Recently, the Netflix series Teach You a Lesson (chamgyoyuk) has been making waves both at home and abroad, ranking high in Netflix’s Global TOP 10 Non-English TV Shows category. Set against a collapsed public education system, its striking premise—where a fictional Education Rights Protection Burea

Kyungnam University (KU) celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, alongside the 69th anniversary of the Kyungnam University Newspaper (KUN) and the 49th anniversaries of the Kyungnam University Broadcasting System (KUBS) and the Kyungnam Times (KT). To commemorate these milestones, we conducted an

Marking its 80th anniversary this year, Kyungnam University (KU) has grown beyond its origins as a regional institution in step with social change. At this milestone, reflecting on the life of President Park Jae Kyu offers insight into the values KU has upheld and the direction it now pursues. His e

South Korean writer, scholar, and humanitarian Sun Hyang Kim has been awarded the 2025 Orpheus Texts Book of the Year Award for her poetry collection So Long, marking a major achievement for Korean literature on the global stage. The ceremony took place on October 28, 2025, at the Institute for Far

“Mundus Artium Press, housed at The University of Texas at Dallas, today announced that So Long, a collection of poems by Korean poet Sun Hyang Kim and translated into English by the author and professor Dean J. Ouellette, has been selected as the winner of the Orpheus Texts Book of the Year Award 2

By Jin Seol-yi KT Senior Reporter Celebrating its 63rd anniversary this year, the Jinhae Gunhangje Festival in Jinhae-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, is the largest cherry blossom festival in South Korea. From March 29 to April 6, the city welcomed visitors with dazzling cherry blossoms and

Han Kang Wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature“The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”— The Swedish Academy On October 10, 2024, the Swedish Academy a

Chairperson Kim Sun Hyang of the University of North Korean Studies has released The Day, the Flower: Verse Diary 3, the third book of poetry in her Verse Diary series. The book encapsulates special moments, memories, and her day-to day life. Like the line “In the same brook none ever bathed him twi

The 3·15 Youth Literary Award was jointly organized by Kyungnam University (KU) and the Society of 3·15 Democracy Movement, and hosted by the KU Newspaper (KUN). It inherits the spirit of 'freedom, democracy, and justice' embodied by the March 15th Democratic Rally, the first democratization movemen

Kyungnam University (KU) has recently been selected as to be part of the Mentoring and Scholarship Project (MSP) for Multicultural and North Korean Defector Students (MNKDS) organized by the Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF) for the fifth consecutive year. MSP for MNIS MSP is a project that focus

The Kyungnam Times, an English journal of Kyungnam University (KU), will mark its 200th issue with its March 2024 issue. To commemorate this meaningful publication, let’s learn about the history and composition of The Kyungnam Times (KT), major articles that have been published so far, domestic and

“Meme” is a generic term used to refer to all kinds of funny pictures and topical videos that circulate on the internet. A meme is defined as an element of culture that, similar to genes in genetics, represents thoughts or behaviors that are transmitted from one person to another within a society. M

Stalking punishment has been strengthened. The Legislation and Judiciary Committee passed a revision of the anti-stalking law on June 20, eliminating the provision that previously prevented the punishment of stalkers under the victim’s consent. Due to this provision, many victims have faced threats

Korea and Japan are geographically close neighbors, but their historical, political, and economic conflicts have created deep-rooted tensions between the two countries. For a long time, tensions have been high between the two countries due to ongoing issues such as forced labor, comfort women, and D

What is the 2030 Busan World Expo?The World Expo also called the Economic and Cultural Olympics is a venue for introducing the industrial and technological developments of mankind and showing off the competence of the host country. Founded in 1928, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) is a

At the ‘Colorado State Fair’s Fine Art Competition,’ a work took 1st place in the “Digital Category” on September 3 of 2022. However, this work has been faced with great controversy. This is because it is a work drawn by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The name of the award-winning work is "Space Oper

At the 2022 Red Cross Gala: Chairman Shin Hee-young (back row, fourth from the left), Vice Chairwoman Jang Ye-soon (back row, third from the left), Vice Chairman Yoon Sung-ho (back row, third from the right), President Park Jae Kyu (front row, center), with representatives from the Institute for Far

Process of the Growth and Popularity of BTSBTS, who made their debut on June 13, 2013 and swept all the rookie awards at home and abroad, has grown into one of Korea's leading music groups. They have created a global BTS boom and are called 21st century pop icons. They have topped the world's leadin

World Environment Day is June 5th, and it is annually celebrated by holding various events in order to foster people's awareness of environmental preservation and make its practice a daily life. It was enacted at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1972. S

COVID-19 is changing a significant part of our lives and making the surge of delivery and telecommuting essential. All of these changes are due to the rapid acceleration of digitalization. Let’s find out what changes are coming. The Korean government is moving rapidly to digital transform in a chang