The Jeju Wildfire Festival, which has held its place as Jeju’s representative festival for decades, is standing at a crossroads. The Jeju Wildfire Festival is a festival that started to publicize the old culture of Jeju called 'bangae', which was set on fire in the village pasture in early spring to
The project to build a new airport in Jeju has been promoted quite aggressively up to now. This is because the Ministry of Environment(ME) made a decision to conditionally agree to the Strategic Environmental Assessment(SEA) related to the construction of Jeju's new airport submitted by the Ministry
As the spring season approaches, the problem of street pollution is becoming worse. The cherry blossoms on JNU's street is well-known as a main attraction. However, the street pollution damages Jeju's cherry blossom attractions every year, including the JNU campus. Due to COVID-19, festivals and eve
Being recognized as a world heritage has great meaning and symbolism, because the registered heritages are a part of a legacy that must be protected by everyone.Due to the importance of recognizing historical events as collective memory, the Korean and local goverment in Jeju are trying to get the J
Christmas is a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, who people believe is the son of God. For most people, it takes place every year on Dec 25th - the day that the Roman Catholic Church chose to mark Jesus’ birthday. The term ‘Christmas’ comes from the old English phrase Cristes maesse
Last October, I had the most wonderful experience in my campus life. It was none other than being a part of 'Jerami', the student ambassadors of Jeju National University. First of all, 'Jerami' is a word that combines Jeju Island's language, 'the best, very amazing' with the Chinese character 'beaut
The director of “Bowling for Columbine” Michael Moore once said, “Guns don’t kill people- Americans kill people.” Michael Moore is ashamed of American violence and its highest gun crime rate in the world. He thinks that the policies of gun laws in the U.S are weak. Also, he feels that Americans are
Once upon a time, Jeju was mainly a rural island with barely any places to access electricity. The number of active haenyeo was slowly decreasing and Cheju National University was only fourteen years old. Not many people aspired to go to university because access to education was still an uphill bat
As the core of Korean society, Confucianism has fostered a culture in which building long-lasting community ties precedes over individualism. This permeates into every aspect of the Korean modus vivendi: workplaces, schools, and family structures are all affected equally. Evidently, university cultu
Students are preparing for the finals on campus, especially at the library. Even though the library is open 24/7, most of the city buses stop operating at 10 p.m.. This makes students who live far away from campus difficult to study more even when they want to. To prevent this scenario from happenin
Jeju Resources of JNU Central Library is opening a winter Jeju resource exhibition. The theme for this year’s winter exhibition is Jeju language. The exhibition consists of 30 books about the lifestyle or the proverbs about Jeju in the Jeju language. Each book has its own unique way to tell the read
The Japanese Language and Literature Student Association of JNU, — Hibiki — successfully conducted its 44th ‘Wave Festival’ on November 24. Paranjae means ‘Wave festival’ in English. Since the event is held only once a year, both professors and students had high expectations. Students from other dep
The 3rd Jeju Biennale began on November 16 and will end on February 12 next year. It started with the search for artistic practice towards global symbiosis in our era of the climate crisis when geological concepts are newly raised. Biennale is a large international exhibition held every two years."F
The Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC) has recruited youth international ambassadors. They have selected the youth forum committee's promotional and planning teams which has been organized by the JDC Future Business Department. If you participate as a youth panel in the Internatio
Jeju will hold a launching ceremony for the emergency medical helicopter on the 29th at the Citizens' Welfare Town Square. The medical helicopter starts operation on December 1st. Advanced in-flight medical devices are set up in the helicopter. And emergency medical care is possible through the heli
JNU Career Employment Division has started the “Reporters’ Program”. Reporters promote activities that exist within the university. They also carry out activities to complete specialized programs provided by universities. These activities are carried out on a team basis and have begun in the first w
Eoullim was finally chosen as the 55th general student council of JNU by for the general student council election campaign. Eoullim received 3,654 votes in this general student council election, garnering 63.7 percent of the total votes. Park Joo-young, a philosophy senior, was duly elected to serve
Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. G. Le Clezio wrote an article about his experience on the island back in 2009, and one cannot deny that his observations are far from rose-tinted. It is a place as beautiful as it is bitter. Le Clezio poetically reconstructs a mental picture of the island, even for t
On October 30, 1929, there was an incident in which several Japanese male students pulled the hair of two Korean female students on a school train in Gwangju. The female student’s cousin who saw the incident tried to tell them not to do it, but one of the Japanese student responded rudely instead, b