BY SANGWON LEE, REPORTER Human Rights Watch (HRW), a US-based international NGO that investigates human rights issues worldwide, released a report titled “You Cry at Night but Don’t Know Why” to divulge the rampant practices of sexual violence in North…
BY HYUNSEON KIM, REPORTER On November 6th, the Seoul Central District Court arrested a teacher, surnamed Hyeon, who is a senior school administrator at Sookmyung Girls’ High School, for suspicion of allegedly leaking the exam questions to his 11th grade…
BY HAEUN CHOI, REPORTER On a special Thursday in November, South Korea stops. Airplanes do not depart, most of the workforce’s call times are delayed, and traffic is non-existent in busy cities. The only ones who are moving around are…
BY SANGWON LEE, REPORTER August 2018 was “Asian August” for Hollywood. “Crazy Rich Asians”, the first all-Asian cast in a Hollywood film in 25 years, became an unexpected box office success, grossing $170.8 million in the first 30 days after its…
BY HAEUN CHOI, REPORTER Haseung Joung and Seihoon Lee, both freshmen global affairs majors, represented Mason Korea in the 2018 WFUNA College Leaders at the United Nations: Korea Program from this April to August. As one of the 25 selected Korean…
BY HYUNSEON KIM, REPORTER “Fake Refugees Go Home Right Now!” is what a group of protesters were shouting on June 30, at the Gwanghwamun square, an emblematic place for civil protests in South Korea. This time, protestors were opposing Yemeni refugees…
Meeting with Mason Korea Coordinator, Grace Lee BY YA-EN SIE, REPORTER Grace Lee, the Mason Korea Campus Coordinator at Fairfax, takes an important role in helping students with study abroad within the Mason community. Lee works closely with University Life, especially…
Showing the Way to Korean Global Companies BY SEIHOON LEE, SECRETARY Minseong Kang, a sophomore majoring in management, recently finished his two-month internship at SK Innovation, a petroleum refining company. SK Innovation is part of the SK group, one of the…
GMU Korea student interns at an intergovernmental organization BY SUNGWON MUN, REPORTER Hye Rin Yoon, a GMU Korea global affairs and psychology senior currently working as an intern in the Global Green Growth Institution (GGGI), takes the front line for global…
GMU Korea graduate Yulia Lee works at one of “The Big Four” BY HAEUN CHOI, REPORTER; HASEUNG JOUNG, MANAGING EDITOR Yulia Lee, a class of 2017 accounting graduate, is one of the first George Mason University Korea graduates who landed…