FEATURE How to Empathize Without Seeing Each Other NO.365 MAR 2021 COVERSTORY Death Sentence for K-Quarantine SMTRACING Sookmyungians Gather Online v G TIM UN ES Y M K O O S E CONTENTS E H D T 365 I T | THE SOOKMYUNG TIMES - NO. 365 MAR 2021 | MAR 2021 O R I A L B O D A R About SMT The Sookmyung Times (SMT) is the only official En- glish Newspaper at Sookmyung Women's University. Founded in 1973, 2020 marks its 48th anniversary. SMT publishes a hardcopy magazine each March, April, June, September, October, and December and publishes a webzine each May and November. The Sookmyung Times office is located in the Student Union, room 309. 12 03 12 21 COVERSTORY PUBLISHER President Chang Yunkeum Death Sentence for 03 K-Quarantine 28 DIRECTOR Professor Shim Sookyoung LETTER GLOBAL REPORT COPY EDITOR Professor Matilda Krivan Time To Change The World Is Wide, and EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sang Lim Hyeji 16 You Can Go Anywhere CULTURE SECTION EDITOR Kim Lee Hyunmin 04 FOCUS ON CULTURE SECTION EDITOR Ahn Ha Yura Ready for the New ALUMNAE Semester 30 SOCIETY SECTION EDITOR Jung Kim Hyeseung One Way To Express FORMAL ARTICLE SOCIETY SECTION EDITOR Oh Hwang Junhee Yourself Is in a Drawing 18 WOMAN SECTION EDITOR Kim Han Yujin PEOPLE 32 WOMAN SECTION EDITOR Kwak Lee Shinyoung 06 The Helper: A person ADIEU SMT WOMAN SECTION EDITOR Lee Hwang Hayoung ON CAMPUS who is always with you So Long, Farewell CULTURE SECTION EDITOR Choi Song Bojeong CULTURE SECTION EDITOR Kwon Jung Eunseo 08 21 34 SOCIETY SECTION EDITOR Na Cho Seongah CHEONGPA SMTRACING SOOK PICK TEL 02)710-9152 RUNWAY Sookmyungians Gather Songs for the New Online smtimes.sookmyung.ac.kr A Refreshing Spring Year's Playlist www.facebook.com/thesookmyungtimes With Beautiful Outfits @sookmyungtimes 24 35 DESIGNED BY ROUM 09 EXPERIENCE HEAD TO HEAD Physically Far Away, But KAKAO TALK @ FEATURE 로움 Mentally Close by TEL 010-5343-5357 How to Empathize Without Seeing Each Other 26 SMT CULTURE Would You Like to Find Your Destiny? CRITICAL VOICE TO CHANGE THE WORLD LETTER Time To Change This is the first 'The Sookmyung Times' of 2021. An unimaginable year has passed, and a new year has begun. How are you planning on spending the school year? Will you be complacent and go along with the status quo or will you show some fresh innovation? Personally, I would love to stay in the previous year. We might not be able to look ahead this year again, and everything that we planned might be wasted. We might be struggling through difficulties that we would have never imagined. But we can't live in the past. Change always comes unexpectedly. This year, I began the year as new editor-in-chief of The Sookmyung Times. I am neither good at writing nor a talented writer, but I accepted the position because I wanted to push through the struggles and see my new potential through change. Although this issue is my first as editor-in-chief, I will try hard to make The Sookmyung Times excellent. I promise to be more responsible and careful, which will require a lot of effort on my part. These changes are the kind of effort and development I will go through until the end of this year. Sookmyungians, I guess you will also experience a number of changes over the year. While the changes may be unfamiliar and awkward, our lives will continue and there will be a continual series of new changes. It is only through progress towards a new tomorrow that we will grow accustomed to change. I hope change and the drive to face change are the driving forces for you this year. Find the year,a year of challenge, a year of overcoming limitations, and a year that moves you forward in life. "Make your Change by yourself. Change does not happen on its own." Sang Lim Hyeji / Editor-in-Chief / [email protected] NO 365 / MAR 2021 3 ALUMNAE One Way to Express Yourself Is in a Drawing People communicate with others in various ways. For example, a musician delivers their story through the lyrics of a song and a novelist delivers their story through the written word. There are even those that communicate with others through drawings. The drawings of characters and stories deliver something to others and make them sense various emotions. SMT interviewed cartoon artist Lee Dawoon, who bestows a variety of emotions onto people looking at her cartoons that depict daily life and travel stories. Choi Song Bojeong / Culture Section Editor / [email protected] ALL PHOTOS FROM LDW Before we start the interview, please a fourth-year student at college, and one day, how to edit designs so that they shine and the introduce yourself to our readers. reality hit me. I sat still in my dormitory product is successful. I believe that what I My name is Lee Dawoon and I published worrying about the future. Would my long- learned there helped me a lot in the character cartoons for the Naver Best Challenge and cherished dream of drawing cartoons come industry. I learned about the way to deal with the First League of Daum Webtoon. I am to end before it had even started? I decided some programs and about commercialization currently working under the pseudonym right then and there to challenge myself, which were both definitely helpful. so I took out my tablet and drew a cartoon 'Down' on my @0_713 Instagram account. I One of your most renowned drawing mainly draw cartoons and create emoticons. about my daily life. I thought about where to series is 'Good Day', which depicts And I also try to communicate with my upload my cartoon, but after some thought, I stories of everyday life. What readers through collaborative activities with decided to upload it onto Naver's challenge prompted you to use everyday life various companies. cartoon section. It was my first posting of a cartoon drawing, but it became the most stories as the basis of your work? When did you first dream of popular cartoon of the day. Thanks to the I would love to say I thought it would be becoming a cartoon artist and begin confidence I gained on this day, I have been meaningful to record and share my daily working on that dream? drawing ever since. life, but in all honesty, it was the only thing I dreamt about drawing vaguely since early that came to mind as a fourth-year student You graduated from a College of worrying about life after school. Now as I childhood. And as an elementary school Fine Arts. How has your training at student, I materialized my dream as an look back, I think I made an excellent choice the college helped you as a cartoon to use daily life as a theme. I'm glad people animation writer or a webtoon writer. When artist? I became 20 years old, I bought a cheap who look at my work remember my days and tablet with money that I earned by working I actually majored in industrial design at a share mutual feelings with me about their part-time at an art academy. However, College of Fine Arts, and completed my daily life. I didn't know what I should focus my degree in 2017. The Department of Industrial The series 'Good Day' has been drawing on, and to make matters worse, my Design took me beyond product design, I operating since January 2016. It undergraduate life was busy. Soon I became learned about the overall design industry and 4 THE SOOKMYUNG TIMES work? I suppose the absence of income was the hardest. When I first started, I had to take up extra jobs such as working part-time at a café. I had a hard time earning a decent income just from those part-time jobs and having no sense of belonging, so I often thought about employment. Reflecting on things now, there was no need to be so impatient. I'm not sure why I was so afraid of everything at that time. Then, how did you overcome your currently has 186 episodes on the hardship? each next episode. I have only focused on Naver homepage, and this means I was able to keep on with my dream because emotion and daily life, but I would like to the cartoon series has had 186 weeks there were people and things that supported expand my repertoire. If I have a chance, of publication. How did you keep and comforted me. One of my dearest one day I would love to get into stories or coming up with great ideas for the friends is 'Remy', the mouse in the movie cartoons on the subject of romance. I am cartoon over such a long time? <Ratatouille>. I gained a lot of strength from also interested in animation cartoons. And I There are actually about 200 episodes in Remy, an animal considered the garbage of believe those works will be made in my own the series, as some have been deleted over society but tries hard to be recognized as a place of work. I imagine myself submerged time. And the series is ongoing on Instagram. master chef. Also, the warm words from in my work at my own place. Producing film At first, I created the series because it was my readers were a great help. There was a animation is another future goal. something I wanted to do.