Last February, the Korean movie Space Sweepers was released. These days, not only people’s daily life, but also the movie industry goes through tough times because of COVID-19. It remains that Space Sweepers was a box office hit with movie goers. Space Sweepers is the work of director Jo Sung-hee, w
A U.S. weekly newsmagazine TIME changed its cover logo on November 3, 2020, one day before the U.S. presidential election. The new logo said ‘VOTE’ and placed ‘Time’ the magazine on the right side. It was an historical move because TIME changed its logo 97 years since its first publication. The cove
In February 2020, a poster that criticizes radioactive safety of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics was affixed on the wall of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. Japan responded it sensitively. Yoshihide Suga who was Chief Cabinet Secretary at that time said "It shouldn't happen" and the Japanese co
Fixed Book Price (FBP) is a government-enforced system under which bookstores do sell books cheaper than publishers. The book price competition triggered major corporate governance about the publishing business. lt destroyed the publish ecosystem, so the government introduced a system to control it.
Many colleges, including Hannam University, have systems to protect campus' order and safety. One of these is 'Campus Police'. Campus Police plays the role of a police officer on campus and they maintain an academic atmosphere. Hannam University operates this system through an agreement
Last October, the manager of Korean restaurant Hanilkwan was bitten by the dog of a famous singer and died. Likewise, a woman was bitten by a famous actor's dog and passed away in May. The National Fire Agency reported that 1,566 people were taken to hospital bitten by dogs in 2019. Seol Chae-hy
These days, students who cannot attend to school because COVID-19 take online class at home and café. Students are full of complaints about online classes for reasons such as expensive tuition, quality of classes, and poor Internet access. But are these problems also experienced by the professor and
Last November 6, The Policy Debate was held in the Cheonglim Hall on the 2nd floor of Hannam University Student Union Building. The policy debate, hosted by Hannam University's Central Election Commission and organized by the Hannam Media Center, is a place to discuss the policies of candidates
Have you ever heard of 'Fast Fashion'? Fast fashion has short lead time than general fashion to release clothes as soon as possible. A lead time means a time from design to sale. The average lead-time of general fashion is three months, but the average lead-time of fast fashion is five weeks
Have you heard of Jew? You may know that they are very intelligent race and a believer in Judaism. Actually, they are only 0.2 percent of worldwide people but have 22 percent of an all-time Novel prize laureate. Albert Einstein, Bill Gates(MS), Mark Elliot Zuckerberg(Facebook), Larry Page and Sergey
Recently, an internal fast food company launched a vegetable burger. It led attention by promoting it as a "miracle that tastes like meat without meat”. Some people responded positively, because they thought it means change the cognition of vegetarianism in Korea. In 2018, year-on-year sales increas
EveryTime is a forum app for the university community, developed by the students from the department of statistics at Sungkyunkwan University. Released in the early 2000s, EveryTime has grown to become a popular mobile phone application, already installed on 3.6 million students' phones. Unlike
According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, paper book reading by elementary, middle, and high school students decreased every year, and the annual number of reading amount decreased by 0.1 to 3.2, compared to last year. This trend appeared as society was digitalized. Since the develo
Jackson Pollock is a pioneer in abstract expressionist art and is known as an action-painting artist. He became an artist following his brother whom is regarded as a father. Jackson Pollock learns painting while doing chores in a teacher’s home. There are many stories about Jackson Pollock, but we a
As the Coronavirus has spread worldwide, hatred against Asians has also spread throughout the world. Racist crimes targeting Asians have increased in western countries, including the United States, Europe, and Canada. Once after Donald Trump publicly referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” on hi