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Last winter, one of the most favored South Korean comedians all of a sudden declared that he would resign from all television programs; his reason was that he had been suffering from some type of anxi
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Kim Hye Ri, Lee Yun Mi
2016.04.08 17:50
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More than a hundred protesters gathered at Gwanghwamun Square, the center of Seoul, on February 24, to demonstrate against the crackdown of the current Park Geun-hye administration. However, the cries
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Chae Jisu
2016.04.08 13:01
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The 13th largest economy in the world and a proud member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). These are just a couple of the glamorous titles that South Korea has right
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Maeng Jun Ho
2016.04.07 18:17
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A wife slaps her husband with kimchi. A mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship is reversed a few years after their husbands’ deaths. A main character simply puts a dot beside her eye and sudde
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Lee Hye Min
2016.04.07 18:08
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If there is not enough consumers’ demand for particular good or service, producers who manufacture such products need to close down their business. It is this market principle of supply and demand tha
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Park Min Jeong
2016.03.01 21:06
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A teacher proudly acknowledges a door covered with blue paint, SpongeBob characters, and a glass window. “It took us over three months to decide on a design for this door. Every student in our school
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Kim DaHyun, Jeon Sohyeon
2016.03.01 13:44
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"The winner-takes-all society," "the society that has the highest suicide rate," "the private education society," are all names that follow Korea. Students are trapped inside the burden of entra
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Lee So Young
2016.03.01 13:42
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He says: “My car is BNW, not BMW; Bus and Walking.” Funny? Lame? Maybe, but interesting and charming? Far from it. This quote from The Art of Mil-dang (2014) written by a renowned pick-up artist, is a
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Lee Hye Min
2016.03.01 13:41
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The name “Givenchy”, better known as a high-end European clothing brand, has come to mean something entirely different in Korea lately. Loosely based on Gibang-dae, a Korean word for local community c
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Maeng Jun Ho
2016.02.29 13:28
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When there is birth, there is death—it is inescapable. Human beings have tried their best to extend their lives and have managed to significantly elongate their life expectancy over the past few
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Lee Ji Hoon, Chae Jisu
2015.12.02 14:30
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The recently attention-grabbing White Dwarf that is 450 light years away has excited numerous astronomers because it was, according to NASA, the first observable case in which a celestial body consume
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Lim Jae Heun
2015.12.01 11:29
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Buddy Buddy, which was once the dominant messenger in Korea, ended its service in 2012. Even though it was the most influential messenger in the early 2000s, Buddy Buddy inevitably faced its end becau
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Tong In A
2015.12.01 11:18
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The Park Geun Hye administration’s decision to publish state-controlled history textbooks caused a social debate on the method and orientation of history education. As propaganda campaigns of the poli
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Jung Woo Jae
2015.12.01 11:09
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Death eventually approaches everyone; ironically, however, most people experience a vague and even irrational fear of dying. This anxiety mainly has to do with the perception of death as a sudden occu
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Kim Hye Ri
2015.12.01 11:00
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Language, the most fundamental and basic means of communication is nowadays taken for granted—it has been around since the prehistoric times when cavemen drew paintings, and is still a big porti
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Lee Jeong-Min, Suh Jaehee
2015.11.13 01:03
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Thanks to globalization, people got closer. Whether they want it or not, it is an undeniable fact that interaction with other countries has become critical, with interconnectedness tighter as ever. Th
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Lee Hye Jin
2015.11.11 14:26
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In the Book of Genesis, there is a famous story which describes the origin of different languages. The story dates back to the time when human beings had a single united language. Since people could c
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Tong In A
2015.11.11 14:23
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If a South Korean said, "Go wash your hands in the sink," to a person who was from the North, the person would not be able to understand where the person was referring to. This situation could occur
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Lee So Young
2015.11.11 14:21
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While a vast majority of Korean people study English for more than 10 years, a meager five percent of all Koreans are able to communicate fluently in the language. The same goes for other foreign lang
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Kim DaHyun
2015.11.10 19:41
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It is often pointed out that the history of human development is the history of competition and supremacy. Historically, those that gained the upper hand and retained their superiority were those that
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Kim Hye Ri, Jung Woo Jae
2015.10.03 14:41