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Professor Eun Mee Kim and her Colleagues at Ewha to Receive Gates Foundation Grant Twice in a Row for the First Time in Korea

The Research Team led by Professor Eun Mee Kim at the Ewha Womans University Institute for Development and Human Security and the Ewha Medical Center Global Health Institute for Girls has been selected as the recipient institution to execute research on the theme of “Korea Global Health Strategy” from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (hereafter the “Gates Foundation”) and will receive a total of 400,000 dollars (approximately KRW 470 million) for three years starting November, 2016. The grant is the second one following 400,000 dollars received for three years in 2013 for the first time in Korea. This acknowledges that the team, comprised of professors from various fields such as international development and cooperation, medicine (preventive medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, emergency medicine, medical education, etc.), women’s studies, public administration, sociology, international studies, showed outstanding performance and achieved excellent results from 2013 to 2016 in the field of Official Development Assistance (ODA). “We are thrilled to receive funding once again from the Gates Foundation following the grant in 2013,” said Professor Kim, Dean of Graduate School of International Studies. “Given that Korea, as a donor country, should contribute more to international health and medical treatment, international development and cooperation, and to the empowerment of women’s capacities in developing countries in the age of sustainable development goals, we feel great responsibility in receiving this grant.”
- No.383
- Writer홍보실
- Date2017.01.03
- Views6043
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GSIS Holds 2016 Ewha-KOICA Korean Speaking Contest

The Graduate School of International Studies (Dean Prof. Eun Mee Kim) held the “2016 Ewha-KOICA Korean Speaking Contest” on November 25th (Fri.) at 6:30 p.m. at the SK Telecom Building Convention Hall. Run together by Ewha Graduate School of International Studies and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the Ewha-KOICA Master’s Program commemorates its tenth anniversary this year. It is a regular degree program that selects women civil servants from developing countries and fosters global female leaders who contribute to the development of their own countries and international cooperation. Twenty Ewha-KOICA students have regularly participated in Korean language classes for the last 16 months while studying in the GSIS International Development Master’s Program designed to strengthen the capacity of female leaders. This Korean Speaking Contest proceeded in the order of Ewha-KOICA students’ Korean presentations, Korean role-play, and congratulatory performances. The participants promoted friendship and shared their thoughts as international students at Ewha by giving presentations they had prepared wholeheartedly under such themes as what they newly learned while living in Korea and how they interpret Korean culture.
- No.381
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.12.23
- Views5141
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2016 Ewha Christmas Chapel Service

Ewha Womans University held the “2016 Ewha Christmas Chapel Service” in the Welch-Ryang Auditorium at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, December 1—the first day of the last month of this year—under the theme “Looking Forward to Christmas.” In the service hosted by the Office of the Chaplain (Rev. Yang Myung Su), Ewha students, staff and alumni gathered together to celebrate Christmas in advance and share joy. The service was composed of: the reading of prayer poems; glorification by Rebecca and Maureen, international students studying at the university; hymn chorus of the amateur Ewha Chamber Choir; and special performance of the Ewha Orchestra. The worship service was followed by a hearty session of writing Christmas cards for 10 foreign children sponsored by Compassion Korea, which the university has been supporting through the Ewha chapel service since 2009.
- No.379
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.12.16
- Views5318
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2016 Beautiful World Made by Ewha: Kimchi with Love

The Volunteer Team of the Office of Student Affairs hosted the “Kimchi with Love” event with Ewha students at the Student Cafeteria on the second underground floor of the Human Ecology Building on November 25. Launched as part of the Beautiful World Made by Ewha program that has been operated for 16 years since 2001, the kimchi-sharing event has been annually held for five years with the aim to put into practice the spirit to love and support neighbors and offer an opportunity to share time with the local community. Along with 100 Ewha students and 50 faculty members, 10 volunteers from the local community Seodaemun-gu participated in this event and made 3,500 kg of kimchi for the coming winter. The kimchi they had made was delivered to a total of 350 underprivileged households (10 kg per household), such as single-parent and grandparent-headed families, people with disability, basic livelihood security recipients, people with rare, incurable diseases, and the elderly living alone. After kimchi-making was done, the participants had the opportunity to experience the kimjang culture of making and sharing kimchi, the typical food culture of Korean households: tasting their own made kimchi and having lunch with boiled pork and geotjeori (fresh kimchi). Aside from Kimchi with Love, the Beautiful World Made by Ewha program, hosted by the Volunteer Team of the Office of Students, holds a range of different events, such as raising donation for scholarships from November 22 to December 2, to be delivered to teenage, underprivileged residents of Seodaemun-gu; and conducting a hat-knitting campaign with the Save the Children from November 22, 2016 to January 30, 2017.
- No.377
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.12.02
- Views4930
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Office of International Affairs Holds Study Abroad Fair for Prospective Exchange Students

The Ewha Office of International Affairs (OIA), headed by Ihn-Hwi Park, held the 2016 Fall Study Abroad Fair on November 4th to raise interest in and support for international programs among Ewha students and provide a venue of meeting between Ewha students and exchange students . Starting with the 2nd briefing on international programs for Ewha students, the Fair presented various sessions prepared by several external organizations such as Nuffic Neso Korea, Temple University Korean Office, German Academic Exchange Service, and Uni Support, which provided a presentation on what to prepare before going abroad as an exchange student. Meanwhile at the Multipurpose Hall, multiple tables were set up by country, which were hosted by the members of the Student Representatives consisting of 95 foreign exchange students from 91 universities from 19 countries including Germany, the United States, and Switzerland, and 38 Ewha students who have experiences of studying abroad as exchange students. At these tables, foreign exchange students and Ewha students shared information on each country’s culture and school life, and one-on-one consulting sessions were also available at the OIA’s consultation table. Ewha Womans University has been providing students with opportunities to go global through diverse exchange student programs. Since Ewha opened the first international summer school in 1971, the University has annually attracted over 3,700 international students who participate in Ewha’s short or long-term education programs while more than 1,600 Ewha students go abroad every year to achieve their bigger dreams.
- No.375
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.11.18
- Views6491
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Ewha Expands Demand-specific TELOS Track System into Various Majors

As part of the Advancement of College Education (ACE) program, Ewha has applied the TELOS Track system to a larger number of majors, pioneering the student-driven curriculum. Designed to help students acquire self-driven learning abilities and explore their careers in a creative way, the TELOS Track system has developed and operated various demand-specific curricula tailored to students’ aptitudes and capabilities for each major. Under this system, sophomores have leeway to select tracks they think suitable for them, and complete the required major and liberal arts courses and participate in extracurricular activities. Each track has advisory faculty who provide systematic counseling and academic and career guidance. Students are allowed to complete two tracks maximum during their time in university. As of now, a total of 32 tracks are running with 22 tracks piloted in the 1st semester of 2016 and ten new tracks launched in the 2nd semester of this year including “Global Literacy (GL)” and “Storytelling & Translation (ST)” tracks in the Department of English Language and Literature, and “LID: Learning & Instruction Design” track in the Department of Educational Technology. Eight more tracks will be added in the 1st semester of 2017, and the TELOS Track system is expected to be applied to all majors in the near future.
- No.373
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.11.15
- Views5577
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Ewha Launches ROTC

Ewha Womans University launched the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (or ROTC) program, concluding an agreement on student cadet military education with Army Cadet Military School on November 1. Held at the ROTC Hall, the launching ceremony, beginning at 2:30 p.m. and lasting half an hour, included unveiling of the signboard, signing of the agreement, and official launching of the ROTC program. Ewha’s adoption of the ROTC is significant in that it can fulfill demands for women’s advancement in society from all levels of society; realize gender equality by providing talented female students with more opportunities to become military officers; provide systematic educational courses designed to foster elite female junior officers with female expertise and prudence; and secure talented women with various majors at an early stage. Selected as a university entitled to introduce the ROTC program in February 2016, Ewha recruited 30 ROTC cadets among sophomore applicants with the competition rate of 2.4 to one from March to August. These selected cadets will take military educational courses starting January 2017 at the ROTC Hall, which was newly built in the second half of this year and thus is equipped with outstanding educational infrastructure. After completing a two-week basic military training course organized by Army Cadet Military School, the cadets will attend the official joining ceremony scheduled to be held in late February 2017.
- No.371
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.11.11
- Views5703
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Ewha Institute of Unification Studies Holds a Joint Seminar with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

On October 21, the Ewha Institute of Unification Studies, directed by Kim Seok Hyang, and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) co-hosted a seminar titled “Life under East German Dictatorship and the Example of the Korean Peninsula (Alltag in der Diktatur).” This seminar is the third event jointly organized by the two as part of their long standing academic cooperation with the last one held in 2013. Established in 1955, the non-profit foundation was renamed in 1964 after the first Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to commemorate his leading role in Germany’s Christian democracy and his conviction to the ideology. Thinking highly of Ewha Womans University and the Institute of Unification Studies for the efforts to foster young female leaders and advance academic research in unification and North Korean studies, KAS has partnered and consistently cooperated with the University and the Institute. This year’s seminar focused on observing the daily lives of North Koreans and those of East Germans to figure out the course of life of the both. The purpose was to look squarely at the lives of East Germans prior to the unification and those of North Koreans today, and analyze the meanings of the observation.
- No.369
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.11.08
- Views4953
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Ewha Language Center Holds the 25th Korean Speaking Contest for Foreigners in Celebration of Hangeul Day

The Ewha Language Center (led by Director Lee Hai-young) held the "25th Korean Speaking Contest for Foreigners" in the Ewha-Samsung Education Culture Building on October 10 (Mon.) at 10 a.m. to celebrate the proclamation day of the Korean alphabet. This speaking contest, hosted by the Ewha Language Center, was established in 1991 and marks its 25th anniversary this year. The contest was designed to encourage and assist Korean language learners such as foreign students for Korean language courses, Ewha's international students and exchange students to learn the Korean language. Among them, about 1,000 students participated in the contest. In this contest, 10 students from all over the world such as the U.S., Japan, China, Uzbekistan and the UAE boasted their Korean speaking skills which they have developed so far. Besides the speaking contest, the participants' talent show featuring dancing, singing performance and piano playing satisfied the eyes and ears of the audience. "I am pleased that the contest came out great after about one month of my practice," Dunn Jenny (the U.S.) who won the grand prize said. "I will strive more to study the Korean language as I did two years ago when I gladly started studying."
- No.367
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.10.25
- Views5155
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Ewha Language Center Runs 2016 Invitational Training Course for Korean Language Experts from Overseas

The Ewha Language Center (led by Director Lee Hai-young) held the opening ceremony for the "2016 invitational training course for Korean language experts from overseas" in the Ewha-Samsung Education Culture Building on October 4 (Tue.) at 12:30 p.m. This training, hosted by the National Institute of the Korean Language and organized by the Ewha Language Center, will be offered for two weeks from October 3 (Mon.) to October 16 (Sun.) with an aim at enhancing the teaching ability of professors and lecturers in the Department of Korean Language at foreign universities, Korean language teachers at foreign elementary schools, and teachers working at overseas Korean language educational institutions. This training course provides a variety of programs such as lectures by Korean language specialists, visits to classes, group activities, discussion on how to use Korean language training materials, academic field trips and hands-on cultural activities in order to increase the expertise of Korean language teachers and improve their teaching methods. These programs are expected to give the participants an opportunity to gain a lot of practical information on Korean language education including effective teaching methods which are hard to find in books.
- No.365
- Writer홍보실
- Date2016.10.21
- Views4885

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