Seoul National University desires all 3,700 freshman to reside in dormitories on its primary school in southern Seoul within the next couple of years. SNU President Ryu Hong-lim informed the Chosun Ilbo recently, “Students require to have a chance to live individually from their households and grow as humans. We mean to assist brand-new trainees establish their own identities as independent people by residing in dormitories in their freshman year.” Oxford and Cambridge universities in the U.K. have had the system because their start as spiritual colleges in the Middle Ages. In Korea, personal Yonsei University was the very first to embrace it in 2014, and freshmen invest their very first year in dormitories on the Songdo school. SNU has actually been mulling the relocation considering that 2007. “Students at universities overseas fraternize their dormmates instead of their schoolmates,” Ryu stated. “That procedure teaches them how to comprehend and accept trainees learning other topics. Exceeding merely cohabiting, it’s crucial to develop an environment for trainees to take part in conversation and social activities.” Ryu thinks that school living can fix the severe reliance of some trainees on their moms and dads. “There are numerous circumstances where moms and dads continue to control the lives of trainees even after they get in university,” he stated. Copyright © Chosunilbo & Chosun.com
Seoul National University Wants All Freshman to Live on Campus
