"You can't get male students!"Women's University 'Loud' at the news of engineering transformation

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Students are strongly protesting the news that Dongduk Women's University is pushing for a long-term transition to co-educational science, occupying the main building and entering a sit-in.

Some other women's universities are also noisy over the admission of male students, and the conflict between the school and the students is deepening.

Reporter Yoon Tae-in's report.

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The tightly closed door was affixed with a large hand-written poster.

There were also traces of eggs thrown here and there.

Students from Dongduk Women's University occupied the main building and went on a sit-in after it was revealed that they discussed the transition to co-educational.

[Choi Hyun-ah / President of Dongduk Women's University: This school was established based on the spirit of entering education through women's education. Switching to coeducational is a denial of our university's founding ideology.]

Students also criticize the school for focusing on the wrong thing, ignoring the expansion of professors and investment in educational facilities.

[Ahn Hyo-won / Dongduk Women's University student: The expansion of full-time professors and facility management issues have been coming up for a few years, so the engineering transition has not been solved....]

Dongduk Women's University refuted that nothing has been decided yet, saying that the engineering transition was discussed in the discussion of the school's development plan, but it has never been proposed as a formal agenda.

Jumper lines representing the school or department they are attending.

The students took it off as a protest.

The controversy surrounding the engineering transition is similar at other women's universities.

Sungshin Women's University is also in a similar situation to Dongduk Women's University, with the news that the international department will hire male students, taking off their jumpers and placing a wreath.

[Sungshin Women's University student: Allowing male students to enter undergraduate schools is a case where men can enter everywhere because they can change majors and double majors].]

Regarding international departments, Sungshin Women's University said, "Only foreigners are selected outside the quota," adding, "It has nothing to do with the engineering transition.
He explained that there are also male students studying under an exchange agreement in the
department.

There is a series of noise at women's universities over the transition to co-education, and we are interested in how the school and students will reach an agreement.

I'm YTN Yoon Tae-in.

Photographer: Jin Soo-hwan