Han Bi-ya, a popular travel writer and advisor to the U.N. Central Emergency Response Fund, has been invited to give lectures to undergraduate students at Ewha Womans University as a visiting professor, the school said. Han will give lectures to students at the department of international studies from the spring semester next year, according to the school. Ewha’s department of international studies is the first school established to nurture global-minded individuals at the undergraduate level. 

The Seoul Metropolitan Council passed an ordinance granting more rights to students amid controversy over some contested issues in the ruling that has caused a confrontation between a progressive and conservative group. Until Monday when the ordinance was passed, the opposing groups protested four disputed points of the ordinance: respect of students’ sexual orientation, pregnancy and childbirth, religion and the right to hold collective protests. But with the ordinance expected to take effect n

A Swedish woman who served as a nurse during the Korean War has contributed part of her donation to the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.The gift comes in gratitude to the Korean government, which has sent her thank-you letters for her service during the 1950-53 conflict. Kerstin Jonasson, 88, and her Rune Jonasson, 85, have asked the KTH to contribute part of their 11.8 billion won ($10 million) donation to a student exchange

Jeong Kap-young, an economics professor at Yonsei University, has been appointed president of the university, the school said Thursday. The school board appointed Jeong as the 17th president after he received 86.6 percent of the vote from faculty members during the three-day meeting of professors that kicked off Nov. 28.Jeong was one of five presidential candidates selected early last month through interviews and a career examination by criteria such as research ethics and financial status.  “I

The design of a pair of residential towers to be built in Yongsan, Seoul has sparked international controversy by evoking the image of the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Families of 9/11 victims were among those outraged at the design evoking the exploding WTC, and criticized Dutch architecture firm MVRDV and the architect, Daniel Libeskind, according to the New York Daily News and New York Post. Scheduled to be completed in 2015, the towers are connected by a “pixilated cloud” whi

A Chinese student has been elected as the first president of a foreign student body at a Korean university in Seoul. The 25-year-old female student, He Yun from China, was elected president of the nation’s first foreign student council of Kyung Hee University, while 22-year-old male student Sunzhiwei from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region in China was picked as vice president last Friday, according to the school. The two students, both undergraduates at the university, will represent about 1,