Visitors at the 2016 Tomato Festival in Hwacheon, 118 kilometers northeast of Seoul, dive into a pool of the vegetable on Aug. 12, 2016. The festival opened on the same day and will continue to Aug. 15. (Photo courtesy of Hwacheon County) (Yonhap)
Korean archer Ki Bo-bae shoots an arrow during the women’s archery team competition in Rio Olympics at Sambadrome, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday. Ki and the rest of the Korean team made history by taking its eighth successive title from the event. [NEWSIS]
Pinwheels designed after South Korea’s national flag are installed at a ward office in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Aug. 8, 2016, ahead of the 71st anniversary of the country’s Liberation Day. Aug. 15 marks the day Korea was freed from the 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule. (Yonhap)
South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan competes in the men’s 400m freestyle heat during the swimming event at the 31st Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 6, 2016. Park, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist, finished 10th overall in the heats in 3:45.63, missing out on the final, which is open to the top eight qualifiers. (Yonhap)
Attendants listen to speakers at an international conference in Seoul on Aug. 5, 2016, against killing dogs for meat, organized by the Korea Animal Rights Advocates. (Yonhap)
Trade Minister Joo Hyung-hwan (7th from L) and other guests cut tape to mark the construction of the country’s first electric vehicle (EV) super-charging station at World Cup Stadium in Seoul on Aug. 2, 2016. The government announced a plan to invest 200 billion won (US$180.3 million) this year to develop the nation’s EV industry. Under the plan, 150 on-street charging station will be built across the nation by November, plus 30,000 regular chargers to be set up at apartment complexes nationwide. (Yonhap)
Basically these students are protesting to remain an elitist institution by not allowing in older students who could not afford to go to college after high school, but could later on in their lives:
Students of Ewha Womans University stage a sit-in protest on Sunday at the main hall of the school to denounce the school’s plan to establish a college for people who have entered the workforce without a university education. The students have been occupying the building since Thursday. [NEWSIS]Hundreds of students at Ewha Womans University in Seodaemun District, western Seoul, have been occupying one of the school’s halls for days in a bid to pressure the university to scrap its decision to create a college for non-traditional students.
Some 300 students have participated in the sit-in so far, which began last Thursday in a building housing the president’s office. The school’s board of trustees had officially decided that day to push the plan forward, rejecting voices from the student body that denounced the so-called Future Life College.
A group of five professors and faculty members who joined Thursday’s meeting was locked inside the building when 200 students stormed in to express their defiance, leading local police to dispatch around 1,600 officers Saturday to guide them out.
Around 10 students were physically injured during the altercation. Some were transported to a nearby hospital by ambulance.
The school’s initiative to establish the Future Life College is led by the Ministry of Education, which sought to offer high-quality education to people who started working right after graduating from high school. The plan was to offer opportunities for those who couldn’t afford a college education but felt the need to get one later in their careers. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
A group of grandchildren of Koreans who were forcibly taken to work on Russia’s far east island of Sakhalin during the Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45), arrives at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Aug. 2, 2016. A civic organization in Busan invited the group to a five-day history tour program. Some 43,000 Koreans were sent to the icy island that was a part of the Japanese empire at the time. (Yonhap)
