some people living in rich countries worry about their health and start to go on a diet to lose weight. On the contrary, other people including many people in Africa, worry about starvation and lack of food. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), one child under ten years old dies every five seconds in some African, Asian, and Latin American countries.Why Are Half of the World's People on the Verge of Starvation?, written by Jean Ziegler, explains two causes of starvation. The first reason of starvation is due to sudden crises. For exampl
A road movie is a movie about people finding their identity or meeting new people through their travels. The Gazette would like to introduce a road movie to you called Da Capo.Da Capo deals with the story of a lack of love. In current society, there are many boys who are abandoned by their parents and also many children who run away from home because of their parents' remarriage. The movie shows a meeting between an abandoned boy and a girl who left her home due to her father's remarriage. Yesu, meaning Jesus, is an 8 year old abandoned boy who is found in a horse barn at a church's child-care