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SMUS? Smooth!

By Yang Hyeon-gyu

On May 26, SMUS 2018 was held. the students first experienced a MUN, only four of its SDMUN members have
SMUS 2018 stands for Songdo’s MUN the meeting went well overall. There planned and prepared for the event,
Union Session and is a model united was a great deal of effort by the chairs and more surprisingly, the prepara-
nations(MUN) union session hosted by of each committee to make delegates tion period was not even three months.
Songdo High School’s MUN club SD- participate actively. A week before the Nevertheless, the participants’ com-
MUN. SMUS 2018 took place at the in- event, the chairmen of each committee ments were favorable. Many people
ternational campus of Yonsei Univer- provided online delegation education thanked for making happy memories,
sity located in songdo, and about 200 to the delegation of their respective and many asked when the next SMUS
high school students in Incheon at- committees. Even after that, the del- will be held. So far, the event has been
tended to it. In May, nearly two months egation and the chairperson prepared successfully held.
after the new semester began, SMUS for the event by communicating with
2018 opened the first stage of the for- each other whenever there was a con- The SMUS 2018 event also gave a
mal MUN union session. A total of five stant question, so a great meeting was positive impact of the later MUN Un-
committees were operated in SMUS held on the day of the event. ion session by other high schools such
2018. The English Council included as Daegun High School.
UNEP(United Nations Environmental Secretary General of SMUS 2018 was It is not yet clear when the next SMUS
programme), DISEC(Disarmamnet and Hyun Gyu Yang, and Deputy Secretary will be opened, but many people are
International Security Committee), General was Seon Woo Kim. Depart- expecting to meet it.
UNESCO(United Nations Educational, ment of Management was Jimin Kim,
Scientific, Cultural Organization) and and Department of Economic and So-
WHO(World Health Organization), cial Affairs is Seung Min Jeong. All of
while the Korean language committee them are Songdo High School’s Second
included the United Nations Economic grade, and also in SDMUN. They had
and Social Council. Each committee exerted great effort to hold SMUS 2018.
set a corresponding agenda for the
meeting with about 20 national del- While most MUN events are prepared
egations, three chairs and three staff for half a year with about 15 to 20 sec-
members. Although more than half of retariat members, SMUS 2018 is that

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