What do you think about jazz? Most people say, “I’ve heard about jazz, but I don’t know much about it” or “Yeah, I’ve heard about it, but I’m not familiar with it.” Jazz is a very interesting music genre, and if you listen to it, you’ll be hooked on it. ST visited a jazz club where people enjoy listening to live jazz Club Evans near Hongik University. Improvisation is one of the distinguishing fea

This year, many kind of American dramas are sprining up. This is a good news for people who love watching American dramas. Ironically, it is also a bad news for newbie who are at a loss as to what to watch. If you like SF (Science Fiction) or mystery, then ST strongly recommendes Under the Dome, an American drama blue chip based on a story written by Stephen King, the famous horror novelist.Un

    When you cast a careful look around the campus, it is easy to see students walking with coffee or beverages in their hands. SSU have small and large coffee shop all over the campus. This time ST takes an in-depth coverage of our precious coffee shops locating in SSU NICKY'S COFFEE  Between the library and Westminster Hall, Nicky’s Coffee shop is popular among the students. Nicky’s

 ANNEYONGHAGOYANG! If you’re a netizen familiar with Facebook and Twitter, then there’s a big chance that you’vecome across this strange writing style. This is a writing style that Goyang City, Gyungido uses on its SNS page. It’s basically a pun with Goyang’s name. It sounds similar to the word go-yang-ee (the Korean word for ‘cat’). Most of us assume that the SNS pages run by government offic

Episode 31 of the Webtoon ‘Cheese in the Trap Season 3’ became a hit last September. In the said episode, a college student presented a paper that she had bought from a site that sells reports to students. This matter was reported to the professor, and the student was given a lower grade. The netizens expressed diverse opinions on the matter in the episode, particularly about whether the punishmen

  Last June, the main campus of Chung-Ang University (CAU) was flooded with student demonstrators. This was due to the school’s decision to abolish four majors (Comparative Folklore, Child Welfare, Family Welfare, and Adolescence Science) as part of its restructuring. The school made its position clear, stating that it “decided to embark on such reconstruction to actively deal with th

The mandolin is an unfamiliar instrument, hard to see or experience in South Korea. Originating from Italy, it resembles a lute or a classic guitar in appearance. It has a distinctive melody, however, very different from that of a violin or a guitar, which at once captivates the attention of the listeners. To date, this instrument seems unique, remote from people’s daily lives. Such is not the cas

Trains can make us feel lonely. The train in the animation Eunhachuldo 999 and those in many other films are depicted as lonely and rusty locomotives, but the train in the movie The Snowpiercer must be the loneliest one yet. Try to imagine. All the life forms on Earth have become ice cold due to the sudden change in the climate caused by a scientific experiment. The train, which carries the last s

What do you imagine when you hear the wordtennis? Maybe you imagine a lot of people on agreen court, with rackets, playing tennis with                                         delight. In South Korea, tennis is no longer a new sport, but itis not that popular because the lesson fee is high and the trainingcourse is too short. As for us Soongsilians, we can enjoytennis more easily than a

 Cookie Run is a mobile running game featuring many cookies as heroes (or heroines). This game is based on a cookie’s attempt to escape to avoid being eaten. The more you (representing the cookie) run and get items, the higher your score will be. You may compete with your mobile messenger friends in getting the highest score. Cookie Run is a famous mobile game app abroad as well as at h

 Last June 26, I, as an ST reporter, visited the in-depth internal spot of a nuclear power plant, which is usually not open to the public. Taking photographs, however, wasn’t allowed. The whole plant was under tight security because the nuclear-power-plant technology is a national security matter.   Pumps and pipes lined the plant’s interior. We walked through the aisle and reached the main co

These days, there are many Internet Websites that netizens, including students, use to exchange information and thoughts. There is one Internet community, however, that is in the hot seat these days. The site is called Ilgan Best Jujangso (a site collecting each day’s best posts), abbreviated as ILBE. Ilbe was originally just a Website derived from the giant Web service DC Inside. The site was use

  My neck and shoulders are very stiff when I tilt my head backward, and when the pain gets bad, I have to sit straight and use a headrest, and lie flat on the bed.                 Kim Dong-hwan (Chemical Engineering, 10)  If you feel the same symptoms as mentioned above, have a backache, or have the habit of cracking your neck and shoulders, you may acquire cervical disc, sho

Starbucks, Cafe Bene, Pascucci, Holly’s Coffee, Ediya. There are more five cafes situated within 300 meters around Soongsil University. All these cafes are always crowded. Nowadays, cafes are so common and have created their own culture: the cafe culture. Where and when did the cafe start?The cafe's beginningCafes started from the invention of coffee. The stories about the origin of coffee var

     This strange secondhand book shop is literally a wonderland. A maze consisting of bookshelves greets the curious guests. The small reading space surrounded by bookcases is conspicuous. Toys and parody pictures of classic and handmade goods are all over the place. The people who visit this place are those who love reading books, so it seems that this place is such a cozy bunker where

Maybe the first thing that pops up in your head when you think of a play is Daehangno. There are a lot of theaters, various plays are staged, and many people watch the plays. Even if you don’t go to Daehangno, however, you can watch a funny play in SSU. Soongdaegeukhoe is proud of its long history of staging plays. Numerous audiences have had fun or have been moved by their performances. ST visite

     When you walk on-campus or when you’re in class, you can see foreigners from diverse cultures. They are the exchange students who came to SSU. ST interviewed four foreign exchange students.  ST : What made you come to South Korea as an exchange student?Derrick : South Korea is a technologically advanced country, and as my major in Uganda is IT, I chose to go to South

     Have you ever dreamed of going abroad? Most university students would say that they want to experience something new in other countries. Of course, there are many ways to set foot on foreign soil, and here’s one: applying for admission into the university’s exchange student program. Being an exchange student will give you a chance to go to other countries, meet many foreigners, and have diver

     There is something that must be taken into account when engaging in conversations for one in his or her twenties: “the opposite sex.” Also, there is a process that most young people should have in mind when going out with someone; it is the gateway called “SSUM.” The word SSUM is a neologism referring to the steps that lead two people to get to know each other well and to develop a good feeli

     Most of you dreamed of escaping from the shackles that restricted your freedom when you entered a university. There are many obligations, however, that you must carry out. For men, there is one thing that you cannot avoid: the army. Most men feel uneasy and worry about the fact that they must go to the army. Thus, ST looks into the sequential psychology of men who are about to go to the army.