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In the early morning of Oct. 15 this year, an employee in her twenties got caught in a machine and died at a bakery factory. This incident occurred at an SPC affiliate in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do. During the investigation of SPC industrial accidents by the police and the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the poor industrial environment of SPC was revealed. It was especially serious because of the 12-hour shifts, in groups of two work rule that was not followed, and the lack of safety devices.
 
Are readers aware of the wildlife population being decreasing nationally? The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) recently published the Living Planet Report 2022. In this publication, they announced the wildlife population has declined 69% over the last 50 years. Let¡¯s check out why this wildlife population decline is important, and how it is connected with us.
 
Extravagant consumption trends like YOLO (;You only live once) or Flex (; showing off luxuries and wealth) had been popular in the media a few years ago. However, in contrast to those trends, saving trends like the non-consumption challenge is under the spotlight in the media lately. The non-consumption challenge is a kind of extreme saving trend, which literally means the challenge to live a few days or weeks without any consumption. People who jump into this challenge manage to minimize their consumption in various ways like riding a bike to work or getting coupons by using mobile rewarding applications.
 
On July 19, the government reported a plan to train semiconductor specialists at a Cabinet meeting presided over by the president. The plan is to train Korean professionals to narrow the gap in semiconductor technology, which is arguably the core of future industries and national security assets. In addition, the government sets out to eliminate the shortage of semiconductor companies and establish a virtuous cycle of human resource development and industrial growth.
 
In early August of this year, a severe drought brought the depth of Lake Mead to its lowest level. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States and the lifeline of the agricultural southwest. Due to the climate crises accompanied by drought and flood, grain production in countries that export major grains such as wheat, rice, and maize has decreased by 6-7%. Now that the climate crisis is leading to a decline in food, what can we do? Nam Jae-jak, a climate change expert who authored the book , said, ¡°1.3 billion tons of food, or one-third of all food produced by humans, is wasted every year.
 
As Russian invasion of Ukraine has become a black hole attracting the attention of the international community, proper discussion of other issues requiring international intercession is delayed and neglected. In the Global section, a CBT reporter would like to share the current news of Myanmar, which has become a crime scene against humanity, starting with the actions of the military junta in February 2021. That is when the Myanmar military junta launched a coup d¡¯état, claiming fraudulent elections after the National League for Democracy (NLD) won more than half of the seats in the general election.
 
The MBN entertainment program High School Mom&Father was aired in March 2022, and it deals with the reality of pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare of high school students. This program shows the challenges faced by teenagers who become unmarried parents. It is a big controversy that is obviously too sensitive to deal with as an entertainment, but some say that this has made it clear why minors should not conceive and give birth.
 
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a special military operation, and Russia invaded Ukraine. This incursion has been unexpectedly prolonged, with numerous casualties and refugees, and it is fair to say that Ukrainians have suffered beyond imagination. In addition, it is affecting the whole world in terms of its economy, culture, transportation, etc.
 
This is what a CBT reporter recently heard from one of the people in the crowds on a spring day when cherry blossoms were in full bloom. In fact, it was hard to find any of the honeybees that should have started working early to mid-March when the forsythias began to bloom. At the same time, mainline news started reporting that, starting from Jeju island and the Southern States, honeybees had suddenly disappeared, and could easily be found fallen dead! Insects like bees or butterflies can sense even the weakest of signals of any kinds of natural disasters.
 
In the past, and even as recently as January 11th, many people lost their lives because of accidents in the workplace. This issue has been highlighted by the recent collapse of an apartment building in Gwangju where at least 9 lost their lives. This incident made a big impression on the national psyche where everyone could see the horrible scene on news media, especially since it took several days to recover the survivors and missing bodies. As a result, the government published the ¡®Serious Accident Punishment Act¡¯ on January 27th, in order to prevent fatal accidents, and to anticipate major accidents, before they occur.
 
Last year, December 6th, the United States announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics because China violates the human rights of the Uighur minority. On the other hand, there were suspicions that the US is trying to contain China diplomatically by using human rights as a pretext. Professor Kim Jih-un of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Chungnam National University explained why the US declared a diplomatic boycott as ¡®value¡¯ diplomacy.
 
¡°Voice phishing is about empathizing with the other person. Voice phishing does not dig into people¡¯s ignorance, but dig into the persons¡¯ hopes and fears. This difference determines whether it is 100 million or 1 billion.¡± It is one of the lines from the movie Voice, which was released in September this year. Voice is a criminal film that shows the techniques of voice phishing scammers who commit crimes in the dark corners of the world, and alerts people to the dangers of phishing.
 
In Korea, a new word namely Newtro is becoming popular. It is a compound word meaning ¡®new¡¯ and ¡®retro.¡¯ Compared to retro, which simply evokes memories and nostalgia for a phenomenon experienced in the past, newtro refers to a new way of enjoying the culture of the past by the younger generation who have never had direct contact with the past.
 
A SF film ¡®Avatar,¡¯ released in 2009, of story is about earthlings adapting to a new planet to solve the problem of global energy depletion. In the production process of this film, filmmakers substituted the new planet with a virtual world and created virtual characters called Avatars. It was a new genre with different challenges from previous movies, and it had huge success at the box-office with a record-breaking number of viewers. Also, when the movie was released, most people were under the impression that the application of avatars would be limited to digitally created content.
 
Currently, due to the prolonged COVID-19, and the continuous increase in the number of infected people, daily life as before is becoming impossible. As a result, many people express their dissatisfaction with stores closing at 10 P.M. Jeong Seok-young, a senior majoring in Electronic Engineering, complained ¡°After a long day, I go to a bar to relieve my stress, but there isn¡¯t enough time to talk with my friends, and it¡¯s impossible to enjoy myself within the constraints of time. It¡¯s a pity to see the closed stores where I used to visit, and unlike before, the Jungmun commercial district is in a slump.¡±
 
The English Premier League(EPL) meets annually to determine the best teams in England. Among the teams that participate ¡®Leicester city¡¯ has won the trophy in 38 games of the 15-16 seasons with 23 wins, 12 draws, and 3 losses. Considering that the dividend rate for Leicester City¡¯s victory calculated by the British betting company ¡®William Hill¡¯ was 5000:1, Leicester City¡¯s victory was simply a miracle. With this article, let¡¯s find out what an underdog is and the trends that encourage underdogs.
 
The term ¡®worker¡¯ has emerged with the dawn of capitalism. It lexically means a person who maintains a living with wages earned from selling labor. Commonly, people conjure up the image of workers who are working at factories or construction sites. However, worker includes a person who works in various forms for financial returns like an office job, education job, police and etc. Likewise, the productive activities that are routinely completed for a living are called ¡®industry.¡¯ The word includes various fields like agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, construction, distribution, insurance, service industries, and etc.
 
Let¡¯s find out more about labeling games through the book Trend 2021 by Kim Nan-do, a professor of department of Consumer Affairs at Seoul National University. The labeling game is a new trend where labels are ascribed to certain people to describe their personalities. The labeling games include the MBTI test, the boomer level test, and the university department test.
 
Recently, starting with Bitcoin which caused a worldwide sensation, many people became interested in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is electric information that is encoded with blockchain technology and distributed so that people can use the coin as a real currency in some networks. Almost everyone would have heard about ¡®Bitcoin,¡¯ one of the cryptocurrencies. Especially nowadays, young investors in their 20-30s are increasing. Bitcoin, a word that tempted lots of people to invest. What would it be?
 
For a long time, the earth has been tainted by severe environmental problems due to the waste people produce in their daily lives. According to a report, by Statistics Korea, on the generation and disposal of living and workplace waste between 2013 and 2019, there was an estimated 380,709kg in 2013 and 481,682kg in 2019, an increase of about 26.4%. As a result, it can be seen that the amount of waste people discard is increasing as time goes on.
 
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