Table 1
Subjects of the students’ essays (n=26)

Subject	Contents characteristics
	Traditional debate subjects	Current affairs	Teenage culture/subculture	Scientific contents	Other
	Appropriate way of dealing with witch-hunt on the Internet			●
Legalization of sex trafficking	●
Boss-subordinate relationships (‘Gabeul’ relationship)		●
Whether the value of literature is intrinsic or not					●
Legalization of the shut-down law				●
Global warming and human activities				●
Affirmative action in the university admission process	●
Disparity in the number of applicants for each resident training program			●
Entertainment shows on “fathers’ child-rearing”			●
The value of “Idol Music (K-pop)”			●
The problems of social network service (SNS)			●
The ways of vitalizing traditional market		●
Can we abolish racial discrimination forever?				●
Public notification policy		●
Animal cloning and its justifiability				●
Food aid to North Korea		●
Statutory limitation and two theory on penal systems					●
What is the university restructuring?		●
The application for youth protection			●
Chemical castration				●
Appropriate usage of genetically modified organism (GMO)				●
Territorial claims to Dokdo		●
Subculture of medical schools			●
Justifiability of “copy-left”	●
The same sex marriage	●
New-Korean wave			●