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Welcome to The Pioneer. I’m Jeong Ju-jee, recentlyelected as the new editor-in-chief. 2013 has begun, and Iguess you have made new plans for this year: gettinglicenses, losing weight, getting a high TOIEC score, toname a few example. Maybe you consider these things asshortcomings, or things you need to catch up on. Theword “shortcoming” has negative connotations, and itmay be that you are ashamed of them. But if you look atit the other way round, they can help you understand howto improve yourself. In other words, they help youadvance. Don’t be ashamed of your shortcomings.

Have you ever seen the sunset on the horizon? If yousee it at the beach, you can see that the horizon lookspurple. Beyond that line, I think, are my goals that I havealways dreamed of achieving. So, I am sailing in order totry to reach that point. In the course of the voyage, I amgoing to go through hardships. Maybe I’ll want to give upmany times. But I keep on sailing to my dream.

In this issue’s cover story, The Pioneer discusses thelibrary. You may think it is just a place for studying orreading books. However, after you read The Pioneer, I

hope your way of thinking will change. The library is notjust a place of studying, but a place for culture. CampusLife has three interesting stories. In Campaign, ThePioneer writes about relations between roommates. It willbe a helpful piece not only for freshmen students livingwith strangers for the had difficulty adjusting todormitories. In Campus World we talk about Skylinewhich is the GNU paragliding club. Our reporters talkvividly about their experiences. In Focus, The Pioneercovers lecture evaluation and supplementary lessons.Lecture evaluation is an important tool for students andprofessors a like because it’s a benchmark in whichprofessors and students can re-evaluate, readjust the waymaterials are taught in class. (So, is it good for the indexof lecture development?) In the People section we discusshow art is not a difficult thing, but a something veryfamiliar and close to our daily lives.

Are you interested in working during the holidays? InSocial Explorer section, The Pioneer introduces you toworking holidays. If you have already been preparing forit, you’ll find the information useful. If you don’t knowwhat it is, it could be a new challenge for you to whileyou are able. On top of this, The Pioneer informs youabout the truth and falsity; several points you shouldknow about before undertaking a working holiday.

The Pioneer has a dream for this year: we want to tryharder to be a great read, and we hope you readers aregoing to enjoy the beginning of this new semester. Weare waiting for your ideas, so please let us know. ThePioneer will strive to be better and to contributepositively to your campus life.

EDITORIAL

Be Appreciative of YourShortcomings

Jeong Ju-hee Editor-in-Chief

THE PIONEER DECEMBER 20122

CONTENTS

01 EDITORIAL

Be Appreciative of Your Shortcomings

04 CAMPAIGN

Are You a Good Roommate?

06 FOCUS

Evaluation and Judgment

08 CAMPUS WORLD

Take Life Higher

10 PEOPLE

Art Isn’t Far Away from Us

12 SOCIAL EXPLORER

Joy, Language, and Money

- EVERYTHING ABOUT WORKING HOLIDAY

18 COVER STORY

Let’s Take a Stroll in the Forest of Bookshelves

26 ZOOM IN

KTX Route Opens in Jinju

28 VOICE

Gratefulness in Inconvenience

Science and Poetry: Fractals and Poetic Form

Adjusting and Exposing Myself to New Zealand Culture

34 CULTURE

Why We Love Dr.Jekyll&Hyde?

35 READERS’ PAGE

2013.03. No.161

President and Publisher Kwon Sun-ki

Executive Editor Cho Kyu-woan Faculty Advisor Jeon Jeong-hawn

English Advisor Rian McGuinness

Editor-in-Chief Jeong Ju-Hee

Senior Editor Kim Jun-Min, Rebbecca Thien Tze Yean

Reporter Moon Jae-hyun, Jang Hye-Ju, Son Seong-eun

Nam Min-Jeong, Kang Su-Jin, Maeng Ju-Baek

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CAMPUS LIFE CAMPAIGN

Are You a Good Roommate?

By Moon Jae-hyun reporter

Imagine: at seven o’clock everymorning you wake up to a horrible racketbecause your roommate sings loudlywhile taking a shower. Your roommategets drunk and his shouting wakes you upfrom your sleep. As soon as he gets up inthe morning, he throws up next to yourbed. Your room smells like rotten foodand it’s you who has to clean up thedisgusting mess. When you come back toyour room after class, your roommate ishaving a party without your approval. Ontop of that, you also discover that they siton your bed and your things are all overthe place. You don’t know what to saybecause they don’t care at all. They justtake things for granted, as always.

If any of these situations are familiarto you, you are not alone. If not, consideryourself the lucky one. These days, manystudents are lacking in basicconsideration for others. Such tendenciesaffect the basic decencies which shouldbe kept between roommates, and thereare many other complications that mayarise when two people are sharing a smallliving space.

What experiences do GNU studentshave regarding these issues? A malestudent who wished to remainanonymous (Sophomore, College ofEngineering) said the important thing isto not to cross the line. For example, hisroommate was kind and took care of hisfeelings, but sometimes these good pointswould change into excessive intrusions.Additionally, he mentioned that one ofhis friends moved out of his room beforethe end of the term. Whenever bedtimecame, his roommate would bring alongsome friends and they would talk non-stop. He said, “There are so many peoplewho don’t understand basic humandecency, and consistently behaving thisway can end up being really rude. I thinkthat basic etiquette is essential for peoplewho spend a semester sharing a livingspace.”

A female student (Junior, College ofSocial Science) expressed anotheropinion. She said, “I liked the fact that Ihad very different habits to myroommate. I prefer to stay alone in myroom rather than going out, but my

roommate was the opposite. So, I feltreally comfortable because I could spenda lot of time alone. For this reason, wemaintained amicable relations.Outwardly, this might seem selfish, butit’s much better than being on bad terms.”

Another female student (Junior,College of Engineering) told us about theworst roommate that she lived withduring her time in the dormitory. Herroommate left garbage on the desk forsuch a long time that it turned green withmold. Even her roommate’s underwearwas scattered around the room. She saidthat these days she can’t understand howshe survived that semester.

Many people probably thinkproblems like these are limited tostudents living in the dormitory.However, the issue is also present forthose living in rented houses or boardinghouses.

Here is a case in point. A femalestudent (Sophomore, College ofHumanities) talked about the roommateshe shared a boarding house with. Shesaid, “My roommate was decent overall,but there were still a few problems.People who have lived in a boardinghouse or rented house will understandthis better. One day my roommate forgotto turn off the boiler, so the bill was reallyhigh that month. I thought that was a littleunfair because I didn’t use that much gas.Sometimes, my roommate brought herfriends round after midnight, becauseboarding houses generally don’t havecurfews like the dormitory. She also

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appeared to bring her boyfriend roundwhen I wasn’t there!”

From the interview of several GNUstudents, it’s hard to over emphasize theimportance of basic etiquettes andmanners. This seems easy, but is actuallyquite difficult to keep to regularly. Asmentioned in the interviews, maintaininga moderate relationship is also of greatimportance. When in doubt, alwaysremember, ‘too much is as bad as toolittle’.

Additionally, students who shareaccommodation shouldn’t be forced tolive one way or the other. No one shouldbe required to completely change theirlifestyle for other. Instead, both partiesshould try find a middle ground. People

should be especially careful about thelittle things - however trivial you maythink they are - whether you live in adormitory, a boarding house or a rentedhouse.

The Pioneer interviewed Prof. YangNan-Mee (Ph.D/Counselor, AssistantProfessor of Psychology). Prof. Yang wasresponsible for GNU’s dormitoryorientation, which is held in order to givedormitory-related information. One of thetopics she covered was ‘How can we livehappily in a dormitory?’ She said peopleoften make the mistake of automaticallyassuming that other people are wrong.For example, some people empty awastebasket when it is overflowing, whileothers do it when it isn’t yet full. If suchthing happens, you have no right tocriticize the other person just becausethey do things differently. She also said,“Always remember the fact that we aredifferent to other people when it comes toperspective and behaviour, so the wayyou do things isn’t necessarily the rightway to do it.”

She also gave us some great advice.In the setting of a boarding house, orrented house, the type of relationshipbetween roommates differs greatly to adormitory setting. Dormitory roommates

have usually never met before, but peoplesharing in a boarding house or rentedhouse are often close friends beforehand.However, after living together, theysometimes end up being quitedisappointed with each other. They alsofeel very ambiguous about who has whatresponsibility. Mentioning this problem isnever something to be ashamed of, butpeople don’t always feel this way. So, inthat case, they should compromise bymaking things clear from the outset.

During our time at the university, wemeet a wide range of people by sharingaccommodation, whether they be good orbad roommates. Maintaining goodetiquette with roommates is veryimportant in campus life - as we all wantto live without concern - and the placewhere we sleep and relax should becomfortable both physically andmentally. At night, especially, moststudents are in their rooms and so end upspending a lot of time with theirroommate. As mentioned above, theexperience of an entire semester candepend on who your roommate is. Itseems, these days, that the youngergeneration is lacking in understanding ofbasic human decency. You should alwaysremember that being a roommate meanssharing.

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CAMPUS LIFE FOCUS

Evaluation and JudgmentA lecture is communication between professors and students. But in a typical lecture, professors

pass on the information and students take a passive role. One chance students have to express theirmind is through the Evaluating System for Lectures (ESL) at the end of the semester. ESL works as astraight communication tool that gives the students a voice and a chance to evaluate the lecture and theprofessor alike. It means that professors can constantly monitor the quality of their lectures, and thatstudents make it clear what they want from the class. At least, this is the intended purpose.

In order to reduce the burdens of the professors, the entire process has been automatized, simplifiedand condensed into several multiple-choice questions. Also, making ESL a mandatory step beforechecking the grades means that most students answer the questions without giving them muchconsideration, as they are in a hurry to check their grades. Instead of being a tool for communication,ESL has become a minor nuisance. GNU has conducted a survey last December of 238 professors and753 students on the satisfaction of ESL. The survey results were not available at the time of mycoverage.

To get more inside information, The Pioneer interviewed Lee Eun-ju who works at Office ofAcademics Affairs at GNU. According to her, the result from the survey was not satisfying. She said“Many students replied that they are not pleased with ESL. A weird thing we discovered is that a lot ofstudents are worried that if their evaluating results are poor, it will affect their score, but this certainlyisn’t true.”

By Nam Min-jeong reporter

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ESL is an efficient system, so long as it functions well.Rating lectures is a good way to improve the lecture qualityand is helpful for professor’s self-improvement. However,it hasn’t always been without issues. It should be modifiedto keep up with the rapid changes in the educationenvironment. Also, having the same questions for differentclasses cannot fulfill the students’ demands. For example,the evaluation of sport or practical lessons requires askingmore specific questions, which would differ from othermore “academic” classes. Furthermore, the opinion of ThePioneer is that the period of evaluation should be delayeduntil after students have got their grades. Sending feedbackon every classes on a weekly or monthly basis could be analternative plan. Students would be content with theadvanced quality of lectures. Moreover, communicationbetween students and professors should take place oftenand as actively and freely as possible.

<An Interview with Lee Eun-ju, works atOffice of Academics Affairs>

Can you explain the ESL system at GNU? The GNU ESL system was implemented in 2000. In 2010, theNext Generation Information System was developed in order tomake sure that students and professors were able to checkscores and overall data online. But there are some problemswith this system. Due to technological problems, we weren table to perfect the system: a separation between the way ofrating lectures and that of checking scores wasn t established.Students cannot enter and check this system at the same time,but should enter with a different ID to a different website.Actually, when registering for courses, students can checkevery professor s lecture score for the last semester. However,because of the separation issue, students don t take advantageof it, and in some cases they don t even know about it. So,we re considering the renewal of ESL as soon as possible.

According to this survey, many students answeredthey aren’t content with ESL. What is the reasonfor this and is there any solution?Since 2000 the system has, in general, been successful, andthe average rating for every semester has always been higherthan 4.00. In contrast, the result of the survey shows thatstudents calls for a renewal are increasing. We were surprisedthat there is so much misunderstanding about the systemamong students. The time they usually carry out the evaluationis right before checking their score, and this leads them toworry that the professor could see their results, which in turnmeans that their score is affected. It s our responsibility to

debunk this myth. Also, students pointed out that even thoughthey do evaluate lectures, the professors didn t appear to giveany feedback; in general, students assumed that ESL doesn twork.

Do professors actively use it? Actually, we have no way of knowing that. The results of thissurvey were mostly positive when it came to professors. Youngprofessors answered that the availability of the system isgratifying; but some old professors are having trouble withusing it and so I didn t see the results in some cases.

If a lecture’s score is lower than average, doprofessors react to it? Yes, they do. For example, if they got under 3.00 for two yearsin a row, the results would be reflected in the allocating the ofnumber of years for professors system; if a part-time lecturergot under 3.00 for two years consecutively, they cannotcontinue that lecture. Also, we have a clause that students whogot D or F for their grades can t participate in evaluating. Questions for the survey are divided into six parts according tothe number of students and the characteristics of the lecture.Professors scoring lower than 3.00 face restrictions, as Imentioned above. However, this will soon change to 3.50. Atpresent, professors can t find out the results of evaluationsdone by specific students; however, we do have a plan tochange the system. By receiving standard deviation scores,professors will be able to learn their rankings among otherprofessors. We ll also let each dean allow the part-timelecturers, as well as professors, to check the results.

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CAMPUS LIFE CAMPUS WORLD

The Pioneer Spirit Titled as Full of ConfidenceThere are many people who aren’t afraid of trying something

new and challenging. Many of them go on to break new ground inother areas, and become international figures and even worldleaders. GNU, one of the strongholds of higher education in theprovince, defines its ideals of education as being “The Pioneerspirit” and this attitude towards life is what the 21st centurydemands on the youth of today.

A perfect example of people who like to push the limits isSkyline; a group of paragliders here at GNU. The first impressionof the club is that they beam confidence; their voices are full ofenergy and passion. And, after trying paragliding for ourselves,The Pioneer can confirm that it does indeed leave one with afeeling of being confident enough to try almost anything we want.

Paragliding must surely be one of the most thrilling sports thathumanity has ever undertaken. On top of the fact that you areactually flying, you really feel the breeze as you glide alongside themountaintops, and it gives a sensation of having conquered theworld, the latter being the main reason why people take upparagliding in the first place. Stuck on the ground, we feel the sameas everyone else; we do the same things and share same earthlythoughts. However, up in the sky we encounter indescribablefeelings that open up a whole new world of creativity. This is oneof the many reasons why Skyline began as a group.

We interviewed the head of Skyline and experiencedparagliding personally, through a tandem-flight; meaning that weflew together with a professional. Choosing to experienceparagliding firsthand wasn’t an easy decision; it does seem likequite a dangerous and difficult sport. Parents and professorsquestioned our obstinacy in wanting to try it. (Funnily enoughthough, they also expect us to be the next global leaders or NobelPrize winners. It seems, therefore, a little shameful that they shouldbe the ones who interfere when we want to experience somethingas marvelous as paragliding!)

Paragliding is quite expensive for students, and even peopleearning a salary; a tandem flight costs a hundred thousand won, forexample. However, by making a few sacrifices on drinking, eatingout and buying clothes, we could pretty easily raise the cash to getoff the ground and leave the ordinary behind. In the Cover Story ofthis issue, I didn’t want to urge you to read books; reading is suchan everyday thing that we can all do it easily. In contrast, however,

I do urge you to do this exciting sport before your thirties.

Passion Makes Me SexyThese days, people seem to get stressed and feel lonely so

easily; sometimes it even turns into depression. Most people, evenuniversity students say things like, “I don’t have time to enjoy life.I just go with it”. I’m often told, “you have so much to do, justloosen up”, or “enjoy your life”; this talk usually comes from thosewho don’t know about The Pioneer. The keyword of last year was“healing”, but we at The Pioneer, feel sorry that the keywordwasn’t “challenging”.

Also, it is quite probable that those people who are so eager tofind a “mentor”, and frequently claim that “modern society isunfair” hardly ever challenge themselves in their lives. What’sworse, they very often think that drinking or eating is the perfectsolution for getting rid of stress. A shot might make you feel betterand help you forget about life’s hardships, but it’s not the realanswer to your difficulties.

If this gambado seems a little bit harsh, it’s probably becauseyou are thinking “I already have passion in my life and I’m doingwell”. But here’s the point: by doing things outside of the norm,you’ll never end up in the trap of normality. One of these thingscould be paragliding. You might have heard the phrase “passionmakes me sexy”. Well, the ex-president of Skyline does look sexy;even if he’s also a typical engineering student. So does the leaderof Jinju Para School, even if he is middle-aged.

Spring, the season of new life is here. What better way to startoff your year than to feel the sunshine and touch the sky! Take myword for it. Paragliding will be one of your most unforgettablememories.

Paragliding and let’s head out A week later, we got a chance of our first flight, thanks to Jinju

Para School, which also helps Skyline to enjoy paragliding. Duringour first attempt, we had bad weather and got stuck in the snow.However, the second time we were able to taste the pleasure ofparagliding in good weather. The most important factor inparagliding is “the speed and the direction of the wind”. It seemedthat somebody up there likes us; the speed and direction of thewind was impeccable.

The place we enjoyed paragliding was at Mount. Geyryong in

Take Life Higher

By Chang Hye-ju Son Seong-eun reporters


Geojedo. On the top of the mountain it was great to have such a grand view of the seashore. It was a tandem flight and there was noneed to have a training session; we just had to put on flying clothes and a harness. The professional pilot who flew with us is Hong Pil-pyo; number one in the field of paragliding. To introduce him briefly, he has flown over Mount Backdudaegan, the Himalayas, andmany other wild places.

Even though we’d been on an airplane many times, the moment just before lift off left us frozen. However, right after our feetwere floating in the air; we were overwhelmed with bravery and excitement. All the worries and stresses blew away. The scenery wesaw from the air was the most tremendous view we’ve ever seen. Everything back on the ground became smaller and smaller; thewhole universe seemed to come closer and closer.

There were no thoughts of risk or danger; what we saw and felt stuck in our mind. Furthermore, when the professional pilotshowed us the piquant flight technique, we almost felt weightless and “got high” of endorphins. However, this part made us feel dizzy.Even if this seems that it was due to us being in a coastal area, there are other numerous sites to try paragliding: Mount Daeam inHapcheon-gun, Mount Hanwoo in Uiryeong-gun, Teuk-ri in Sancheong-gun, Mount Mangun in Namhae-gun, and Mount Wora inJinju-si.

As mentioned below in the interview, the most important part of paragliding is landing and take-off. When landing, it’s importantto stretch your legs. However, in the tandem flight, we just sat at the front and enjoyed the flight. The one thing the passenger has todo is change their center of mass as the experienced pilot changes the direction of flight. Moreover, it’s almost like riding anamusement park roller coaster; it is easy to feel motion sickness. If you are prone to such symptoms, we strongly recommend taking amedicine for nausea.

Is there any specificity thatother clubs don’t have inSkyline?Yes. We have come together as a teamwith monthly meetings. For example, weaccommodate in our club room duringtraining week in every vacation. Duringthis period, we go paragliding every dayand file the daily flight report at night.Seniors teach freshmen skills of flightduring the week.

Dose it cost a lot of money toenjoy club activity?No. The bona fide reason why Skylinewas made is enjoying paraglidingcheaply. We try not to spend muchmoney in paragliding. Freshmen don tneed to pay more than ten thousand wonevery month. There are co-airframes, ifyou are not going to have your ownairframe, you don’t have to pay much.

Can female students join theclub? Yes. There are six girls of twentymembers. You might think that strengthis the most important thing when youparaglide. However, through honing yourskills, you can overcome the lack ofstrength. So unless you are underweight,girls can thoroughly enjoy paragliding.

Many accidents of paraglidingare reported and it seems thatparagliding is a dangerous sport,

isn’t it?No. It is not dangerous. Most accidentshappen when landing or take-off. If youare well trained, you can avoidaccidents. Also, carelessness is anotherreason: going paragliding on nastyweather, using unsuitable airframe.According to a report, 90% of accidentsare caused by personal faults. If youexercise caution everytime, paraglidingcan be a safe sport.

Do you have any advice for GNUstudents?These days, freshmen do what theyneed to get a job, not what they want.There are countless things that you canonly do in your twenties. That’s what wecall, challenge. I heartily recommendfreshmen and sophomore to challengeyourself. Don’t do things what others do.But do what you want to do!

Most people may have once dreamed to fly in the sky. It's true that there is a variety of aerial sports, but one of the most accessible one isparagliding. There are factors that influence the growth in paragliding market. Geographical features of Korea which consists of 70%mountain and frequent broadcasting - the reality show “Qualification of the Men”, the documentary “Dream of Icarus” and so on - aboutparagliding. Skyline, which is a noticeable club in GNU, was founded in 1996. We, The Pioneer, talked - with the ex-president of Skyline,Jung Yeon-tae (Senior, the Dept. of Ceramic Technology).

<An Interview with Skyline>


PEOPLE By Kang Su-jin reporter

Art Isn’t Far Away from UsCafés like Cafe Bene, Starbucks, Tom N Toms, Twosome Place are everywhere these days. Some people even call Cafe

Bene the ‘cockroach Bene’ because its number are increasing like cockroaches. One afternoon, I was walking down the streetwhen I was captured by an aroma of coffee beans. I followed the smell- not knowing where it was taking me - like Alicegoing down a rabbit hole and reached a strange looking door. When I stepped inside, I felt like I was in a different world likeNine and three-quarters platform in Harry Potter books. People wore strange clothes, some played guitar, and stared at thepictures hanging on the wall. Regardless, I ordered coffee like I would do in any other coffee shops. A few minutes later, theowner of the café brought the coffee and then I understood why this particular shop was so different from others.

The café is owned by an artist couple Park Tae-sik and Hyeok-chun. They are members of Korea Art association. ParkTae-sik is also the chairman of Korea Watercolor Painting, Jin-ju Sketching association. He is an instructor of School ofContinuing Education, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology and Culture center in Galleria. GwonHyeok-chun is a member of Exhibition of Beautiful journey. The couple also teaches students and adults in art institute whichis next to the café. I had the chance to talk to the couple and learn a few things about art, artists and how they are trying toreach out to the majority.

Some people say that true artists are always hungry. That's partly true. Most artists don’t make a lot of money. They knowthis truth but still they don’t want to do commercial art because they think that is selling their pride. The owners of this caféalso agree with this opinion but they have to earn money for a living. Therefore, they decided to open a gallery café, Painter’sGarden. Through this, they can do what they love -art and exhibitions- and make money without losing their pride.

Before opening this café, the owners didn’t have many chances to meet other people except for fellow artists. They

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wanted to know what young people and others thought of art. Now, theycan meet with various people. During the daytime, they can talk to students,young people and at night, they can meet adults.

“Most university students think that art is difficult and far away from usbut that is not true. If you take a look around, you can see art everywhere. Astone and even can be art. Take a look around and talk more interest in art.”said Mr. park. One of the big reasons aside from obvious monetary gain isto show the public that art is neither difficult nor distant but very close toour daily lives.

In this café, you can enjoy pictures, performances, beautiful plants whiledrinking coffee, tea and wine. You can also eat delicious food too. Caféshould have delicious coffee and food but there is one more important thing,decoration. At first, guests who visit café are attracted by decoration of thecafé. This café is filled with beautiful pictures and plants. So they named theshop ‘Painter’s Garden’. The couple decorated the café themselves usingwhat they know and love, arts and plants. The couple and their daughterdrew pictures and they hung them on the wall. Most ornaments are handcrafted by the owner, their children and pupils. The couple also have plansto hang pictures on the wall that are drawn by other artists and guests. Theywill have exhibitions of their paintings in the café and guest can enjoy themfor free. Also, guests can ask about art pamphlets which are situated inbookshelf. If you want to perform, you can play instruments here too.

Café opened on the 11th of January and many fellow artists visited thecafé to celebrate. They had a small performance by guitarist Lee Jae-yoon.“I want Jinju citizens to enjoy music and culture anytime and anywhere. SoI planned this performance instead of giving flowers for present.” he said.

Mr. Lee is a member of Village performers. Every Saturday, membersof Village performers gather together for a free street performance. Theydraw free portrait, play the guitar with other instruments, sing songs and actplays. In, this café, you can enjoy art whenever you want.

Mr. Park and Mrs.Gwon want the café to become multipurpose culturalspace and they are still waiting for you to share your art world. Please don’testrange from art. Art is close from us.


SOCIAL EXPLORER

Joy, Language, and MoneyEVERYTHING ABOUT WORKING HOLIDAY

By Moon Jae-hyeon, Kang Su-jin reporters

People going abroad to study are a common sight these days. For students, a working holiday is probably the easiest way forthem to go abroad because there is the benefit of making money as well as learning the language. The working holiday scheme isan agreement between the two countries, which allows young people to study and undertake employment in the other country. Itall started in 1995 when Korea signed an agreement with Australia. Now we have signed with more countries around the world,including: Canada, New Zealand and other English and Non English speaking countries. Working holiday, as the name suggestsgives you an opportunity to travel to another country and get employment- and subsequently get paid- as well as a chance to learnEnglish. Living in a country where the people are so invested in learning English, getting paid while learning English is a dealyou can’t pass on for most Koreans. That’s why working holidays have continued to gain popularity.

These days however, working holidays have been criticized for being a space filler for job applications. The job market is sosaturated with students who have studied abroad and student essays talking about their experiences in a foreign country thatstudying abroad has become a necessity for most competitive job applicants. Despite the negative publicity the program has beenreceiving lately, working holidays are still very popular among college students because of the many attractions. So, The Pioneersurveyed 200 GNU students about working holiday programs. According to the survey, 63% of students replied that they knewwhat a working holiday was and wanted to try it. When asked why they wanted to go, 27% of students replied because it wouldlook good on their resume’. But the majority of students just wanted to live in a differently country for a change.

From the people who wanted to go on a working holiday, 52% students replied that they weren’t sure exactly what to do orwhere to ask for help. So we, The Pioneer, interviewed two GNU students who have been on a working holiday, and two GNUstudents who are still abroad to tell you everything you need to know to plan your working holiday, from housing to finding jobs


and tell you about some of the pitfalls you need to avoid in orderto have a successful journey.

According to the official statistics by MOFAT WORKINGHOLIDAY INFO CENTER, you can see that a lot of peoplehave gone abroad through a working holiday program though itsfigures have dropped slightly since 2010. Among these Woholers(people with a working holiday visa), Australian Woholersaccount for about 70~80% of the total applicants.

Do You Want to Go on a Working Holiday?

Why Do You Want to Go on a Working Holiday?

The Number of Participants in Working Holidays

Australia has been the country of choice for Koreans dueto its high minimum wage, great tourist attractions, similartime zone to Korea, and especially no quota restrictions forstudents. Getting an Australian Working Holiday Visa iseasier than any other country and they accept applicants allyear round. Canada is also a very attractive choice forstudents for several reasons. Canada has the advantage oflearning both English and French. Although most regions ofCanada use English, Quebec in eastern Canada is called ‘ALittle France in Canada’. So, you will be able to experiencetwo cultures in the same country. Canada also has greatscenery and shares a border with the United States, which isanother great country to visit. Canada receives workingholiday applications twice a year, with two thousand peopleeach time.

Many students also want to go on a working Holiday tothe UK. Surprisingly, YMS (Youth Mobility Scheme) whichis a British working holiday program was only recently signedwith Korea, and took effect last July. YMS is not thatdifferent from other working holidays, but there are slightdifferences. In YMS, you can stay in the country for up to twoyears (for most countries, it’s limited to 1 year). In addition tothat, YMS has little restriction on the type of jobs you canhave. But because YMS has only been around for a year, it’shard to find information about the program, or reviews online.Nonetheless, with little restriction in terms of job hunting,there is great risk and reward to be had in the UK. If you arebold enough to tread the road less traveled, YMS might be theprogram for you.

Other Woholers who are looking for other Europeancountries such as Italy might want to hold off for the officialreport from the government webpage since the details of theWorking Holiday Agreement is still in progress.

For more in depth coverage of the working holiday, ThePioneer interviewed four GNU students who are participatingor who have previously participated in the Working Holidayprogram.

We decided to find out which country GNU students preferredthe most. From the survey, 32% students wanted to go toAustralia, 28% students Canada, 17% students the UK and 23% ofstudents chose other countries such as Japan, France, Germany,Italy, Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand. As you can see in thesurvey, the majority of students preferred to go to countries whereEnglish is their native language, such as Australia, Canada, and theUK.

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with Yeom Cheol-jin (Sophomore, Department of Bio-Technology and Chemical-Engineering) who was half way throughhis program in Canada. He left Korea in May of 2012 and is scheduledto return to Korea in April, 2013. He said the reason why he decided to go.He started with a simple notion of experiencing something new. What wasfirst a vague and directionless goal, gradually turned in to a concrete plan andlater he wanted to push himself even more by going abroad without any help. Aworking holiday visa was the easiest way to go abroad, so, he looked into theWorking Holiday Program. He said there was no particular reason for choosingCanada, but it just spoke to him. It may have been due to the fact that Canada isgeographically close to the U.S. or Latin American countries, which are very hard toreach from Korea. He also explained concretely how to prepare for a workingholiday, related to finding jobs and housing. There are several methods to find a job.Firstly, you can always try ‘the old school way of going door to door with yourresume’. It is probably the toughest way, but it could also be most rewarding.Another way is by posting a resume on a Canadian website and hoping that someonemight give you an interview. You can also try finding a job in a Korea town. For Mr.Yeom, he first used the Canadian website’s job board, and was hired through a

telephone interview and another interview in person. He was first hired as a cashier in a gas stationbut now he works as a supervisor in a small store in a Korea town.

There are couple ways to find housing as a Woholer. The easiest way would be to use ahomestay-finder webpage (www.homestayfinder.com) which introduces available rooms indifferent countries with a working holiday program. If you have trouble reading the English on thefirst webpage, you can always consult with the Korean agency for studying abroad. The drawbackof the Korean agencies is that they will charge you a hefty fee for the services. You can also try tofind a roommate to live with and these can be found on various Korean or Canadian websites.

When asked his final thoughts on the working holiday, he said, “There is no regret for coming to Canada and Iwould urge my fellow GNU students to follow suit and hit the road (or the plane). Whereas in Korea where

everything is a competition, in Canada, everyone is relaxed and easy going. It’s something I’ve never feltbefore in Korea as long as I can remember, and it’s a great feeling. The population density is also

much less than in Korea so everything is less crowded and there are a lot of opportunitieseven for foreign students like myself. Studying abroad made me see things

differently and opened my eyes to see the bigger picture.”


Another student we interviewed is GNU student Jeong Han-Su (Junior, Department of Industrial Engineering), who went to Australia.He has dreamed of a trip around the world, so he needed a lot of money and language skills quick. He chose Australia because ‘3D Jobs’pay really well and he wasn’t afraid of hard labor. He found a job in an alligator farm, as soon as he got off the plane, thanks to some ofthe people living in the same building. Getting a visa wasn’t very difficult either. Anyone under 30 can apply for it all year round, unlessyou have a contagious disease or a criminal record. He said you don’t necessarily have to rely on travel or professional agencies to go on aworking holiday in Australia. A lot of information is readily available online and if you just try a little bit, you can do it yourself.

Mr. Jeong had a firm goal, made concrete plans to earn money and take a trip around the world. He wanted to make a lot of money inthe first six months and go on a trip around the world for another six months. The job at the alligator farm was really tough anddemanding, but he made a lot of money. After six months, finally, he left the farm and became a globetrotting tourist!

Australia. A lot of information is readily available online and if you just try a little bit, you can do it yourself. Mr. Jeong had a firm goal, made concrete plans to earn money and take a trip around the world. He wanted to make a lot of money in

the first six months and go on a trip around the world for another six months. The job at the alligator farm was really tough anddemanding, but he made a lot of money. After six months, finally, he left the farm and became a globetrotting tourist!

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The Pioneer interviewed Park Mi-gyeong (Senior, Department of Accounting). She

worked in Canada last year for 9 months. There were 15countries to choose from but she decided to go to Canada because

of its magnificent nature, and she has many friends who had been toCanada as a Woholer (Working Holidayer) and recommended it to her.

Unlike a foreign language study program, a working holiday gives you thechance to improve your English, earn a good sum, make new friends and

experience social life through working. Ms. Park was born and raised in Jinjuso she wanted to go to another country and live by herself for a change. Thereis a club in GNU that helps people preparing for working holidays. But Mi-gyeong didn’t join the group and she prepared everything herself. This was herfirst time living abroad, so she was very worried. However, she managed tofind a place to live before she arrived in Canada. She worked at a café calledTim Horton’s in Calgary, Alberta. She didn’t find this job through the Internet.She visited all the stores near her house in person. “If you want to get a job inother countries, you must be audacious. Never speak hesitantly. Be confidentlike anything is possible.” she said.

Before she arrived in Canada, she was worried about racial discrimination, but she said she hasn’t experienced any of it inCanada where she lived. Most people treat foreigners kindly and some employers even prefer Koreans because of their ‘hurry,hurry’ mind set.

But not everything is rainbows and butterflies. The language barrier is always a problem for first timers and this could lead toproblems in the work place or within friendships. Some employers might try to take advantage of your lack of English ability andexploit you, or even worse. And if you’ve lived with your family for your entire life, being away from them for an entire year canbe a challenge too. Many Woholers suffer from homesickness and become depressed. Korean food is scarce and expensive inCanada.

The most common concern for Woholers is the fear of falling behind because while most of your colleagues might begraduating or finding jobs, you are waiting tables. Another big concern is “what if my English is not as good as I hoped

it to be after a year?” or “Is all this going to pay off?” My advice to all prospective Woholers is, don’t worry.There are a lot more things to be gained if you just focus on the present. The worst thing that can happen is

being one year behind. But that is nothing compared to the entire life laid out in front of you. Ms.Park has not once regretted going to Canada and in fact, she is dying to go back again.


1. D.I.Y. (Do it yourself)When preparing for a Working Holiday, it is easy to get overwhelmed bythe number of things that need to be sorted out before leaving, such asjobs, housing, English and so on. You might be tempted to just leave allthe planning to a Korean travel agency. But half the fun is planning yourown adventure, and leaving everything up to a travel agency can bepricy, as well as unsatisfying. Travel or consulting agencies will oftenrecommend expensive housing or schools when there are much moreeconomical options available. Use the internet or school communitysites and you will be able to find plenty of information about housing,schools and jobs in other countries.

2. Language acuistion is not given, but needs to be earnedMost prospective Woholers have a notion that going abroad will makeyou automatically good at English. Tha’s a big mistake. Some returneeswill tell you that ‘it’s better to just study English at a language institute inKorea than go on a working holiday. That is because when you arealone in a different country, you will be tempted to make Korean friendsthere or work in a job where there is little to no human contact. Koreanfriends can be useful sometimes, but too much dependency on themcan destroy the chance for you to learn English. Even if you are stuckflipping burgers in the kitchen every day, make an effort to go out afterwork and explore, talk, and party with strangers. Unless you put in aconstant effort to use your English, you will be no better than peoplestudying at hagwons (private language institutes) in Korea.

3. Fortune comes to those who are preparedIf you are dreaming of going to Canada or Australia with nothing butyour plane ticket and being rich and fluent in English, you need to wakeup. If you have neither the money nor the English skills, you are mostlikely to end up getting a job in Korean-owned shops, in which case youwill be speaking Korean all day and getting paid the minimum wage. Letme make this clear. You need to be prepared - financially andlinguistically.

4. Don’t get tied up with moneOne of a working holiday’s biggestshouldn’t be your only goal. Find between money and enjoying youthe only human interaction you ‘good night’ at the end of the dayLiving in another country, you shou

5. Be active If you think that you will turn intoreturn from a working holiday, yoperson, you will always be reservefriends or find jobs if you are shcountries will prefer extroverted fMoney and friends don’t just fall frAct like you can do everything and

6. Know thyselfMaking new friends in a strange wyou will be distant from you becauthat to your advantage. Be able toto others and they will be interesteto tell others a few interesting facts

7. Have a definite goalAlways remind yourself of why youdecided to go on a working holidago there, my life will be better thwhich ones you want to focusexperience. And do your best!

So there you go. You know evesuccessful working holiday. Now itspend your year.


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COVER STORY By Son Seong-eun, Maeng Ju-baek, Nam Min-jeong reporters


Let’s Take a Stroll in the What Services Do Libraries offer

“I have always imagined that Paradise willbe a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges.

Most Koreans don’t read books. According to asurvey conducted by the NOP World Culture Score,Koreans devote only 3.1 hours a week to reading -far below the global average of 6.5 hours a week.This phenomenon could be attributed to recentKorean history. Unlike the Chosun period where the

upper class (Sunbi) devoted most of their time reading books, for the past several decades, Koreans have beenfocusing on building a democratic nation through economic growth; they kept working in the field of industry andonly focusing on learning techniques to help them survive. However, this is no excuse for not reading books; India -a developing country - is a nation of bookworms, who spend 10.7 hours a week for reading. Marx Anthony, thepresident of New York Public Library, has said, “you cannot have a functioning democracy if the citizenry isn’t ableto inform itself”. To achieve a functioning economy, we have to invest in opportunities for public enlightenment,especially public libraries.

Furthermore, the era of the e-book means that the very existence of libraries is being threatened. According to anarticle in Time magazine entitled “Is a Bookless Library Still a Library?” Kansas State University’s EngineeringLibrary was built bookless, and in 2010, Stanford University removed all but 10,000 printed volumes from itsEngineering Library. Is this phenomenon a disaster or a blessing for the public libraries? Can a library without anybooks inspire people like it used to? The answer to these questions remains to be seen, but the wide availability ofcomputers creates inventive public services like the internet. And in a struggling economy where even applicationsfor dishwashing jobs must be filled out online, educating the public - the young and the elderly (who for most oftheir lives barricaded themselves away from the technological revolution of the late 20th century) on how to use theinternet, is vital.

We, The Pioneer, investigated repositories of humanities, particularly focusing on three libraries: The NationalLibrary of Korea (NLK), Gyeongsang National University Library, and Jinju Municipal Library. Our intent here isnot to lecture you about the necessity, importance and effects of reading but to get you interested in reading byintroducing the various services and benefits provided by the public libraries.


Forest of Bookshelves to Promote Reading?

The National Library of KoreaBuilt after the Japanese colonial era, the National Library of

Korea, with about 8.9 billion books, has served as a pivotalinstitution for the international exchange of national literature andinformation. One of the major roles of the library is the GeneralLibrary Development Program. This includes collecting andmanaging national data, compiling the national bibliography,establishing the National Literature and Information System,providing support for domestic libraries, exchanging data withforeign libraries, and creating library policy.

The facilities of the library have been expanded and improved,such as the digital library (known as “Dibrary”), a librariantraining institute, a deposit building, an information center onNorth Korea, Northeast Asian collections, disabled access, and aninformation service for people with disabilities. “Dibrary” inparticular, which was founded in 1998 as a comprehensivedevelopment plan for library information networks, including theneed for digital library, provides the services that integrate digitaland analogue information. Also, the Information Center on NorthKorea was established in 1989 for the purpose of vitalizingdiscussion on the unification of North and South. This centerprovides North Korean data for the general public as well as forthose researching North Korean issues.

The General Services for the publicLet’s look into the general services of the NLK. First is “Ask a

Librarian”. The NLK provides an online Collaborative DigitalReference Service (CDRS) system, which is a library resourceexchange service system linking libraries across the country. Thisaims to guarantee the right to be informed and to allow easy accessof information for citizens. This reference service is performedthrough using the library collections and online informationresources. Moreover, it enables the public to inquire about andacquire academic information without visiting the libraries. Theservice is also present in other developed countries: as the People’sNetwork in Great Britain, Biblioteksbar in Norway,Biblioteksvagten in Denmark and Ask a Librarian in Finland.

Second is the service for the disabled. This service was madepossible through the establishment of the National Library Support

Center for the Disabled. This center has set a new benchmark formodern libraries: defining standards and guidelines for libraryservices for the disabled, operating library service systems andintroducing relevant laws, producing and publishing usefulmaterials, exchanging and collaborating with partner institutions,and offering training to librarians and fostering experts on theservices. Chaek-narae, operating in Jinju Municipal Library, is thedirect result of these services.

Distinctive Services as Korea Master LibraryThe Collection Development Policy (CDP) is based on the

idea that we have a duty to conserve national literature through thedevelopment and collection of library data for future generations.

Furthermore, in 2008 Preservation & Conservation KoreaCenter, one of the International Federation of Library Associationsand Institutions (IFLA), was established to cooperate with theinternational community to preserve cultural heritage andenlighten the public. Also, this program strengthens the mutualcooperation for developing foreign data throughout theinternational community, in exchanging data, common utilization,and collecting literature and information. This cooperationnetwork consists of the National Library of Korea, the Library ofCongress, the British Library, Bibliotheque Nationale, Library andArchives Canada, the National Library of Australia, the NationalDiet Library, and others.

Aside from its work with the CDP, the NLK also promotescooperation with other libraries nationwide and worldwide. Firstof all, domestic cooperation has primarily focused on sharingresources and services in order to mutually benefit library usersand participating libraries. Furthermore, since 2010 the NLK hasset up collaborative projects for the disabled, senior citizens, andthose working in the agricultural, forestry, and fishery sectors.Among many international exchange programs, the CulturalPartnership Initiative Program (CPI Program) is worthy of note.The program offers job training in library management techniqueto librarians from universities and national and public libraries inAsia, Africa, and South America. This program supportsinternational librarians in an effort to boost the national brandpower of the Republic of Korea.

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The Pioneer interviewed the Head of Collection Management & Service Division.She provided us with constructive suggestions for the future of public libraries.

What is the biggest role of the NLK? It is quite clear that we, theNLK, collect all the published data in our country and make it available.This way not only the present generation, but also the future generationand people around the world can access the data.

On the Internet, it says that the NLK was established in

1945, right after the independence of Korea, but I think there

is more history behind the NLK. The truth is that the real year ofestablishment was 1923, not 1945. Also, like many other organizations ofKorea, the NLK was founded as the Japanese Government-GeneralLibrary. It was part of Cultural Governance right after the 1919Independence Movement. But the beginning of libraries in Korea actuallycame before the Japanese annexation of Korea; in the late Chosun period,the country was harrassed by the trespassing of foreign powers, the inflowof Western civilization, and the introduction of Christianity. The leaders ofthat time founded several national and public libraries in order to promotepublic awareness and to defend the country against these culturalinvasions. But this movement of establishing libraries was abolished duringthe Japanese annexation of Korea. What s worse, the number of librariansin the Japanese Government-General Library decreased from 26 to 10 -most of them were conscripted. After independence, Park Bong-seok, whohad worked in the Japanese Government-General Library, took thecollection of books over from the Japanese Government-General, obtainedpermission from the library department of the US Military Government inKorea, and founded the National Library.

What roles does NLK have in integrating and promoting

corporation among the public libraries? The public libraries areadministered by municipal governments or local education offices, while theNLK is controlled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. Thisprevents the NLK from controlling the public libraries administratively.Nevertheless, the NLK, which is a nationally representative library, hasnumerous services that encourage cooperation. First is KORMARC(Korean Machine Readable Cataloging), which was developed to providespecification for the exchange of records among library systems. Second isabout assistance for the management of public libraries. Offering the list ofrecommended books is very helpful for the public libraries to collect orselect books. Third is KOLAS (Korean Library Automation System),conducted in connection with KOLASYS (Korean Library AutomationSystem Small), this service is in the same vein with the KORMARC in that itassists library management. Fourth is Ask a Librarian, which is aCollaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS) that helps library users toaccess information of interest. The last is the education of librarians.Librarians need to be continuously educated in order to adapt to rapidlychanging trends and technology. This is because professionalism isrequired for librarians to provide a high-quality service. The program

An Interview with the Head of Collection Management & Service Division in the NLK


consists of 61 courses, 69 times a year on average.

Do the public libraries consult the NLK about library

operations? If they have diff icult ies in compil ing abibliography using standard systems, in implementing userservices, or in discarding data, they can seek advice on how todeal with it.

What’s the background of Dibrary? Is there any

facility like this in other country?

The need for a digital library has increased since the internetserver was first constructed in the 1990s. There were evenpredictions that physical libraries would no longer be requiredand would all be transformed into cyber libraries. In the U.S., theLibrary of Congress leads digitization of data without copyrightsin public libraries. In Korea, the NLK has started to digitizesignificant data and formulated Korean Cataloging Rules fordigital literature and information. So, why do we have aphysical digital library? It s mainly due to copyright, which

restricts said data from being used outside the library.

What discourages the municipal libraries from

launching new services? Specifically, the services

of Jinju Municipal Libraries mostly target children,

not university students or the elderly.

The NLK has set up a library usage education program for theelderly after studying the utilization rate of Dibrary for each agegroup; the utilization rate for those in their 20s or 30s decreasedover the years, whereas it increased for those in their 50s and60s. The main reasons why most public libraries lack the service

are staff shortages and budget issues. In spite of thesescarcities, the NLK has still publicized excellent services forpublic libraries to follow.

Are there any museums in the NLK?

There aren t. But we do exhibit an historical collection of booksstored in the underground library. For example, last year wedisplayed a collection of books showing gwageo, the stateexamination during the Goryeo and Chosun dynasties. Also, weheld an exhibition of books on the Korean War. These displaysappealed to researchers and those involved in related studies.

Can you give any advice to our readers?

I d like to tell them to read books and simply lead your life . A lotof reading helps you to dream and to design the future. Even tenminutes of reading will fertilize your mind.


The campuses of GNU (GajwaMain Campus, Chiram MedicalCampus, Tongyeong Marine ScienceCampus) have a total of five librariesbetween them. Gajwa Main Campushas GNU’s central library,Jurisprudence Library, andMuncheongak. Chi-ram Campus hasthe Medical Campus Library. Finally,Tongyeong Campus has the MarineScience Library. These libraries have41 librarians and over 1,500,000 booksranging from philosophy, religion, artand history, to old historical documents. In addition, more than 30,000 journals and variety of electronic media - such as anoverseas online media databases - are available.

These libraries provide us not only with books and data but also with many other different services. The Pioneer wanted toknow how students use these services, so we met with the staff of each library.

GNU libraries have a variety of knowledge and cultural services. However, despite the great services and resources provided bythe school, most students seem to be oblivious to them. It would be a shame to let all that time and money go to waste, so ThePioneer met with Park Mi-suk, who is a GNU librarian, to learn about these services in depth in order that we spread the word.

Interlibrary loan services(ILL) ILL is composed of twoservices, a book lending servicewhere it helps the reader toborrow books that they can t getin their local l ibrary, and atreatise copy service, whichallows students to copy academic papers or dissertations. Thebook lending service allows you to borrow books in the libraries ofother university at no extra charge. GNU students can borrow twobooks per person. The Treatise Copy service allows you to copydissertations which are listed at other national universities, KERIS(Korea Education and Research Information Service) or NDSL(National Discovery for Science Leaders), among others. All GNUstudents can use this service for a small fee.

Film Screening GNU centrall ibrary has image seminarrooms where GNU studentscan watch movies three times aweek on Monday, Wednesdayand Friday, from 2 pm. Moviesthat are screened here aremostly around a year old, such as My Way, The A-Team, Face in aCrowd, An Introduction to Architecture and so on. To see themovie, you should enter the image seminar room at least twentyminutes before the movie starts; the number of seats is limited toonly 20 students per viewing, and it s usually packed.

Ask your librarian Librarians have diverse knowledge of

books. If you have any questions regarding books, you can askany librarian at GNU. The question can be a simple one, or moreacademic, and the librarians will do their best to answer yourquery.

Services for the disabled If you are registered as a disabledstudent at GNU, you can use this service. The librarian, Bak Mi-suk, told us, If you need, GNU librarians will help you search forthe book, and will also provide a book delivery service within GNU.The library will also deliver the books by mail.

GNU cyber learning space GNU library provides a cyberlearning space for students who need to use a computer to study.These video lectures are related to certification such as civil-service level 7 and 9, and that of police officers, computertechnicians, auto CAD users, architectural technicians,construction safety technicians, and so on. GNU students can usethis learning service for free.

E-Book service This service was implemented a year ago. GNUlibrary has 600 kinds of E-Books, including literature, philosophy,religion, art and history. These E-Books are gaining popularityamong GNU students. In 2013, GNU plans to add a greater varietyand quantity of E-Books to this growing list.

Other activities GNU library also has a group study roomwhich four students can rent for 2 hours at a time. To promotereading, the school library also holds a Golden Bell Book Contesteach year. Also, the first floor of GNU central library is open forstudent-held exhibitions.

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To see ancient books or prints of old documents, we oftenthink we have no choice but to visit a museum; Haein Temple inHapcheon, or Gyujanggak in SNU (Seoul National University),for example. But actually, you can also see them right here inGNU’s Muncheongak. The Pioneer visited Muncheongak.

Muncheongak is located at the Nam-Myeonghakkwan. It isdivided into two rooms. One of the rooms, the Muniment Roomis where copies of old documents are kept. The other roomcontains original texts and wooden prints that are kept in specialstorage. Muncheongak holds around 56,000 historic documents,including 20,000 wooden prints and 25,000 old documents. Aswell as this, it has 22 pieces which are cultural property ofGyeongsangnam-do, such as Yeogyangjip Chaekpan, an olddocument of Cheongjuhanssi Byeongsagongpa. Such thingshelp us to better understand Gyeongsangnam-do local historyand local culture.

Lee Jeong-hee, librarian of Muncheongak, said “Thesehistorical treasures were donated or entrusted by the bookdepositary of Korea. These documents are stored in a permanentbookcase after they go through a scanning and filming process.Since the original documents are priceless, we store thesedifferently to the other books on campus. First, these olddocuments are kept lying on a flat surface to keep the originalform. Second, in order to prevent the growth of microorganismsand fungi, the documents and prints must be kept in a cool

temperature. Third, the original documentsand books in this library are for viewingpurposes only, for obvious reasons. Lastly,the bookshelves in Muncheongak are namedafter the people who donated the books.”

The Pioneer asked what the role of thislibrary was. Mr. Lee said, “First,Muncheongak helps to figure out the historyof Gyeongsangnam-do. Under the Joseonera, Jinju was the capital of Gyeongsangwo-do which was located west of Gyeongsang-do. Seoul National University (SNU) hasGyujanggak, which keeps Korean history

books and ancient Korean royal books. Just like SNU,Muncheongak keeps ancient local Korean and national researchbooks. Through this data, we can study the history of Joseon andresearch the Joseon dynasty. Second, Muncheongak has beencollecting and securing old documents. It is estimated thatIndividuals or groups in Gyeongsangnam-do have nearly200,000 old documents that are spread out across the area.These old documents are highly susceptible to theft and damage,so Muncheongak has been trying to collect them. About 50,000of them were recovered but I want to collect all of the remainingold documents for study. So, GNU is planning to organizegenealogy, local history, and data-collection inGyeongsangnam-do.” said Mr. Lee.

Deemed important by the Korean government,Muncheongak will be going under a huge renovation toaccommodate the increasing number of artifacts. The newbuilding will have 6 floors including the basement, and it will bebuilt near the main gate where the tennis court currently is. Thenew building will include state-of-the-art preservationequipment for storing documents and prints, and will also offereducation centers and exhibition rooms for GNU students andthe public. We hope that the new Muncheongak will not only bethe first library of its kind in Gyeongsangnam-do, but also aplace of culture and a landmark for the region.

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Evening Circulation Service This creative servicelets people borrow books even after the libraries close.This service is for those who are too busy to visit thelibrary during the daytime. People can reserve their booksvia phone or internet from 9 am to 5 pm and pick them uplater that night. This is an effective service for studentswho have classes until late at night, or even workers whowork until the evening. Note that reservation and checkoutneeds be processed on the same day and reservation isnot available on Saturday, Sunday or holidays.

Mobile Library For most hard working citizens andstudents, 24 hours a day doesn t seem like enough;people hardly seem have the time to go to librariesanymore. That is why the library comes to you! Thisconvenient service, called the Mobile Library, is provided

by JinjuM u n i c i p a lLibraries andbrings a busfull of booksto 22a p a r t m e n tcomplexes inJinju every week. The bus contains more than 3000 booksready to be borrowed, and the selection is renewedregularly. The bus operates every day except Mondays,holidays and during extreme weather. Anyone with a Jinjulibrary card can borrow three books for two weeks. TheMobile Library is a perfect service for the disabled orelderly who have mobility issues, or for anyone who is toobusy or too lazy to go to the libraries themself.

When I was little, I was fond of reading books and my parents used toread to me all the time. But with all the subjects that I had to study toenter university and the things that I had to deal with in university, itmeant that I couldn’t read as many books. Technological advancementhas made reading books even more accessible through digital libraries, e-book readers, smartphones, and tablet PCs, but the kids of this generationseem to be further away from books than ever before. Among all theOECD nations, Korea ranked the lowest in number of hours spent onreading per year. Reading books is considered one of the greatest habitsto have, and many great people recommend reading books to growphysically and to become a mature human being. That’s why we, The

Pioneer, would like to offer you information about Jinju Municipal Libraries.Jinju has five public libraries, three of which are specialized for children. They are the Children’s Library, Bi-bong

Library and Do-dong Library. After the success of The Children’s Library, which opened in Pyeong-geodong, the othertwo libraries, Do-dong Library and Bi-bong Library were built to increase literacy levels and to promote education inHa-daedong and Ok-bong dong area. These libraries offer various services and programs for elementary schoolstudents and children of a younger age.

In this article, we’d like to introduce two other public libraries, Jinju Western Municipal Library and Jinju Yeon-amMunicipal Library.

Jinju Yeon-am Municipal Library was founded and donated for public usage in 1968 by Gu In-heo, who was thefirst president of the LG corporation. More than 1.9 million items are stocked in the library, including books, e-books,CDs, DVDs, and other electronic media. The library is located on a hillside; the view it affords is quite splendid. Youwill be able to enjoy reading books here and see the fine panorama of Jinju-si. For the disabled, the old and the infirm,Yeon-am library has book enlargers and large print books. Despite this grand view and facilities for disabled, thelocation does hinder the disabled and elderly from using the library easily.

Jinju public library, founded in 1998, has more than 1.5 million books and other useful items such as CDs, DVDsand electronic media. Like the Jinju Yeon-am Municipal Library, Jinju public library is located on a hill and offers agreat view. But it also suffers from the same problem as Jinju Yeon-am Municipal library in that it is hard for theelderly and the disabled to access. Fortunately, the library offers a great deal of services for disabled people, such asBraille information instruments, disabled parking and an elevator reserved for use by the disabled.


Have you ever seen the movie, Rain Man? Ray, (played byDustin Hoffman) has a special type of autism where he canmemorize everything he reads. I’m sure every student in Koreawould like to have a photographic memory like Ray’s, but formost of us that’s practically impossible. But thanks to libraries,this isn’t necessary. Libraries hold an uncountable of literatureand information that can move our hearts or stimulate ourcuriosity. Furthermore, libraries don’t just keep texts; they storeitems of cultural heritage, historical secrets, and they documentthat which civilizations have accomplished. They are a footprintof our entire civilization, and even if you can’t have them all inyour brain, the books will always be there for you to read at anytime.

The Pioneer investigated the three most accessible librariesand their services to our students. These services are designed topromote reading among all age groups. However, it is mindboggling to see some of the data below on library usage. In SouthKorea, there are no less than eight hundred public libraries. Also,there is almost 7 million items of literature and information. Thegood news is that there will be almost 900 libraries by the end ofthe year. The bad news is we are still very far behind many othercountries.

The number of libraries in Korea is too small to show on thischart. Moreover, the average number of citizens per library* isalmost double that of USA. Furthermore, not just the number oflibraries that is an issue; facilities, faculties, and funding are alsowell below our OECD nations. The Pioneer looked into theseshortcomings. At GNU, the libraries lack facilities for thedisabled. For Jinju Municipal Libraries, they don’t have anyprograms or services for university students or adults. I believe

that these can be solved through constant attention and honestfeedback from the people. Although the libraries might not be asattractive as theaters, amusement parks, or Starbucks, you will besurprised at the joy that libraries can give you. You might bethinking that libraries don’t have any spectacles or deliciouscoffee, but you couldn’t be more wrong. Have you ever readLord of The Rings or The Grapes of Wrath? Reading thesenovels, you will be surprised to taste the incredible imagination ofthe writers. Another classical novel, L’Etranger will make youthink you are sipping a flavored espresso.

Cultural events held in the libraries provide you the chance tounderstand the past, present and the future, and what you arepresently going through. The answers to all your life’s questionswill be laid out right in front of you. It’s neither difficult norexpensive. All you need to do is just open a book.

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The Korea Train Express (KTX) is just arriving at the new Jinju station. TheKTX route which connects Jinju with Masan opened last December. You cancatch the train at the new Jinju station in Gajwa-dong. The station is a recreationof the old Jinju station, keeping the traditional Korean look and feel. The KTXstops by the station 6 times a day and takes 3 and half hours to Seoul.


ZOOM IN By Jang Hye-ju reporter

KTX Route Opens in Jinju


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Staying abroad for a period of timecan bring upon different emotions but onesensation sure to hit hard is the feeling ofloneliness. Loneliness in the sense of aftersettling down here and miss the companyof family and friends as well as thehometown local foods. I miss all of that.Of course there’s “Skype”, “Tango”,“Viber” and all sorts of application forvideo calling and free-calls but how can itbe the same? You can see them and listento their voices but not hold or hug them.Missing the company of loved ones hasalways been the main challenge ofstaying abroad. No matter how strong aperson can be, deep down inside, therewill always be something that they willmiss. Parents, siblings, friends, soulmates, pets, foods or even things likecars, bedroom, sofa, video games andtelevision. I miss being with the people Ilove and eating the local foods such as“nasi lemak”, “roti canai”, “asam laksa”,“ABC” and tropical fruits such as“rambutan”, “durian” and “cempedak”. Ittaste just as good as how it looks. Trustme! Sometimes when I wake up in themorning, I smell “asam laksa” which I

know is impossible to get it here in Jinju.For your information, “Asam laksa” issimilar to Korean jjambong. If there’s anMalaysia restaurant in Jinju that servessomething from my country, even if it is abit pricey, I’ll gladly pay.

Latest exchange currency rate forKorean won to Malaysia ringgit. Thetable above clearly shows that cost ofliving in South Korea is high. It isapproximately double or triples the pricein Malaysia. I am not from a wealthyfamily, so it was quite tough to suit in tothe high living cost. I prepare a monthlybudget on how my money should beused, so I can survive till the end of themonth.

I attended Korean Language coursefor a year before I started myundergraduate studies. Even so, it is notenough for me to understand my lecturesfully. Certain professors and lecturers notonly speak fast but use the Gyeongsangdialect, so it is very hard for me tounderstand. Furthermore, most of thetextbooks are in Korean with no English

translated version. This surely ramps upthe challenge. In order to understand thesubject better, I had to study extra byreading the Korean textbook whilehaving my dictionary beside me and getsome extra English notes online. I dounderstand that I am studying now inSouth Korea, so the lectures are inKorean will be something that isunavoidable. However, having Englishtranslated version books of course willhelp the international students so thatalthough they can’t understand the lecturefully, at least they can refer to thetextbook.

Malaysia is a one season countrywhich means summer all year round. Theaverage temperature in my hometown isaround 27.5℃. It can go as high as 33℃and as low as 22℃. Korea with All 4seasons in South is something new to me.Cherry blossom during the spring, mapleleafs during the autumn, snow during thewinter are really delightful. However,winter is the season which I do not enjoy.Why? It’s cold and chilly of course. Eventhe lecture rooms are cold. Heaters are

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not always available because of energyand electricity saving around theuniversity. Furthermore, during winter, Ihave to wear many layers of clotheswhich are very uncomfortable. It makesme looks like a walking penguin. Notonly that, there is not much you can dooutside because of the cold weather.Everybody would rather stay warm athome. Even walking to class during thewinter needs extra motivation because itis cold.

Some voices from my internationalfriends regarding my topic for thisedition. Elvira Fidelia Tanjung &Merisha Icha Hastarina, Indonesian,Postgraduate, majoring in mechanicaldesign and production. We lived in SouthKorea for almost 4 years and a half.Language is one of the maininconveniences. Not everyone speaksEnglish and we only understand basicKorean, so communicating can be verytough.

Not only that, the way people staringat foreigners, sometimes can be verydisturbing and uncomfortable too. We doget that a lot especially in subways orbus. Furthermore, getting “halal” productis also hard.

Halal is a term designating any objector an action which is permissible to useor engage in, according to Islamic law. Itis harder when we moved to Jinju fromSeoul. Jinju doesn’t have any “halal”restaurant so we have no choice but topurchase some “halal” meat from thestore and cook it at home.

As for us, postgraduate students, mostof the time we stays in the laboratory,busy with assignments and thesis-writing

but still we have no choice but to cookbecause eating outside will be quite toughfor us. Certain types of cosmetics, ice-creams, ramen, marshmallows and evenshoes too are not “halal” because itcontains gelatin, a solid substance that isderived from collagen obtained fromvarious animals such as pig, cattles,horses and chickens. So, beforepurchasing any product, checking theproduct ingredient is a must.

Although there are few complains. Iam still grateful in getting a chance tostudy here in Korea. There’s no matterthat doesn’t have a solution. Instead ofcomplaining and making a fuss out of it,it is better to be grateful for what youhave now.

“A grateful thought a day, keeps theinconveniences away”

Sophomore, the Dept. of Aerospace Systems Engineering

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It may not be the greatest of hisworks - though it does have much ofgreatness about it - but the Hemingwaybook I find myself most often revisiting,rereading in toto nearly every year, is hisposthumously published recollection ofhis years a young man and apprenticewriter in Paris, A Moveable Feast. Iadmit that part of what I love about thebook is that it feeds my own blatantlyromantic longing for Paris in the 1920s (Isometimes like to call it nostalgia - fromthe Greek, nóst(os), meaning “a returnhome,” since I vividly remember thestrange feeling of being home that struckme the first time I visited Paris andretraced Hemingway’s and others’meanderings in the Left Bank.) It is ofthe same species of romanticism thatinforms Woody Allen’s recent gem of amovie, Midnight in Paris. But more thanthat, I relish the portrait of Hemingwayas a young writer, the struggles to findthe “how” of the first stories he wasworking on, to manage without muchmoney, to define a position for himself inand to learn from the community ofwriters and artists around him. A

particularly favorite vignette from thebook is of Hemingway on his walks fromhis rented room in which he did hiswriting, after a morning’s work, to theapartment of Gertrude Stein, and of hisstopping en route at the Musée duLuxembourg.

He writes:

I went there nearly every day for theCézannes and to see the Manets andMonets and the other Impressioniststhat I had first come to know about inthe Art Institute at Chicago. I waslearning something from the paintingsof Cézannne that made writing simpletrue sentences far from enough to make

the stories have the dimensions that Iwas trying to put in them. I was learningvery much from him but I was notarticulate enough to explain it toanyone. Besides it was a secret. Orsinking as the light wind lives or dies...

That secret interests me enormously.I think I have an idea of what it is; I see itmany parts of his work, say, in thecomposition of the landscape in theopening chapter of A Farewell to Armsor in the architectonics of the dialogue in“Hills Like White Elephants.” And moreand more these days, I feel that if I had toput a word to it, the word would be“fractals.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about fractalssince spending time late last year withanother posthumously published memoir,The Fractalist: Memoir of a ScientificMaverick by Benoit B. Mandelbrot.Mandelbrot, who died in 2010, was oneof the most extraordinary and influentialmathematicians of the 20th century, theman who coined the term “fractal” - “oneof a class of mathematical shapes whoseuneven contours could mimic theirregularities found in nature” and authorof the seminal The Fractal Geometry ofNature,” his apologia for the use offractal geometry to rigorously quantifycomplex shapes - the outlines of cloudsand coastlines, for example - that other

Science and Poetry: Fractals and Poetic Form

Ernest Hemingway Benoit B. Mandelbrot

mathematicians had dismissed ashopelessly anomalous andunquantifiable, to study roughness andirregularity through geometry and applythe results to sciences and social studies,ranging from biology and physics tofinance. One of the, for me, most strikingstatements in the memoir is hisexplanation of why he decided to pursuehis idiosyncratic (“maverick,” to use hisword) way in the field of mathematics.He writes: “I realized that mathematicscut off from the mysteries of the realworld was not for me, so I took adifferent path,” he writes. He cites theclaim of George Cantor (1845-1918) that“the essence of mathematics is in itsfreedom,” and says that he pursued thatfreedom in order to identify tools “thatmight handle a host of often ancientconcrete problems - ‘questions oncereserved for poets and children.’”

I love this explicit connection that hemakes between the real, best purpose ofthe pursuit of mathematics (and byextension, all science) and the real, bestpurpose of the pursuit of poetry. Andwriting from the poetry end of theconnection, I believe he’s right and thatwriting poetry is very of a kind withthe work of fractal geometry. If youget beyond the more jejune notionsof what poetry is, you can see thisfairly readily. Poetry is not, as it istoo often caricatured, the art of“expressing one’s self or one’semotions” or some act of cheaperpsychotherapy. [Advice to youngpoets: If you want to express youremotions, skip the keyboard and gomake love to your girlfriend orboyfriend or some beautifulstranger. It’s much more to the pointand usually much more satisfying.]

To be sure poetry can be these things - itdoes express emotion (and induces it, aswell) and the writing of it can havetransformative effects on the poet. Butthey are more adventitious than intrinsic,more by products of the forming ofpoetry’s raw materials in the apparentworld than the raison d’être of thatforming. The great 19th - centuryAmerican essayist and poet Ralph WaldoEmerson once wrote that “Poetry is theperpetual endeavor to express the spiritof the thing, to pass the brute body, andsearch the life and reason which causes[sic] it to exist........” If we translateEmerson’s transcendentalist diction -“spirit,” into that of mathematics,“shapes,” we can see that the Emersonianpoet’s endeavor is really the same as that

of the Mandelbrotian fractalist.

Poetry, like mathematics, is the art ofmeasuring and making forms, andmaking forms for the purpose ofilluminating or uncovering the elusive orotherwise inscrutable forms (one thinkshere, to a degree, of Platonic forms) thatcomprise the material of our world. Andin doing as much, it gives to those forms,as Shakespeare put it, “a local habitationand a name.” The English word“poem”comes from the Greek, poieîn, tomake, and - ma a suffix denoting result;hence, a poem is literally the result ofmaking. It creates forms, whether therepeated ones of so-called formal verse,or the idiosyncratic one of free verse; itfinds these forms in observed materialsand uses them to take the measure of theunseen forms that will let us best seewhat we have observed. Poetry cannot bemade without the measuring of meter orline (or anti-line in the case of the prosepoem) or rhythm. Poetry sees in itsforms, the way fractal geometry sees: itssees patterns that display “self-similarity”whose structures “appear the same ornearly the same no matter how deeplyinto or far away from [them] you zoom.”

And what Hemingway saw inCézannne (to return, always happily,to Paris) was, perhaps, a fractalist atwork, the painter making forms thatwould let us see forms, quantifyingand measuring those forms, leading usthrough mystery to understanding. Theevidence in the poetry ofHemingway’s best prose suggests thathe did indeed learn much in earlyafternoons in the Musée duLuxembourg.

Richard MatthewsHe is the author of The Mill Is Burning (Grove Press), which was awarded theJoyce Osterweil Prize in Poetry by PEN America, and the play “The BronzeStaircase" (Presses de l'universite d'Angers). His poems and prose haveappeared in journals and newspapers in the United States, France, and Korea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Fractalist; Memoir of a Scientific Maverick



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Most students are eager to plansomething big when they enter auniversity. For me, GNU exchangeprogram was the golden opportunity toachieve my bucket list: going abroad. Istudied hard from the very first semesterto the last. TOEFL, Student journalist,etc. I eagerly participate activities whichI thought would help me for theexchange student program. It looked likeall my effort was being rewarded.However, I should not have deludedmyself.

Brighten up, will you! I will help you

“There is nothing worse than this.” Icried and cried in the toilet. Regardlessof my emotions, all of my friendscongratulated me for having beenselected as a scholarship student onFacebook. Against their expectation, mylife in New Zealand was getting harderand I felt that I was in the middle ofterribly destructive hurricanes. I often satin the central library toilet and wiped myrunny nose and tears. I was dreading thedifferent style of lecture. In N.Z, many ofthe lecturers require students toparticipate in interactive communicationin the class. ‘Do not be a chicken, youcan do anything.’ I chewed over andover my own magic spell helping me torefresh my mind.

“Attention please, this is theInternational Business 312 class. Myname is Cheryl Rivers. I am the lecturerin this class. I will start with a question.What is a value? What is culture?Anybody want to answer? In a slide, Iwill give you five minutes to read textsand discuss your opinion about valuedifference between Sr Garcia and theDanes.”

She pointed to me and asked me toexplain my opinion about the topic. I felteveryone’s eyes watching me. I listenedbut I did not fully understand herquestion. I answered but it was not clear.Cheryl asked me where I was from0“Korea....” I murmured. “North Koreanculture is high context culture, am Iright?” One student said, “Cheryl, doyou confuse North and South Korea?”Everybody laughed except me. I couldnot put my face up because I wasburning with shame. I was way behind.

Nevertheless, I took this advice.“Avoid expatriates ghettos and beadventurous.” I asked Cheryl after theclass. “Sorry, I can’t follow your classbecause my English is not that good....” I

explained my situation and I asked her togive me her lecture guideline. “Oh, I amsorry Moon. I got used to speaking fast, Iunderstand you.” She gave me lectureslide files before every lecture so I couldprepare for her lessons. Moreover,Sabrina and Lu who are doing very wellhelped me scraping through in reviewinglecture. Heaven helps those who helpthemselves. I learned this first hand.After then, I always sit at the very frontnow and ask questions if I should polishup the most important areas even thoughmy question is not perfect. Fortunately,most of tutors and lecturers let me catchup kindly and they allow me to pass thetest. I got better mark than nativespeakers in Business Writing Class.

Jumping at the chance of a new challenge

My grades were getting better but Ihad a hard time with getting to knowpeople. On my way to the city, I metBen. I do not know his full name yet. Hewas outgoing so he said “hello” to mefirst. I got the blues but I really wanted tomake friends to get out of my moodiness

Adjusting and Exposing Myself to


Moon Hyun-jin New Zealand Cultureso I talked with him for a long time. Heendured a long wait before I talked tohim and he listened carefully. “Do youlike drinking coffee? You can visit myhome if you want.” What a good chance!I was so happy so I said, “yes”. After oneweek, I went to his house. He lived in thesame village so it took only five minutesby foot. Unlike my expectation, Ben hada messy and stinky room. “Hey, Moon.Welcome to my home!” He was stillbright. My facial expression was out ofmy control. Despite my tenderness, heshowed me his photo albums and hisfavorite music videos.”Want somecoffee?” “yeah... please give me some.”The cup was chipped and not that cleanbut I finished the cup of coffee. Thehouse was dirty and smelly but I feltcomfortable. Then, his other friendscame to his place and asked me to drinkvodka. “Hold up a glass, lady. I will giveyou some good drinks.” Except Ben,they were all scary to me. I told themthat I should go to university and I fledfrom his place. In retrospect, He seems abit slow. When I tell this story, all myfriends are surprised and they would tellme that it is too dangerous. Even thoughit is true, I swear that Ben is the onlyperson who listened carefully to me.After that, I noticed that I becamefamiliar with my immediatesurroundings and I can make a lot offriends.

New Zealand and my friends“Shoot, someone has stolen my

snack. Oh! My precious Tim tam.” Myfriend, Asuka Miyauchi laughed andlaughed again. “We are supposed tochange to another room.” There wasonly one week left that I could spendtime with her in New Zealand (N.Z.).We went to the South Island and

reminisced over our memories. Wesmiled but we were in a sad moodbecause we would be going back to ourown country in one week. I was alwaysstruck with poverty in New Zealand. Atthat time, prices were going through theroof in N.Z. I used to keep praying to getmoney in church. ‘Heavenly father,please give me 40 dollars... I should topup my snapper card and phone card. Ican’t get connected with my friends ifyou ignore this prayer.” I was amazed atmy devout prayers. My mother alwaysurges me to pray but I did not do it inSouth Korea. The difficult situationmade me have stronger belief. After aservice at the church, Asuka came to meand she asked me to go to a picnic. Icould not go there because I shouldfinish my writing assignment and I didnot have money. “Sorry, Asuka. Couldyou go there with Rabi if you really wantto go? I should finish my assignment atthe university.” “Then, I will follow you.I should do my work and I want to helpyou, Moon” “Thanks but I can deal withit by myself. Could you text him that wewill not go to the picnic? I should chargemy phone but I did not.” Then, shewanted me to stop by a dairy shop andshowed me one receipt. That was thereceipt that I could use to charge myphone. In N.Z, people pay a certainamount of money to top up their credit in

a dairy shop. People can use their phonewhen they text to a mobile phonecompany. “I know the reason why youwill not go to the picnic and I really wantto get the burden off of your chest, evenif it’s a small burden.” She smiled andhanded over the paper. I started crying. Iwas touched by the fact that I have afriend who knows my mind so well. Wehave very different personalities but weget along well with each other. EveryFriday, university provides free bread tostudents to encourage students whocannot afford to buy food. We made themost of the opportunities to get free foodand drinks. At the very first time, wewent to get free ice cream and cottoncandy during club orientation days. Ifone of us got free food information, wealways texted each other and wenttogether. Nowadays, I miss the sausagesizzle, not only for the smell and flavor,but the spent time with Asuka. I miss thetime spent with Asuka and other friendsin New Zealand.

It was difficult to adjust and exposemyself to a new culture and environmentfot the first time. But when I look back,those hardships made me who I am,strong, independent, and fearless in theface of challenge. You know what theysay “What doesn’t kill you makes youstronger.”

Senior, the Dept. of International Trade

CULTURE By Jang Hye-Ju reporter


Why We Love Dr.Jekyll&Hyde?The musical Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde visited Jinju on December 2nd, 2012.

It’ been a huge hit in Korea, setting a new record by being sold out everyperformance since its premiere in 2004. Bringing famous songs such as This IsThe Moment and Broadway standard performances, I can personally say thatthe show lives up to its hype. So, what are the success factors of this musical?

Other Korean musicals have unfamiliar actors as understudies, but Dr.Jekyll & Mr. Hyde has famous actors. Jo seung-woo, Hong kwang-hyeon and

Ryu jeong-hyeon (who play the role of Dr. Jekyll) are all popular andestablished actors in Korea. Each actor gives different feelings to the

audience and leaves them wanting to watch the show more than once.Frank Wildhorn, famous for his roles in Monte-Cristo and Carmen,

wrote the songs This Is The Moment and Once Upon A Dream, whichare two of the most popular musical songs in Korea. Even people who aren'tinterested in musicals recognize these songs because so many participants whoappear in reality TV shows sing them.

The lyrics of the songs that appeal emotionally are also the reason whythese songs are popular among Koreans. For example, BringOn The Man, in its Korean edition, especially expresses -through covering the relationship between women and men -the duality of human nature in such a way that it is consideredbetter than Broadway version.

Jekyll & Hyde wasn’t doing too well in Broadway. But ithas been a commercial success in Korea through thedramatization by the show’s director. He kept the originalscript and the music (except for some songs that change theirlyrics) but changed other aspects such as stage, costume,choreography and direction to meet the Korean audiences'tastes. According to an expert, the songs composed by FrankWildhorn are familiar because the jazz-inspired beautifulminor-key lyrical ballads are similar to K-pop.

A few days ago, I heard a news which showed that Shinchun-su, the producer of the Korean edition of Jekyll & Hydewill also direct the American edition Jekyll & Hyde. He saidthat an American production company realized that themusical had been very successful in Korea, and suggested ajoint production to reflect the Korean version.

There are many foreign-licensed musicals in Korea.However the Korean edition of Jekyll & Hyde has changedthings from the original version. The success of Jekyll & Hydein Korea is not just due to luck. It is the fruit of great effort.

Taking this apporyunity, I hope we start another new trend“K-musical”.

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