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"While humankind has collectively increased its material powers a thousand fold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience," said Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The defi
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Kim Sun Min
2019.03.24 23:06
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Everyone knows they should not judge others quickly, based only on their appearances or general first impressions, as humans are complex beings that are composed of several different layers. Yet, peop
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Kim Sehee
2018.12.03 00:32
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“Climbing a tree takes you closer to heaven,” said the mother to Gabi who enjoyed being in the forest as a Mayan. However, society did not let her find peace. Trembling and heartbroken, Gabi barely ma
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Kim Yeojeong
2018.11.05 00:00
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Come and meet Enzo, Enzo the dog whose voice narrates the tale told in The Art of Racing in the Rain. After being introduced to readers around the world, the novel made it to the New York Times best s
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Kim Yeojeong
2018.10.03 16:31
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“Gu-wol is a female servant of Kim Tae-gil from Yeoju ¼ Before long, when Kim came to Seoul, Gu-wol waited at a narrow street with other servants. They captured Kim and Gu-wol stabbed Kim by he
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Choi Ye Ho
2018.09.21 21:12
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Bu Bu Jing Xin by Tong Hua is known to many Koreans as the novel that inspired the famous Korean TV series Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016). The original novel was a huge hit in China, leading t
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Kim Sehee
2018.05.08 20:32
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In Take It as a Compliment (2015), a series of 20 traumatic experiences related to sexual violence are illustrated with Maria Stoian’s artwork. The author does not need to exaggerate anything because
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Cho Eun Byul
2018.05.06 22:46
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In Take It as a Compliment (2015), a series of 20 traumatic experiences related to sexual violence are illustrated with Maria Stoian’s artwork. The author does not need to exaggerate anything because
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Cho Eun Byul
2018.05.05 03:15
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Trump’s success in becoming the president has bothered more than a handful of people. Consequently, it seems that people seriously considered why he got voted in. Critics attributed it to the lower cl
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Kim Min Young
2018.03.04 19:19
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Love—a dozen fragrant red roses, dazzling diamond rings, and cliché happily-ever-afters. The idea of love, as defined by the mass media and years of romantic literature, has been portraye
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Park Jaeeun
2017.12.06 13:40
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As Sophocles wrote, “Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.” Ever since childhood, people are encouraged to live with integrity and refrain from lying, and in soci
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Lee Hyun Ji
2017.11.05 00:41
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"I don’t think you know what you are up against.” So she has been warned. Regardless, Vee, the main character of the young adult fiction book Nerve (2012), ventures into the world of ruthless dares,
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Park Jaeeun
2017.10.05 19:32
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Written by Hubert Boulard and illustrated by Kerascoet, Beaute (2011) is a book of beauty. Along with the elaborate illustrations, the book deals with a classic topic—beauty. In the same vein as
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Cho Eun Byul
2017.09.03 17:01
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In an age where confidence is praised and the right of the individual is rightly prized, it is easy to forget that the ego is a fragile thing, prone to inflation and deathly afraid of punctures. Ego i
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Sohn Sumin
2017.06.01 15:54
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“One must educate oneself,” Marjane Satrapi said in her book The Persepolis (2000). As an enthusiastic reader herself, Marjane tries to share the value of accommodating different perspectives through
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Baeg Hawon
2017.05.01 19:21
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To learn about the past, one can look into different kinds of information sources. There are news reports, documentaries, books, and more. However, when the past is remembered as a story, it has more
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Kim Ji Won
2017.04.04 23:47
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Timur Vermes’ novel Look Who’s Back (2012) begins with Adolf Hitler waking up to find himself in modern Germany with no knowledge of anything that has happened post-1945. The book tells the witty yet
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Choi Hyunbin
2017.03.05 22:40
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When the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature was announced, people were swayed with surprise. It is the first time that a singer-songwriter was awarded this glorious prize. Bob Dylan was lik
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Kim Ji Won
2016.12.04 15:14
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Authors pick up their pens for various reasons. In the case of The Black Flower (2013), author Kim Young Ha attempts to shed light on a history that was once invisible. Through the words of Kim, the s
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Kim Ji Won
2016.10.27 18:29
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“Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. He [Okonkwo] sighed again, deeply,” writes Chinua Achebe in his novel Things Fall Apart . Okonkwo, one of the most powerful tribesmen of the Umoufia, struggles
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Kim DaHyun
2016.09.30 14:53