By Susie Park ’27 Every September, Seoul becomes more than a city that displays art. For a few days, it becomes a meeting point for artists, collectors, galleries, museums, and ideas from across the world. Frieze Seoul, held at COEX in Gangnam from September 2–5, 2026, brings together more than 125 galleries from 30 countries. More than 70 percent of participating galleries are based in the Asia-Pacific region, reflecting the increasingly prominent role of Seoul within the in

By Emily Cho ‘27 The gold-medal performance of athlete Choi Ga-on at the 2026 Milan–Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics women’s snowboard halfpipe marked the first-ever gold medal for South Korea in snow sports and set the record for youngest gold medalist. The performance represents not only athletic exceptionality but also functions as a remarkable model in the application of psychics principles: after suffering from falls in her two initial runs, Choi executed a final perfor

By Jiho Lee ‘27 A stream of cinematic spectacles is expected to sweep past us this year, with Project Hail Mary leading the charge. Released on March 18, the film follows middle-school teacher Ryland Grace as he wakes up on a spaceship 12 light-years from home, absolutely unaware of how he got there. But upon discovering that energy-consuming microbes called "Astrophage" are dimming the sun, he soon understands his mission: to save Earth from the impending doom of a new ice a

By Seoyeon Claudia Kim ‘28 Observing our surroundings often becomes a powerful source of inspiration. David Foster Wallace’s speech to the Kenyon College graduates addresses this very idea. Unlike a conventional commencement address filled with life advice from the proverbial “wise older fish,” Wallace focuses instead on how to cope with the mundanity of everyday life. He reframes the purpose of education, something that may seem irrelevant to college graduates who would beli

By Ian Kim ’27 There has been much attention paid recently to fluctuations in currency exchange rates. With these changes affecting not only economists but also many students and people in the general population, this has become a serious issue. These changes affect how much money can be transferred to other currencies; thus they ultimately affect how much money is available for students and families to spend, save and plan for in the future. An exchange rate is the relative

By IO Kim ‘27 Even those who do not consider themselves artists turn to some form of expression when faced with sadness. Whether it is sketching in the margins of a notebook, replaying the same song, or writing fragmented thoughts late at night, this tendency reveals something essential about human nature: the need to externalize what cannot be easily resolved internally. In this sense, art begins to resemble a form of “secular meditation”, a cognitive tool used for emotional