진행자: 조혜림, Paul Kerry 1. Despite concerns, NFT craze set to expand into fashion, entertainment 기사요약: 주로 미술과 음악시장에서 대세였던 NFT, 대체 불가능한 토큰이 패션, 엔터산업으로 확장하다. [1] The nonfungible tokens market, which first sent the art industry into a frenzy, is expected to take a deep plunge into the fashion and entertainment world, amid fast-growing interest in making new money using the blockchain technology. *nonfungible token: 대체 불가능한 토큰 *frenzy: 광분, 광란 *take a plunge: 과감히 시작하다 [2] NFTs are digital tokens

지난 주에 이어 우리 일상의 대화를 좀 더 세련되게 만들 수 있는 표현들을 보겠습니다. 저희 책 『나는 더 영어답게 말하고 싶다 일상회화 편 2』에서 뽑은 표현들입니다.   <갈등, 조정에 대해 말할 때> 1 A: Gordon was just playing his co-workers off against each other so that he can come off as a good mediator to his boss. B: How can he be so mean to his co-workers? A 자신이 훌륭한 중재자라는 인상을 사장님께 주기 위해 고든이 직장 동료들을 이간질한 거였어. B 자기 동료들한테 어떻게 그렇게 야비할 수 있지? SITUATION 이간질한다고 할 때 평범하게 Tim was just making us fight with each other. 영어답게 Tim was just playing us off again

Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a better job of thinking through the issues if we distinguish among them. The first debate concerns the magnitude of the current inflation: How long it will last and how high it will get. It started last spring, when some economists sounded the alarm that we were likely to see the highest inflation in a generation. Others argued first

A team of four doctors, experts in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, are sounding a warning about Americans who remain most vulnerable to COVID-19 -- those with existing health conditions or the immunosuppressed. They can harbor what the doctors call “evolving viral swarms” and could produce even more harmful variants of the coronavirus that would undermine the nation’s and the world’s efforts to break out of the 2-year-old pandemic. T

One of the giants of political journalism has decided to hang it up at age 88. But anyone who knows Lou Cannon doesn’t think for a moment his retirement means more time on the beach or romping on all fours with one of his seven great-grandkids. Cannon has reached Chapter 23 of his memoirs, he said, and plans to write several more ahead of a self-imposed deadline a few months from now. Hence his departure from the professional news biz after more than 60 years of the day-in, day-out grind.

Americans are tired of war. We just got out of a 20-year fiasco in Afghanistan with little to show for it except the Taliban reinstated, burqa sales up and the country plunged into turmoil. Before that, the seven-year-long war in Iraq didn’t make Americans safer, nor did it make that country a thriving democracy or uncover weapons of mass destruction. Trillions of dollars later and thousands of lives gone, many Americans are feeling skeptical about foreign entanglements and urging a retr

Most leading immunologists predict COVID-19 will someday become an endemic, a persistent but manageable threat on par with seasonal flu, conceivably by the end of 2022. That would constitute quite the turnaround from today. All things considered, the possibility of COVID-19 becoming endemic (just another American annoyance) should be cause for great celebration. So, why doesn’t the pending transition from pandemic to endemic feel like great news? Part of the answer involves the news m

A concerted effort to heal the scars of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has widened social, political and economic divisions during its two-year reign, was one of the top wishes from ordinary people in Korea for the New Year. As much as the COVID-19 crisis has isolated people and affected their daily routines, it also has shed light on the importance of interpersonal ties and solidarity. The Korea Herald interviewed 10 people -- COVID-19 frontline nurses, a Seoul-based TikToker and influencer,

The large bamboo flute called daegeum, used in traditional Korean music, is uniquely capable of producing a wide range of listening experiences from a single ancient woodwind instrument. Daegeum, a one-of-a-kind woodwind instrument indigenous to Korea, is made from double-groove bamboo, which is an anomaly in bamboo but perfect for making daegeum flutes with thick walls. Because a daegeum is made from natural bamboo, no two instruments are alike. Double-groove bamboo is unlike regular bamboo

As I review fond memories of wintertime in Korea when I was growing up, I think of my mother preparing this delicious, savory bulgogi hot pot for dinner. A large shallow pot is adorned with a beautiful arrangement of Korean beef bulgogi meat, along with a variety of leafy vegetables, mushrooms and Korean glass noodles, known as dangmyeon. Then a slightly sweet and savory broth is poured over it all. My mother placed the pot on a portable burner in the middle of the table. The entire family of

South Korea reported a sharp increase in omicron infections on Friday, with health authorities saying it was possible the coronavirus variant had already spread within the community. The country counted 269 new infections of the new variant, which pushed the total caseload to 894, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. It is the steepest gain since omicron was first detected in the country. Of the 269, 186 were foreign arrivals and 83 were local transmissions. Abou