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Publisher Kwon Sun-ki Chief Manager Kim Yun-shik
Faculty Advisor Koo Seung-pon English Advisor Marie-Jose Guillotaux
Editor-in-Chief Kim Do-hye
Editor Son Seong-eun, Kim Jun-min
Reporter Seo Ji-won, Lee Jong-hyun, Yang Si-young, Kim Seo-yun, Lee Sang-heon and Lee Jang-won
3 EDITORIAL Find a Way to Let All Members Coexist
4 FOCUS The Reality of Hourly Workers
6 CAMPUS WORLD Relieving Stress through a Healing Program
8 PEOPLE Catching a Moment in a Flash of Light
10 COVER STORY Expansion of Online Game
16 SOCIAL INITIATIVE A Simple Act Can Bring Big Changes to the World
18 SPECIAL ISSUE What Incheon Asian Games has left to us?
20 PHOTO ESSAY Escape from Oneself by Performing in the Plays
22 COLLABORATION Jung-in and Sia
24 FEATURE I Be Rational in Purchases
26 FEATURE II The Women Who Are Waiting for Their Boyfriends
27 WORLD ISSUE
The Youngest Winner of 2014 Nobel Peace Prize: Malala Yousafzai
Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution
28 CAMPUS NEWS
30 OPINION The Age of Limitless Competition and the Matter of a Wall
32 RICHARD MATTHEWS’ VIEW
Celebrating Korean Poets III: Tea and Sympathy and Poetry
34 MINGLE WITH ENGLISH
35 READERS’ PAGE
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Universities around the country are busy merging majors and
departments. Why? They are doing it because of President Park’s new
“Creative Korea” project. The project, nicknamed CK business, rewards
each university according to its ability to reduce the number of its
departments and will spend 1.2 trillion won on CK project schools over the
next 5 years.
In the case of Gyeongsang National University, 3 divisions, 5 majors and
87 departments will be merged into 7 divisions, 7 majors and 72 departments
next year while maintaining next year’s freshman quota at 3,252, the same as
it was last year.
The sudden merger of departments is causing students and faculty alike a
lot of confusion. In the case of the Department of Biology, Microbiology and
Biochemistry, it will be merged into the Division of Biological Sciences.
Many seniors in those departments will have their required courses changed,
and this will cause chaos for students who have been planning their
graduation for the past 3 years.
The biggest problem with the CK project is that the universities are
merging departments based on the employment rates of their graduating
students. That means many liberal arts schools and colleges of education are
drawing the short straw. Many graduating students in these departments have
to prepare for an intensely competitive exam to earn a teacher’s certificate.
As a consequence, their employment rate is unsurprisingly below the school
average.
While the intent of the CK project is noble insofar as it is trying to
creating a more focused Korean university environment and reduce the
bloated Korean university curriculum, the government and universities need
to tackle the problem in multiple ways and not just look at employment
alone. I hope the government and the schools will find a way for all
members of the schools to coexist rather than unfairly imposing unilateral
reductionist removal on them.
Kim Do-hye
Editor-in-Chief
EDITORIAL

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Ms. Lee, a sophomore at GNU, works in a bakery. When she went for her job interview,
the boss didn’t say anything about the work that she would be doing but just said, “Start next
Monday.” She didn’t sign an employment contract, and she didn’t ask about it because she
was worried that she might lose the job. She didn’t know how much she was going to be
paid either. She said, “I expected that a major bakery company would pay well. But it wasn’t
true. I heard that each worker got different wages. It depended on how they worked. I didn’t
think I could get above minimum wage, however I believed the boss would pay me
adequately.”
According to Article 54 of the Labor Standards Act, an employer shall allow a recess
period of more than 30 minutes for every 4 working hours and more than 1 hour for every 8
working hours. The recess period may be freely used by the worker. But Ms. Lee works for
5 hours a day without a break. She is not alone.
Ms. Jo, a junior at GNU, worked as waitress in restaurant near the front gate of GNU.
She got paid 5,500 an hour for night shifts. According to Article 56 of the Labor
Standards Act, an employer shall pay an additional fifty percent or more of the ordinary
wages for night work (work done from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.). She worked from 5:30 p.m. to
midnight. She deserved to be paid more after 10 p.m. But she didn’t complain about it.
That’s because many stores nearby barely paid additional wages for night work. She also
didn’t sign an employment contract. For Ms. Jo, the worst part of working was that the boss
swore whenever a worker made a mistake. And if the mistake was about money, the boss
docked the worker’s pay. Especially during the vacation, Ms. Jo needed to stop working and
go home around 8 p.m. Many times, though, she was forced to continue working until 12
a.m. because not many customers had come to the store earlier. The boss sometimes opened
the restaurant about an hour later than usual because of his laziness. When he did so, Ms.
Jo’s plans were ruined, and she wasted her time.
Why are students working in poor working conditions? It is because students are always
short of work; there are only a limited number of jobs available. A lot of employers will try
By Lee Jong-hyun ReporterFOCUS
The Reality of Hourly Workers
Working a part-time job during college is one of the rites of passage of young adulthood, along with dating,
joining a school club, and of course, drinking until you pass out. Many students work to pay for their tuition or just
tohavesomeextracashintheirpockets.Buttheproblemwithdoingthisisthatalotofstudentstodayareexposed
topoorworkingcondition.In2014,thelegalminimumwageis 5,210,butthisnotalwaysthewagepaidtofirst-
time working students. And some are stuck working ridiculous hours and are not getting paid for overtime. What
is going on here, and how are students dealing with these injustices? The Pioneer met with some students who
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to juice as much as they can out of a student and when he or she quits, fill the
spot with the next eager student in line. The employers are not the only
problem. In order to protect the rights of a worker, students need to stand for
what is theirs. If you are being mistreated, always report it to MOEL. The
ministry is there to help the weak, and once all the workers stand together, the
employers will no longer be able to take advantage of them.
It is important to maintain the rights of workers. To create better working
environments, people who are treated poorly need to report to MOEL. After
an investigation, MOEL helps to reach a compromise between the boss and
the workers. Students have to be aware of problems and try to resolve them
themselves, not wait for enlightenment to come to the bosses. If you don’t
want to fish in muddy waters, you should avoid working in those places with
illegal employment practices. In the long run, if no one works with below the
minimum wage, then employers won’t be able to cheat and belittle workers
anymore.
Mr. Jeong, a junior in GNU, works in a convenience store for a law-
abiding boss. Most convenience stores are known as “easy work and small
wage” establishments. But Mr. Jeong gets as much as 7,815 per hour, one
and half times the minimum wage. His boss even gives bonuses. These are
written out in his employment contract. Mr. Jeong said the boss runs the store
by following the law. Mr. Jeong works at night from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. He can
take an hour break during his working time. He said, “It’s very good if done
legally. I have worked under an unfair boss before, and I can’t imagine going
back to my old job.”
According to MOEL, there are only 8 labor supervisors to oversee 22,374
workplaces in Jinju. Their job is to make sure all the employers are obeying
the Labor Standards Act. But it is clear that their number is hardly sufficient.
In order to protect workers’ rights and create a fair and healthy working
environment in Jinju, the government, employers, and workers must work all
together.
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CAMPUS WORLD By Yang Si-young Reporter
Relieving Stress
through a Healing Program
Have you ever heard of the Eco Healing Tree Farm
program at GNU? It must be familiar to the students of the
Department of Forest Environmental Resources, but to other
students it might not be. GNU and the Forest Service
organized the Eco Healing Tree Farm program to help
students fulfill themselves. It is a nine-month program that
includes, among other activities, looking after trees, touring
forests, and getting lessons on how to take good photos. GNU
lends forest areas to the students in the program, allowing
them to look after the trees and to get various relaxation-
related lessons. In this issue, The Pioneer introduces the Eco
Healing Tree Farm program and its curriculum.
There are five participant groups in the program; each
group consists of one mentor and eight mentees. The program
is composed of two parts, tree care and healing education. For
the tree care part of the program, students have five kinds of
trees to look after: medicinal trees, fruit trees, trees with
fragrances, trees with beautiful flowers, and evergreens. Each
group covers one kind of tree. The final goal for all groups is
to look after their trees until the trees are mature. By diligently
taking care of trees for eight to nine months participants can
learn to enjoy the unique quality of each tree, seeing it flower
and eating its fruits. During those months, students not only
plant and tend the trees but also learn many things about the
trees they plant. Students have to attend a lecture about
diverse kinds of trees before they begin planting, and they
have to keep a record of what they see in the process of
looking after their trees, logging such information as when the
flowers bloom or fall, the changing colors of fruits and leaves.
By doing this, students can follow the complete lives of the
trees they have planted.
The Pioneer interviewed two students to learn more about
this part of the program. First, we met with Lee Sang-hoon, a
freshman in the Department of Earth and Environmental
Science. In response to our first question about what made
him attend this program, he said that when he was a child, he
had an interest in nature. Also at that time, his parents used to
look after trees. So, ever since he hasn’t minded doing nature-
related activities. Meanwhile, his best friend told him about
the Eco Healing Tree Farm program, and that prompted him
to join it. We then asked, “Did this program help you relax
your mind?” He answered, “Yes.” At the beginning he was
skeptical about whether this program could help him relax his
mind since he didn’t know what he was supposed to do to
accomplish this other than just stand still. However, as he
spent more time on the program, he did feel more relaxed. He
added that if the program’s schedule involved meeting more
often, students could learn more.
Next, The Pioneer interviewed Jeong Gyu-dong from the
Nowadays, the environmental problem is getting more serious. People who have not been concerned with
environmental problems should be concerned from now on. That’s because what you think is trivial can be
central.
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GNU and the Forest Service organized the Eco Healing Tree Farm program to help students fulfill themselves
Department of Forest Environmental Resources. When he first learned about the
program, he thought it would give him his first opportunity to plant trees by himself
and would be meaningful and worthwhile, and this was why he registered for it.
Next, The Pioneer asked, “Do you think this program helped you relax your
mind?” He said, “At first, I just planted trees. It was a hard work. It was far from
relaxing my mind and seemed like waste of time. But when I saw the process of
trees growing, my thoughts also grew. My mind was relaxed when I saw the trees.”
He added that in matter of the program’s schedule, he was not at all satisfied
because its composition and plans kept changing. For example, it was scheduled to
go hiking in August, but that was cancelled. He emphasized that if the program
could be developed to run more systematically, it could be the best program for
students.
Now, let’s see what the healing education part of the program is all about. In
healing education, students study literature and arts that relate to the forest. They
also visit other forests to see the diversity of trees and listen to tree experts. In
addition, students can attend a lecture about how to take good photos and get some
practical training in this outside the classroom. Students also get opportunities to
listen to music in the forest and watch movies that relate to forests and nature. On
the last day of the program, a presentation is made, a contest is held, and a time is
given to the students to express their impressions about the program. Each student
receives a certificate, and the best team receives a prize. This program holds classes
after university lectures, and it recruits students during March and April.
If you want to join this program, you should go online to the Forest
Environmental Resources Department’s website or call (055) 772- 1818. A great
thing about the program is that it involves no additional cost: there are no textbooks
or meals to pay for, and there is no tuition for the classes. Why don’t you join and
relieve your stress through this program?
Students look after their plants until the plants are mature
There are many trees that students planted in person

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PEOPLE By Son Seong-eun Editor
Sometimes we’re obsessed with finding something
different and special. We’re crazy about differentiating
ourselves from others. But in the end we fail in our attempts to
differentiate ourselves for we all arrive at the same last stop.
Experiencing various things in the name of specification, or
spec, is something most university students go through. In the
middle of autumn 2010, a young jobless man started to pay
attention to the stories of ordinary people on the streets. The
man was Brandon Stanton who had lost his job as a bond
trader in Chicago and had started to pursue his passion for
photography.
After arriving in New York City in late 2010, Mr. Stanton
started taking candid portraits of people and putting their
stories in the photos. Uploaded on his blog on Tumblr, the
photos garnered enormous attention from all over the world.
The blog was called “Humans of New York” (HONY). After
a post was mistakenly uploaded on his Facebook and got 73
likes a minute, he also started a Facebook page for HONY.
And the page has since gotten more than 10,000,000 likes.
HONY tells us that difference is not that important. It s our
ordinary common moments that are very important and need
to be collected and held onto as special and precious
memories.
“Humans of Jinju” (HOJ) began on the same grounds as
HONY. HOJ is inspired by HONY and is the second project
of its kind in Korea after “Humans of Seoul” (HOS). One
director, Kim Jay, one photographer, Kim Ki-jong, and one
translator, Chang Jae, all born and raised in Jinju, started the
HOJ project in December 2013, without any financial aid
from any organizations. We at The Pioneer met with Kim Ki-
jong and heard the A to Z of HOJ.
In an interview with The New York Times on August 18th
2014, Brandon Stanton emphasized that “I purposely and
pointedly try to avoid infusing any meaning in the word.”
HOJ may be in agreement with that comment. Although three
people started the project out of love for their home, they just
looked straight and went forward by being faithful to the
present. In HOJ, “one story at a time,” neither trivial nor
important, is told by unspecified individuals, but each leads to
unexpected results. The three people who began the project
only vaguely understand the effect of HOJ.
People might be touched by the fact that everyday stories
can be found in a great metropolitan city. But in the case of
Jinju, people might be startled by the fact that everyday stories
could make this medium-sized city fascinating. Kim Ki-jong
alluded to this when he said that “the center of the earth is
Jinju City” and emphasized that no boundaries are set up in
selecting a person who tells his or her story on HOJ. He added
that the person can be a visitor from other city, a Jinju citizen
who has visited other cities, or even a foreigner who has
traveled to or lives in Jinju. Kim said that when seeking a
person to add a new story to HOJ, he puts weight on what the
person says in the moment not what he has heard previously
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Kim Jay, the founder and director of HOJ, has other tags
on his name: the chief executive of the Gyeongnam Media
Film Commission and the movie producer of Offstage Live.
The Gyeongnam Media Film Commission supports film
projects regardless of genre, media or borders. The
commission provides the outstanding film resource database
of Gyeongnam. It also discovers and promotes local film
talent. Offstage Live is “a music video making group project
devoted to capturing live gigs at common or uncommon
places in one-take videos and sharing them with the public.”
Kim Jay strives to bolster culture and art in Gyeongnam
through all three projects.
Kim Ki-jong said that HOJ became a starting point for
him just as HONY became a starting point for Brandon
Stanton. HONY recently began a world tour in collaboration
with the United Nations on the topic of “raising awareness for
the millennium development goals.” Stanton has also
published two books; one is “Humans of New York: The
Book,” which collects the stories on the HONY blog, and the
other is “Little Humans,” which covers children’s photos
usually posted “microfashion” on his blog. HOJ has also
released a quarterly book, made possible by the financial
support of Jinju City authorities.
Kim said that he tried to cover as many places in Jinju
City as possible, such as the express bus terminal, the railway
station, and the intercity bus terminal. But terminals and
stations are typically full of people who are just passing
through, not staying long enough to tell their stories. Kim
explained that even though the stories uploaded on the HOJ
blog are short, at least 30 minutes is required to listen to them.
He recorded most of the stories in downtown Jinju, which is
the main meeting place for Jinju’s citizens. And he noted that
some special experiences were like “getting a bonus.” The
special experiences were finding people who originally wore
drawn faces and soon changed them to smiling faces as they
told stories.
The Russian artist Uldus Bakhtiozina is famous for her
photographs that poke fun at the stereotypes widespread in
Russia’s rigid society. She recently shared her thoughts in a
TED talk: “Be brave and create some magic.” HONY first
started its project based on what one photographer, Brandon
Stanton, was interested in. HOJ started the same kind of
project on the same ground, but added to that an affection for
Jinju City. Kim sometimes gets messages from those who
want to tell their stories through HOJ. He feels tender loving
care from the people around him. After listening to a recent
criticism of HONY, he inverted the criticism against the critic.
The criticism was posted online by a college student and
television blogger named Daniel D’Addario. He said that
HONY presents people “not as people but as vectors of how
young, white New Yorkers see them.” Kim said that the
blogger himself was most probably a racist, projecting his
own sentiments, in that he saw HONY as a racist blog and
not as a blog of the humanities or arts. Since HOJ was begun,
dozens of spinoffs, such as “GNU People,” “Humans of
Changwon” and “Humans of Busan,” have been created
throughout Korea.HOJ photographer, Kim Ki-jong
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Since a game industry has been developed, game became a representative
content that takes 57% in export of Korean contents industry. As people who enjoy
online games have increased, many online games are produced and created not
only game tournaments but also new sports called e-sports.
League of Legends is one of the most popular games among students. A League
of Legends match was held in Jinju this October. Four universities in Jinju
Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam National University of Science and
Technology, Yonam Institute of Digital Technology, and Kookje College
participated in the tournament.
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History of Games
For many gamers including ourselves, video games are
about more than just shiny pixels and polygons on a screen
and blowing things up. They are about experiencing
alternative lives, escaping from reality, bonding with friends,
and for some very talented individuals, creating a career path.
Since the Internet boom of the mid 1990s, Korea has produced
some of the best professional gamers in the world. And thanks
to games like Lineage and StarCraft, gaming has become a
mainstream entertainment for many young Koreans.
Nowadays, it is no exaggeration to say that gaming is one of
the essential means of communication for Korean students.
Instead of playing soccer or going to saunas together, kids go
to PC rooms to hang out with each other and make new
friends. While kids doing this might be stigmatized as geeks in
the U.S., being good at games is considered cool in Korea.
The economical benefits that gaming has brought to Korea
are just amazing: Gaming has created a whole new industry,
has created new jobs and school majors, has promoted Korea
to the world, and has turned Korea into the IT giant it is today.
The popularity of online games has helped Korea achieve the
fastest adoption rate of high-speed Internet in the world. By
the turn of the millennium, South Korea had DSL connections
in every corner of the country.
Let’s take a look at the game that started it all. The first
every massive multiple online (MMO) game, The Kingdom of
the Winds, was launched in 1996. It was the first graphic
online game that hosted multiple players at the same time.
Other games that came before it were mostly one-time events
in which each time you played you would start from the
beginning or your last saved point. But a MMO had no saved
points, no game-overs. The game was a living and constantly
changing world occupied by real people and non-playable
characters (NPC). Whatever you did in the game had a
permanent effect in the game world and on your character.
The Kingdom of the Winds pioneered the genre of MMOs,
but it was soon replaced by games like Lineage from NCsoft,
and the one and only StarCraft from Blizzard.
Lineage was another Korean-made MMO based on a teen
novel. While The Kingdom of the Winds had 2D, cartoonish
graphics, Lineage introduced more realistic graphics, achieved
by combining 2D worlds and 3D characters. The game was an
immediate success, and it launched NCsoft toward becoming
the biggest game company in Korea. Lineage 2 was released
almost 10 year after the original game, but to this day, there
are many players still playing the first game.
Lineage and The Kingdom of the Winds have accounted
for 57% of all game exports from Korea. This is good news
and bad news. On the one hand, the success of these two
games are something to celebrate, but since they achieved
their success, Korean game development hasn’t moved
forward much, while gaming companies in other countries
have made great progress. Also, a lot of Korean games are
limited to MMOs. These games are by nature very time
consuming and can lead to game addictions. There have been
numerous cases of crimes and suicides related to playing
MMO games.
When talking about games that have made a mark, you
can’t leave out StarCraft. It was created by Blizzard, an
American game company that previously had other successful
games like WarCraft, WarCraft 2, and Diablo. While these are
None has invigorated the gaming community more than League of Legends (LOL) todayStarCraft came out at a perfect time, when high-speed Internet was just settling down in Korea

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great games with amazing stories and lore, they never had the
influence that StarCraft had in the Korean gaming industry.
Technologically speaking, StarCraft came out at a perfect time,
when high-speed Internet was just settling down in Korea.
StarCraft was a catalyst for change, and it ushered Korean
gaming into a whole new level.
This 17-year-old game is a real time strategy (RTS) game in
which players gather resources to build a base and an army and
fight until the other player is defeated. Other RTS games, like
the WarCraft series and the Command and Conquer series, had
come before it, but what set StarCraft apart from the others was
the introduction of 3 playable races with completely different
play styles but with a check-and-balance system that made each
game so unpredictable and fun to watch. By 2000, StarCraft
had become the hottest trend in Korea. PC bangs (Korean
Internet cafes) could be seen on the corners of every street, and
they were always packed with screaming teenagers and adults
alike, playing StarCraft, clicking relentlessly to be one
millisecond ahead of their opponents. There was not only the
game itself, but T-shirts, cookies, pastries, and other goods
named after the game that flooded the market. Professional
StarCraft gamers emerged, and they were treated like rock
stars. And even after 17 years, and 17 years ago is ancient
history in the world of technology, StarCraft is still enjoyed by
many players.
Let’s fast forward to today. There are many great games that
have come and gone, but since the advent of StarCraft, none
has invigorated the gaming community more than League of
Legends (LOL). LOL is a multiplayer online battle arena, a
whole new game genre created by third-party developers as a
part of a WarCraft 3 mod (a 3rd-party add-on to another game)
in 2003. The game is usually played 5 versus 5, with each
player picking a hero and trying to destroy an ancient, a heavily
guarded structure in the corner of the map opposite the other
team's base. There are 3 lanes, top, middle, bottom, that lead to
each base, and the lanes are constantly filled with creeps,
computer controlled minions. The first MOBA was called
Defense of the Ancients, DotA. After the huge success of the
first DotA, there were many iterations of the game, each
version adding more heroes and items to choose from. Because
of the huge popularity of the genre, Valve, a company famous
for the Half Life game series, bought the rights to DotA games
and released its sequel, the stand-alone DotA 2, last year. While
DotA 2 and LOL are both hugely popular around the world,
LOL is dominant in Korea.
Recently, there was a huge worldwide LOL and DOTA 2
competition, with over 2 million dollars in prize money. And as
a part of the 2014 Jinju Lantern Festival, a Jinju amateur LOL
competition was held among the universities in Jinju. LOL is
still going strong 5 years after its release, and its popularity
seems to be growing each year. Other online games, such as
FIFA Online 3, MMOs, and other shooters, are filling the seats
in PC bangs in Korea. And with big single-player focused
games coming out next year, such as Witcher 3, Dragon Age
Inquisition, and StarCraft 2- Legacy of the Void, 2015 is going
to be a great year for gamers.
The global game exhibition, G-Star was held in BEXCO, Busan

COVER STORY
The Pioneer
The People Who Make Games
The games that you enjoy were
produced by going through many
people’s hands. It may seem as though
it should be simple, but the production
process is very complicated. The
Pioneer met with Kim Dong-hyeon, a
junior in the Department of Computer
Science, and the leader of the game
production club, Team SecondLeaF
(TSLF).
Kim Dong-hyeon, has been a
gamer for 15 years. When he first
played the game StarCraft at 7, he
started to wonder about the inner
workings of a computer and how
games are made. That’s why he got
into computer programming. When he
was a junior in high school, his
homeroom teacher gave him
information about the Korean
Olympiad in Informatics (KOI), and he
taught himself C++ Programming. A
year later, he received a bronze prize at
KOI, and he started to study more and
more.
We asked what his favorite online
game was. Mr. Kim said, “As a game
developer, I think Mabinogi Heroes is a
well-made online game. The reason is
that while this is a RPG, MMO at its
core, the game borrows other aspects
from other genres. Also, the real-life
physics is amazing in the game.”
Making a game requires planning,
development, design, and other work.
The planning team plans the overall
framework of the game, like story,
character information, and map
components, and writes the project
document. On the basis of this project
document, the rest of the teams start
their work. The development team
writes the codes for the game. People
use the coding to play out the game in
game production. TSLF’s members use
the tool Game Engine to produce the
game. The design members create
characters, objects, structures, and
other elements of the game’s
environment, which are then expressed
in 2D or 3D. When they express a 2D
version, they can do it by simply using
Photoshop or Paint. But a 3D version
requires professional tools. Another
team takes up the playing sounds,
background music, and sound effects.
We asked what game and game
production means for Kim Dong-
hyeon. He said, “The game is created
by combining the humanity of
planning, the computer science of
development, and the art of design and
sound. Using a computer language, I
can express whatever I want that can't
be expressed in the real world. And if
the idea is good, it can be a big money
maker, too, which is great. For me,
game development and playing games
are the same things. I often play a lot of
games, both mine and others, to make
the best game I can.”
Kim Min-gu used to be a StarCraft pro gamer. Now
that he has retired, he runs a small beer bar, Yonggu Beer,
near GNU. The Pioneer asked him what it was like to be a
pro gamer and what he thought about the current state of
e-sports.
He was born and raised in Jinju. He was an ordinary
student who liked playing games. When he was 19 years
old, he was the runner up in a StarCraft tournament for
amateurs. That’s how he qualified to join a StarCraft
competition for pro gamers. He made it to the top 16 in
the competition. After that, the team KTF MagicNs made
him an offer. He was accepted at GNU, but he was unable
to attend because he had to live in Seoul. He thinks he had
a unique experience and a lot of fun by playing games.
Still, he was under tremendous stress at work. He repeated
and analyzed hundreds of games just to achieve a single
win, and so he was stuck inside all day long. He was
stressed out before matches that he might lose. He advised
people who want to become pro gamers, “E-sports is
highly competitive. I wasn’t a great game player even
though I’m a top player in Jinju. It’s better not to try to be
pro gamer if you are not sure that you can be the best. The
society of pro gamers is very nice for top players, but it’s
unbearable for those who are not at the top.”
“Iwasn’tagreatgameplayereventhoughI’matopplayerinJinju”
Making a game requires planning, development, design, and
other work.

The Pioneer
E-Sports
A League of Legends match was
held in Jinju this October. Four
universities in Jinju Gyeongsang
National University, Gyeongnam
National University of Science and
Technology, Yonam Institute of Digital
Technology, and Kookje College
participated in the tournament. League
of Legends is one of the most popular
games among students. The team from
Gyeongnam National University of
Science and Technology won the
match. We met with Park Ji-hoon, the
leader of the winning team.
Park Ji-hoon enjoyed StarCraft in
high school. After a match-fixing
incident with StarCraft 2 and the
game’s subsequent loss of popularity,
he started playing League of Legends
as a sophomore in high school. He is in
the Diamond I tier, which means he is
in the top 0.05 percent of all players.
What made him get hooked on League
of Legends? He had no particular
reason other than just to have fun his
friends. He only had 2 weeks to
organize a team for the Jinju
tournament. He and his team practiced
the game all night before the match. As
a result, the Gyeongnam National
University of Science and Technology
team won the match and 700,000.
He said, “I appreciate my team
members and supporters. I won’t forget
this experience. It is a great honor to be
part of a great team and to have been
part of the first LOL competition in
Jinju.”
Video game popularity has gone up
greatly since the mid 90s, and there is
no denying that this is what has made
high-speed Internet so prevalent in
Korea today. Still, video games and PC
bangs have negative connotations for
many people. Gamers are considered
lazy and made fun of by branding them
nerds. PC bangs are still classified as
business places harmful to teenagers
because they can interrupt teenagers’
studying. But the future of gaming is
looking up. The International e-Sports
Federation (IeSF) became an official
member of the Association for
International Sport for All (TAFISA)
last August. This means that e-sports
are getting recognized as an official
sport discipline in the global sports
community.
E-sports is short for electronic
sports. E-sports is a general term used
to describe video game competitions.
Much like athletic sporting events, e-
sports games are usually played before
live audiences and may be broadcast
over the Internet and TV as well. As in
other sporting events, players must
follow certain rules, and a referee
officiates the game. Sportscasters
typically commentate at the game,
explaining what is happening.
E-sports was born in Korea.
StarCraft was the beginning of e-sports.
According to the Samsung Economic
Research Institute, three factors led to
the development of the initial e-sports
scene: the advent of the StarCraft era,
the emergence of PC bangs, and the
spread of high-speed Internet. StarCraft
gained huge popularity, and PC bangs
sprang up like mushrooms. As
StarCraft competitions were held
around the country in PC bangs,
StarCraft’s popularity grew further.
Finally, some cable channels began to
broadcast StarCraft matches. In 2004,
100,000 people turned out in
Gwangalli, Busan to watch the
StarCraft pro league final. StarCraft’s
popularity has since died down, but
League of Legends has filled its shoes
perfectly. In this way, the e-sports
industry has continued to maintain its
popularity, even when the most popular
games end, by coming up with new
games. Last October, the League of
Legends World Championship was
held in Sangnam Stadium, Seoul.
Although tickets for the final were
priced from 25,000 to 55,000, the
event was sold out, all 40,000 tickets
gone in 30 minutes. It was the biggest
game event yet.
The rise of e-sports has produced a
number of professional video gamers.
These players compete regularly in
professional tournaments with cash
prizes. E-sports tournaments are
typically sponsored by technology
companies, but these events may also
generate revenue by selling tickets to
see the event live and online viewing
subscriptions.
E-sports encompasses a wide range
of video game genres. Popular RTS
games include StarCraft 2, DotA, and
League of Legends. Common first-
person shooters include the Call of
Duty series, FIFA Online, and Half
Life: Counter-Strike. Additionally,
there are a few console games that are
played in e-sports competitions,
including Guitar Hero, Halo 3, and
Super Street Fighter IV.
The team from Gyeongnam National University of Science and
Technology won a LOL match on his October

SOCIAL INITIATIVE By Kim Do-hye Editor
The Pioneer
A Simple Act Can Bring
The Ice Bucket Challenge is one of many social activities. A social
activity is a movement that contributes to solving social problems and raising
awareness. There are different kinds of social activity, protests, street marches,
and donations to charity among them. In the past, especially from the 1960s to
the 1980s, most university students’ social activities were street protests, part
of the fierce pro-democracy movements of those decades. However, these
days, with the development of SNS and smartphones, it is much easier for
people to take part in variety of social activities.
Have you ever thought about engaging in social activities? If so, The
Pioneer has some suggestions for social activities that would be well worth
your while.
Many students may have seen donation
bracelets. When we buy a donation bracelet,
some of the profits are donated to a specific
group. The first donation bracelet was the “live
strong” bracelet, which was created by the
professional cyclist, Lance Armstrong. He had to
temporarily give up his athletic career because of
testicular cancer. But after overcoming the
disease, he won the Tour de France the
world’s most prestigious cycling competition
held annually in France seven times in a row.
(But he disqualified from all seven of those races
and been banned for life by doping later.) He
established his foundation and started to produce
bracelets to support cancer patients. This easy
way of fundraising led to the creation of a variety of other charity bracelets.
One example in Korea is the bracelet for wianbu, women who were forced
into sexual slavery by the Japanese military.
A related fundraising project is that of TOMS Shoes. TOMS ShoesThe president of GNU had Ice Bucket Challenge last August
Bracelets for wianbu
TOMS Shoes donates shoes to children who
can’t afforrd them
Last August, many celebrities, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dumped buckets of ice water on their
heads. Why? It was part of the Ice Bucket Challenge that had set social media on fire, raising awareness for
AmyotrophicLateralSclerosis(ALS),commonlyknownasLouGehrig’sdisease.Apersonwhohasbeendumped
with a bucket of ice water nominates 3 people to follow suit and donates $100 to ALS research. Ice The Bucket
Challenge has spread like wildfire across social network services (SNS). Between June 1st and August 13th,
peoplehavesharedmorethan1.2millionvideosabouttheIceBucketChallengeonFacebook.

The Pioneer
Big Changes to the World
Suspended coffee originated in Naples, in southern Italy, about 100 years ago. It started with the
name of caffe sospeso, meaning “checked coffee”. Some people would pay in advance for cups of
coffee for other people who could not afford to buy coffee. This has now grown into a global
movement, one being actively conducted in many countries, including the USA, the UK, Australia,
Canada, and Korea. And the principle of suspended coffee is spreading to include the purchase of
other kinds of food.
In the case of Korea, we use the word, mirinae instead of suspended coffee. It is a purely
Korean word that means paying for something in advance. The mirinae movement is not limited to
coffee. There are over 600 mirinae-affiliated stores including cafes, restaurants, and beauty salons
around the country. The Pioneer visited Gallery Noodle Cafe “Soop,” the second mirinae-affiliated
store in Changwon. The owner said, “ have joined the mirinae movement because it’s a unique
way of helping others. Sadly, I think not many people here know about mirinae although there are
already five mirinae-affiliated stores in Changwon. I hope that more people get to know about
mirinae and join.”
In the early 1970’s, an American artist, Lizt Christy and her friends decided to do something
about the urban decay they saw all around them. They planted flowers along the fences of empty
lots in New York. They called themselves “green guerillas.” The main objective of their activities
was to urge for better management of city land. If empty land is left for a long time, it will become
dirty and full of garbage. The message that the green guerillas sent was aimed at raising people’s
awareness.
Guerilla gardening has also sprung up in Jinju. Seo Jung-eun, who started guerilla gardening in
Jinju, said that she started it just for fun. She said, “I got to know about it through Youtube. When I
saw it, it was interesting to think that I could plant flowers secretly. I thought it would be a subtle
way of changing my neighborhood for the good. Also, it has no political agenda, like other big
demonstrations do. So I started it with joy.” Guerilla gardening should proceed carefully and
quickly. So she used Facebook to find a plan and recruit short-term participants. Many people had
seen pictures of guerilla gardening in action and had an interest in helping.
Suspended coffee started with the name of
caffe sospeso
“Soop” is the second mirinae-affiliated
store in Changwon
Symbol of Guerilla Gardening
Jinju Guerilla Gardening team plants
flowers secretly
These are just a few of the social activities that are going on near you. As you can see, participating in social activities is not
that difficult to do. A simple act such as shopping or clicking “Like” on Facebook can be a kind of social activity, one that can
bring big changes to the world.
donates shoes to children who can’t afford them. For every pair of shoes that you buy from TOMS
Shoes, a similar pair will be donated to a child in need.

The Pioneer
SPECIAL ISSUE By Son Seong-eun Editor and Seo Ji-won Reporter
The Asian Games has been held in
South Korea three times. The 10th Asian
Games was held in Seoul in 1986, and
the 14th Asian Games was held in Busan
in 2002. The most recent competition,
the 17th Asian Games, was held in
Incheon this year. Incheon built 21 new
stadiums for the Asian Games. The
Incheon Asian Games went on for 16
days. About 9500 athletes from 45
countries participated in the event. At the
Asian Games, you could watch eight
non-Olympic sports: baseball, ten-pin
bowling, cricket, kabaddi, karate, sepak
takraw, squash, and wushu.
The official slogan of the Incheon
Asian Games was “Diversity Shines
Here,” and it highlighted the importance
of Asia’s diversity in history, culture and
religion. The official emblem showed a
huge wing consisting of a string of As,
the first letter of Asia, with a shining sun
in the emblem’s upper left that
symbolized the Asian people holding
hands in the sky. The Asian Games is not
only about competition; they also seek to
promote friendship between Asian
countries and to contribute to world
peace. What do people, both Asians and
non-Asians, think about the games? The
Pioneer went to Incheon to listen to what
they had to say.
What is the meaning of the Asian
Games, also known as the Asiad, to
Asian or non-Asian people? We
interviewed some people from several
countries. A Canadian student at the
Department of Electrical Engineering in
Seoul National University said, “It is the
unity that the Asiad gives to Asian
people. It unites Asians through common
interests and a shared spirit. And it gives
everyone involved chances to meet with
others and share their passions with
them.” An Indian tennis player said, with
tears in her eyes, “I lost today, but sports
are very great in that when you’re
playing sports, you forget which country
you’re from, which religion you have.
You just play the game that you love and
enjoy it.”
Other continents and regions also
have games, including the Pan-American
Games, the All-Africa Games, the
Pacific Games, and the European
Games. The Asiad is unsurprisingly the
biggest of these, given that the
Last September an event for the world’s five billion Asians was held in Incheon, the Asian Games. Do you know
how Asian Games came about? During the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, in a conversation between
athletes from China and the Philippines, someone floated the idea of restoring the Far Eastern Games. Guru Dutt
Sondhi, the Indian International Olympic Committee representative, proposed to sports leaders the idea of
holding a completely new competition, a competition that came to be the Asian Games. The Asian Games are a
multi-sporteventthatisheldeveryfouryearsamongathletesfromcountriesinAsia.
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The Pioneer
An Indian reporter
Seoul National University students
Indonesian badminton players
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Indian tennis players
population of Asian people is nearly 5
billion. The 2014 Incheon Asian Games
had important meaning in the wake of
recent actions by the Japanese government
to revise its constitution to exercise the
right of collective self-defense. This
decision heightened the tension among
surrounding countries, which still have
living memories of the atrocities
perpetrated by the Japanese in the last
World War. As Indonesian tennis players
said in their interview, “We just focus on
the sport itself, not on the political or social
ideals.” This kind of attitude can break the
ice among Asian countries and help us
understand each other through the sweat of
our players.
The economic scale of the Asian
Games is vast in comparison with the
earlier Far Eastern Games. The number of
participating nations has increased and
during the several decades since the games
began, many countries like India, Vietnam,
Indonesia, China, and Korea have seen
strong economic growth. But this has
produced excessive expectations for the
Asiad and caused unnecessary spending.
The Incheon metropolitan government is
blamed for now owing a huge debt of
thirteen trillion won, increasing an already
large budget deficit, as a result of spending
on the games. And while the events
increased in number for this Asiad, it
seemed that the facilities management and
audience manners were not up to par. Some
athletes got lost due to bad programs and
directions. And while watching tennis
games, people distractingly moved here
and there.
Nevertheless, the Asian Games must be
an occasion for harmonizing Asian people.
We interviewed some Chinese housewives
who had married into Korean families.
They volunteered as interpreters during the
Incheon Asian Games. Most of them, who
had come to Korea about a decade ago,
expressed their excitement in being part of
the Asian Games. Although the Asiad is a
pan-continental multi-sport event organized
and held by policy makers, it is best seen
more purely as an event in which athletes
prove the efficacy of their great efforts. We
met Kuwaiti handball coaches near the
Incheon Express Bus Terminal and heard
their stories. What they had to say taught a
great lesson: that the Asian Games should
before all be a sports event and not an
occasion for politicians and businessmen to
do their bidding.
On October 3, the Incheon Asian
Games finished with a wonderful closing
ceremony. The theme of the closing
ceremony was “Incheon, remembered by
Asia.” This meant that Asian people could
be united through the Asian Games
because they were in one place, Incheon,
and that place might be remembered by all
Asian people. We have to understand that
the Asian Games did not just leave us
debts. What is the next host country?
Originally, Hanoi in Vietnam was supposed
to host the 18th Asian Games in 2019. But
Vietnam’s economy is going downhill, and
given its economic problems, it returned
the right to host to the Olympic Council of
Asia. In the end, hosting rights for the 18th
Asian Games were given to Jakarta,
Indonesia, and the games will be held there
in 2018. Why are the 18th Asian Games
being held not in 2019 but in 2018?
Indonesia’s will have its presidential
election in 2019, so they rescheduled the
18th Asian Games for a year earlier.
What do you think of the future
direction of not only the Asian Games but
also other international games? The end of
any games mostly entails a lot of debt for
the host. For the costs to be justified these
games should be more than a sop to politics
and a platform for show offs. It should be
foremost about the sports and the equality
and unity among the participating
countries, as well as being about bringing
mutual prosperity through the spirit of fair
competition and cooperation.

PHOTO ESSAY By Kim Do-hye Editor
The Pioneer
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Gyeongsang National University Dramatic Art Research Club
(GNU DARC) is a university club with one of the longest history.
Since 1974, more than 1000 members have joined the club. Some
of them went onto become professional stage actors. The club
have been holding three plays every year.
On last September 18th to 20th, GNU DARC held its 90th
subscription concert, “The Way of Paradise” at the liberal arts
center. Through performing in the plays, the members can escape
from who they are and become someone completely different. The
club president Seo Jun-gi (Junior in the Department of Construction
Engineering) said, “We are very happy because we can make
many memorable works. Memories in GNU DARCY will be forever
in our minds.”

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