진행자: 조혜림, Naomi Garyan 1. [Weekender] Why is Kim Jong-un clamping down on millennials, K-pop and slang? 기사요약: 김정은 북한 국무위원장이 최근 K팝을 ‘악성 암(vicious cancer)’이라고 부르며 북한 내에 한류가 퍼지는 것을 경고했다. [1] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has a new concern: how to control the country’s younger generation. The 37-year-old leader warned in April  that “a serious change” was taking place in the “ideological and mental state” of young North Koreans, and that their id

  지난번에 이어 시사적인 내용을 말할 때 도움이 될 영어다운 표현들을 보겠습니다. 이번에도 저희 책 『나는 더 영어답게 말하고 싶다 시사이슈 편』에서 뽑았습니다.     <경제> 1 A It seems the government keeps adding new welfare programs, despite the recent tax cuts. B It won’t be long before all this spending empties out our national coffers. A 최근 감세에도 불구하고 정부가 계속 새로운 복지제도를 추가하고 있는 것 같아. B 계속 이렇게 써 대면 나라 곳간이 비는 데 얼마 걸리지 않을 거야. SITUATION 나랏돈을 다 탕진한다고 할 때 평범하게 This spending will use up all of our nation’s money. 영어답게

From voting rights to vaccinations, ever since we Americans have been forced to stare at the split-screen evolution of our political schizophrenia, we have always known that our new reality leads us to just one core question. Our problem is that we not only know The Question, but we also know The Answer. Today we will be looking at ways we can convert our new split-screen reality into a power-tool of manipulation. Then perhaps we can use it to save thousands of lives by finally getting America

It was one hot summer day in 2011. I was a master student at the time and the school was on a summer break. Because I was going to participate in a summer music festival in Aspen, Colorado, I just stayed home to be prepared and ready for the festival. Most of my friends went back to Korea to meet their family and friends. Just a few Korean students decided to stay like myself. Even though I had a good reason to stay, I still missed “home” and my family. One day, a friend gave me ad

Just this month, we’ve seen political collapse in Haiti and military collapse in Afghanistan. South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, turned 10 years old amid looming famine, rampant corruption and continued violence. Ethiopia’s civil war threatens the country’s very existence. All these disasters have two things in common: In each, the United States has poured in more than a billion dollars in aid in the past 10 years -- substantially more in some cases. And in each, it

Hurricane Elsa’s appearance in the Caribbean this month, far before the usual onset of the Atlantic hurricane season, reminds us of what awaits the world’s small island developing states (SIDS) in the years ahead. These states are already suffering the devastating effects of climate change, and will now need to spend heavily on repairs and measures to build resilience. Rich countries and their fossil-fuel companies contributed overwhelmingly to the problem, so they should help cover

Russian President Vladimir Putin is obsessed with Ukraine -- or, rather, with pretending that Ukraine doesn’t exist. In his annual call-in show on June 30, he claimed that “Ukrainians and Russians are a single people.” He then published an article aimed at justifying that “conviction,” by tracing the two countries’ shared history. It is a masterclass in disinformation -- and one step short of a declaration of war. Putin begins his tale in ancient Rus, where R

필자가 용어를 좀 한다고 생각하고 영문과에 입학했는데 가보니 영어 잘하는 친구들이 다 모여 있었다. 그 중에도 한 친구는 특별했다. 당시 음향도서실이란 곳이 학교에 있었는데 그곳에 있는 영어학습관련 테이프를 모두 듣고 또 듣다가 너무 잘 들린다고 나중에는 늘어진 테이프만 직원에게 골라달라고 하고 들은 친구이다. 뛰는 놈 위에 나는 놈이었던 그 친구의 이름은 김선정이다. 입학한지 얼마 안되어 그 친구가 나에게 ‘너 천치사의 연구라는 책 읽어봤어?’라고 질문을 했는데 내가 안 읽어봤다니까 그런 책도 안 읽고 영어 공부 좀 했다고 할 수 있느냐는 경멸의 눈초리로 그가 나를 바라보던 기억이 난다. ‘그 책 처음에 보면 싱거운데 몇 번 보면 좋다는 느낌이 들 갓이다.’라고 알려줘서 나는 바로 사 보게 되었다. 그리고 친구의 말을 이해하게 되었다. 중고등학교 시절 동사와 전치사를 그냥 외우던 수준에서 그 단어 하나하나를 느끼게 해주는 원리를 이해

This June, a telescope arrived in South Korea as an express consignment from the US.  At a glance, it looked like an ordinary item, but when customs officers examined it closely, they discovered a steel plate welded onto the original product. Through an intrusive search, officers seized 442 grams of methamphetamine hidden inside. Earlier in March, 4 kilograms of methamphetamine disguised as sea salt was found among international parcels from the US. It amounted to a whopping 150,000 dos

 1) 단어+예문 10개 더 많은 토익빈출 단어 '해커스 토익 기출 보카'에서 확인 ▶     2) 파트 5 3문제 1. While the new management will ------- operations at the famed restaurant called Lucas, the chef will still be present in the kitchen. (A) show up (B) look out (C) bring on (D) take over   해석 새 경영진이 Lucas라는 이름의 유명한 음식점의 운영을 인계받는 반면, 주방장은 여전히 주방에 있을 것이다.   해설 동사 어휘 문제 ‘새 경영진이 음식점의 운영을 인계받는 반면, 주방장은 여전히 주방에 있을 것이다’라는 문맥이 되어야 하므로 ‘인계받다, 인수하다’의 뜻을 지닌 동사 (D) take over가 정답이다. 참고로 (A) sh