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Bae Eun-chae (chae0998@uos.ac.kr)Jeong Woo-yeon (wyjeong0228@uos.ac.kr)Ahn Seo-jin (Dept. of English Language and Literature, ’23) gets up at 8 a.m. and starts the day by reading a book. In the morning, she goes to the gym, and in the afternoon, she works part-time as an assistant at a private educa
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배은채
2024.04.01 11:05
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In South Korea, countless power abuses in various areas are called Gapjil. Gap has various meanings, such as the person who comes first, a strong shell, and so on. Jil is used as a suffix to refer negatively to certain actions. The word gap is commonly found in contracts pertaining employment or hou
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Bae Eun-chae
2023.12.18 19:27
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“There is no responsibility to take as long as you get into a great university.” This is a statement from Sky Castle, a Korean drama that portrays the extremely competitive education system in Korea. The play is a representation of the fierce competition among high school students and their parents
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Lee Seung-bum
2023.06.20 10:33
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Underneath South Korea’s global reputation as a cultural powerhouse and global trendsetter lies a mental health crisis, which is the leading cause of suicide among the younger generation. Moonbin, a member of the K-pop boy band ASTRO, was found dead on April 19, 2023 at his apartment in Gangnam; it
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Kim Da-eun
2023.06.20 10:23
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The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) is receiving extreme backlash from citizens following its recent 69-hour workweek proposal. In the wake of COVID-19, mankind has moved into cyberspace in droves, which offers greater flexibility in working hours. Dozens of firms have even been jumping on t
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이승범
2023.04.27 17:50
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“I was vegan for a really long time, but I stopped being vegan when I went to Romania to shoot ‘Wednesday’ because the food is very different there. So I'm currently a pescatarian.” This is what Jenna Ortega, the actress who played “Wednesday Addams” in the Netflix drama “Wednesday,” had to say to a
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Kim Da-eun
2023.04.27 17:48
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The use of the term Generation MZ has recently kept appearing in various types of media in Korea. Gen MZ is a compound word that includes Millennials and Gen Z. Millennials are the people born from 1981 to 1996, and Gen Z is those born from 1997 to 2012. Short videos showing certain traits of Gen MZ
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이승범
2023.04.17 09:31
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On November 30, 2022, Open AI, a U.S.-based IT company, launched Chat GPT, a chatbot that enables people to use its AI model, GPT-3.5, based on text.Anyone with a PC or smartphone can access Chat GPT and utilize the function of GPT-3.5 with a simple chat, which is available for free. Thanks to such
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배경민
2023.04.17 09:20
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In June 2019, Lee Eun-hae was arrested and indicted on charges of killing her husband, with the help of Cho Hyun-soo, in a valley in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, for life insurance money. In the first trial on October 27, 2022, Lee Eun-hae, the main culprit of the “Valley Murder Case,” was sentenced t
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이승범
2022.12.28 19:47
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Economics textbooks teach the readers to carefully consider the price when purchasing a product to enjoy maximum utility on a limited budget. However, books cannot explain everything. In the consumption culture of the younger generation, some factors, such as personal values and moral issues, affect
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배경민
2022.12.28 19:41
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Students in Korea take four years to study in university before they graduate and gain employment – or at least they did so in the past. Nowadays, it is quite uncommon to graduate after four years in university. Many students choose to take at least a semester off, or more formally, take a leave of
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김예일
2022.11.10 14:49
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The Stalking Punishment Act, commonly known as anti-stalking law, came into effect on October 21, 2021 to punish stalking. The act applies if the five following conditions are satisfied. First, the act of stalking, or the behavior has to be against the will of the other party. Second, it has to be w
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김다은
2022.11.10 14:44
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There have been some negative stereotypes of Asian people, and one of them is that they are “the dog-eaters.” The practice of consuming dogs as food formed plenty of ingrained prejudices against countries that have a culture of eating dogs, and Korea is one of those. In Korea, there is a dish called
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Kim Da-eun
2022.10.04 14:43
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Marriage, though dominant in the past, is no longer compulsory for every person today. It seems that people’s thoughts on marriage have changed significantly due to various changes in society, such as women’s increased participation in economic activities and changes in their perception of staying s
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김예일
2022.06.30 14:11
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Exchange students are those who applied for the student exchange program and were nominated by an overseas university under a formal exchange agreement. Exchange student candidates can apply through the international affairs office of their home university. Tuition is paid to the home university, an
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오즈데미르 야신
2022.06.30 13:49
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One’s college major is like an identification tag for a lifetime; it influences not only one’s employment, but also the course of one’s entire life. College students choose their major for various reasons, such as employment expectations or personal aptitudes, but rare are the cases where they are c
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Kang Soo-ah, Lee Seung-hyun
2022.04.28 14:48
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It is not unusual or strange to feel a sense of belonging to the country in which people were born. This is all the truer for generations who have grown up being educated to feel a sense of belonging to their country. When people feel a sense of belonging to a specific group, it is easy to feel host
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Hwang Yun-seon, Hwang Ha-hyun
2022.03.24 15:44
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Over-the-top (OTT) services refer to services that provide video content on various devices such as tablet PCs and smartphones based on Internet technology. OTT has been growing rapidly since the 2010s by maximizing consumer convenience with a personalized content curation system, and not just as vi
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황윤선
2021.12.13 10:21
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The 20th Presidential Elections of South Korea is revealing itself with the presidential primaries of all the parliamentary parties complete. With the upcoming elections, the young generation is gaining the people’s attention. As addressed in the previous volume of The UOS Times, the younger generat
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김다은
2021.12.13 21:02
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While the university is a place to learn, it has a greater significance in South Korea, where many students choose to enter university. It is a place where people can discover themselves and explore their interests as they prepare to become members of society. Consequently, they prepare for diverse
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Kang Sue-ah, Kim Ye-il, Hwang Yun-seon
2021.11.03 17:10