: 100 International Students in Korea at Global Lounge Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon recently made a visit to Yonsei University. His visit to the Global Lounge at 2:00 pm on August 23rd was for the Seoul Town Meeting, an annual event that has been held since 2008. The venue for the 2012 Meeting was Yonsei’s Global Lounge, the best international student support service center in the country. Mayor Park has made previous visits to Yonsei. During the mayor’s election in October 2011, he had a discussion with Yonsei students over lunch at a cafeteria in the Student Union. In September of 2009, he was at Yonsei to give a special lecture with Professor Ahn Cheol-soo (Seoul National University), who currently considers running a candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Nevertheless, it is Mayor Park’s first visit to Yonsei after the mayor’s election. The Town Meeting was attended by some 100 members of the Seoul International Student Forum, including about 10 Yonsei international students; and the event’s MCs were Albert Kang from Arirang TV and Kang Min-jeong from Seoul Global Center. The attendants, who were divided into groups, presented six policies that they believed would make Seoul city more foreign-friendly and improve the city’s situation. The groups shared their first impressions and actual hardships as international students living and studying in Korea. Mayor Park was seen to make notes while listening attentively to the group discussions. One of the most outstanding ideas was adding the four cardinal points, north, south, east, and west on the subway signposts. The proposal was based on the fact that foreigners were more familiar with and would thus benefit from directional information than district names. In response to this, Mayor Park said, “This proposal will be immediately delivered to the municipal administration, and I will make sure it is applied as soon as possible. It is such a good and important point.” Some other great ideas involved operating commuter shuttle buses that will reduce the city’s traffic, using social networking services such as Facebook for integrative information management of the Global Center, and constructing a systematic network for foreigners’ job opportunities and careers. Mayor Park also joined a group dance to Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” a Korean song that has been gaining popularity from around the world. In addition to the group photos taken with the students and President Jeong Kap-young, Mayor Park received requests for individual photos with the attendants, to which he most willingly agreed.