Asia's oldest university celebrates 400th anniversary with fireworks display
Philippines: The University of Santo Tomas celebrated its 400th anniversary in January this year, starting with a formal Eucharistic celebration. This was preceded by a week of festivities and culminated with a dazzling fireworks display.
The papal legate, nearly 200 cardinals, archbishops, bishops, more than 700 priests as well as dozens of government officials, university presidents, about 75,000 students and alumni from all over the world attended the celebrations.
Brief story of how I became interested in Southeast Asia including Indonesia
I spent most of my early days in the society at a newspaper company after finishing my bachelor's degree of business administration at Seoul National University. Starting from the industrial section followed by the social section, the corporate section and the real estate section at Maeil Business Daily, I worked hard for about 6.5 years as a journalist.
Though I was still young, I could broaden my horizon by interviewing various leaders in the Korean society such as CEOs and university presidents. In addition, I went business trips to more than 30 countries to navigate new articles outside South Korea.
Flights to Americas, Northern Europe and Oceania surely enlarged my global insight. Memories of visiting member countries of Southeast Asia including Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia and writing stories on Korean companies in the region are vivid as ever.
