토익이 갈수록 어려워지고 있다. 소위말하는 토익 고수들은 질문부터 남다르다. 시험이 끝나면 자신이 답한 문제들을 대부분 기억하고 있고 몇가지 사항만 묻는다. 상담을 하러 온 학생들 중에는 '서점에 있는 토익 책 다 풀었네요. 뭐 새로운 것 없나요?'라고 질문하는 사람도 있고 '리스닝은 늘 만점이라 리딩만 좀 다듬어 주세요.'라는 친구들은 많다. 그런데 이런 친구들을 정작 관리를 해서 가르쳐보면 거시적으로 크게 봐야 풀 수 있는 문제 중 '글의 목적은?' 질문에서 틀리거나 기본적인 단수 복수를 틀리는 경우가 적지 않다. 현재 관리를 하고 있는 학생과 함께 공부하다가 독자 여러분도 알아야 두면 좋은 사항이 두 가지 있어서 공유해 본다! A. street의 의미! 기초단어 street을 대부분 알고 있다고...

What memories come to mind? We are already halfway through the year, and the pandemic is still an influence on our lives. What memories of the past few years come to mind? The exhibition “My Your Memory” at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, explores the theme of memory. The exhibition starts with “Sleep,” a five-hour-long video that Andy Warhol filmed while his friend J...

Last week, I introduced the paradox on the Han River: the rise of Korea’s global success and decline in hope among young Koreans. Here, I will continue to examine Korea’s choices around two pivotal areas facing the next generation -- its economic future and social inclusion. What choices will South Korea make to sustain its economic future? An explicit focus on economic growth, rather than focu...

You asked, we answered. Learn everything about Anushka Sen’s Korea trip and how this 19-year-old Bollywood actor and influencer with 37.8 million followers is shaking up the industry with her passion for connecting Asia through content. Watch til the end for exclusive clips of Anushka playing fun games! Special thanks to Asia Lab (Global artist management company representing Anushka Sen) By ...

Goodbye, legal right to abortion. Goodbye, separation of church and state. Goodbye, commonsense gun laws. Goodbye, Miranda rights. And that’s just the beginning. With a fundamentalist, conservative Supreme Court majority in charge, brace yourselves for the possibility of the end of so many civil rights we take for granted: privacy, contraception, in vitro fertilization, gay marriage, interra...

Fifty days after the governing power changed in Seoul, the distance between the South and North on the Korean Peninsula clearly looks farther. New right-wing President Yoon Suk-yeol would bring to a close the reconciliatory course toward North Korea that the leftist administration of Moon Jae-in had taken for the past five years. The successful launch of a space rocket from a south coast cape la...

First lady Kim Keon-hee is currently in Spain accompanying President Yoon Suk-yeol on a five-day trip to Europe to attend the NATO summit. After arriving in Madrid on Monday, Kim’s first official activity was a visit to the Korean Cultural Center in the capital city on Tuesday afternoon. Later in the evening, the presidential couple attended a dinner hosted by Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen L...

Jungheung Group Vice Chairman Jung Won-ju (right) and Urban Development Minister of El Salvador Edgar Romeo Rodriguez Herrera shake hands to encourage Daewoo E&C’s participation in the Los Chorros highway expansion project. The project, mainly focusing on connecting San Salvador to western parts of the country, includes the use of the Export-Import Bank of Korea’s Economic Development Cooperation...

Test your knowledge of Korea with our weekly quiz on the language, culture, history or anything K-related. Answer: ⓓ South Korea is technically still at war with North Korea and most men here are trained shooters, stemming from their experience as active-duty conscripts. But not even the president -- the most powerful elected official and chief military commander -- can freely carry a gun. O...

지난 회에 이어, 유용한 비즈니스 영어 표현들을 소개합니다. ‘비즈니스 영어’라는 게 따로 떨어져 존재하는 것은 아닙니다만, 일상 회화에서 흔히 볼 수 없는 표현들을 활용하는 것도 사실입니다. 저희 책 『나는 더 영어답게 말하고 싶다 비즈니스 편』에서 뽑은 표현들입니다. 1 A: If you claim this accident, then you will have higher insurance rates. It would be cheaper to just pay for the repair out-of-pocket. B: That’s true, but I don’t have the money to fix my truck right now, so I don’t have a choice. A: 이 사건...

*진행자: 간형우, Naomi Garyan 1. SNU research team busted for blatant plagiarism [1] A research team under Seoul National University admitted to submitting a plagiarized paper at an international conference after accusations spread online. The team, led by professor Yoon Sung-roh from the prestigious Seoul National University, submitted a paper at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recogni...

A diner is seen eating alone at a university cafeteria in Seoul on Tuesday. The cost of eating out at a restaurant for a four-person household in the first quarter of this year jumped 17 percent from the previous year, while the sharp rise in the cost of dining out has driven a 3.8 percent surge in the Consumer Price Index on-year, according to recent data by Statistics Korea.