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                              Club ‘IFMUN’ Interview

















            1. Could you explain what MUN is?                  students to talk about, and they have recently
                                                               received attention.
               - MUN(Model United Nations) is an activity

            in which the students negotiate with each          4.  Are there any issues that you solved through
            other about an issue. Representing a country,        MUN this time?
            we speak in English, and debate following the
            process of a UN conference and then draw a           - We made three commissions to hold the

            rational resolution.                               better contest than last year.
                                                                 However, because of an unexpected lack
            2. Why did you hold this MUN contest?              of student application, we had to abolish a
                                                               committee. Even though this occurred, we

               - First, if you are active in MUN, you can      focused on the other two committees and had
            improve not only your English ability, but         some nice results. In comparison with the
            also your knowledge of our international           contest held last year, we increased its scale
            society. Moreover, you can develop your            by moving to the International Conference

            ability to negotiate with other people and         Center and the counselling lecture room
            your confidence. For this reason, I wanted to      and admissions. Also, the chairman and
            give the students who go to our school a good      vice chairman were trained thoroughly. For
            opportunity to experience this. That's why.        the students who had never participated

                                                               in an MUN, we made rules for the contest
            3.  What were the topics this year and the         conference which were explained in detail.
              reason that you selected them?                   Also, to increase understanding of the topics,
                                                               we made reports for the chairs and gave them

               - UNHRC, we selected the negotiation of the     to each embassy. We even prepared the small
            scope from adaopting the technologies which        parts such as banners, name tags, national fl ags,
            recently received attention from the human         and so on. Above all, through the students’
            rights commission. DISEC, we also debated          passionate participation, this MUN was very

            finding a way to block terrorists in the Gaza      successful.
            Strip, because it is discussed consistently in                                Kim, Seheon (1-10)
            the UN. These two topics are proper for the                              seheon8809@naver.com


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