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Have you ever been interested in other majors but struggled with getting enough information about them? Or are you going through hard times trying to figure out what exactly you are studying or what the final degree can do for you? For this May issue, Tidings will interview professors at Hongik University, one by one to give you a better understanding of the majors in the university. In this section, we hope that we can help you with providing the information about the majors and the professors as well.

For this issue, we decided to interview Professor Kang Jun Ha, a professor in the College of Law and also the Managing Editor of the Hongik Tidings. Let¡¯s find out the message he wanted to deliver to students.

About the Professor

Professor Kang has worked as a diplomat before. He especially got involved with international negotiations including the Korea-U.S Free Trade Agreement. Since then he began and has been teaching International Law at the University. He also was appointed as a Director of the Ministry of Trade in 2016. After 2 years of working as a director, he got back to the university. The professor said he has always wanted to teach students. Even though unlike other professors, he took a different path through working as a governmental official, his work experience is useful when teaching students since he can provide more practical and important information that they can never learn in the textbooks. This helps in his research as well.

Law, as a major

Even for him, it was not always interesting to study law. He said he barely had fun studying law when he just got into a college. But trying to be more familiar with his major and studying more about it, he found out that he was more into the macro field such as trade between nations rather than micro issues such as a civil law suits. He naturally became interested in International Law and that is how he majored in his specific major. Therefore, it is the most important to find out what you want to focus on, since there exists a lot of sub majors in one major.

The law is basically applicable to every incident or phenomena as well, he added. When you look through every social phenomenon, there is the law or the legal system operating behind them. After all, when you study law, you are also studying the principles of how things work in our society. That is what makes you competitive when you study law.

In that sense, although it might be natural to enter the legal profession after graduation, you do not necessarily need to be a lawyer when you major in law. Because of the law school system, the Law Department does not play a role as one of the processes of passing the bar examination in Korea anymore. However, regardless of the existence of law schools, the Law Department still plays a key role. The purpose of the Law Department is to train students with the knowledge of Law, he highlighted. Now when the law departments accomplish its goal, law students go off into various fields of society, applying their legal knowledge to different kinds of fields.

Law is not difficult, he said. If you are having trouble with studying law, you should approach it in a different way, for example, trying to find out why the specific law is necessary in a society. How it should be applied into real-life. If it is operated in the right and proper way in society or the background of the law. In that way, you will have more fun studying law.

He encouraged interested student to also study law besides their own majors as well. We are in an era of fusion and convergence. Blending your major and Law would be a lot more fun as well, you might start by attending a class that is most likely related to your major, he said. For example, if you are an Art majors, you might be interested in taking Copyright Law, or if you are studying Economics you would want to study the Fair-Trade Act. He recommended students take International Law too.

To Hongik Students:

He told us about a student who took International Law before. He or She would always sit in the front row and study hard, paying attention to every word he said, but got a poor grade in the end of the semester. The professor said he felt bad giving the bad marks to the student because he knew that the student studied hard. ¡°But just because the student could not pass the class, does that mean that all the time that he or she spent in the class are meaningless? I do not think like that.¡±, the professor said. ¡°You might get bad grades sometimes, even if you try hard, and I get that students put a great value on their grades, but still I want you to look at how much effort you put in and what you learned in the class, rather than just the received grades when you evaluate yourself¡±, he asked the students.

Do not fear failure, he said with special emphasis. ¡°I think, it is a big privilege for college students to go through trials and errors. You can always learn from them, which means you have to challenge yourself at something. So do not fear the failure because it is a way to grow up¡±

Lastly, as the Managing Editor of Tidings, he said tidings would try its best to communicate well with the students and eventually be loved by every student.

Cho Aruem  aruemcho@gmail.com

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