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2023 Winter

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Classic Literature Reimagined: The Rise of Musicals ▲In the world of Korean musicals, a captivating new trend has emerged – the resurrection of classical literature. With a special focus on authors whose legacies spanned the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, these productions have captured the hearts of young theater enthusiasts, infusing new life into timeless literary treasures. One such theatrical gem is 'Rimbaud,' a musical that masterfully wea..
Deepfakes: Implications for Media Credibility, Public Trust Many people might have experiences that they were confused because of Deepfake technology which was used in the media. Deepfake technology, based on artificial intelligence, poses significant concerns for media credibility, public trust, and the challenges faced by journalists in verifying information. According to Oxford Languages Deepfakes refer to a video of a person in which their face or bo..
Traumatic Incidents and How Can We Get over Them with Psychological Help On May 23rd a traumatic incident happened. The incident. The incident happened as the plane door opened immediately before landing at Daegu Airport at 12:45 p.m. The airplane, operated by Asiana Airlines, departed from Jeju Island at 11:49 a.m. Friday. It was about 200 meters above ground when the emergency door was ripped opened. Passengers were exposed to the fierce wind blowing into the plane..
Paper Straws, Do They Really Help the Environment? Plastic straws, which are said to be used more than 500 million times a day in the United States alone, have caused various environmental problems, and are being replaced by paper straws as governments promote eco-friendly policies and companies expand their ESG management. When you go to a cafe, you will find paper straws in your drink cup. However, when you drink a drink with a paper straw tha..
The Two Sides of Education - Conflict and Collaboration between Public and Private Education ▲What do you think about the relationship between public and private education? The original intention of private education is to help students fill in the gaps in their individual learning. However, in recent years, students of all ages, from elementary school to high school, have become overly dependent on private education, and many problems have arisen. This has led to a social construct in ..
Global Companies Continue to Downsize Since the second half of last year, 2022, there has been a trend of downsizing among global companies. After acquiring Twitter in October 2022, Elon Musk laid off around 80% of Twitter's workforce. This was followed by Meta (formerly Facebook) cutting about 10,000 people, or 13% of its workforce, and Amazon's decision to cut more than 18,000 jobs, making it the largest round of cuts among big te..
Changing brain in Multilingual People ▲ Multilingual people usually have a good command of the languages they speak. But sometimes it happens out of the blue. The other part of how this happens lies in the way our brains work. The way multilinguals handle language in their heads is complex and different from our common beliefs. When they try to say something, all the languages they know can be activated at the same time. As a result..
Polarized Society, Exasperated Straggler Continued Mass Stabbings Recent years have witnessed a number of gruesome stabbing rampages. In academia, the abnormal motive crimes have also been conceptualized as crimes with the modifiers of “abnormal motive,” “motiveless,” “nonspecific motive,” “hate,” or “random,” while the press has reported the crimes in the terms of “kalburim (stabbing rampage),” or “mutjima crimes (do-not-ask-why crime..