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The English Premier League (EPL), the world’s biggest soccer league, held a match on August 10th between Liverpool and Norwich City. The league gathers the top 20 teams from pro-leagues and semi pro-leagues to play. These teams change every season, so audiences can enjoy different matches. Why is this league famous in Korea? The EPL was started in 1992, but it became famous in Korea in 2005. That year was the first time when Korean soccer players like Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo joined the EPL. | |
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Last July 1st, Japan announced that it will regulate exports concerning 3 core materials of semiconductors and displays. It said that the reason is its loss of trust in South Korea. Japan has still not apologized for the forced labor and its military sexual slavery. Koreans who heard this news got angry and started to boycott Japan. Thus, the CBT researched the Japan Boycott and surveyed whether CBNU students know about these issues. | |
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The concept of ‘artificial intelligence’ was first suggested by Alan Turing in 1950. After a chess tournament between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997, people began to show interest in A.I. Twenty years later, Go champion Lee Se-dol lost a match to Google’s Alpha Go, once again attracting people’s attention to A.I. This caused a massive increase in technologies utilizing A.I., such as robots and devices in medical or financial services. | |
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Recently, through many media broadcasts, there has been news that Korean celebrities and family members of conglomerate owners were caught using illegal drugs. Koreans are still in shock after hearing this news. Korea has been stringent on drug use, and its efforts for the prevention of drug use have been very exhaustive. For these reasons, Korea was a drug-safe country and had a nickname as a “drug-free nation” for a while. However, the drug problem is increasing these days, so many people are worried about this issue of illegal drugs. | |
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While the popularity of The Avengers: Endgame in Korea has been so high that it is being called Marvel Korea, the Avengers craze is causing changes at movie theaters. It is the final installment in the Avengers series, where the heroes became the last hope to save the universe. It surpassed 10 million viewers in just two weeks after its box office release. As a result of its popularity, movie theaters and viewers alike are thoroughly preparing for the movie. | |
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On February 28th, the Korea Kindergarten Association (KKA) delayed the opening of some private preschools. The reason was that the association opposed the contents of the three amendments related to preschools. Eventually, the association wanted those bills to be withdrawn as they thought some contents threatened their livelihoods. Although the KKA’s situation faded away in the past, as the public was not on their side and the government took strict legal action, it has been an issue for a long time. | |
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In the past, broadcasting on TV and showing movies in theaters was a big part of the video industry. However, in recent years, there are many ways to watch movies. People are watching videos on demand. Through these videos, it is possible to experience various subjects such as beauty, games, kidneys, and dance. Also, people can get useful information about real life. The most representative examples are YouTube and Netflix. Through these two platforms, people are free to watch videos that they want to see, and the number of people who watch these videos is increasing rapidly. | |
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This winter, the drama ‘SKY Castle’, which was broadcast on JTBC, recorded the highest viewing rate ever. This drama became hugely popular. The topic of this drama was the overheated education system. In some ways, people could feel bored with this topic. How did this drama find success? The drama showed some families who tried to solidify their status by secretly hiring university admissions coordinators for their kids to enter Seoul Medical School. | |
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‘Trend Korea’ is a book series where professors of each field research and write the upcoming trends of Korea for the Consumption Trend Analysis Center of Seoul National University. The CBT figured out the future trends of Korea through ‘Trend Korea’. The keywords that ‘Trend Korea’ has suggested since 2007 consist of 10 letters relating to each year’s animal. The keyword of 2019, the Year of the Swine, is Piggy Dream. | |
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‘Gapjil’ is a Korean word that means abusing power against inferior people. The shocking abuse of power by the group chairman Yang Jin-ho has become public knowledge and has raised criticism of such abuse again. There have been many cases of abusing power, but the case of Yang Jin-ho was especially severe. Therefore, it shocked people more than previous cases of power abuse. | |
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Everybody has probably sung ‘Pick Me’ at least once. Produce created three successful K-pop groups. Produce 101, which was season 1, produced I.O.I., and season 2 produced the boy group Wanna One. Also, Produce 48, the third season, was a TV program that collaborated with the Japanese girl group AKB 48. It eventually produced the girl group IZ*ONE. While various survival audition programs have been broadcast, some viewers got tired of similar survival audition programs. Nevertheless, many viewers are waiting for the next season of Produce. | |
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Nowadays, our society has a growing affinity for cats. More people are raising cats than ever before, and cats stand out conspicuously in our modern lifestyle. Students can see cats walking around CBNU, and they can see a lot of cat-related books listed in the bookstores. Also, Webtoon, YouTube, and other related content providers are showing ways of raising cats and sharing subscribers’ stories to readers. Even on social networks like Instagram, the number of cat videos has increased, and the number of cat owners has increased as well. | |
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The entertainment programs respond to trends quickly. When people search for the keywords ‘entertainment program,’ they can see information about the programs that are due to be shown, ones that are on air, and ones that were cancelled. Sometimes, people find some programs that ended after searching. There have been many programs that ended within the last three months. In this age of excessive entertainment, entertainment programs with citizen cast members are gaining popularity and becoming a trend. The entertainment programs with citizen cast members aren’t just entertaining programs. | |
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People are afraid of scary things, but people want to experience various horror activities. It is an ironic phenomenon, so the CBT looked into the psychological and physical reasons why people take different attitudes about fear. osts and horror movies. Horror stories poured from the films and TV shows this summer. The reason for this is the high demand for horror stories that people find enjoyable. They watch horror movies while covering their eyes and grasping the hands of a friend. Also, people go on dizzy amusement park rides with fear. | |
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As technology has developed and income levels have risen, the ways that people enjoy fear have improved in many ways. In the past, people were able to experience fear only through films, comic books or novels, but now people can enjoy fear more realistically by creating their own horror event or creating an environment where people can experience horror. | |
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These days, most people use more than one SNS service such as Facebook, Instagram or Kakao-story. According to a survey by the Ministry of Science and ICT, more than 80% of Koreans are using SNS and more than 90% of young people in their twenties are using SNS. The increasing usage of SNS affects product advertisements. Products in various fields are publicized on SNS. Some of them get thousands of “Likes” on SNS and are well-known to people. | |
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A customer who visits a café might be asked, “Would you like to drink that here?” Since Aug. 1, 2018, under a directive from the Ministry of Environment, cafes all around the nation must not serve a disposal plastic cup to a customer who drinks inside the store. Following a law about saving resources and boosting recycling, the government will impose a maximum 2 million won fine if a store serves plastic cups to in-door customers. | |
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As the North-South Korean summit was held on April 27, more and more people are taking a positive view of North Korea. Many people began to feel positive when they saw Kim Jong-un at the summit. On the other hand, there are some concerns that it is too early to judge Kim Jong-un by his behavior at the summit, and we have to take heed of this situation. What did CBNU students think about the change in the relationship between North and South Korea? In addition, how did the media outlets affect people’s views? | |
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Fine dust is a dust in which its radius is less than 10㎛ (micrometer, 1㎛ = 1/1000mm), and it is known as PM (Particulate Matter)10. Usually, it is emitted from car exhaust or factory chimneys, and it also refers to a dust of very small size, like China’s yellow dust or severe smog. Additionally, we call dust with a radius of less than 2.5㎛ as ultra-fine particles, and since 2011, Korea has been measuring ultra-fine particles. | |
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In the past, the program ‘We Got Married’ was famous. However, nowadays, there is a popular TV program, ‘I Live By Myself’, that shows the lives of people living alone. Times are changing, and also the trends in broadcasting are changing. Readers may not be used to the term ‘unmarried people’. What is the definition of ‘unmarried people’? In the past, people who were not married were called singles. Recently, the increase of unmarried people is because of the appearance of ‘celibates’. | |
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