Ken Salazar, the US ambassador to Mexico, met with the Los Angeles Tiems for more than an hour while visiting California in November. Her was eager to talk up the celebrations surrounding the US-Mexico diplomacy bicentennial. We were eager to talk about the border. The pas de deuk featured a lot of platitudes, a couple of tense moments, and a number I can't shake: 13,000. That was the estimate Salazar gave for the number of Mexicans who were studying at our universities at the time. Many of

Relief goods are shipped to Korean Air’s special charter flight before it departs for Turkey on Monday. The Boeing 777 freighter carried 45 tons of relief goods, including tents, sleeping bags and blankets, to be delivered to the area hit by the Turkey-Syria tearthquake in February.

It is exactly one month ago that I gave a speech on the eve of the Munich Security Conference. Since then, so many remarkable things have happened -- and have happened so fast -- that it is worth comparing my predictions of a month ago with the actual developments. The biggest changes have occurred in the global climate system. By this, I mean actual climate events and climate scientists’ understanding of those events. The main message I wanted to convey in Munich was that the global clima

British Ambassador to Korea Colin Crooks speaks at the Global Business Forum organized by The Korea Herald on Wednesday at the Ambassador Seoul -- A Pullman Hotel in Seoul. (Damdastudio)

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida toast during an extended dinner session held at a restaurant in Ginza, downtown Tokyo, after their summit on Thursday. While drinking Japanese beer mixed with Korean soju, the Japanese premier has reportedly told his Korean counterpart that the friendship between Korea and Japan "felt tasty," referring to the drink also known as "sopok" in Korea.

필자는 EBS 오디오 어학당에서 토익 강의를 새로 맡아 준비중이다. 그 강의 원고 일부는 일본에 수출할 토익 Vocabulary책 원고가 된다. 원고의 취지는 급한불부터 끄자는 맥락에서 1. 정답으로 잘 나오는 것들을 1차적으로 정리하고 그 다음에 2. 기본 핵심단어를 정리한 후 3. 고급단어까지 정리하는 구성을 가지고 있다.. 그 원고 일부를 최초로 독자여러분께 제공한다. 토익을 공부하는 분들 뿐 아니라 일상영어에 관심이 있는 모든 분들에게 도움이 되는 단어 표현 원고가 될 것이다. 많은 내용을 전단하기 위해서 쉬운 문장들의 번역은 생략했다. 본 내용에는 450여회 토익 응시를 토대로한 통계적인 분석이 들어가 있다. 시험을 보신 분들과 토익 선생님들은 그 가치를 인정하는 정보들이다. 〈토익파트1 사진묘사 정답으로 잘 나오는 문장에 들어가는 단어들〉 (1) 사람들이 모여 있으면 gather가 들어간 문장이 정답이 잘 된다. - Some people  are gat

Since the dawn of international politics, smaller states have faced the formidable challenge of navigating great-power rivalries. Today, it is the geopolitical contest between the United States and China that has compelled countries to balance their competing national interests. Toward which side they gravitate depends on domestic and external circumstances. Consider the Philippines, which has an interest in maintaining both its growing economic ties with neighboring China as well as its half-

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars on Thursday unveiled the Korea-only Lucid Night Editions of the Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan SUV. The three limited-edition cars were inspired by the night view of Seoul that represents South Korea’s dynamics and modernity, the ultra-luxury carmaker said. Their prices are estimated at over 800 million won ($610,000). Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos is scheduled to visit Seoul later this month.

2) 파트 5 3문제 1. The blueprints presented by the ------- need the CEO's approval, but a committee will first examine the design and give recommendations. (A) architectural (B) architect (C) architecturally (D) architecture 해석-- 건축가가 제시한 청사진은 최고 경영자의 승인을 필요로 하지만, 위원회가 우선 설계를 검토하고 제안을 할 것이다. 해설-- 사람명사, 추상명사 구별하여 채우기 문제 정관사(the) 뒤에 빈칸이 왔으므로 명사 (B)와 (D)가 정답의 후보이다. ‘건축가가 제시한 청사진은 최고 경영자의 승인을 필요로 한다’라는 문맥이 되어야 하므로 (B) architect(건축가)가 정답이다. (D)를 사용할 경우 ‘건축이 제시한 청사진’이라는

진행자: 박준희, Beth Eunhee Hong 1. ‘The Glory’ producer Ahn Gil-ho admits physical assault as a high schooler, apologizes to victims 기사 요약: '더 글로리' PD, 학폭 인정…"타인에게 상처 줘, 용서 구해" [1] Producer Ahn Gil-ho of the hit Netflix drama “The Glory” // admitted to physically assaulting students at a neighboring middle school as a high school student, and apologized to the victims in a statement via his attorney on Sunday. * Admitted: 인정하다; 시인하다 * Physical A

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s controversial speech on the 104th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement prompted me to watch two movies: “A Resistance” and “Anarchist from Colony.” Both are based on the heart-wrenching fate of courageous Koreans who as teenagers joined the massive anti-Japanese protests of March 1, 1919. A presidential speech customarily marks the watershed event. Yoon, no stranger to delivering fuzzy logic, kept his first March 1 address so

South Korea's Navy is participating in a US-led multinational anti-submarine warfare exercise in waters off Guam, officials said Wednesday. The Navy sent two P-3 maritime surveillance aircraft and 40 sailors to Sea Dragon 23, which began Wednesday and will last through the end of this month. The annual exercise launched in 2014 is aimed at enhancing joint anti-submarine warfare capabilities. Five countries, including India, Canada and Japan, are participating this year. The exercise came right