Many students may pick up our magazine only once or twice during their Hong Ik years. Although we are unable exactly to determine the rate of readership, our circulation is assuredly not vast. Perhaps our audience is drastically, even discouragingly, limited. For this state of affairs there may exist many reasons. First, an English language magazine has serious obstacles, obstacles from which a Korean campus publication is exempt.
Many students have to struggle simply to read our magazine.
Also, our contributors must work with great diligence to shape their thoughts in a foreign language. When we consider that even the audience for the university newspaper written in Korean has dwindled, it should come as no surprise that we would take this opportunity to encourage Hong Ik students to read and support their English campus magazine. Let's take a look at several issues concerning our existence. If I push the matter to extremes, all differences disappear apart from that of language. I haven's heard any student claim that HIT was a great help in developing and extending their abilities in English.