National
‘Ewha key driver of women’s empowerment’
Dec. 11, 2013
Foreigners are often perplexed by the English name of Korea’s first, top and fast-globalizing university for women, Ewha Womans University.The modified singular form is not a misspelling, but an embodiment of the proud founding spirit of the school. Ewha was established in 1886 when women were still regarded as second-class citizens, forced to sacrifice themselves to family, but on the verge of challenging male dominance in the wave of Westernization.In choosing “womans” instead of “women,” the