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Outstanding Performance in the Judicial, Patent Bar, and Civil Service Examinations

Outstanding Performance in the Judicial, Patent Bar, and Civil Service Examinations Ewha students and graduates showed outstanding performance, producing many successful candidates in the judicial, patent bar, and civil service examinations. According to the results of the final round of the 51st National Judicial Examination announced on November 24, 55 Ewhaians successfully passed the exam. There fore, Ewha has become the top five achiever in the performance of the National Judicial Examination. Kim Na-rae, a senior year in the department of law, recorded the youngest successful candidate. 11 Ewhaians passed the 46th Patent Bar Examination. A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice. In addition, according to the results of the final round of the 51st Civil Service Examination announced on November 26, Ewha produced 14 successful candidates for the Civil Service Examination. The number of successful candidates Ewha produces has been steadily increasing as the studying environment for the students who prepare for national examinations is supported by the school.
- No.73
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.12.15
- Views7646
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Ewha Christmas Service Held

Ewha has held the first Ewha Christmas Service celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ on December 3rd. 20,000 Ewha students and faculties gathered in the Welch-Ryang auditorium and shared the joy and the gratefulness of Christmas. The orchestra and the choir of college, dressed in red, green, and white, played and sang 'Oh, Holy Night', 'the Glory of Messiah by Handel', and 'Sleigh Ride'. White snowflakes came down on the stage as the department of dance performed the 'Snowflake Dance(from The Nutcracker)' and made the atmosphere of Christmas. After the performances, came the time for singing carols together. 36 students dressed in Santa Clause robes gave out presents to students and received a big cheer. Rice cakes provided by the alumni association were given out to everybody who came to the service. Ewha Christmas Service, which is the first service held to celebrate Christmas in Korea every year, is hosted by Ewha Womans University and the alumni association and has become the 14th this year. The offering gathered during the service is used to support missionaries who are Ewha alumni.
- No.71
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.12.14
- Views5438
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Ewha-Harvard Strengthens Global Partnership

President Lee Bae-Yong and president Drew Gilpin Faust of Harvard University had a meeting and discussed strengthening exchange cooperation between the two universities. President Lee's visit to Harvard was arranged in response to the invitation from president Faust. This is the second meeting after the first meeting at president Faust's inauguration ceremony in October 2007. The two presidents discussed various ways to enhance cooperation on international exchanges and shared consensus on the importance of strengthening liberal education. Ewha Womans University is the only Korean university to participate in Harvard College in Asia Program(HCAP), an exchange program with Asia run by Harvard University founded in 2003 and is also the only Korean university to run Ewha-Harvard Summer School since 2006. In addition to the visit to Harvard University, president Lee attended ‘the 8th Ewha Alumnae Regular Meeting of North America Region' in Denver, Colorado and 'the 40th International Foundation Council for Ewha Womans University'. More than 300 alumni attended the regular meeting and showed their love and support for Ewha. On November 15, president Lee also met the alumni in Los Angeles. On the same day, 16 Ewha students who were studying at California State University Fullerton, one of the partner university of ‘Ewha in California’ global campus network joined the meeting.
- No.69
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.12.04
- Views5401
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Honorary Doctoral Degree on President of Chile

Ewha Womans University Confers Honorary Doctoral Degree on Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile Ewha has conferred an honorary doctoral degree on Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile at LG Convention Hall on November 11. President Lee Bae-Yong said, "She has performed excellent leadership as a female president. She also contributed in enhancing rights of the underprivileged and realizing the gender equality." Michelle Bachelet started her career as a medical specialist in the field of children and public health care at the Protection of Children Damaged by States of Emergency(PIDEE) in 1983. In 2000, she improved the public health care policy to benefit mothers and children as a Health Minister and in 2002, she cleared the remnants of the military dictatorship as the first female Minister of Defense in Chile. On these political backgrounds, she won the 2006 presidential election as the first female president of Chile. A moderate socialist, she increased social benefits to help reduce the country's gap between the rich and the poor, one of the largest in the world. President Michelle Bachelet said, "It is an honor to be awarded the honorary doctoral degree at Ewha Womans University, the largest women's university that has lead the development of women rights and enhanced the status of women in Korea." In her acceptance speech she also said, "A good policy for women is the good policy for the nation. Although we have achieved gender equality comparing to the old days, the glass ceiling that has existed in various fields including politics will disappear and it will become the start of a better society where women can show thier potentials .
- No.67
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.11.24
- Views5250
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Ewha Strengthens the 'Ewha in Beijing' Campus Network

Ewha Strengthens the 'Ewha in Beijing' Campus Network President Lee Bae Yong visited universities in Beijing China from October 17 to 18, and universities in Jiangsu from October 26 to 28. Through these visits, Ewha strengthened the 'Ewha in Beijing' network and installed a milestone for expanding numbers of partner universities in China. On October 17, Lee visited Peking University which is the focal point of 'Ewha in Beijing', to make agreements on increasing the number of exchange students and hosting more than ten students from Peking University in Ewha for 2010 international summer school. On October 18, President Lee gave a keynote speech at the 'International Women University President Symposium‘, which was held to commemorate 60th anniversary of Chinese Women's University. In addition, she visited the Ewha alumni in Beijing and many companies in China to strengthen networks of Ewha in China. From October 26 to 28, she was invited to Nanjing University and Yangzhou University in Jiangsu province. Through this visit, Lee made an agreement on international exchange agreement with Nanjing University which was ranked 5th among universities in China in 2007. On October 27, she met the president of Yangzhou University and discussed launching various exchange programs including dual-degree program. Ewha will continue to enlarge the Ewha Campus Network upto 20 major regions of the world.
- No.65
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.11.13
- Views5257
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The 9th Kim Ok-Gil Memorial Lecture Held

The 9th Kim Ok-Gil Memorial Lecture Held : ‘Global Peace and the Future of Korean Peninsula’ Ewha Womans University held the 9th Kim Ok-Gil Memorial Lecture, ‘Global Peace and the Future of Korean Peninsula’ at LG Convention Hall on November 2nd. This commemorative lecture is to pay a tribute to the memory of Dr. Kim Ok-Gill who was the eighth president of Ewha and devoted her whole life for women's education and contributed to the common good of the Korean people. The host of the ceremony, Research Institute for Social Science invited Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for key note speech. She said, "It is an honor to participate in the memorial lecture of such a woman who has devoted her life to enhance women and Korean." Menchu, who has also devoted her life for the rights of women said, "We must earn equality in opportunity that will allow us to practice rights before we talk about human rights. 'Peace' is not an abstract dream. Strong will of individauls and the nation will make it come true." Rigoberta Menchu is an indigenous Guatemalan, of Maya ethnic group. Menchu has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War(1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country. Menchu said, "I myself lived a life of being raised in hunger and lost my family from the violence of dictatorship. However, I thought that I should not live on in sorrow. We must believe in ourselves. All the young generation of today need positive prospective about our future." The following session after the lecture of Menchu was a series of lectures. Cho Key-sung, the chairman of Medical Peace Foundation, gave a lecture on 'Medical Mission for the Peace and Prosperity of Developing Countries'. Kamppeter Werner, the Representative of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Korea Cooperation Office, gave a lecture on 'Conceivable Lessons from the German Unification'. Park Myung Kyu, the director of Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, gave a lecture on 'Peace and Unification from the Multicultural Perspective' and Ham Kwangbok, the director of Korea DMZ Research Center, gave a lecture on 'The Multi-cultural Attribute of the DMZ and Eco-political Approach to the DMZ'.
- No.63
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.11.13
- Views5491
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Ewha Womans University Awards Honorary Doctoral Degree to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Ewha Womans University Awards Honorary Doctoral Degree to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Ewha has awarded an honorary doctoral degree to professor Alison Richard, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge at LG Convention Hall on October 22. President Lee Bae-Yong said, "Professor Alison Richard the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge devoted in developing equal human society through expanding international exchanges and performed leadership in university innovation as the first women vice chancellor of 800 years of history of the University of Cambridge" as she conferred the degree. Professor Alison Richard was installed as the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on 1 October 2003. The Vice-Chancellor is the principal academic and administrative officer of the University, and Professor Richard is the first woman to hold the position full-time. At Cambridge, Professor Richard has launched an ambitious fundraising campaign for £1 billion to underpin and augment core expenditure, introduced new measures for the stewardship of the University's investments, and developed a bursary fund to ensure that undergraduate students and applicants are not disadvantaged by the national introduction of higher university tuition fees. She has also sponsored internal policy initiatives, including a review of Cambridge's international relationships and its international student policy. Professor Alison Richard said, "When a university awards a degree, it marks a milestone in the life and learning of an individual. As a recipient today, I am very proud and very happy to have this great honour bestowed on me – and I end my remarks with warm and sincere thanks to Ewha Womans University for the award. Ewha Womans University and the University of Cambridge share some common features in that they have long tradition and the great history of development. I hope this conferment becomes an opportunity to understand the culture and the spirit of the two universities." Ewha Womans University and the University of Cambridge agreed to discuss expanding exchanges in the field of Korean Studies and Natural Science as well as initiating exchange and summer school program. As the following event of the ceremony, president Lee Bae-Yong and professor Alison Richard visited the Ewha Archive and Changdeokgung Palace together. As a historian, president Lee Bae-Yong explained the values of the history of Korea and Ewha. Professor Alison Richard said, "Although the University of Cambridge has a history of 800 years, its education for women started at the end of 19th century. It is very impressive that Ewha and Cambridge started women education in the same period. It was a wonderful time learning the history of Korean women education of Ewha and the wisdom and the beauty of Korean cultural heritage."
- No.61
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.10.29
- Views5634
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International Chuseok Festival Held with 500 International Students

International Chuseok Festival Held with 500 International Students International Chuseok Festival was held in front of the student union building on October 6. 500 students from international graduate school, Ewha Language Center, and Ewha Global Partnership Program participated and had memorable time experiencing Korean traditional recreation like learning Taekwondo, playing the game of yut, trying on Korean traditional costume and so on. Kevin Richardson, an exchange student from Michigan State University said, "As a student studying East-asian culture, it was very worthwhile for me experiencing the tradition of Korea." Fu Ziayin from Peking University said, "I could feel the sense of becoming a true member of Ewha community." President Lee Bae-Yong said in the congratulating speech of the festival, “I hope that this festival becomes the occasion that harmoniously embrace and unite all languages and cultures and help people understand each other."
- No.59
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.10.28
- Views5438
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Historic Site Exploration with the President to the 500-Year History of Chosun Dynasty

Historic Site Exploration with the President to the 500-Year History of Chosun Dynasty President Lee Bae-Yong held another historic site exploration with students at SeoOReung on October 9. President said, "We have to have high self-esteem in our own culture in order to equip ourselves with competency in the world of limitless competition. I hope students find insight and pride about our history as we look a closer look at SeoOReung Royal Tombs." Suh Mi-Kyung(Statistics·05) said, "I registered for this program because I realized that I was neglecting the history of my own country while I know a lot about histories of Europe and Western countries. It was a priceless time learning about the fascinating stories hidden in our history of 500-year Chosun dynasty. Also, it gave me a chance to look back on our lives and think about how we should carry on our culture and wisdom." Ten international students registered to join this exciting exploration and awed at the scenery of Korean historic site. The 'Historic Site Exploration with the President' is one of the programs of 'Ewha Renaissance Project', which was designed to nurture future leaders armed with cultural literacy and humanistic values. This program to SeoOReung is the third exploration to historic sites since the visit to Gyeongbokgung and Jongmyo of last year.
- No.57
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.10.15
- Views5434
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Ewha Commemorates Mary F. Scranton, the Pioneer of Modern Education to the Women of Korea

Ewha Commemorates Mary F. Scranton, the Pioneer of Modern Education to the Women of Korea Ewha Womans University has hosted a series of events last week to remember Mary Fletcher Scranton, the founder of Ewha, who passed away on October 8, 1909. Events were prepared to observe the works of Mary F. Scranton and commemorate the spirit of Scranton who has sowed a seed for the poor and the sick in Korea. They include Scranton memorial chapels, a memorial service on October 7th, an academic symposium and visiting Yangwhajin cemetery for foreign missionaries where she is buried. Scranton came to Seoul in 1885, when she was 52, and started to teach a student at her house in 1886. She started a Sunday school at Ewha Haktang, the first-ever girl's school in Korea in Jeongdong from 1888. Through the school, she fostered a number of talented females in various fields of medicine, education and missionary work. The girl's school has today developed into Ewha Womans University, the largest women-only university in the world. This year, Ewha invited eight descendants of Scranton after having searched for the founder's offsprings over the past 20 years and they attended the memorial service on October 7th. The Scranton descendants met with Ewha students at the memorial chapel on October 5th and 6th. There also was a 'Symposium in Commemoration of the Honorable Mary F. Scranton' held in the LG Convention Hall on October 8th. The theme of the symposium was on 'The Honorable Mary Scranton's Journey of Life and Her Spirit of Women's Education.' "Our school has conducted research on Scranton and found three important things. First, she was already a very global person as she called Korean people 'my people' in 1885. Second, she had a vision of the big picture; what she wanted to truly realize was global peace through gender equality. Lastly, she showed love for Korean women. She was dedicated fully to Korean women regardless of a lot of difficulties and her love has made the world's largest women's university,'' said Lee Bae-Yong, president of Ewha Womans University. In addition to the events above, Ewha Archive has started a special exhibition in commemoration of Mary F. Scranton and also, a memorial art wall is displayed at the main gate to commemorate her founding spirit of Ewha.
- No.55
- Writer홍보실
- Date2009.10.12
- Views6802

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