With the enactment last year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the United States fully joined the rest of the world’s advanced economies in combating climate change. The IRA authorizes a major increase in spending to support renewable energy, research and development and other priorities, and if estimates about its effects are anywhere near correct, the impact on the climate will be significa...

Proposed bill: Partial Amendment to the Motor Vehicle Management Act Proposed by Rep. Han Jun-ho (Democratic Party of Korea) ● Amid the series of recent car accidents involving suspected sudden unintended acceleration, car accident victims have found it difficult to prove the causality between a car defect and the accident, as highly specialized knowledge and access to core information held by ...

Proposed Bill: Partial Amendment to the Act on the Promotion of Newspapers Proposed by Rep. Yoon Doo-hyun (People Power Party) ● An increasing number of people have begun using online news services to read the news, implying that public opinion can be significantly influenced by the positioning of news articles. Accordingly, there have been calls to prescribe the duties and public responsibilit...

As Europe sets its sights on becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral continent, it must perform a delicate balancing act. Can the European Union transform its economy while enhancing its competitiveness? And can it achieve these goals while maintaining its status as a shaper of global standards and adhering to its principles of fiscal responsibility? The answer to these questions is a resoundi...

Artificial intelligence is, suddenly, everywhere. We are awash in ideas about how we can use AI productively -- from agriculture to climate change to engineering to software construction. And, equally, there are plenty of cautionary notes being struck about using AI to control societies, manipulate economies, defeat commercial opponents, and generally fulfill Arthur C. Clarke’s visions of machine...

Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin (sixth from left) joins the group’s promotional activities to support Busan’s 2030 World Expo bid during the 2023 Lotte Open of the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association’s Tour held at Bear’s Best Golf Club in Cheong-na, Incheon, on Saturday.

President Yoon Suk Yeol has named Lee Key-cheol, former Korean ambassador to the Netherlands, to head a new government body overseeing the interests of 7.5 million overseas Koreans launched Friday. Lee also previously served as consul general in Los Angeles and is currently secretary-general of UNICEF Korea. The new agency is intended to offer streamlined services from visas to taxes and pensio...

요즘 ChatGPT는 영어공부에도 많이 활용된다. 최근에 5월14일 토익시험을 보고 시험 후기 라이브 방송을 진행하는데 시청자가 ‘ChatGPT는 다른 것을 답으로 말하는데요?’라고 말해서 나중에 원어민 친구들과 doublecheck 해보니 AI가 아니라 사람의 판단이 맞는 것을 확인했다. ChatGPT가 영어를 기반으로 해서 대부분 맞는 말을 하지만 ‘모른다’는 말을 하지 않고 거짓말을 하는 경우도 있으니 아직은 100% 신뢰하지는 말라는 조언을 드리고 싶다. ChatGPT가 틀린 말을 할 경우 사실을 기반으로 다시 질문을 하면 ‘My apologies….’하면서 자기 오류를 그 때 인정한다. 그 실제 예를 들어 드린다. Kinglish Co. announced today that Isaac Durs...

A few weeks ago, I visited Japan for the first time in four years. I expected to find many changes but was surprised to find things almost the same as they were in 2019. Compared to South Korea and the US, where some pandemic era innovations have become the norm, Japan feels the most like 2019. As I traveled, I began to wonder why and came up with several possible answers. Compared to South Kore...

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna (center) poses with Roma Spider, the Italian luxury carmaker’s latest soft-top convertible, during the Universo Ferrari exhibition which kicked off in Seoul on Thursday. The CEO visited Korea to celebrate the Asia premiere of the exhibition that travels around the world to showcase Ferrari’s 22 most representative cars. On his right is Dieter Knechtel, president of Fer...

Hyundai Motor Group on Thursday completed its first overseas hydrogen fuel cell system facility in Guangzhou, China, signifying the South Korean auto giant's global expansion in the hydrogen industry. About 200 Chinese and Korean government officials and business executives, including Hyundai Motor Company CEO Chang Jae-hoon (sixth from left) and Lin Keqing (fifth from left), chairman of the Guan...

2) 파트 5 3문제 1. ABC Food Manufacturing is making arrangements to have ------- supply it with several types of grain for the company’s cereals. (A) distributors (B) distributions (C) distributed (D) distribute 해석 ABC 식품 제조사는 그 회사의 시리얼을 위해 유통업체들이 여러 종류의 곡물을 공급하도록 마련하고 있다. 해설 명사 자리 채우기 문제 이 문장의 have는 사역동사로, ‘have + 목적어 + 원형부정사(supply)’의 형태로 쓰인다. 따라서 보기 중 목적어 자리에 올 수 있는 명사 (A)와 (B)가 정답의 후보이다....