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Ewha held 2014 Commencement Ceremony

On Friday, August 28, Ewha held the 2014 graduation ceremony at the Welch-Ryang Auditorium. A total of 1,982 students received their degrees, with 1,027 bachelor, 843 master, and 112 doctoral degrees. The graduation ceremony reflected the diversity of Ewha, as degrees were given to three graduates of the EGPP (Ewha Global Partnership Program) and students hailing from 21 countries including Ghana, Afghanistan, China, and USA. Ewha also conferred a bachelor’s degree upon a student from North Korea and 2 students with disabilities. During the ceremony, President Kyunghee Choi encouraged all graduates with her statement, “I pray to God for all those who are now leaving Ewha for a new world and hope God will bless everyone of your promising future.” She also requested three things from students: to maintain self-esteem as Ewha graduates, to keep asking questions to the definite thing for a change, to maintain a positive attitude about life and not give up easily. Lastly, President Choi gave thanks to the families and professors of graduates who had supported the students with their trust and warm heart.
- No.291
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.09.09
- Views6079
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Workshop for 40th ‘Ewha Peace Buddy’

On August 13th, the workshop for a new buddy of “Ewha Peace Buddy” was hosted at the Ewha-Posco building. Ewha Peace Buddy is an Ewha mentoring system offered by the OIA (Office of International Affairs). Participating buddies of this program help foreign exchange students adjust to their new environments and assist with their initial interaction with Korean students. By participating in various activities, the buddies are able to cultivate global mindsets needed in this era as well as make new friends in a different country. Activities for the international students includes an airport pick-up service, a tour for students to get acquainted with Ewha's campus and the nearby Shinchon area, coordinating student hang-outs and events, providing academic help, and arranging cultural trips. Ewha Peace Buddy had been founded in 2003, and now 70 buddies including the 40th new buddy selected recently, has been on duty.
- No.289
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.09.02
- Views6213
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Ewha Hosted “The 7th International Students Forum”

During August 10-13, 2015, Ewha facilitated the 7th International Students Forum hosted by Ewha School of Business. In this year’s forum, participants included fifty students and ten professors from Ewha and seven prestigious European and Asian universities: University of Paderborn (Germany), Chiang Mai university (Thailand), Oita University and Kyushu Sangyo University (Japan), Shenzhen University (People’s Republic of China), and Vietnam National University. On August 11th, the participating students presented 13 papers on the subject of “Entrepreneurship, Corporate Innovation, and Economic/Social Fairness” and initiated group discussions on related subjects. In addition, they introduced their own culture and tradition to each other. They made a visit on their last day to explore Asia's biggest cosmetic manufacturing company, AmorePacific Story Garden in Osan. The International Student Forum was a program for students of world famous universities to share their experience and knowledge in business administration, economics, and social sciences. The first forum was held at Oita University in Japan in 2004.
- No.287
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.08.25
- Views6213
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President Choi was invited as a Guest of Honor for the ‘Association of Woman Ambassadors in Korea’

President Choi participated with 10 members of the meeting, ‘Association of Woman Ambassadors in Korea,’ which was held on August 4th at the Embassy of New Zealand, located in Yongsan. They discussed methods of elevating relationships between Ewha and respective countries. From 2011, Woman Ambassadors in Korea consistently gathered for meetings in order to promote their collaboration and close friendship. They invited President Choi as a Guest of Honor to this particular meeting where they seeked various opportunities to broaden the partnership with Ewha. The Ambassadors of Ghana, South Africa, New Zealand, Dominican Republic, Rwanda, Malaysia, Bolivia, Island, Austria, Uruguay also were in attendance. President Choi promised to further develop their exchange programs and cooperative efforts with both Aingeal O’Donoghue, the Ambassador of Island and Clare Fearnley, the Ambassador of New Zealand. She introduced EGPP, EGEP, and Ewha-KOICA programs, which are some of Ewha's global education systems, and also encouraged the ambassadors to help students from each country to participate in these programs.
- No.285
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.08.19
- Views6399
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Ewha held Closing Ceremony for Ewha-Harvard Summer School Program

Ewha-Harvard Summer School co-hosted by Ewha Graduate School of International Studies and Harvard University, celebrated the completion of its five-week program with a closing ceremony at the LG convention hall on July 30th. ‘Documentary Film Festival’ was also presented along with the closing ceremony. Nine Harvard students and fourteen Korean university (including Ewha) students participated in this year’s program under the theme of ‘Cinema Korea: Documenting Korean Society Through Film.’ Participants filmed current modern Korean society alongside their personal perspectives, based on content learned through their lectures and activities. Six documentaries reflecting their thoughts about Korea were, "Assiduous: Work to live or Live to Work?," "Motherland," "River Flows In You," "Marked Body," "The Singlesters," and "Happiness from the Seoul." Ewha-Harvard Summer School is Korea’s only joint summer session program collaborated with Harvard University. The goal is to help their students cultivate global mind through the study of Korean history and culture. Since their beginning in 2006, the Ewha-Harvard Summer Program has taken place every year and it recently celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.
- No.283
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.08.12
- Views6683
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Strengthening Global Capacity: Ewha’s Faculty-led Study Abroad Program

During the course of the Study Abroad Program which was led by Faculty in July 2015, a total of 30 Ewha members strengthened their global capacity by visiting and participating in lectures and seminars at various international organizations, world-top universities, and broadcasting companies located in France and England. The members of Faculty-led Study Abroad Program had the opportunity to visit OECD and learn about a function of the organization. They also participated in expert lectures regarding the role of international organization at UNESCO and IEA (International Energy Agency). Additionally, they visited the world's most famous universities, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cambridge University and the world's most prominent media group, BBC. Since its launch in 2008, the Faculty-led Study Abroad Program has been offered twice a year during summer and winter breaks. Now, as one of Ewha’s representative global programs, the Faculty-led Study Abroad Program provides students with opportunities to truly experience different areas in various fields overseas and expand their perspective and knowledge as leaders of the future.
- No.281
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.08.05
- Views7437
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Ewha held Closing Ceremony for ‘2015 International Co-Ed Summer College’

The 2015 International Co-Ed Summer College ended the first session of its four week-program with the Closing Ceremony on July 22nd. Ewha International Co-Ed Summer College is a venue where young talented people around the world can come together and study Korea. Initiated by Ewha and followed by over 40 years of history and tradition, the program consists of two sessions: Session I is held over the course of four weeks from mid-June to July and Session II is held over the course of two weeks in August. Approximately 421 participants provided favorable comments about the Session I courses, Korean language classes, and field trips, such as Korean Folk Village, DMZ and Lotte World. Omer Demirozcan, a MS student from the Netherlands stated, “The program was very well organized in a way that you can easily learn and experience the culture. I was very impressed about the fact that, not only were the professors, staffs, and students of Ewha so kind, but everybody I met in Korea possessed such a welcoming nature.”
- No.279
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.07.29
- Views7696
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Ewha University Selected As a New Member of Universities for the ‘Advancement of College Education’ Program

Ewha was selected to be one of the newest members amongst universities for the ‘Advancement of College Education (ACE)’ program on July 6th, which is operated by the Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for Education. Since 2010, the ACE program has offered 4 years of tremendous financial support to the limited number of universities in order to develop leading models for undergraduate programs. Unlike any other support program, ACE is the epitome of a special program whose goals are to foster universities towards teaching on a superior level and to aim for qualitative development of college education. Ewha gained the honors of being selected as an excellent case by cultivating ‘THE Talented’, who leads the future. ‘THE’ is the acronym for Telos- Hokma- Experience. Telos is a greek word for "purpose" in English. Hokma represents wisdom in Hebrew and E represents Experience in English. Ewha will continuously and consistently strive to nurture global elite students with the right values and creative intelligence for the era of consilience, as well as to teach convergence by developing various leading models for undergraduate programs.
- No.277
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.07.22
- Views6469
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Ewha hosted the Open Forum of the 1st Ewha-Luce International Seminar

The Open Forum of Ewha-Luce International Seminar for Women Graduate Students in the STEM disciplines was held from June 30th, 2015 to July 1st, 2015 at Ewha's campus. The Open Forum was held in two parts; ‘Women in the History of Science’ on Day 1(6/30), and ‘Current Issues in Science’ and ‘Science of the Future’ on Day 2(7/1). The graduate students from MIT, Cornell, Georgia Tech, along with Ewha graduate students and graduate students of various Korean university who are majoring in the area of IT, nanotechnology, aviation, and convergence technology have participated in this forum and exchanged their opinions. The Open Forum was a part of the "Ewha-Luce International Seminar : Expanding Horizons" hosted by Ewha in conjunction with the Henry Luce Foundation. Founded in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time, Inc., the Luce Foundation seeks to be a catalyst for learning and leadership. The foundation chose Ewha as a partner in 2013 and agreed to support 1.5 million dollars to the program.
- No.275
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.07.16
- Views6384
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2015 International Co-Ed Summer College

2015 International Co-Ed Summer College opened on June 23rd, as a venue for young talented people around the world to gather and study Korea as a subject. Ewha founded the program in 1971, and the program now has been over 40 years of history and tradition. The program consists of two sessions: Session I, open to students from the Americas and Europe, is held over the course of four weeks from mid-June to July. Session II, open to students from Asia, is held over the course of two weeks in August. Ewha Students can participate in Session I by registering for the regular summer session. Participants of the sessions can choose from approximately 30 courses on various themes, such as but not limited to, Humanities, Sociology, Economics and Media. They are offered in English and Korean language classes with proficiency-based grouping. Additionally, various field trip opportunities will be given to the students every Friday to understand better of Korean culture. They include visiting Korean Folk Village and House of Sharing, making Kimchi, and watching Korean movies.
- No.273
- Writer홍보실
- Date2015.07.08
- Views5878

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