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AnalyzingproblemsonscreeningtestformajorsinEnglishDivision
Now, no one is surprised at this, and
compared with other universities.
they only rage. CATF (The Committee
Nevertheless, school authorities still
Studentslamentone-sided
onAdjustmentofTuitionFee)thatwas
don¡¯tenlargethescaleofthetransferred
held during last vacation was stopped,
money,andonlyraisetuitionfees.Such
confirming only both sides¡¯ positions.
aninsincereattitude,justasitwas,gives
Actually,manyHUFSansexpectedthat
thestudentsafurtherburden.
this CATF would be able to draw ¡®a
The financial structure needs
notificationofschoolauthorities
desirable result¡¯ with construction of
immediate improvement. In the case of
TFAC (The Tuition Fee Arrangement
our foundation, it is a well-known fact
Committee).However,thetuitionfeeof
that live assets were secured
2001wasup7percentto2119000won,
considerably. But, unfortunately, most
and that of 2002 is going to up 6.8
of that is not buildings or a deposit but
S
tudents¡¯ protests followed the short
listening to classes in order to determine
percent.
land, forests and fields. Namely, giving
notice screening test to determine
theirfuturemajors.
Up to now, the negotiation on
consideration to such a undesirable
majorswithintheEnglishDepartment.This
adjustment of tuition fees has mainly
conditions, school authorities ought to
academic unit is divided into three majors:
Students want an apology from the
been led by school authorities. That is,
convert our few profitable assets into
schoolauthority
English Literature, Linguistics and
thestudentscouldn¡¯thelpstaringfixedly
high-profitable ones. They will, of
Interpretation & Translation. Many students
Second, was the attitude of school
at school authorities¡¯ behaviors. They
course, have to diversify the sources of
called the English Department Office to
authority.Aftertheresultswereannounced,
only presented tuition fees that were
the university¡¯s income and strengthen
complainaboutthesituation.
mostofthestudentsquestionedthestandards
calculated by their own criteria. This is
liquidity of funds. And each
Themajorissueofthecomplaintwasthat
and computations that were used to decide
why the students
administration
students did not agree with the method of
their majors. An additional screening test
distrust
the
should reduce
arbitrarily assigning the students into their
wasconductedoncemorebyreasonofmany
authorities.
unnecessary
Pandora¡¯sBox
variousmajors.Ademonstrationwasstaged
students¡¯ protests and complaints. Mistakes
The role of the
budgetitems.
infrontoftheEnglishDepartmentOfficeof
werefoundinthecomputationofscores.
above-mentioned
Also we¡¯d like
the2ndflooroftheAdministrationBuilding.
However, the school authority didn¡¯t
TFAC was a key
to
urge
the
ButtheChairmanoftheEnglishDepartment
apologize mistakes and delayed the official
issue in this
government to
An
didn¡¯t answer the phone and he refused to
announcement. Students thought that these
CATF. We still
hold out for the
defendorexplainthereasonstothestudents.
problemswerecausedfortheconvenienceof
remember
32
securing
of
schoolauthority.
m u t u a l
educational
Many students voiced their
Kang said, ¡°I¡¯m aware of my
agreements
finance of 6
unsolved
complaints
responsibilityforthistroublebecauseofmy
betweenGSCand
percent. Unlike
The English majors wrote numerous
lateinterestsforthisitem.¡±Headdedthathe
schoolauthorities.
other
OECD
articles airing their complaints and opinions
felt sorry that each representative didn¡¯t
One
of
the
member nations,
problem
KimJae-hyuk/TheArgus
about the decisions. These were posted on
argue about screening for majors and that
agreements is the
our government
ThisistheofficeofEnglishDivision.
internet bulletin boards giving access and
everything related to this happening was
formation
of
gives very little
Theresultsofscreeningtestwereonthebulletineboardnexttothedoor.
participation to a wider online community.
practiceddogmatically.
TFAC.
This
money to the
Accordingly, the President of the Student
for interviewing test. The problems which
examination. And many students hadn¡¯t
committee was
universities.
School should consider students first
CounciloftheEnglishDepartmentwrotean
students complained of and screening test
listened to lessons related their desired
created to help
Especially,
articleinordertosooththestudents¡¯chaotic
itselfholdwerecompressedinto2points.
majors during the previous 2 years.
ofall
bring about a reasonable appropriation
private universities are more poorly
feelings.
However, listening to a course of lectures
It is the first time that such an operation
oftuitionfees.Therefore,weexpecteda
supported. We judge that it¡¯s a kind of
SoKangSinho(E-00),thePresidentofthe
Delay of the official announcement
had a principal influence on deciding
has been performed in the Department of
different result compared with that of
evasion of responsibility. Definitely the
needtobeimproved
Student Council of the English Department
students¡¯majors.
English and it was bound to meet trouble.
lasttime.
government¡¯s policy should be revised
met the Dean of the College of Occidental
First, the items of official announcement
But school authorities should prepare in
But school authorities have repeated
towardreducingthestudents¡¯burdento
Administrative affairs should be
Languages to ask for a resolution to this
and the apparent standard for the screening
advance for such operations. For example,
their former behavior, being indifferent
a minimum by expanding continuous
troubledissue.However,itwasthelastday
test and which selected students¡¯ majors
consistent
morechancescouldbegiventofreshmenso
to the construction of TFAC. They
educational financing. Therefore, the
thatthismanwastobeDeanoftheCollege
were previously not expressed. Students
Goingbacktothepast,abriefingsession
that they could listen to lessons in their
unilaterally raised tuition fees 12.1
promisewillhavetobekeptassoonas
of Occidental Languages. So Kang listened
knew nothing for interviewing in advance
forexaminationaboutmajorswasheldatthe
desiredmajors.
percentandafterwardsloweredtherate
possible.
towhatheadvised.
becausetheygotthenewsabouttheschedule
beginning of October in 2000. Then, an
And the items of official announcement
ofraiseto6.8percent.Thatis,infact,a
Equality is an important concept. At
The Dean said that he would think about
of the interview test just a few days before
assistantinstructorhadsaidthatdividingthe
about apparent standards and an exact day
tricktheyhaveusedregularly.However,
least,itistheconceptthatnevershould
thesituationofthestudents.But,hedidnot
thetestswereheld.
department would be enforced when
for taking an examination in relation to
schoolauthoritiesshouldnotridiculethe
be missed in the field of education.
stateasuggestedmethodofsettlement.Kang
Sostudentswhostayedtheprovincesand
students would be sophomores. After that
screeningshouldbeannouncedtoHUFSans
students any more. It only causes the
However,toomuchtuitionfeeisdriving
wasatquitealossaboutwhattodobecause
wentabroadhadtoreturninahurry.Owing
statement was published, there were many
with enough time to plan. Above all, the
studentstobeestrangedfromschool.
manystudentsoffofthecampusagain.
hewasresponsibleforfindingasolution.
to the delay of the official announcement,
student protests against of this official
schoolauthorityshouldfulfilladministrative
In addition, the problems on the
We think we ought to say that school
There are two major points to the
studentscouldn¡¯tpreparesufficientlyforthe
announcement.
affairsnotmerelyfortheirownconvenience
money transferred from the foundation
authorities should have decided tuition
complaints: the items of official
test.Moreover,althoughstudentsknewthey
After that, another official announcement
butwithrealpassionforHUFSans¡¯growth.
andthereturningrateoftuitionfeewere
feesmoredemocratically.
announcementandtheapparentstandardfor
were taking an interview examination, they
was given. It said that the assistant
alsonoimprovementoverthelasttime.
the screening test, and the way the students
couldn¡¯t do anything according to their
instructor¡¯s saying was a kind of mistake.
These two chronic diseases are
majorswereassigned.
schedule.
Studentswerealsoconfusedbecauseofthis
connected directly with sound finances
Thescreeningtestforselectingthemajors
happening.
which are important factors in deciding
Standardofscreeningtestoughttobe
was put in force in these ways: the
Butitincludedconcretearticlesinitsown
tuitionfees.Actually,theamountofthe
ByKimJae-hyuk
examination marks during four semesters
moreclear
way even though this statement changed
money transferred from the foundation
EditorofNewsSection
ByLeeSo-jeong
and interviewing. There were problems in
Inaddition,thebasisofapplyingstudents¡¯
formeropinion.Becauseofthisarticleswere
at our university is incredibly low
AssociateEditorofNewsSection
connection with the official announcement
scores were reported just before the choice
written about the requirement of students
Dreamdidnotcometrue
poor student to make a living by pens. I
Russian was not a dream, but an inevitable
was! It was considered simply more than
TheWangsanGSCisgoingtodemonstrateagainstraiseoftuitionfees
couldnotbutgivingupthedreamofbeinga
fate. I had not asked to myself any more,
honor.Peoplethoughtitwasmoreprivileged
by postponing payment of tuition fees till March 29th. And they will gather
poet.
¡°what should I do with the knowledge of
and honored than passing governmental
studentstoorganizesomegroupswhichwillstruggleforpreventingraiseof
Instead, I fostered another dream to be a
Russian?¡±
examinations.
tuitionfees.
journalist.Thejournalistseemedtoliveupto
Since then I had studied hard. No one
Now I am studying as a linguist and
social justice and firm principle. I imagined
couldunderstand,¡°Why?¡±SometimesIwas
teachingasaprofessor.Adreamofbeinga
TheorientationworkshopforfreshmenofWangsancampuswillbeheld
myself to be a Korean ¡°Lester¡± or Walter
questioned seriously why studying so hard,
poet did not come true. A dream for a
inOsaekGreenyardHotelandFreyaresortofSokchofromMarch1stto3rd.It
Cronkite.
thenjustsmiledorsimplyreplied,¡°myfate.¡±
journalistwasnotrealized,either.
is said that the total theme of this party is ¡°our department, our college, our
I passed an employment examination to
When I was a student, I never dreamt of
However, Frost¡¯s message is still alive in
Wangsan¡±.
oneofthemajornewspapers.ButIwithdrew
being a linguist. And professorship looked
myself:¡°Itooktheonelesstraveledby,And
myself out of the list of final interviewees.
anuntouchableprofession.OnlyIsavedthe
thathasmadeallthedifference.¡±Ineverhad
The Expanded Management Committee was held on February 26th
KangDuck-soo
The day before the date of the interview I
slightest space of time to study Russian. I
adreamforalinguistandprofessor.
under the host of Imun GSC. They discussed a fight for higher wages and
came to the conclusion that the way,
just believed if I would be fully equipped
AsIchoseRussianlanguageasthemajor,
wroteoutdraftresolutionofstrugglingforraiseoftuitionfees.Andtheyalso
ProfessorofDivisionofPracticalEnglish
¡°trodden¡±and¡°traveled¡±,wasnotforme.
with sufficient knowledge of Russian, the
I took the one of roads, untrodden and
announced a statement for supporting joint strike of labor unions in the
FinallyIdecidedtokeepongoingtostudy
futurewouldbeforme.
untraveled.ThenIwasneverskepticalabout
governmentcorporations.
W
hen I was a student, I had a dream.
my major, Russian. That time it was nearly
So I intentionally made myself isolated
mychoice.IbelievedmychoiceofRussian
Reading poems by Robert Frost, I
foolish because there was no perspective in
from friends of the department. I was even
wasthefate,notadream.
imagined myself to be a great poet. Young
thefuturewiththatmajor.
thought an eccentric. But I didn¡¯t mind
peoplewouldbecrowdedtolistentoanew
But I thought at least in 10 years a
because I enjoyed myself in studying
poeticmessagetoatroublesomeworld.Such
specialist in Russia would be very needed.
Russianasmyfate.
animaginationwouldhavethrilledme.
The time will come when we should open
After graduating the University, the first
OnceIwasanactivememberofthecircle
thedoornotonlytoRussia(thattimeSoviet
chanceunexpectedlycame.Thegovernment
ofliterature.ButsoonIrealizedthatIdidnot
Union)buttosocialistcountries.
introduced a governmental scholarship for
have a poetic talent. I had already gone too
Thenwhowouldtakeoverthemissionof
outstandingstudentsinvariousdisciplines.It
far into worldly cares. Such words as
normalizing relations with them? This way
guaranteed the study abroad five years
ByKangDuck-soo
success,fame,moneyweremymainthemes
wouldbehighlyrisky.ButIthoughtitwas
withoutfinancialconcerns.
ThewriterisProfessor
ofthattime.
worthwhiletakingarisk.
At that time it was just a privilege to go
ofthedepartmentofRussian
Itwasthoughtaromanticadventurefora
I accepted the reality as a fate. To study
abroad.StudyinAmerica?Whatafantasyit
Reporter¡¯s Note
Agraduateis
ForeignersstillunderinjusticeinKorea
receivinga
doctorateat
opentheateron
I
ncheon Jung-gu ward office announced
great gap with my imagination- prosperous
China, he was born and grew up in Korea.
anduniqueness.
Feb.27th.
to develop the whole Seon-lin dong to
and active view which had watched at
But it is difficult for him to live under the
Strictly speaking, there had not been
China town. When the reporter came to
Chinesemovies.
present system. He kept on talking their
perfectChinatowninKorea.Onthepurpose
Chinatown,¡°Pae-ru¡±whichstooddignified
Even though a large number of Chinese
sorrows to live as a stranger in Korea. He
of having a fine view of China town of
inentranceofwelcomedthereporter.
emigrants are living there, it was too small
was so deplorable that expressed his regret
Seonlin-dong, the government must have
ItissurethatthewholeSeon-lindonghad
and poor village. Only some chinese
strongly.
open-mindedtoChineseemigrantsprimarily
beenafootholdofChineseemigrants.Now
restaurants, stores, school and old Chinese
Sun Shun-tzu, the manager of ¡°Ja-kum-
andsetupsomesupportingpoliciestohelp
there are a lot of Chinese emigrants who
style buildings distinguished it from
seong¡± said that something not related to
them.
manage to subsist by working hardly. So
commonKoreanvillage.
China such as Korean restaurants and PC
Deciding to cover China-town, the reporter
When the reporter was disappointed,
room ruined an exotic atmosphere and our
expected to be able to experience fresh
suddenly one man came to the reporter and
owncharacter.
ByKimHong-ran
exoticculture.
sighed out Chinese emigrants¡¯ pitiful
The Jung-gu ward office has to try
ReporterofInternationalSection
However, the real scenery of China had
circumstances. Although his nationality is
preservingandacceleratingChineseidentity
KimJae-hyuk/TheArgus
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AnalyzingproblemsonscreeningtestformajorsinEnglishDivision
Now, no one is surprised at this, and
compared with other universities.
they only rage. CATF (The Committee
Nevertheless, school authorities still
Studentslamentone-sided
onAdjustmentofTuitionFee)thatwas
don¡¯tenlargethescaleofthetransferred
held during last vacation was stopped,
money,andonlyraisetuitionfees.Such
confirming only both sides¡¯ positions.
aninsincereattitude,justasitwas,gives
Actually,manyHUFSansexpectedthat
thestudentsafurtherburden.
this CATF would be able to draw ¡®a
The financial structure needs
notificationofschoolauthorities
desirable result¡¯ with construction of
immediate improvement. In the case of
TFAC (The Tuition Fee Arrangement
our foundation, it is a well-known fact
Committee).However,thetuitionfeeof
that live assets were secured
2001wasup7percentto2119000won,
considerably. But, unfortunately, most
and that of 2002 is going to up 6.8
of that is not buildings or a deposit but
S
tudents¡¯ protests followed the short
listening to classes in order to determine
percent.
land, forests and fields. Namely, giving
notice screening test to determine
theirfuturemajors.
Up to now, the negotiation on
consideration to such a undesirable
majorswithintheEnglishDepartment.This
adjustment of tuition fees has mainly
conditions, school authorities ought to
academic unit is divided into three majors:
Students want an apology from the
been led by school authorities. That is,
convert our few profitable assets into
schoolauthority
English Literature, Linguistics and
thestudentscouldn¡¯thelpstaringfixedly
high-profitable ones. They will, of
Interpretation & Translation. Many students
Second, was the attitude of school
at school authorities¡¯ behaviors. They
course, have to diversify the sources of
called the English Department Office to
authority.Aftertheresultswereannounced,
only presented tuition fees that were
the university¡¯s income and strengthen
complainaboutthesituation.
mostofthestudentsquestionedthestandards
calculated by their own criteria. This is
liquidity of funds. And each
Themajorissueofthecomplaintwasthat
and computations that were used to decide
why the students
administration
students did not agree with the method of
their majors. An additional screening test
distrust
the
should reduce
arbitrarily assigning the students into their
wasconductedoncemorebyreasonofmany
authorities.
unnecessary
Pandora¡¯sBox
variousmajors.Ademonstrationwasstaged
students¡¯ protests and complaints. Mistakes
The role of the
budgetitems.
infrontoftheEnglishDepartmentOfficeof
werefoundinthecomputationofscores.
above-mentioned
Also we¡¯d like
the2ndflooroftheAdministrationBuilding.
However, the school authority didn¡¯t
TFAC was a key
to
urge
the
ButtheChairmanoftheEnglishDepartment
apologize mistakes and delayed the official
issue in this
government to
An
didn¡¯t answer the phone and he refused to
announcement. Students thought that these
CATF. We still
hold out for the
defendorexplainthereasonstothestudents.
problemswerecausedfortheconvenienceof
remember
32
securing
of
schoolauthority.
m u t u a l
educational
Many students voiced their
Kang said, ¡°I¡¯m aware of my
agreements
finance of 6
unsolved
complaints
responsibilityforthistroublebecauseofmy
betweenGSCand
percent. Unlike
The English majors wrote numerous
lateinterestsforthisitem.¡±Headdedthathe
schoolauthorities.
other
OECD
articles airing their complaints and opinions
felt sorry that each representative didn¡¯t
One
of
the
member nations,
problem
KimJae-hyuk/TheArgus
about the decisions. These were posted on
argue about screening for majors and that
agreements is the
our government
ThisistheofficeofEnglishDivision.
internet bulletin boards giving access and
everything related to this happening was
formation
of
gives very little
Theresultsofscreeningtestwereonthebulletineboardnexttothedoor.
participation to a wider online community.
practiceddogmatically.
TFAC.
This
money to the
Accordingly, the President of the Student
for interviewing test. The problems which
examination. And many students hadn¡¯t
committee was
universities.
School should consider students first
CounciloftheEnglishDepartmentwrotean
students complained of and screening test
listened to lessons related their desired
created to help
Especially,
articleinordertosooththestudents¡¯chaotic
itselfholdwerecompressedinto2points.
majors during the previous 2 years.
ofall
bring about a reasonable appropriation
private universities are more poorly
feelings.
However, listening to a course of lectures
It is the first time that such an operation
oftuitionfees.Therefore,weexpecteda
supported. We judge that it¡¯s a kind of
SoKangSinho(E-00),thePresidentofthe
Delay of the official announcement
had a principal influence on deciding
has been performed in the Department of
different result compared with that of
evasion of responsibility. Definitely the
needtobeimproved
Student Council of the English Department
students¡¯majors.
English and it was bound to meet trouble.
lasttime.
government¡¯s policy should be revised
met the Dean of the College of Occidental
First, the items of official announcement
But school authorities should prepare in
But school authorities have repeated
towardreducingthestudents¡¯burdento
Administrative affairs should be
Languages to ask for a resolution to this
and the apparent standard for the screening
advance for such operations. For example,
their former behavior, being indifferent
a minimum by expanding continuous
troubledissue.However,itwasthelastday
test and which selected students¡¯ majors
consistent
morechancescouldbegiventofreshmenso
to the construction of TFAC. They
educational financing. Therefore, the
thatthismanwastobeDeanoftheCollege
were previously not expressed. Students
Goingbacktothepast,abriefingsession
that they could listen to lessons in their
unilaterally raised tuition fees 12.1
promisewillhavetobekeptassoonas
of Occidental Languages. So Kang listened
knew nothing for interviewing in advance
forexaminationaboutmajorswasheldatthe
desiredmajors.
percentandafterwardsloweredtherate
possible.
towhatheadvised.
becausetheygotthenewsabouttheschedule
beginning of October in 2000. Then, an
And the items of official announcement
ofraiseto6.8percent.Thatis,infact,a
Equality is an important concept. At
The Dean said that he would think about
of the interview test just a few days before
assistantinstructorhadsaidthatdividingthe
about apparent standards and an exact day
tricktheyhaveusedregularly.However,
least,itistheconceptthatnevershould
thesituationofthestudents.But,hedidnot
thetestswereheld.
department would be enforced when
for taking an examination in relation to
schoolauthoritiesshouldnotridiculethe
be missed in the field of education.
stateasuggestedmethodofsettlement.Kang
Sostudentswhostayedtheprovincesand
students would be sophomores. After that
screeningshouldbeannouncedtoHUFSans
students any more. It only causes the
However,toomuchtuitionfeeisdriving
wasatquitealossaboutwhattodobecause
wentabroadhadtoreturninahurry.Owing
statement was published, there were many
with enough time to plan. Above all, the
studentstobeestrangedfromschool.
manystudentsoffofthecampusagain.
hewasresponsibleforfindingasolution.
to the delay of the official announcement,
student protests against of this official
schoolauthorityshouldfulfilladministrative
In addition, the problems on the
We think we ought to say that school
There are two major points to the
studentscouldn¡¯tpreparesufficientlyforthe
announcement.
affairsnotmerelyfortheirownconvenience
money transferred from the foundation
authorities should have decided tuition
complaints: the items of official
test.Moreover,althoughstudentsknewthey
After that, another official announcement
butwithrealpassionforHUFSans¡¯growth.
andthereturningrateoftuitionfeewere
feesmoredemocratically.
announcementandtheapparentstandardfor
were taking an interview examination, they
was given. It said that the assistant
alsonoimprovementoverthelasttime.
the screening test, and the way the students
couldn¡¯t do anything according to their
instructor¡¯s saying was a kind of mistake.
These two chronic diseases are
majorswereassigned.
schedule.
Studentswerealsoconfusedbecauseofthis
connected directly with sound finances
Thescreeningtestforselectingthemajors
happening.
which are important factors in deciding
Standardofscreeningtestoughttobe
was put in force in these ways: the
Butitincludedconcretearticlesinitsown
tuitionfees.Actually,theamountofthe
ByKimJae-hyuk
examination marks during four semesters
moreclear
way even though this statement changed
money transferred from the foundation
EditorofNewsSection
ByLeeSo-jeong
and interviewing. There were problems in
Inaddition,thebasisofapplyingstudents¡¯
formeropinion.Becauseofthisarticleswere
at our university is incredibly low
AssociateEditorofNewsSection
connection with the official announcement
scores were reported just before the choice
written about the requirement of students
Dreamdidnotcometrue
poor student to make a living by pens. I
Russian was not a dream, but an inevitable
was! It was considered simply more than
TheWangsanGSCisgoingtodemonstrateagainstraiseoftuitionfees
couldnotbutgivingupthedreamofbeinga
fate. I had not asked to myself any more,
honor.Peoplethoughtitwasmoreprivileged
by postponing payment of tuition fees till March 29th. And they will gather
poet.
¡°what should I do with the knowledge of
and honored than passing governmental
studentstoorganizesomegroupswhichwillstruggleforpreventingraiseof
Instead, I fostered another dream to be a
Russian?¡±
examinations.
tuitionfees.
journalist.Thejournalistseemedtoliveupto
Since then I had studied hard. No one
Now I am studying as a linguist and
social justice and firm principle. I imagined
couldunderstand,¡°Why?¡±SometimesIwas
teachingasaprofessor.Adreamofbeinga
TheorientationworkshopforfreshmenofWangsancampuswillbeheld
myself to be a Korean ¡°Lester¡± or Walter
questioned seriously why studying so hard,
poet did not come true. A dream for a
inOsaekGreenyardHotelandFreyaresortofSokchofromMarch1stto3rd.It
Cronkite.
thenjustsmiledorsimplyreplied,¡°myfate.¡±
journalistwasnotrealized,either.
is said that the total theme of this party is ¡°our department, our college, our
I passed an employment examination to
When I was a student, I never dreamt of
However, Frost¡¯s message is still alive in
Wangsan¡±.
oneofthemajornewspapers.ButIwithdrew
being a linguist. And professorship looked
myself:¡°Itooktheonelesstraveledby,And
myself out of the list of final interviewees.
anuntouchableprofession.OnlyIsavedthe
thathasmadeallthedifference.¡±Ineverhad
The Expanded Management Committee was held on February 26th
KangDuck-soo
The day before the date of the interview I
slightest space of time to study Russian. I
adreamforalinguistandprofessor.
under the host of Imun GSC. They discussed a fight for higher wages and
came to the conclusion that the way,
just believed if I would be fully equipped
AsIchoseRussianlanguageasthemajor,
wroteoutdraftresolutionofstrugglingforraiseoftuitionfees.Andtheyalso
ProfessorofDivisionofPracticalEnglish
¡°trodden¡±and¡°traveled¡±,wasnotforme.
with sufficient knowledge of Russian, the
I took the one of roads, untrodden and
announced a statement for supporting joint strike of labor unions in the
FinallyIdecidedtokeepongoingtostudy
futurewouldbeforme.
untraveled.ThenIwasneverskepticalabout
governmentcorporations.
W
hen I was a student, I had a dream.
my major, Russian. That time it was nearly
So I intentionally made myself isolated
mychoice.IbelievedmychoiceofRussian
Reading poems by Robert Frost, I
foolish because there was no perspective in
from friends of the department. I was even
wasthefate,notadream.
imagined myself to be a great poet. Young
thefuturewiththatmajor.
thought an eccentric. But I didn¡¯t mind
peoplewouldbecrowdedtolistentoanew
But I thought at least in 10 years a
because I enjoyed myself in studying
poeticmessagetoatroublesomeworld.Such
specialist in Russia would be very needed.
Russianasmyfate.
animaginationwouldhavethrilledme.
The time will come when we should open
After graduating the University, the first
OnceIwasanactivememberofthecircle
thedoornotonlytoRussia(thattimeSoviet
chanceunexpectedlycame.Thegovernment
ofliterature.ButsoonIrealizedthatIdidnot
Union)buttosocialistcountries.
introduced a governmental scholarship for
have a poetic talent. I had already gone too
Thenwhowouldtakeoverthemissionof
outstandingstudentsinvariousdisciplines.It
far into worldly cares. Such words as
normalizing relations with them? This way
guaranteed the study abroad five years
ByKangDuck-soo
success,fame,moneyweremymainthemes
wouldbehighlyrisky.ButIthoughtitwas
withoutfinancialconcerns.
ThewriterisProfessor
ofthattime.
worthwhiletakingarisk.
At that time it was just a privilege to go
ofthedepartmentofRussian
Itwasthoughtaromanticadventurefora
I accepted the reality as a fate. To study
abroad.StudyinAmerica?Whatafantasyit
Reporter¡¯s Note
Agraduateis
ForeignersstillunderinjusticeinKorea
receivinga
doctorateat
opentheateron
I
ncheon Jung-gu ward office announced
great gap with my imagination- prosperous
China, he was born and grew up in Korea.
anduniqueness.
Feb.27th.
to develop the whole Seon-lin dong to
and active view which had watched at
But it is difficult for him to live under the
Strictly speaking, there had not been
China town. When the reporter came to
Chinesemovies.
present system. He kept on talking their
perfectChinatowninKorea.Onthepurpose
Chinatown,¡°Pae-ru¡±whichstooddignified
Even though a large number of Chinese
sorrows to live as a stranger in Korea. He
of having a fine view of China town of
inentranceofwelcomedthereporter.
emigrants are living there, it was too small
was so deplorable that expressed his regret
Seonlin-dong, the government must have
ItissurethatthewholeSeon-lindonghad
and poor village. Only some chinese
strongly.
open-mindedtoChineseemigrantsprimarily
beenafootholdofChineseemigrants.Now
restaurants, stores, school and old Chinese
Sun Shun-tzu, the manager of ¡°Ja-kum-
andsetupsomesupportingpoliciestohelp
there are a lot of Chinese emigrants who
style buildings distinguished it from
seong¡± said that something not related to
them.
manage to subsist by working hardly. So
commonKoreanvillage.
China such as Korean restaurants and PC
Deciding to cover China-town, the reporter
When the reporter was disappointed,
room ruined an exotic atmosphere and our
expected to be able to experience fresh
suddenly one man came to the reporter and
owncharacter.
ByKimHong-ran
exoticculture.
sighed out Chinese emigrants¡¯ pitiful
The Jung-gu ward office has to try
ReporterofInternationalSection
However, the real scenery of China had
circumstances. Although his nationality is
preservingandacceleratingChineseidentity
KimJae-hyuk/TheArgus
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