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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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Kim Gyu-yeon (bbogyu815@uos.ac.kr)As Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as a new trend in technology, it has permeated human life. From simple daily tasks such as turning the lights on and off and automatically purifying the air to far more complex tasks, AI-based search engines, such as ChatGPT,
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김규연
2024.04.01 11:01
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Yim Soo-min (dlatnals@uos.ac.kr)As of February 21, 74.4 percent of doctors from 100 major training hospitals in South Korea have submitted their resignations and about 8,000 medical residents have left the hospitals. According to the Ministry of Education, on February 26 alone, 515 students applied
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Yim Soo-min
2024.04.01 11:00
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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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Modern people wake up in the morning and encounter technology everywhere until they fall asleep at night. The digital era has accelerated as the COVID-19 pandemic allowed digital information to be carried out remotely in various fields such as economics, education, healthcare, labor, welfare, and po
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Yim Soo-min
2023.12.18 19:15
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In February 2023, a victim of a rental housing fraud in his 30s committed suicide at a villa in Michuhol-gu, Incheon. A suicide note was found at his home, calling for measures for the victims of rental scams. The person had signed a rental contract with a deposit of 70 million won in 2021. However,
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Yim Soo-min
2023.06.20 10:50
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In April 2023, a post of visitor revealing the poor conditions in a zoo in Daegu, Korea, sparked controversy on social media. The weary state of the animals filled many people with concern about the environment at the zoo. This indoor zoo, located in the basement of a shopping mall in Daegu, covers
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Lee Hyang-gi
2023.06.20 10:41
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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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Numerous Korean OTT dramas such as The Glory and Casino have become hugely successful. In line with this trend, OTT platforms such as Netflix, Watcha Play, and Disney Plus have been providing services aimed at Korean viewers. However, driven by the popularity of Korean dramas on OTT platforms, illeg
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Ju Dain
2023.04.27 17:28
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The U.S. is dramatically changing its course on abortion. On March 15, 2023, a medical organization, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an effort to ban Mifepristone, the most commonly used abortion pill nationwide. Although ther
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Kim Ye-il
2023.04.27 17:26
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At 4 a.m. on February 6, 2023, southeast Türkiye and northern Syria was shaken by a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7. It was the most severe earthquake the Republic of Türkiye ever experienced in its history, claiming at least 55,000 lives over the past two months. Twice as many people wer
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Kim Ye-il
2023.04.17 09:45
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On February 13th, 2023, a man in his 50s broke into several houses in two neighborhoods in Busan and stole six pieces of women’s underwear. He did this under the influence of methamphetamine, so-called crystal meth, wandering around the residential area for about seven hours. Regarding his previous
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Kim Da-eun
2023.04.17 09:35
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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 Korea, one can do anything and everything within the “Kakao Empire.” One can send messages to friends, buy emoticons or a pack of chips, get updates on new mobile games, manage bank accounts, and call a taxi, among many other things. This may sound great, but there is always a threat of losing al
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오즈데미르 야신
2022.12.28 20:02
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The worst-case scenario where businesses collapse one after another in the South Korean economy is likely to occur. And some experts anticipate a more considerable fallout than the 1997 state bankruptcy.In 1997, South Korea experienced a severe economic crisis when the government requested a bailout
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Ju Da-in
2022.12.28 19:56
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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