Badmouthing hubbyDear Annie: I am in a painful position with my mother-in-law. I was pretty sure my husband was talking poorly about me to her, so I asked him whether he had badmouthed me to his mother. He totally denied it, saying, “Absolutely not!” Well, she was visiting recently, and I walked into the room and overheard them both talking negatively about me. I innocently asked what they were discussing and my husband lied outright, saying they were discussing a purchase. My mother-in-law look

Korea’s first-ever multicultural libraryOn the second floor of an old building in Dongdaemun-gu, eastern Seoul, children sit scattered around the floor of a small library, reading. Behind them are walls of bookshelves filled with colorful books. In the next room, others play board games, while in the third room a small group of children intently watch volunteer teachers instructing them how to make creative objects out of large board papers using scissors and glue.“I come here every day after sc

Repeated follies어리석음의 되풀이<11월06일자 사설>As the South Korean leader， President Park Geun-hye faces some perennial， but tough foreign policy challenges， just as her predecessors did. There is the constant troublemaker North Korea， and she has to deal with Japan， which often turns out to be a close neighbor only in terms of geographical distance. The growing rivalry between the U.S. and China is posing new， but no less serious challenges. 한국 정상으로서 박근혜 대통령은 선대 대통령들처럼 계속되지만 힘겨운 몇 가지 외교 과제에 봉착했다. 끊임없는 말썽

Tackling depressionDear Annie: It has been more than 30 years since I first received my diagnosis of depression and anxiety disorder. While working in a job I didn‘t enjoy and anticipating the birth of my first child, I realized something wasn’t right about me. I had moments when I was filled with self-doubt and anxiety. One day, while doing a seemingly benign task at work, I went into a devastating and negative spiral and started obsessing about the likelihood of losing my job. At the urging of

Park-Abe summit한일 정상회담<11월04일자 사설>The gap in historical awareness between Korea and Japan was too wide for the leaders of the two countries to plug in one summit. This sums up the first one-on-one on Nov. 2 between President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 한일 간의 역사 인식 차이는 양국 정상이 한번의 정상회담으로 메우기에는 너무 넓었다. 이는 11월 2일에 열린 박근혜 대통령과 아베 신조 일본 총리의 첫 1대1 회담을 요약한다. The Seoul summit was the first of its kind between the two countries in more than three years. As such， it raised expecta

Ahn exit deja-vu for opposition campThe defection of Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo and the looming split of the party is a heavy blow to the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, with only four months remaining until the next parliamentary elections. But it is also a repetition of history for a party that has experienced countless divisions and mergers over the past six decades. All through the years, the opposition camp has had an unwritten rule: Integration leads to victory and division to defeat. It is f

[Part 2] In search of inner peace내면의 평화를 찾아서Bilingual ReadingThe first email, 첫 번째 이메일은 sent on Aug. 1, 2001, 2001년 8월 1일에 보낸 was received 받았다 by a few hundred people, 수백 명 사람들 mostly Go’s friends 대게 그의 친구들 and reporters he had worked with. 그리고 그와 같이 일했던 기자들이 Now, his letters 지금 그의 편지는 have 3.13 million subscribers 구독자가 313만명이다 nationwide. 전국적으로 In 2010, 2010년도에 he opened the meditation center 그는 명상센터를 개원 했다 in Chungju 충주에 with funds raised 모금된 자금으로 by his avid online readers. 그의 열성적인 온라인 독자들에 의

Textbook row교과서 분쟁<10월28일자 사설>As expected， President Park Geun-hye used her annual budget proposal address at the National Assembly to put pressure on the opposition to give in to her administration`s push to replace Korean history textbooks for middle and high school students with state-authored ones.예상대로 박근혜 대통령은 국회에서의 예산안 시정연설을 야당이 중.고등학교 역사 교과서를 국정 교과서로 대체하려는 정부의 계획에 굴복하도록 압박하는데 사용했다. She said the current textbooks offer wrong descriptions of history and history education cannot be normalize

[예제 230] Food additives, and food engineering generally, have allowed companies to dramatically simplify what was once a very common complex process ― cooking ― and thus gain a considerable measure of control over costs. In homemade foods, attributes like flavor and texture all depend on traditional and very specific ingredients and cooking procedures: a traditional apple pie, for example, can be made only from apples, sugar, butter, flour, shortening, salt, and spices and baked only in an oven

A man is interested in dates.남자들은 항상 데이트에 관심이 있는 것 같은데Clara: Are you going on a date tonight?Clara: 오늘 밤에 데이트 하러 가?Andi: I’d say it is more like a meeting.Andi : 데이트보다는 그냥 만나러 가는 거라고 할 수 있지.Clara: How so?Clara: 왜?Andi: Well, I think we’re both just doing it because, you know, our friends suggested we meet. I’m not interested in dating these days.Andi: 음, 우린 그냥 친구가 만나보라고 해서 만나는 거거든. 요즘은 데이트하는 데 별로 관심이 없어.Clara: A man is always interested in dates I think!Clara: 내가 볼 땐, 남자들은 항상 데이트에 관심이 있는 것 같은데?A

‘Social’ husbandDear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 15 years. During our first year of marriage, he cheated on me with an old girlfriend. I was pregnant at the time. He promised never to do it again. Several months ago, I noticed that my husband seemed distant, irritable and less interested in sex. We have three children, and I work two jobs and very long hours. So, I will admit that I haven‘t been the most attentive wife. Several months ago, he said he needed more of a social lif