By Emily Cho ‘27 • Oct 24, 2025 Bal du moulin de la Galette  — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. A Sunday afternoon in Paris—sunlight filters through trees, laughter floats in the air, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir captures it all in Bal du moulin de la galette . Painted en plein air , his canvas gleams with movement and warmth: a swirl of color and life where every brushstroke flickers like music. Half a world away in feeling, though not in time,

Seoyeon Claudia Kim '28 • Oct 24, 2025 In remembrance of the seventh anniversary of Mac Miller’s  death, I would like to pay tribute by understanding who he truly was: not only as a musician, but also as a soul who transcended through art. Through the medium of analyzing the past works of Miller, I’d like to fathom Malcolm James McCormick.  K.I.D.S His fifth mixtape “K.I.D.S”, is one of Miller’s most colorful and playful works. It is also what brought Miller his international

Ian Kim '27 • Oct 1, 2025 The global economy is shifting towards a fragmented structure where nations tightly align with one of three blocs: China, the European Union, or the United States. This tripolar framework has more severe consequences than the U.S.-China divide, since economic ties weaken across all three blocs simultaneously. In the downside bipolar case, global GDP could contract by 5.5%, but under tripolar fragmentation, the potential loss rises to 8.4%. China ha

Sean Hwang ‘26 • Sep 1, 2025 In the spirit of journalistic transparency, we feel obligated to share the truth: coming up with this editorial was hard. As current Juniors, it felt wrong to write a series of finger-wagging  platitudes  urging  Seniors  to “Embrace change” or “Keep in touch!” Afflicted with a rare case of writer’s block, we found ourselves returning to the most basic of artistic truisms: “Write what you know.” If there’s one thing we know, it’s that things are a

Sean Hwang ‘26 • Nov 5, 2025 On August 21st, Head of School Ms. Angelene Huang visited Korea to participate in Springfield’s Annual Asian Summer Student Conference, held this year at Paradise City in Incheon. The conference brought together Springfield students spending their summers in Asia, along with faculty, alumni, and partner educators and the board of trustees in the region. Ms. Huang opened the event by welcoming students and families, and speaking on the importance

Artist of the Issue: Sue Roh ‘26  Sean Hwang ‘26 & Eric Jeong ‘26 • June 24, 2025 Sue Roh ‘26 is a three-year Senior from Seoul, South Korea. At school, she is the principal double bassist in the orchestra and the philharmonic orchestra. Roh has taken rigorous courses in the music program for three years and has been selected twice to play at the school’s annual instrumental recital. She also performed as the double bass soloist with the school’s music summer program, Springf