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Guitariststakepartinenergy-savingevent
A
lmost one thousand of guitarists
and68otherbuildingsinSeoulunseeninthe
HwangKyeong-mi/TheArgus
gathered at the plaza in front of
blackout.
Seoul City Hall, as part of a civic
The organizers had hoped to draw 2020
group-led campaign to improve and protect
participantsfortheconcertastheycalledfor
the environment, on the evening of August
a 20 percent cut in the emission of
22,SouthKoreanEnergyDay.
greenhousegasesinthecountryby2020,and
The guitarists, numbering 903, played the
also hoped to set the Guinness World
song “a country of happiness” as a group,
Recordsastheworld’slargestguitarconcert.
contributing to the growing campaign in
Germany currently holds the record with
Abandperformsonthestage,entertainingthe
whichhouseholdsandbuildingoperatorsare
the number of 1,876. But the concert was
crowd.
askedtoturnoffelectriclightsfor5minutes
certifiedbytheKoreaRecordInstituteasthe
from 9 p.m. as a symbolic move to save
nation’smostcrowdedconcert.
The concert followed a day-time event in
energy.
Park Hae-eun, a participant in the concert
whichpeoplewereencouragedtoturnoffair
Dubbed “Turn-on-the star-light-rather-
said, “I am happy I could attend this
conditionersforonehour.
than-electric-light” and organized by Korea
meaningful event to save energy. Although
Theenergydayisobservedeverysummer
NGO’s Energy Network, the campaign was
theworldrecordwasnotbroken,Iamstillso
to remember the nation’s record-high power
staged in 15 major cities nationwide, with
happy I played a role in making this
consumptionsetonAugust22,2004.
Seoul Plaza Hotel, Samsung Jongno Tower
wonderfulconcertaKoreanrecord.”
By HwangKyeong-mi
HUFSseeksalumniononline
ForeignstudentsgetKorean
studieswithHUFSans
T
he school was able to find out whereabouts of about 20,000
alumnithroughanonlinecampaigntoseekitsalumniforthe
firsttimefromJuly9toAugust24.
For the campaign, HUFS set up a site on Cyworld, a Korean
H
undreds of foreign students from 10 countries took a five-
popular provider of personal Internet homepage, and kept in touch
week program on Korean studies, along with about
withcallandtextmessagesonline.
HUFSans,fromJuly9toAugust10andexchangedviews
ManyformerHUFSansvisitedthiswebsite(http://www.hufsan.or.kr)
onKoreaanditsculturewithHUFSans.
to leave their messages of congratulation and their contact addresses
TheInternationalSummerSession(ISS),thefifthofitskindsince
andnumbers.DatafromthecampaignwillbeusedforsendingHUFS
2003 and held in summer vacation every year, is designed to give
newslettertoitsalumniandforminganetworkofHUFSans.
HUFSans and foreign students opportunities to get to know Korea
HUFS, established on 1954, now has almost 100,000 alumni. But
and its culture through discussion between foreign students and
therehavebeennoarrangedcampaignforfindingoutalumniandonly
HUFSans.
10,000 alumni were registered in the school’s alumni association.
Classes of the session, which were offered in English, involved
Someincorrectandoldinformationonitsalumnicausedmanyofthe
Korean politics, economics, societies, language, and culture, with
school’s newsletters to be returned, thus generating the need for the
professorscomingfromtheuniversity,Oxford,Leiden,Hamburgand
campaign as part of its efforts to reduce the cost of returned
otherforeignschools.
newslettersandkeeptrackofitsalumni.
Thesessionalsoincluded“fieldactivities”thatofferedadiversity
This campaign started with small scale at the beginning. But the
ofchancestoexperienceKoreanculturaltotheclasstakers.
scale of this campaign had been bigger so that the school employed
One of the foreign teachers, Antoine Coppola, a member of the
some HUFSans as part-time workers. The students got chances to
advisorycommitteeofCritics’ChoiceofCannes.
meetseniorsandearnmoney.
Coppola had a class about Korean cinema history and opened a
Koo Tae yun (I-06) said, “I hope it is not temporary campaign. It
workshop for film making with 20 students every Monday. He was
wasagoodchancetoprovidetheaffectionandmemoryofHUFSto
quotedassayingthattheKoreanmovieissopowerfulanddiversethat
HUFSansandthealumni.”
heisveryinterestedinitandstudentswereveryactiveineveryclass.
The campaign will continue on during the term, and a larger
The ISS has been enlarged in terms of curriculums and classes.
campaign will begin again on the next vacation, person in charge of
“ISSwillbemoreactivatedifnew-builtdormitoryaccomodatesmore
thiscampaign,YuHee-ra,said.
foreignstudents.”schoolofficialsaid.
By KimEun-hye
By KwonEun-jung
www.theargus.org

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