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her imprisonment —

her grandfather had

escaped to South Ko-

rea years before during

the Korean War.

Hye— Sook

"I was taken to prison

camp 18 and I was im-

prisoned there for 28

years, living in a life

that is unimaginable, a

life that is worse than

a dog's, living a life

like a slave," said Hye

-Sook.

More than 200,000

North Koreans, includ-

ing children, are im-

prisoned in camps

where many die from

forced labor,

hunger, and

abuse by

guards.

Hye-Sook

was able to

survive im-

prisonment by

raising ani-

mals and giving them

to guards. When she

was released almost 30

years later at 42-years-

old, Hye-Sook finally

learned the reason for

Da-Yeh Universi ty

Contents:

The Crazy House

2

Polynesia 2

Interview 3

Quotation of the month

4

May , 2015

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Polynesia

The Crazy House

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DA -YEH UNIVERSITY

This is the Hang-Nga, a five

-story-high guesthouse, in

Da Lat, Vietnam. It has be-

come internationally fa-

mous and is known as the

“Crazy House”. It was de-

signed and built by a Viet-

namese architect called

Dang Viet Nga.

Visitors have generally re-

sponded positively to the

house, describing it as

"brave", "brilliant",

"cosmic", but Local author-

ities opposed Nga's work on

the house for many years.

With perseverance—and

private funding from

friends and family—Dang

was nevertheless able to

finish her work.

Polynesia, which means “many islands”, is a group

of islands scattered across the eastern Pacific

Ocean. To find out where exactly in the Pacific Pol-

ynesia is, just imagine a triangle from New Zealand

in the south to Hawaii in the north and Easter Island

in the east. Though the islands are small and sepa-

rated by thousands of miles, they share similar envi-

ronments and a common culture.

The Polynesians built boats and sailed across the

Pacific navigating by currents, stars and cloud for-

mations. The languages they speak are so similar

that a Polynesian from Easter Island can communi-

cate with a Polynesian from New Zealand more the

3,500 kilometers away.

Who would live in a house like this?

Interview

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DA -YEH UNIVERSITY

I have a friend who is in the United States

Air Force. Before I met him, I didn’t know

much about the military in America. They

have bases in many places and my friend is

in Okinawa. He has been there for two

years and he is going to Spain this year for

another two years. That was the reason he

joined the military – he wanted to travel. He

has also been to Alaska and Hawaii.

He doesn’t talk much about his job, but he

likes it. His working hours are shorter than

most people – Monday to Friday from

9:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. He enjoys spending

time with friends on the weekend. They go

to beaches sometimes and explore Okina-

wa. The only thing he doesn’t like is when

people get drunk in the dorm. They act stu-

pidly and talk really loud. Sometimes ran-

dom drunk people open his door and think

it’s their room. Sometimes people even

fight for no reason, just because they’re

drunk

He told me that people were mad at him

when he joined the military, because he had

good grades in high school and could have

gone to college. But after the military, he

will go back to school again, which will be

good because the government will pay for

it.

By Hannah Y.C. Chang

English Department, DYU

Quotation of the Month

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DA YEH UNIVERSITY

教育不在於使人知其所未知，而在於按其所未行而行。

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not

know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

John Ruskin, 1819-1900

English art critic and social thinker