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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Woosong Kindergarten Starts a New History

Woosong Kindergarten, attached to Woosong University, was newly opened on September 1st, 2011. A long history and tradition are melted in the new Kindergarten with 10 years of the already existing Woosong Kindergarten and 30 years of Early Child Education at Woosong University.

The building has three stories. The first story is the international class for young children with foreign family and bi-lingual children as well. The second story is for young Korean children, and third story is the playroom.


Woosong Kindergarten is making their motto to have open space, open education is play-centered education needed for young children's growth. This ensures young children can grow their intellectual capacity, social development, and exercise capacity. Besides, the kindergarten has an architectural plan designed for young children, which is rarely seen in other kindergartens.
Most incredibly, the international class operates all of the curriculums in English.


The hours of operation are from 9AM to 2PM (half-day program), from 9AM to 6:30PM (all-day program) for working moms.


From now, the sound of laughter of cute children will make campus more brighter

I-Seul Ko is currently a Woosong Student majoring Food Service Management

TJB Speech Contest Results

The final National English Speech Contest, sponsored by TJB and SolBridge International School, was held at SolBridge on October 8th. In the finals, there were three standards of judgment and there was no audience. The valuation standard was 40% for presentations and 60% for a Question & Answer interview.

There were 22 teams in the final. 11 teams won prizes, including 1 Grand prize, 2 Gold prizes, 3 Silver prizes, and 5 Bronze prizes. The awards ceremony was held in the TJB broadcasting station. They received cash prizes and gifts. Although it was a national contest, most of the winning teams were made up of Woosong University students. 

One of the team winning a Silver prize was from my department. They are sophomores. I hope that if there is another English speech contest, they participate and get the better prize. Also, this English speech contest was a wonderful opportunity for improving speech skills and English for the students that didn’t win prizes. And not only Woosong students, but also other university students can take encourage about their English from this contest.

Eun Ah Yook is currently a Woosong Student majoring in Food Service Management

My Take: Sol-Buddies School Family Program Fall 2011

Sol-Buddies Family Program is one of the ACE projects. And the concept of this program is to let students get along in free, lax environment so that they can have time to socialize with each other. To make companionship with foreign friends and each other, introduce them and let them experience Korean culture.

Our first meeting was on 8th to 9th October to Gapyeong, Gyeonggi-do, called MT (Mighty Together), which should be very Korean universities' MT style like.

But in the morning on the 8th, most of the Woosong students did not come due to their following midterms. My friend and I were the only Woosong students who came to the MT. We never knew no one from Woosong would come.

Many SolBridge students are from Kazakhstan and Indonesia. Others are from Vietnam, Russia, Georgia, Brazil, and China and of course there were Koreans too. After quite a long ride to Gapyeong, we finally arrived there. Had lunch, got a room for each person with some break time. We had an activity called ‘Mini-Sports’. It was basically running and jumping or even dancing.

It was tiring but fun, big time! And we got a quite hour break, while we are enjoying ourselves, some of them were singing since we had a Karaoke machine outside and talking, socializing. People were getting hungry. Finally we could have a barbeque party. During the dinner, we had a talent show, took many photos, and hula hooped. Some of them were dancing to the music.

After this entertaining dinner there was a campfire, toasted marshmallows. And a gathering with drinking was ready for us after the campfire. Some people left early. And some of them had fun until 4 or 5 in the morning. For me, it sounded so much fun.

The next day we had breakfast and got together to finish our ‘Mighty Together’ trip. We handed our prepared gifts to our secret buddies. Each of us picked a name randomly last evening. It is called Manito. The person of that name each picked was their Manito, we should be nice and helping them without being noticed by anyone.

People, who didn’t bring any presents for their Manito, wrote a letter. And others who brought presents wrapped. We handed it over to each other by picking their presents or letters. So it was very enjoyable. And surprisingly I got 2 presents and a letter, the only one who got 3 at once. I was so pleased.

On the way back to Daejeon, people must have been tired, lots of them fell asleep.

At the same day when everybody is back to the Sol-Geo International Dormitory, we met through Facebook again. Our next meeting is on 30th of at the end ofOctober. We are going to hold a Halloween Party. I am sure it will be as fun as we had at MT trip. CLICK HERE for the schedule for this whole period.

Eun Young Hwang is currently a Woosong Student majoring in Hotel Tourism Management

The 19th Annual KOTESOL 2011

This year's International KOTESOL conference was held at Sook-Myung University in Seoul. It took place Oct. 15-16. This was the 19th year the conference has been held.

KOTESOL gets many student volunteers from universities throughout Korea. Many student volunteers for KOTESOL go to do some training at Sookmyung University the weekend before the big conference. At the training volunteers learn about the different jobs available to work. Also volunteers find out how to do their jobs and get their work schedules.

I got to interview one of the volunteers.

Q : What did you think about KOTESOL conference?

A : I thought it was a very interesting and new experience for me. I got to talk to friends from various countries, and we worked together. So I got make confidence and more practice communicating in English.




 As a whole it was a successful conference, but there is always room for improvement. For example may be more food choice for the conference guests or even a few more volunteers to help guests find their way around the campus.


Lee Jung Hwan is currently a Woosong Student majoring in Food Service Managment

President Lee Myung-Bak Shook Hands With Me

On October, 5th 2011, a group of Woosong students took the first route in history of the newly open railway to Yeosu Expo Station and attended the opening ceremony of the Jeolla double-track electric rail line.

At 10 a.m., the ceremony started with a melodious harmony from young school children. Then at about 11 a.m. the president walked into the ground and greeted everyone nicely. He was kinder and warmer than the pictures I’d seen on the internet. He walked toward us and I got my heartbeat racing. 
Then he stopped to shake hands with the people around him. I saw him stretching his hand toward the student beside me and my head stopped running……. 



Oh, my God, dear Mr.Lee Myung-bak reached his hand to me and I held it excitedly. I felt like walking on the air, looking at the president silently until he got seated. Then the president joined other representatives and unveiled the Yeosu-Expo Station symbol.


Information on Yeosu Expo Station:

  1. The double-track electric rail line , from the North Jeolla Peovince city of Iksan to Yeosu, stretches 180 kilometers, cutting travel time between Seoul to Yeosu by 103 minutes to three and a half hours.
  2. The double-track electric rail line enables the high-speed KTX train to run to Yeosu, the last station of the line where the World Expo will be held next year.


Lucy Wang is currently a Woosong Student majoring in Railway Management

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