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[영어답게 표현하기] 유용한 비즈니스 영어 표현들

English EyeFeb 15, 2023

이번 회에는 저희 책 Advanced Vocab에서 소개한 중상급 영단어들을 알려드립니다. 단어의 우리말 뜻을 기억하는 데에서 그치지 않고, 난이도 있는 단어를 실제로 활용하는 단계까지 나아가 보기 바랍니다. 〈중요성과 핵심〉 1. iconic [aikɑ́nik] 상징성을 갖는, 중요한 상징을 뜻하는 아이콘(icon)의 형용사형이며 ‘상징성이 있기에 중요한’이라는 뜻을 지닌다. Director John Woo's iconic white doves appear in almost every movie he has directed. 오우삼 감독의 유명한 흰색 비둘기는 그가 감독한 거의 모든 영화에 나온다. ● 빨간색 자선 냄비는 구세군의 상징으로 유명하다. The Salvation Army is well-known for its iconic red kettle. 2. innermost [ínərmòust] 마음
[Editorial] Fatal child abuse

EditorialFeb 15, 2023

In back-to-back incidents, two young children have been found dead in Incheon this month in connection with alleged abuse and negligence by their parents, igniting criticism over the repeated failures of child protection services to safeguard children. On Feb. 2, a 2-year-old boy was found dead. Incheon Police Station took a 24-year-old woman into custody on suspicion of leaving her son at home alone for three days. Police suspect that the boy died of starvation, though investigations are still
[Kim Seong-kon] 'Where to?' Which path should we take?

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2023

When you take a taxi, the driver will ask, “Where to?” Upon knowing your destination, he will try to figure out the fastest way to reach it, avoiding traffic congestion and wrong turns, so you can arrive safely without any problems. Likewise, your political leaders should know your desired destination and choose the best way to reach it. If they happen to choose the wrong path or become blocked by traffic, if they have made a wrong turn at the intersection or have taken you to the wr
[Doyle McManus] Spy balloon deflates US-China detente

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2023

The Chinese balloon that floated across the United States this month, apparently on a mission to collect intelligence, began its journey as a curiosity. Then it became a political metaphor: a symbol of US weakness to Republicans, a sign of President Joe Biden’s prudence to Democrats. Now, more than a week after the US Air Force shot it down, the errant balloon is gone, but its impact is still reverberating. The incident, and the larger Chinese program it revealed, is a serious obstacle to
[Photo News] Immersive Galaxy experience

IndustryFeb 14, 2023

Visitors take pictures with Samsung Electronics' latest Galaxy S23 Plus smartphone at a Galaxy Studio pop-up store in Seongsu, east of Seoul, on Tuesday. The tech giant is running three pop-up stores to allow visitors to experience its latest Galaxy S23 series in Seongsu, Hongdae and Yeonnam areas in Seoul until March 26.
[Land of Squid Game] Leaving quickly after eating

Hashtag KoreaFeb 14, 2023

When Koreans are dining at a restaurant, as soon as everyone is finished eating, they generally move to a different location for coffee or drinks. Westerners, on the other hand, like to stay put for a few minutes after dining to give their meal time to settle, and then they may switch to a different location. Min Byoung-chul is an endowed chair professor at Chung-Ang University who is widely known as a multicultural educator and for his practical English teaching. This content is based on his
[해커스 TEPS] 텝스 시험대비 단기간 고득점 단어 & 문법 5문제

English EyeFeb 14, 2023

2) 해커스 텝스 문법 (5문제) Part Ⅰ Choose the best answer for the blank. 1. A: I like dogs more than cats. B: _______________ (a) So do I. (b) I do so. (c) Do I so. (d) I so do. 해석 A: 나는 고양이 보다 개가 좋아. B: 나도 그래. 해설-- ‘So + 조동사 + 주어’ 도치 구문 채우기 빈칸에 들어갈 말은 ‘나도 그래’라는 의미가 되어야 자연스럽다. ‘역시 그렇다’라는 의미의 so 뒤에는 조동사와 주어가 도치되어 ‘so + 조동사 + 주어’의 어순이 되므로 (a) So do I(나도 그래)가 정답이다. 어휘 like ~을 좋아하다 2. A: Oh no, it’s raining and I didn’t bring an umbrella
[Editorial] Unconvincing rulings

ViewpointsFeb 14, 2023

Two rulings last week are stirring up controversy over their unconvincing decisions. The court on Wednesday acquitted former People Power Party lawmaker Kwak Sang-do of bribery in connection with 5 billion won ($4 million) in severance pay his son received from Hwacheon Daeyu. The asset management firm reaped an astronomical profit by joining in a now scandal-hit Seongnam City project to build apartment complexes in Daejang-dong. Its largest shareholder, Kim Man-bae, stands trial in connection w
[Martin Schram] Massaging the anti-Biden message

ViewpointsFeb 14, 2023

Here at the intersection of the news media, policy and politics, the unsubtle destabilizing -- and sometimes deliberate sabotaging -- of our democracy is proceeding on pace. America’s please-lie-to-me voters, who prefer to get their news and their political promises from folks who know how to make them feel good, knew where they could turn on State of the Union night. And all of us who want to understand how our political games are really being played these days need to take the time to wa
[Kent Harrington] House Republicans’ absurdities will hurt democracy

ViewpointsFeb 14, 2023

Voltaire famously warned that anyone who can make people believe absurdities can make them commit atrocities. Two and a half centuries later, an insurrection at the US Capitol by those who believed Donald Trump’s lies confirmed Voltaire’s point. And now, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives is doing everything it can to “flood the zone” with even more absurdities. Exhibit A is the new House “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Fede
[Photo News] Above the moon

TechnologyFeb 13, 2023

The Ministry of Science and ICT on Monday released photos of the moon taken by Danuri, South Korea's first lunar mission also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter. As the KPLO underwent a testing period for about a month after it successfully entered the moon's orbit on Dec. 27, it was able to capture high-definition photos of the moon's surface and send the collected data to the Earth's ground control.
[Elizabeth Shackelford] Is China really scarier than Zuckerberg?

ViewpointsFeb 13, 2023

A colleague recently sent me a TikTok she thought I’d find interesting. I clicked the link but immediately regretted it. I quickly cleared my browser history but felt it was too late and that the Chinese government was probably in my phone for good now. As a former US diplomat, I might be unusually sensitive to that possibility, having served in places where we took for granted that foreign state actors were listening in. But the combination of geopolitical rivalry, China’s surveilla
[Editorial] Public role of banks

EditorialFeb 13, 2023

The top four commercial banks in South Korea posted record-breaking profits last year, greatly helped by the wide gap in deposit and lending rates following a steady rise in interest rates amid raging disputes over their “easy” profits and their public role. Shinhan Bank led the pack by posting 4.64 trillion won ($3.66 billion) in net profit last year, followed by KB Kookmin Bank with 4.41 trillion won, Woori Bank at 3.17 trillion won and Hana Bank's 3.62 trillion won. The stell
[Trudy Rubin] Three leaders partly to blame for earthquake deaths

ViewpointsFeb 13, 2023

There are moments, during horrific natural disasters such as the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, when you can witness the best that mankind is capable of -- the noble behavior that often emerges during a crisis. A Greek search and rescue team and Turkish special operations police -- whose members might have been fighting each other in wartime -- worked side by side to rescue a small girl through a narrow gap in a pile of concrete that once was an apartment building near Antakya, Turkey. A group
Korean rescuers free 3 more survivors

Foreign affairsFeb 12, 2023

A Korean team of rescuers found three more survivors in quake-hit Turkey, raising the number of people rescued by the team to eight, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said Sunday. They pulled a 65-year-old woman at 2:02 p.m. from the rubble in Antakya with her dead husband. A few hours later they also rescued a 17-year-old man and his 51-year-old mother from the same building in the city Saturday at 7:18 p.m. and 8:18 p.m., respectively, aided by use of a sound detector and a rock drill. The woman&r