Two months ago, Andrew Lelling, the US Attorney of Massachusetts, overtly unveiled an investigation into a college admissions scandal, titled Operation Varsity Blues. FBI investigators first looked into a soccer coach at Yale University, who then pointed to William “Rick” Singer, the infamous college admission consultant at the center of the scheme. The…
Author: Jessica Kim
Grade 10
Chadwick International School
[Editor’s Column]What South Korea Can Do To Help Abandoned Babies
A 17-year-old high school student holds her newborn baby tightly and walks up to the stairs leading to a child’s nursery. She then opens a hatch in the wall and softly puts the blanket-covered baby down. She turns around and walks away, sobbing with tears. Why is she leaving her baby in…
CTE In Contact Sports: Should They be Banned?
Aaron Hernandez, Ken Stabler, Chris Benoit, you name it. The notable “legends” of American football and wrestling. Though these three athletes differ in sports, they have one mutual commonality: they suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Experts have known about it for over a century, but sports fans have recently been…
[Editor’s Column]IB in Korean Schools
IB (International Baccalaureate) is “a program that focuses on teaching students to think critically and independently, and how to inquire with care and logic” and more than 4,000 schools have chosen to teach International Baccalaureate programs worldwide. As an English-based curriculum with a direct focus on making students better learners and people, IB is…
[Editor’s Column]The Internet’s Opposition to Alex Jones
It all started with Apple eliminating the entire library of InfoWars podcasts on iTunes and Podcast apps. Then came YouTube and Facebook, both restricting the access to any of Alex Jones’ uploaded content through channels/pages. Recently, Spotify did the same thing. What these five major social media platforms have in common…
The Reason Behind Longer Lives
Looking back over the past century, our quality of life has dramatically changed; the majority of the population can be expected to reach old age in industrialized countries. We are currently living in the golden era of innovation and technology, where what we have thought of as impossible a decade ago are in existence to…
Evaluating South Korea’s Public Diplomacy
Governments around the world endeavor to form a just public diplomacy; the communication between the foreign ministry and foreign nations to promote its agenda. Ideally, it’s utilized to foster a better image of themselves to maintain long-term alliance relationships and create general goodwill with nearby countries. Such methods include public diplomacy dedicated campaigns…
2018 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Sex Violence Activists
This year, there were 331 nominees for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, of which 216 were individuals and 115 were groups. 2018, being one of the most eventful years, there were many nominees to give honorable mentions to. Moon Jae-in for taking tentative actions in nuclear disarmament and UNHCR (U.N. High Commissioner…
The Internet’s Opposition to Alex Jones
It all started with Apple eliminating the entire library of InfoWars podcasts on iTunes and Podcast apps. Then came YouTube and Facebook, both restricting the access to any of the theorist’s uploaded content through channels/pages. Recently, Spotify did the same thing. What these five major social media platforms have in common is…
Do We Really Need A Brain?
While I was procrastinating my school work and browsing through Youtube videos at 2:00 in the morning, I came across a captivating link. Out of my irresistible curiosity, I clicked on the 11-minute video, which left me in shock for the next three days. What I came across was a neuroscientist-confirmed statement that our…