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2 NOVEMBER2,2005
OPINION
Wherepubliceducationgoes?
Editorial
EducationMinistryintroducesbillmakingnationaluniversitiesintocorporations
Moneyisproblem?
can not afford to help the local national
ByYangEun-ae
universitiesinfinancesbelow20%.
AssociateEditorofCampusSection
Of course, we need to reconstruct the
R
ecent days, there is a popular lecture for HUFSans. The name of the lecture is
T
here are a lot of controversy
nationaluniversities,soIsuggestthatwecan
¡°Very special lecture,¡± which is planned and progressed by HUFS Development
surrounding a policy that concerns a
takesystemtoevaluateprofessorswhenthey
PromotionCommittee.Beforeenteringtheschool,studentsmightthinktheywouldbe
national university becoming a corporate
get promotion and appointment again. And
abletoattendandselectthelecturesthattheyreallywanttoincampusbutinreality,they
body. While the Ministry of Education &
we should resettle registration unit into a
realizethatitisjustadream.Differentfromtheirimagination,thelecturesarelimitedfor
Human Resources Development is
schoolandacollegeofauniversity.
thereasonlikethenumberofprofessors,supportingfee,digitalsystemandsoon.
promoting the special law for transferring
Especiallyinthecaseofculturalstudies,registeringforthepopularclassesisfinished
nationaluniversitiesintocorporations,overa
Reporter : What do you think the
early and the number of acceptable students is limited. Resolving these problems and
thousand professors of such universities,
governmentshoulddotonormalizepublic
students¡¯dissatisfaction,these¡°Veryspeciallecture¡±arereceivingagreatwelcomefrom
students, and other citizen groups have
education?
the students as a valuable choice. ¡°Very special lecture¡± started on October 5, and
staged a demonstration against it since
Kim : Making national universities to
continuestoNovemberfirst.Celebritieswithdifferentprofessions,suchasphotographer
September 24 in Seoul. Changing national
body corporate is merely one of the
LeeYoung-nam,writerLeeYuMyung-ho,EnglishteacherLeeKeun-chul,entertainer
universities to corporate bodies means a
solutions.Anditcannotraisetheequalityof
Kim Jae-dong, and anouncer Son Suk-hee are the ones who came to the school for
system that guarantees their self-control
higher education but change management
HUFSans.
about finance, personnel management, and
system. If national universities become
AsastudentofHUFSwhohasmuchinterestinjournalism,thewriteralsotookoneof
incorporation instead of the government
corporations, directors of the Education
YangEun-ae/TheArgus
the lectures in the series. The sixth lecturer was the famous anchor Son Suk-hee. The
supports.
Ministry will intervene in their internal
TheprofessorKimSong-heeisexplaningthebill.
lecture¡¯s point was the relation of the capital and public broadcasting system, in other
Inthedebatableissue,TheArgusmetthe
affairsmorethannow.
words,theeffectofthemoneytomakeaprogram.Currentpublicbroadcastingprogram
president of Korea Federation of National
community development. But the Ministry
electionwillchangeintoanindirectelection.
Andifwedonothingaboutit,themeaning
dependsontheadvertisementmoneyfromthecompany,fromthemoneytheprogramis
University Professor Associations, Kim
ofEducationgoesintheoppositedirection.
ButIthinkthat,professorsmustvotetothe
of education will also change into
made,andrecentdays,thepublicprogramgreatlyaffectpeople¡¯sthoughtsandactions.
Song-hee, and asked his opinion about this
election and board of directors should not
competitive logic. Soon we will see
Forthatreasonthecontentsofagoodqualityprogramisimportant.Fund,capital,money
bill.
Reporter : What will be more realistic
disturbit.
educationasaconsumerproduct.
aretheproblemofthiscapitalismsociety.
problems when the government accepts
Toreinforcegiveneducationalconditions,
Much less, this ¡°Very special lecture¡± also has gone close to canceling the lectures.
Reporter : Would you explain current
thebill?
Reporter : Many other countries are
thegovernmenthastoinvestmoreinhigher
Themainreasonwasalsorelatedwithmoney.Sucheventprogressingfee,orcastingfee
conditiontothereadersindetailandwhy
Kim : Above all, the most sensitive
trying to corporate national universities.
education from both administration and
areallneededmoney.However,HUFSDevelopmentPromotionCommitteedidnotget
doyouobjecttothebill?
problem is rising tuition fees. National
Doesn¡¯t Korea have to reform that to
finance. It has to have professors operate
enougheventsupportingfeefromtheschoolauthority.Theschoolsaidthatalreadyall
Kim Song-hee : Well, it requires
universitiesinKoreaarefullydependenton
strengthen competitiveness? What other
school and fit an educational budget to
theestimatedcostsarefixed,sothereisnomargintosupporttheexpensestoopenthe
consideration from several aspects. First,
whatthegovernmentsupportsandstudents¡¯
solutionsdoyouthinkof?
proportionofthenumberofcollegestudents
lectures.Inthiscourse,HUFSdevelopmentpromotioncommitteerequestedsupporting
Korea does not have economic power. In
payment because there are not yet frequent
Kim : China made a great success of
inKorea.
money to each department¡¯s student leaders. Some accepted the proposal and helped
terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
contributionslikeotherprivatecolleges.
promotingnationaluniversitiesbyoperating
The national universities have their
them;othersdidnotsupportthemfortheydidnothaveenoughallowancesorhadsome
Koreaisnownearatthebottomoftheworld
Next problem is on basic learning. Until
¡°211 process¡± from 1996, and announced
mission that presents moderate tuition fees,
otherreason.
in supporting education. But if national
now, national universities have been taking
later ¡°985 process¡± to found another first-
provides equal opportunity to learn higher
Anyway,themoneywasoneofthemainproblemsthatheldbackthespeciallecture.
universitiesbecomecorporations,theyaimat
effortstopromotebasiclearningandstudied
class university. And Japan also obtained a
education through well-balanced local
Inthissituation,themostpopularlecture,anchorSon¡¯sspeechthemewasrelatedwith
profit-centered education and the
itforalongtime.Butiftheyareactualized
certain results by ¡°Do Ya-ma plan¡± which
arrangement,andfostersbasiclearning.And
capitalofthepublicbroadcasting.Audiences,especiallyHUFSDevelopmentPromotion
government will also enhance quality of
tobodycorporate,itisnaturalthattheywill
designates restructuring of the national
theyneedabundantfinancialresources.Ifthe
Committeemembersmaybeweredeeplytouched.
profitable universities. Does the Education
bemoreconcernedaboutnotbasiclearning
universities.Itgotridofmanybadpractices
government think of the object of the
Recent day, some criticisms like present university students do not have serious
ministrygiveupthepubliceducation?
such as human knowledge, philosophy,
of public education under the slogan of
national universities, it should not decrease
interests such as on political issues come up. Different from 70s to 80s university
While private universities were made for
naturalsciencebutprofitablelearning.
¡°When the universities change, Japan will
activesupportforthem.Asoftoday,making
students,nowadaysstudentsaresensitivetocoursecreditandemployment.Thewriter
thepurposeofspecialeducation,forinstance
And as full-time instructors decrease
change,too.¡±
national universities into body corporate
doesnotthinkthatsuchcharacteristicissomethingtobejustcriticalabout.
HUFS, the national universities were
becauseofthelackofmoney,thenumberof
However,itisinappropriateforKoreayet.
wouldbeprematuretocarryout.Withmore
Pastuniversityactivistswereconsideredasupperclassinsociety,whohadthedutyto
established to backup public education, and
irregular lecturers will increase, then it will
Discrimination in ability to support national
time and conditions, it would be promoted
adjust the wrong and help the victims of society. Nevertheless, these days university
higher education exactly. The present
spoil the quality rather than help the higher
universities financially between the
frommembersofnationaluniversities.
students can be also considered as one of the victims of society, especially related to
president Roh stands at the principle of
schooling.
metropolitanareaandtheprovincesremains
capitalism.
equality and insists well-balanced
Besides, the direct university presidential
andwilldoaswell.Evenalocalcommunity
bonobono86@hufs.ac.kr
HUFSansneedtotakesometimeoffandgiveananotherthoughtaboutthe¡°money¡±
Blue Print
issue. Why they are trying to get high credits, why they are trying to enter the
conglomerate,andwhytheywanttoearnalotofmoney.Thewriteralsowantsthemto
reconsider, whether they are not missing something really valuable for that reasons or
not.
CheonggyecheonRestorationProjectofReinterpretation
However, since Seoul City planning is
and had the stream straight, the way it is
explosive increase in population caused it
always followed by economic and financial
now.And300later,KingYeongjoin1760it
full of wastes much like an enormous
Inremembranceofthewarrior
dilemma,whichallneedtobebalanced.Of
flooded again and took many lives. He
dumping ground, which shows us that the
whofoughtfor¡°Democracy¡±
allthecontroversiesontheCheonggyecheon
finally gathered his 20,000 people for far
streambackthen,reachedanegativeclimax
restoration, one prevailing idea, so called,
largerscaleriparianworks.
asnaturecontrolledbyhumanbeings.
¡°Dominant Discourse¡± may well appear.
Consequently, the stream needed more
Due to its unfortunate location in a big
Whatever concept or idea of the discourse,
positive managing and controlling which
city, the stream had lost its fundamental
according to the city mayor and the people
now culminated in the restoration. The
natural identity through all the continuous
surrounding, clearly, it is characterized as a
debateonrestorationfirstappearedin1905.
interferences and controls. But now, in that
restorationoftheenvironmentorthatofthe
according to Namdaemoon market
we restored the environment and have the
historicalecology.
demolition policy of the Residency-General
fresh water back, which all adds up to our
Theprojectsetupasignificantexampleof
during the Japan colonization. As a part of
better living standard, Cheonggyecheon
PakGea-gwan
¡°Paradigm Shift¡± from the quantitative
their plan to make Seoul their imperial
restoration has an important meaning. The
growth oriented city paradigm to the
capitalcity,Japanin1935proposedtocover
streamalteredintoanartificialstructurestill
U
nderthemainnotionofaccomplishing
preservativeandmanagerial.Inorderforitto
thestreamupwithanewstreet,butitcame
stands a natural flow but more importantly
21c advanced environmental Seoul
be done, the main people leading the
to nothing, because of a financial problem
takes a city managing role that also stands
City, the Cheonggyecheon Restoration
restoring process should consider its social-
andsoon.Despiteallthis,theattemptfinally
the flows of humans and materials.
Project is focused on as well as renovating
ecological quality and also create a better
cametrue3decadeslaterin1960underthe
Therefore this reveals how the nature has
the image of Seoul, defining a new city
processforitsownuniqueidentityinavery
Parkdictatorship.
beenchangedalongSeoulcitizens¡¯lives.In
management paradigm and its competitive
open and democratic way, as there has
Duringhistime,Seoulwasaleadingcity
conclusion, Cheonggyecheon Restoration
industrialpotential.Tobemorespecific,the
existedever-lastinginteractionsbetweenthe
oftheKoreaneconomydevelopmentproject
Project, and further restorations such as
Sir.National
600-year-old history and culture of Seoul
naturalecologyandsocietyofSeoul.
andmanyfacilitieswasbuilthereandthere,
naturalsurroundings,history,ecology,water
will regain its dynamism and Seoul citizen
Having said that, throughout history, the
all over the city. Especially, the
supply combined, should also be specially
SecurityLaw
will be given an environment-friendly and
stream has been incessantly controled,
Cheonggyecheon restoration and the
carried out further with a voluntary attitude
human focused urban space. Moreover, by
connected to social power and governance
elevated highway became representative
ofcitizensandconstantcare.
streamliningthecentralpublictransportation
structure. For example, looking back on its
examplesofallthose.Butironicallyenough,
system,itisalsoexpectedthatSeoulwillbe
historicalchanges,Taejongin1411whenthe
while they represent our rapid economic
more developed as a center of international
streamfloodedChangdeokpalacereleaseda
growth,itdoesalsorepresentthenaturethat
ThiswriterisalecturerofDepartmentof
financeandanewcommercialsphere.
population of 50,000 for the riparian works
we lost all that time. In addition to that,
PublicAdministration
LettertoTheArgus
KimSun-woong/CartoonistofTheArgus
T
he official
Ascheaterswriteintinylettersonasmall
I
understood that
graduationbutlacksomehoursinorderto
mid-term for
pieceofpaperorevenondesks,whilealso
the
school
graduate, so they go on looking for some
this fall semester
plagiarizing,theyearnhigh-scoresandeven
committee
is
classes that they can take to fill their time.
started
from
scholarships. On the other side, honest
trying to keep our
They don¡¯t necessarily need those classes
October17to 21.
studentslosegradepointsandconfidence.It
schoolcompetitive
and don¡¯t have much interest, either.
ESTABLISHED1954
Posters saying
is true that such misdeeds make innocent
by
making
However, there is no other choice but to
PublishedmonthlyexcepttheschoolholidaysbyandforstudentsofHankukUniversityof
¡°A+forthosewho
studentsvictims,andtheymightgetonthe
students achieve
taketheclassesinordertograduate.
ForeignStudies.TheArgus,theoldestcampusEnglishnewspaperinKorea,pursuesthe
are cool¡± were
wagonaswell,withoutmuchconsideration.
more
in
Thison-goingproblemneedstobefixed
higheststandardofcampusjournalism.
easily found on
We can see that academic dishonesty can
academics.
and reforms should take place. Classes
campus.
have negative effects on the student¡¯s
Students need to
should not be set as to be filled for
?President,Publisher
AhnByongMan
Thepurposeoftheposterswasprobably
integrity and creativity. There is no doubt
study to be ready with the language skills
graduationbutforeffectiveuseoftimeand
?Editor-in-Chief
LimHyo-jung
topreventtheso-called¡°cunning¡±,whichis
that a school campus should be a place
andknowledgeofthefield,fortheHufsans
useful, deep, intensive study. Also, classes
?PlanningDirector
academiccheating.However,moststudents
where students realize their hopes with
are the ones who will meet face with the
needtobechangedtofulfillthesatisfaction
YangSun-young
?Editor
seemedtobrushitaway.Franklyspeaking,
correct knowledge and creativity, while it
world. However, inefficient over-hourly
of students with knowledge that will
LeeSang-hee
the posters did not get their attention, in
alsoconfrontstherampantmisconduct.We
studying system is something that must be
reinforce students to be more creative and
?AssociateEditors
YangEun-ae,KimHan-sem
spite of the seriousness of the academic
have a huge responsibility, which is to
re-considered.
competitive.Ilookforwardtoanimproving
?Reporters
LeeJin-woo,KimAh-reum,CheaDea-chul,
misconduct including not only ¡°cunning¡±
address the wrong acts. Above all,
Studying a language requires time and it
HUFS and HUFSans who will use the
KimJung-ho,LeeEun-young
but also plagiarism. In the U.S. and
academic settings should make a stronger
is not easy for most people to acquire the
things studied to make good changes in
?ProfessorEditor
ZangBung-ik
Europeancountries,academiccommunities
alternative plan concerning the issue,
skills on the first run. When too much is
theirworkfieldsandthesociety.
?EnglishAdvisors
KangJi-hae,ParkKyung-sun
recognized the problem, and tried to stop
insteadofputtingupposters.
required of the students it will bring a bad
the delinquency by setting up strict
Also,withpropereducationonacademic
effect. Students will not fully hold the
regulations and sanctions. In addition to
cheating,teachersandstudentsshouldcome
capability of the things studied and will I
this, there has been a program educating
up with appropriate solutions to keep this
have to keep on overloading themselves
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students about the problem. However, in
persistent syndrome away from the
withmoreandmore.Whatcanweexpectin
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Korea, most universities openly tolerate
academic sanctuary. Society wants honest
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