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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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…….  ...

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