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270 Ewha Alumni Passed 2019 Teacher Certification Examination

Ewha alumni predominantly achieved first and second places in major areas. A total of 270 graduates of Ewha Womans University successfully passed the final test of the 2019 nationwide examinations for teacher certification. The proportion of Ewha graduates among successful candidates remained at a similar level to last year even though the municipal education offices cut the number of new recruits compared with previous years. A total of 196 graduates of Ewha passed the teacher certification examinations for middle schools, 37 graduates for elementary schools, and 20 graduates for kindergartens, as well as 17 graduates for non-curricular positions including school health teachers, school librarians, school nutrition teachers, and professional school counselors. Ewha graduates came in first in the teacher certification examinations for early childhood special education, elementary special education, secondary special education in Seoul district for three years in a row since 2016. This year, Ewha graduates got the top score in the examinations for early childhood special education in Seoul and Gyeonggi districts. In addition, four graduates of the Department of Science Education came first and second in the science education division in Seoul, Incheon, and Busan. Also, graduates of Ewha were ranked first in the geography education and fine arts education divisions in Seoul district, and ranked second in English education division in Jeju district and fine arts education division in Gangwon district. Lee Se In who got the highest score in the teacher certification examinations for special-education schools (kindergartens) in Seoul district said, “I could prepare the exam without big difficulties because I have great professors, seniors, and classmates as well as access to various student welfare services.” Lee Seo Ryeong who came top in the earth science education division in Seoul district said, “It was a great help to participate in the special lecture program for teacher certification examinations where I could listen directly from seniors about how they studied to pass the exam.” Lee also delivered words of encouragement saying, “I believe you can expect good results if you prepare the exam with a positive mind believing that you’ll pass no matter what.” Ewha’s College of Education, which concentrates on the development of various educational programs to nurture excellent teachers suitable for changing society, will continue to provide systematic support for students preparing teacher certification examinations in 2019.
- No.451
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.03.12
- Views4357
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Ewha Volunteer Corps Puts Ewha’s Spirit of Serving and Sharing into Action in Winter of 2018

Ewha Volunteer Corps of 2018 winter offered educational services in various parts of the country and in Vietnam during the winter vacation. Launched in 2000, Ewha Volunteer Corps has taken the lead in realizing Christian love of neighbor, Ewha’s founding philosophy, and building a society of living in harmony by providing educational services at home and educational and medical services abroad during vacations. Domestically, 17 teams, composed of 107 students, including the educational service planning group offered educational services, mentoring, and extracurricular activities to 16 community child centers and elementary and middle schools nationwide from December 24, 2018 to January 18, 2019. Hwang Su Jin (English Language & Literature major, class of ‘16), who paid a visit to Hwangji Girls’ Middle School located in Taebaek, Gangwon Province, said, “Through this volunteer work, I realized I could give hope to someone that I came close to with my deep sincerity.” The overseas educational volunteer team, composed of 20 students, visited and stayed in Vietnam from January 6 to January 17 of 2019. The team provided activity-oriented art and physical education and science classes for hearing-impaired children in the child welfare institution of the Village of Hope in Da Nang, Vietnam. Also, the educational volunteer team engaged in cultural exchange activities, providing the Korean language learning classes in Duy Tan University. Kim Seung Hee (Special Education major, class of ’15), who participated in the overseas educational volunteer service, said, “This experience gave me a chance to think about the way of giving and the necessity of providing steady and cooperative support.”
- No.449
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.03.10
- Views4053
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Invitational Panel Discussion with Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Invitational Panel Discussion with Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Ewha held a panel discussion by inviting Helen Clark, who was a former prime minister of New Zealand and a former first woman administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), at room number 1002 of the International Education Building on February 13 (Wednesday). In this discussion co-held by the Graduate School (President Kim Eun Mee) and the Embassy of New Zealand in Korea, Ms. Clark delivered a keynote lecture under the theme of “Towards an Inclusive Society: The Value of Diversity and Leadership in a Multicultural Society” and discussed with academic and financial specialist panels. Helen Clark was the first woman prime minister of New Zealand who won the election and served as prime minister from 1999 to 2008 through three terms. Starting with a member of Parliament in 1981, she served as a minister and a vice prime minister and engaged in policy developments ranging from international, economic, social, environmental and cultural policies as well as sustainable developments and climate change measures. After then, she took office as Administrator of the UNDP from 2009 to 2017 to contribute to job creation and poverty prevention of developing countries. Former prime minister Clark remarked in her lecture that New Zealand is a multiracial country where a third of the population is the Maori and a third of people in Auckland are migrants, and there are diverse cultural communities, and explained that the country guaranteed a female suffrage for the first time in the world and enacted a gender equality policy for promoting interests of sexual minorities, and has been making efforts to multicultural policies including young Maori women’s entry into society. In addition, she said a leadership that accepts and respects diversity is important for a country to be a genuine multicultural society and especially put an emphasis on women leaderships, saying that women need to enter into society as leaders with confidence because they are interested in various problems and excellent in solving problems, and to this end, it is important to build women’s solidarity through a vigorous network as well as support from men. After her lecture, the panel discussion was moderated by Sohn Ji-ae, an invited professor of International Studies, and besides Ms. Clark, Professor Jang Han Up (French Language and Literature), Professor Heather Willoughby (International Studies) at Ewha, Christopher Raciti, a representative of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) in Korea participated in the discussion. They discussed the importance of fostering leaders who can accept people in diverse backgrounds, a competitiveness of multicultural society in terms of industrial aspects, and Korean society’s awareness on multiculturalism. Following the presentations of panels, students actively participated in the discussion with questions about a role of international organizations for underdeveloped countries, and suggestions about a change of awareness on multiculturalism of Korean people. Bwiru Robi Ernest (Development Cooperation, Graduate School of International Studies), who came from Tanzania, said “Africa faces a harsh reality that interests of women, the handicapped, sexual minorities, and many minority groups are hardly protected. I was impressed by efforts of Ms. Clark who embraced multicultural society and advocated its values.” Kim Eun Mee, President of the Graduate School of Ewha, said that Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is a prominent women political leader who made efforts to promote political developments for multicultural society in New Zealand, and as the chief of the UNDP, strived for support to developing countries as well as balancing economic and social developments across the world, and is a role model for Ewha students, adding that through this discussion, she gave a great impression to students as a kind leader who emphasizes practice of equality and humanism, not a cool-headed politician. Meanwhile, many global women leaders have visited Ewha Womans University due to its fame as the best women education institute and its global network power. World women leaders including Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State of the U.S. (2009), Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile (2009), Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany (2010), Yingluck Shinawatra, former Prime Minister of Thailand (2012), Quentin Bryce, former Governor-General of Australia (2013), and Christine Lagarde, Chairwoman of the International Monetary Fund (2017), visited Ewha and communicated with Ewha students.
- No.447
- WriterOffice of Communications
- Date2019.03.07
- Views4217
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Boston Conference of Ewha- Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP) Was Held

The Ewha-Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP), an academic and cultural exchange program for Ewha Womans University and Harvard University, was held in Boston from January 20 (Sunday) to 26 (Saturday) for seven days. This program is prepared by Harvard University for fostering global leaders who deeply understand both the U.S. and Asian countries, and Ewha has been the only Korean partner since 2007. Over 170 students from Harvard’s Asian partner universities including 10 Ewha students, as well as Harvard students, attended in this conference. Generally, the HCAP program is prepared and run by students, and this year the program provided various discussion sessions and lectures on “Empowering Education” under the theme of “Global Leadership in the 21st Century”. During the conference, participants who were divided into 15 groups discussed education-relating issues of each country and gave a presentation on the discussion results for each group to share diverse perspectives. In addition to that, students participated in various cultural experience activities including Talent Show for introducing their home country, a university tour in Harvard and MIT, a visit to museums and astronomical observatories, and an HCAP Prom party, promoting a good-fellowship. Kim Do-young (Content Convergence, enrolled in 2016), who attended the conference as Ewha’s student representative this year, said “Get out of your safety zone! It was a valuable opportunity that I earned a broad perspective capable of fostering international senses through challenges after being out of school and made friends from different countries”. An Chi-young (English language and literature, enrolled in 2018) said “Communication and exchanges crossing borders made me foster the tolerance for the world”. In addition, Brian Kim, who was in charge of a co-chairperson of Harvard University, said “I have attended since the last year and most of all, friends who were with me in the conference remain in my memory,” and promised to meet again, adding “I want to participate in the HCAP again that is a place for discussing controversial issues from each country’s position, and a place for promoting a good-fellowship with friends from different countries.” The HCAP is operated in a way that Harvard University selects a leading university in major Asian countries every year and at present, nine major universities in Asian countries, including Ewha, attend in the program. The program comprises the first conference that invites students selected from each Asian university to Harvard University, and the second conference that students selected in the Harvard University visit each Asian country. This year, following the first conference in Boston, the second conference of Ewha-HCAP, hosted by Ewha, will be held from March 16 (Saturday) for seven days. In the Seoul conference that will hold a profound discussion on “Empowering Education” under the same theme as the first conference, 12 Harvard students and 20 Ewha students (including 10 of the Boston team) will attend to promote their academic exchange.
- No.445
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.02.26
- Views4228
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Center for Multiculture Research Holds the International Academic Conference Themed “Understanding and Spread of Interculturalism”

The Center for Multiculture Research (Director: Jang Han-up) co-hosted the international academic conference under the theme of “Understanding and Spread of Interculturalism” with the Lucete Humanities Project, for two days from January 18 (Friday) to January 19 (Saturday) at the Lee San-bong Hall of the ECC building. The conference was conducted as part of the initiative for college of humanities’ research and education (CORE), and sponsored by the Asia Development Foundation (ADF). Ewha was designated as a major hub university for multicultural social integration by the Ministry of Justice in May, 2008. In August of that year, the university opened the Center for Multiculture Research to push for training experts to lead the 21st multicultural society in Korea; conducting research on policies for social integration; and developing Korean language education programs for immigrants and multicultural citizenship education programs. The conference was organized to explore “interculturalism” in various areas with the awareness that the Korean society needs its integration focusing on the improvement of attitude that accepts immigrants, departing from studies of multicultural society that has focused on education for adaptation to Korea targeting immigrants over the past decade. The conference began with the opening speech by Jang Han-up, director of the Center for Multiculture Research, followed by congratulatory addresses by President Kim, Heisook; Cho Nam-chul, executive director of the ADF; and Kim Kwang-ho, Secretary-General of Korean National Commission for UNESCO. It continued to give diverse case presentations on interculturalism by country in Europe and Asia, and conducted various study seminars on intercultural philosophy, special education, multicultural education, intercultural education and literature, etc. Director Jang stressed the importance of intercultural education in his speech, saying “In order to become a multicultural advanced country, Korea needs to take the ethnic homogeneity not serious, and perform intercultural education in which we critically reflects on ourselves as a prerequisite to understanding others’ culture.” In addition, President Kim said in her address, “Ewha opened the Multicultural•Intercultural Studies (MIS) at the Graduate School in 2014, and is teaching intercultural studies solely in Korea,” and added, “I hope that the conference will be a place to find how to graft intercultural education onto social phenomena, and the results will spread widely in education, religion and society at large.” Executive director Cho remarked, “One of the important challenges for the future in our society is to deal with problems that multicultural families are facing. I believe that the conference is meaningful academic light to brighten up healthy Korean society.” Secretary-General Kim delivered a congratulatory message, saying “While UNESCO announced the guideline for intercultural education in 2006 and has continued to emphasize it as a concrete, practical tool for world citizenship education, the intercultural education has not have a high profile in Korea,” and added, “I hope that diverse and in-depth experiences and knowledge will be shared through this conference embracing the spirit of UNESCO which tries to accomplish world peace by understanding and respecting different cultures.” In the conference, Michael Reiterer, Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Korea, which is suggesting directions on cultural diversity of European Union, gave a lecture about “cultural diversity, multiculturalism and intercultural experiences in European Union.” Micheline Rey, former professor at Geneva University, who is working as an expert in intercultural education in Europe, which is experiencing multicultural society prior to Korea, gave a presentation themed “historical consideration on the intercultural education of the Council of Europe.” In particular, Ambassador Reiterer said with force, “Cultural diversity in Europe is common heritage, and intercultural dialogue will contribute to solving the world’s challenges such as prevention and coordination of conflicts, integration of refugees, overcoming violent extremism and preservation of cultural heritage.” On top of that, cases were presented from Asian countries which are going through similar process toward multicultural society to Korea. Professor Noriyuki Nishiyama at Kyoto University, Japan and professor Zhihong Pu at Sun Yat-sen University, China spoke with emphasis about the necessity of intercultural education adjusting to each country’s situation where various cultures exist, under the theme of “developmental process of interculturalism in Japan” and “intercultural education in China,” respectively.
- No.443
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.02.14
- Views4299
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Ewha Holds the 14th Ewha Global Empowerment Program

The 14th Ewha Global Empowerment Program (EGEP) was held from January 6 to 13, 2019, which was prepared to strengthen the leadership of female talents from Asian and African countries in non-governmental and public sectors. The EGEP organized by the Asian Center for Women’s Studies (Director: Jung Ji Young) is a short-term leadership training program that integrates the theory, practice, and networking of Women’s Studies. The program has been conducted twice a year and participated by a total list of 288 women from 45 countries across the world since its start year of 2012. The participants include activists in non-governmental and civic groups in Asian and African countries, as well as gender specialists, researchers, and policy experts in various fields such as violence against women, human rights, development, environment, and disaster. This year, 16 female activists selected from 13 countries and women scholars from 6 counties share their knowledge and experience under the theme of “Transnational Women’s Movement: Strategies for Participation and Empowerment.” This time the EGEP launched “Action Research Workshop,” in which education, empowerment, participation, and advocatory activities were focused and relevant reports were presented, which containing analyses on the successful cases and actionable strategies from recent remarkable women’s movements and gender projects in different countries and regions. In addition, an international open forum was held under the theme of “Feminist Leadership on Women’s Human Rights in Asia” at the LG Convention Hall in the International Education Building on Thursday, January 10, with about 150 women scholars, activists, and experts at home and abroad having extensive discussions. The forum was held in the order of an opening ceremony, keynote speech, and presentations and discussions by session. Jung Ji Young, the Director of the Asian Center for Women’s Studies said in her opening speech, “Conceiving female activists’ experiences as the valuable fundamental of education, the EGEP is characterized by participatory education in which participants learn from each other. I hope this international open forum will be a great opportunity for participants to have a meaningful gathering, learning, and change, which will help them to open the door of a better future.” Professor Kim Eun-shil in the Department of Women’s Studies mentioned in her keynote speech that through this program, female activists or activity researchers who have to deal with various issues emerging from each country can experience transnational feminism connected beyond boundaries. She also said, “In the future, feminist leadership will be important as it will play a key role to conduct transnational research and campaigns on women’s political empowerment, support for the fostering of gender experts, male feminists’ cooperation, and women’s body and sexuality.” The forum was heating up in the following session, where Women’s Studies researchers from different countries including South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Laos analyzed the concepts and issues of women’s human rights and had an in-depth discussion about the development of feminist leadership to enhance women’s human rights through research on Women’s Studies, education, and women’s movements in each country.
- No.441
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.01.23
- Views4603
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Ewha held EWHA-KOICA Master’s Program Convocation Ceremony

Ewha held the “11th EWHA-KOICA Master’s Program Convocation Ceremony” at LG Convention Hall in the International Education Building on Thursday December 13, 2018. This year, 20 students from 15 countries successfully completed their master’s program of Development Cooperation. They are female civil servants from developing countries chosen as scholarship students for the program with an aim to foster global gender equality leaders, and after graduation, they will serve as a specialist for diverse international cooperation activities in their country. In this ceremony, there were 160 attendee including President Kim, Hei-sook, Lee Mi-kyung, President of Korea International Cooperation Agency, Jang Bong-soon, President of ODA Education Center, professors of Graduate School of International Studies, officials of the International Exchange Promotion Association and families of students, and they shared joys and meanings of the commencement. The 20 graduates celebrated their commencement by singing Arirang together on the stage with K-POP style dances. Present Kim said in her congratulatory speech that the EWHA-KOICA program has been playing a pivotal role in spreading Ewha’s values of achieving gender equality through education to the world, and encouraged the graduates to plant and grow a seed of Ewha’s tradition after coming back to their countries. President of KOICA Lee expressed her intimacy by saying “As an alumna of Ewha, it is very moving to attend this ceremony,” and asked them to make efforts to promote exchanges with Korea in their countries. The graduates expressed their gratitude that they experienced Korea’s diverse cultures through the EWHA-KOICA program and had an opportunity to foster expertise that will contribute to international cooperation, thanks to outstanding faculty and systematic education programs, and promised that as a woman leader, they will enhance competitiveness of women after returning to their country. The EWHA-KOICA program co-operated by Ewha’s Graduate School of International Studies and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) provides education programs specially designed for women leaders from developing countries, ranging over official development assistance (ODA), gender and development, and practice training courses for gender equality and women competitiveness enhancement (visit to national agencies including the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korea Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education, and field trips to factories of large-scale companies). Since 2007, the program has produced 265 graduates (including 8 students completing the program) from 50 countries, and the graduates have been working as civil servants, researchers, and NGO organizers across the world.
- No.439
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.01.14
- Views4461
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The Center for Human Rights Holds a Special Lecture on “Cyberbullying,” an Attack by Postings

The Center for Human Rights (Director: Park Kwi-Cheon) held a special lecture titled “Stop!! Cyberbullying” given by Kim Sung-hye, chief officer of the Counseling Service Headquarters at the Foundation for Preventing Youth Violence (FPYV), as a preventive education of cyber violence, on December 5 (Wednesday) at the Little Theater in the Student Union. Cyberbullying refers to behavior that bullies a targeted person continuously and repeatedly using emails, mobile phones, social network services, etc. in the cyberspace. Director Park said in her greetings, “Recently cyberbullying is getting more serious within the university campus, and the victims are suffering for 24 hours anytime, anywhere and have a hard time in managing their daily lives.” She added, “I hope this lecture will be a forum for thinking about how to prevent and resolve the problem of human rights violation in the cyberspace.” Kim, chief officer of the counseling institution, started her lecture by pointing out the seriousness of cyberbullying, saying “Cyber violence occurs with significant frequency among those in their 20s and 30s and it is developing more and more intellectually.” She clarified the types of cyberbullying, which include: flaming, posting a flood of insults and slanders; cyber harassment, sending offensive and abusive messages; defaming, spreading comments or pictures in order to damage the reputation of someone; masquerading, spoiling someone’s reputation or relationships by posting messages as another user; outing, publicly saying sensitive personal information about individuals; exclusion, intentionally and cruelly singling out a person from online group; and cyberstalking, continuously swearing, threatening, or expressing excessive good feeling through online. In addition, the chief officer mentioned that cyberbullying is a serious problem because it is a kind of a means of violence characterized by rapidly spreading and collectively, anonymously and secretly occurring, which hurts victims as painful as their normal life is paralyzed. She suggested the ways to deal with those cyberbullying attacks as follows: first of all, To recognize you are cyberbullied and avoid contacting the attacker rather than avenge yourself on him (her); To ask for help if the cyberbullying continues; To secure evidence such as capturing relevant proofs; To let family and friends know you are cyberbullied while reporting it to the relevant institutions; and To request a website administrator to delete or blind the relevant postings. Chief officer Kim repeatedly emphasized, “Above all, if you react the same way when you are cyberbullied, you can also become an attacker. So you need to turn down the access and preserve the evidence.” Meanwhile, the Center for Human Rights was established last July to protect human rights and improve rights and interests for Ewha family. The Center is helping Ewha members who experienced violation of human rights overcome the damage and enjoy healthy life. Additionally, through human rights education, education on sexual harassment and violence and public relations campaign, the Ewha institution is trying to make a learning environment and comfortable workplace without victims and attackers.
- No.437
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.01.04
- Views4268
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The Career Development Center Holds IFI Career Fair

The Career Development Center (Director: Jo Il-Hyun) co-hosted the “International Financial Institutions Career Fair” with the Ministry of Economy and Finance at the Lee San-bong Hall of the ECC building between November 19 and 20, 2018. A number of the world’s leading financial institutions participated in this job fair, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Green Climate Fund, and Global Green Growth Institute. At the opening ceremony held on the first day of the event, Heo Jang, Director of the Development Finance Bureau of the MOEF underscored the significance of working as an international public official, saying “Experience in an international financial institution will bring about new perspectives on the social and economic development taking place in countries around the world and provide an opportunity to work together with colleagues who have different backgrounds and deep insight into various concerns of the international community.” President Kim, Heisook said in her welcoming address, “Ewha has produced creative and proactive female talents based on flexibility, inclusiveness, and diversity. Through this job fair, I expect our outstanding talents to work actively in various fields of the international financial institutions.” In the next session, each institution provided job information and Korean employees who are currently working for the international financial institutions presented job interview and internship experiences. The presenters said “To work for an international financial institution, English speaking and writing skills are certainly important along with excellence at numbers, but, above all, you have to be able to explain well your sense of duty and why you choose the institution,” while sharing detailed interview tips and practical questions. Each international organization provided intensive consultation at the Multipurpose Hall, and around 160 participants visiting the booths could obtain practical job information and materials. In addition, on the second day of the event, individual job interviews were conducted with pre-applied 122 students. Meanwhile, the Ewha Career Development Center supports customized education and programs by field and grade to help students to design their successful career path. By opening career development classes such as internship and job-seeking mentoring, running career development programs adapting to grade-specific characteristics, and providing job clinic and consultations, it has become the “career development partner of Ewha students.”
- No.435
- Writer홍보실
- Date2018.12.24
- Views4378
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Office of International Affairs Held '2018 Fall Study Abroad Fair'

The Office of International Affairs (Vice President : Won Mog Choi) held '2018 Fall Study Abroad Fair' at a lobby on the first floor in the Student Union on Thursday, November 8, 2018, with support from the ACE project with an aim to attract attention on study abroad programs from Ewha students. Started in 2015, the Study Abroad Fair has been held every semester in order not only to introduce Ewha’s study abroad programs but also to boost exchanges between Ewha students and international students in exchange and visiting programs. A total of 84 students containing 43 Ewha students with experience of studying at foreign universities and 41 foreign students attended in the Fair, and ran a consultation booth as representatives of 62 universities around 21 countries, providing various information including overseas school life and culture of each country. In addition, the person in charge of the exchange student program ran a booth to give advice on exchange student programs for Ewha students and satisfied students’ curiosity. Jeong Ji-yeon, who is a junior at English Language and Literature and served as a staff member in the USA booth of the Fair with the experience in California State University and Fullerton, said “As a student representative, it was a good opportunity to work together not only with other Ewha students but also with international students at the same booth.” Sakura Ichimura, a Japanese exchange student from Tsuda College, who ran the Japan booth, said “There was no opportunity for working with Korean students or introducing my college while studying in Korea, but with this Study Abroad Fair, I enjoyed the two experiences.” Ewha provides various study abroad opportunities that students could foster global competitiveness. In the second semester of 2018, about 400 foreign students are studying at Ewha through exchange/visiting programs, and over 420 Ewha students are being sent to foreign universities through various programs.
- No.433
- Writer홍보실
- Date2018.12.07
- Views4471

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