On Jan. 20, the first national case of the coronavirus was found in the US and South Korea. On Feb. 7, both the US and Korea began to develop a test kit to diagnose coronavirus cases. From that point on,...
The Coronavirus, above all, is a scathing exposé. The xenophobia and misguided panic permeating many Western nations reveal the tendency of believing whatever is comfortable to believe....
With the 2020 US presidential election coming up in a few months, voters may find it hard to find comfort in the oddness and unfairness of the Electoral College. Although countless bills have been proposed...
Like in any other microcosm of society, SIS seems to have its own set of beauty standards, especially for girls. It’s not just about having glowy make-up or being stick-thin or dressing a certain way....
On Feb. 10, Bong Joon-ho’s highly-acclaimed thriller film “Parasite” took the spotlight at the 92nd Academy Awards. By honoring a foreign-language film with an all-Korean cast six nominations and...
On Jan. 5, the 77th annual Golden Globes Award ceremony was held in Beverly Hills to recognize the excellence of various media productions and actors from the past year. Ricky Gervais, an English comedian,...
On Jan. 3, President Trump ordered a drone strike near the Baghdad airport, killing Major General Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander and leader of special-operations forces abroad....
In recent years, there have been various controversies regarding English curricula in high schools across the US. Some schools have debated dropping To Kill a Mockingbird for its glorification of the “white...
Like any other busy Monday, I was absentmindedly walking through the third-floor lounge area last week, barely noticing the people gathered on the sofas around me when a large, rowdy circle of male students...
“OK, boomer.” Used as a remark by millennials and Generation Z in the United States to counter the condescending comments made by baby boomers to younger generations, this new phrase marks this period...
As seniors wade through the thick of college apps season, and classes are now multiplying in workload, discourse surrounding “the SIS student” is resurfacing. The SIS student, according to commonly...
Every year on Oct. 3, South Korea bursts into vibrant parades, festivals, and fireworks, unified with a boundless sense of patriotism for National Foundation Day. Known as Gaecheonjeol, which translates...
