제 2 호 A Brand New Way to Get Along
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A Brand New Way to Get Along
Volunteering at a Soup Kitchen
by Dong-wook Kim, Cub-Reporter
smartpodo@kakao.com
Recently, there has been a lot of Individualism going on in our society. People are not talking to each other like before and are not communicating with acquaintances. This kind of meta is toxic in our society, not being beneficial for the developmental perspective. Individualism is also spreading in universities. According to the statistics of “Albamon”, approximately 38.5% of the freshmen are living as a “Voluntary Individualist.” Will there be some solutions to this single favored situation?
On April 1st, students of the Department of Food and Nutrition of Sangmyung Univ. did volunteering at a soup kitchen to enhance the friendship between the elders and the freshmen. According to one of the freshmen’s interview after the volunteering, he said, “Breaking the ice was such a hard time for me when I first entered our school. Then my major started collecting people for this food canteen volunteering. After visiting the elderly welfare center to deliver food to the elderly, I got to know more elders and companions in my major. The volunteering was tough, but the suffering was worth it.”
Students Serving Food
By this interview, it seems that volunteering is effecting much wider boundaries than just working. Being interactive with people doing the duty can make both feel connected. Thus, this can ease the Individualism going on these days. The volunteering can be anything else other than serving out food from the kitchen. The volunteering subject can be the person’s major like teaching a language or coaching how to be in shape. These activities might just begin as an exercise for building a resume but in the long term, people who chose to be alone will join in.
Sources: (https://www.smu.ac.kr/webzine/today.do?mode=view&articleNo=698801&article.offset=20&articleLimit=10)
