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Gonggam, the current student council, began their work in February, 2018. Gonggam aimed to fulfill a total of 56 pledges. Only one semester remains before time will run out. Let¡¯s check the status of their pledges and implementation plan. The pledges were classified into 3 categories: Rights, Communication, and Cultural affairs. Rights relate to students¡¯ rights. For example, the direct election of the university president guarantees students¡¯ rights by giving students the right to vote. | |
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What did CBNU students do during their summer vacation? Some students may have studied, and some may have found a part-time job. Recently, many students are participating in overseas volunteer work during their vacation. Among them, CBT met Shin Hyun-tae(¡¯13, Dept. of Nursing Science), the CBNU Overseas Volunteer Team leader, and listened to his volu nteer stories. | |
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Koreans thought refugee problems were only other countries¡¯ problems. The refugee problem was the hot potato that the rest of the global village agonized over. Koreans didn¡¯t feel it was a severe problem before, but more than 500 refugees from Yemen have come to Jejudo. Koreans are divided about how to handle the refugee problem. -Ed. | |
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For this second semester, CBT planned a special program for readers to introduce the areas around Cheongju and throughout the country. I hope that reading this newly-planned feature of Experience will help readers indirectly experience places that they have not been to. Furthermore, CBT hopes that students will go on an actual trip with a backpack instead of just experiencing it here. For this first edition of Experience, we would like to inform the students about the Sangdang Fortress, | |
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These days, most people use more than one SNS service such as Facebook, Instagram or Kakao-story. According to a survey by the Ministry of Science and ICT, more than 80% of Koreans are using SNS and more than 90% of young people in their twenties are using SNS. The increasing usage of SNS affects product advertisements. Products in various fields are publicized on SNS. Some of them get thousands of ¡°Likes¡± on SNS and are well-known to people. | |
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A customer who visits a café might be asked, ¡°Would you like to drink that here?¡± Since Aug. 1, 2018, under a directive from the Ministry of Environment, cafes all around the nation must not serve a disposal plastic cup to a customer who drinks inside the store. Following a law about saving resources and boosting recycling, the government will impose a maximum 2 million won fine if a store serves plastic cups to in-door customers. | |
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A metropolis was suffering on a tropical night. On August 1st, Seoul observed the highest temperature in 111 years, since the Korea Meteorological Administration started keeping records. Japan has also been having a heat wave. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the highest temperature recorded on July 23rd was 41.1¢ªC in the Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture. The murderous heat from global warming is sweeping Korea and Japan. | |
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Recently, there was a petition posted on the Blue House website to abolish the national pension, drawing the support of many people. The reason for this petition to arise is that ¡®The National Pension Scheme¡¯ was scheduled to be released on July 17 and that it would raise the age of national pension payments from 65 to 69. The public revolted against the news. | |
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It is my last article as a CBT reporter. After starting with an interview as a junior reporter at the CBT in July 2016, I am ending my career as a reporter on September 2018. In all that time, I¡¯ve seen and learned a lot. When I was writing my first article, it was very different from writing assignments in college. | |
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