The Global Festival & The Yonsei Psychology International Conference In celebration of Yonsei’s 125th anniversary, various international events took place on campus. From May 12 to 13, the Global Festival was held along the Baekyang street on Shinchon campus. The Global Festival, composed of culture exhibitions, traditional performances and traditional food cooking, was a chance for international students from countries around the world—America, China, Japan, Russia, Vietnam, Mongol, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan—to communicate with each other and to develop friendship with Korean students as well. A contest for international students singing Korean songs was also held near the Yonsei Hangeul(Korean alphabet) Monument. From May 7 to 8, the international conference entitled ‘Cross-cultural Studies in Psychology’ was held with the participation of eminent scholars who take a comparative cultural approach in their studies of various fields of psychology. They shared their studies and discussed recent research trends in psychology. In morning session on the first day, presentations on the topic ‘Language and Cognition’ were given by An Woo-kyung (Professor, Yale University), Mutsumi Imai (Professor, Keio University) and Choi Young-on (Professor, Chung-Ang University); and were followed by a discussion on ‘Culture and Cognition’ with Hong Ying-Yi (Professor, Nanyang Technological University), Chichu Chi Wie (Professor, Nanyang Technological University) and Park Hye-kyung (Professor, Sungshin Women’s University). On the next day, a discussion on the ‘Adaptive Problems of Cancer Patients and Their Families’ was carried out with Kim Kyung-mi (Professor, University of Miami), Charles Carver (Professor, University of Miami), Park Jae-hyun (Professor, Sungkyunkwan University) and Jung Kyung-mi (Professor, Yonsei University), followed by presentations on ‘Cross-cultural Research on Childhood Psychopathology’ by Thomas Achenbach (Professor, University of Vermont), Leslie A. Rescorla (Professor, Bryn Mawr College) and Oh Kyung-ja (Professor, Yonsei University). Among the many presenters at the conference, Thomas Achenbach is a prominent scholar as professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and also the president of the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families. As a world-renowned scholar in the research area of child emotional and behavioral disorder, his studies were selected as the most frequently cited articles in the fields of psychology and psychiatry in America. In the recent years, he has actively carried out cross-cultural research projects with researchers from different countries on child developmental psychopathology. Another noted scholar is Charles Carver, the well-known expert in personality psychology, social psychology and health psychology, and distinguished professor at the University of Miami. His recent studies have especially focused on optimism versus pessimism, behavioral approach and avoidance systems, self-regulation processes and intervention for cancer patients.