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Nowadays, serious accidents have occurred once a month. Two of four recent accidents caused serious casualties. The lack of the bus drivers’ welfare and bus safety acts are the causes of these accidents. Last July, an accident happened, leaving 4 dead and 14 injured at the Bong-pyong tunnel. The cause of the accident was drowsy driving. According to the defendant’s lawyer at the hearing on September 6th, the general practice of the bus industries is that drivers are only provided accommodations or meals when tourists offer them, and they are only provided meals when tourists offer them | |
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Yoon Han-byum(’16, Dept. of Nursing Science) said, “From when I was young, I have been taught by my parents that I should use chopsticks correctly because it is a part of Korean table manners. Especially on a special day like Korean Thanksgiving Day, when my family and relatives gather, I focus much more on using chopsticks appropriately.” As he said, we all had the experience where we were taught how to use chopsticks, and we all have used chopsticks a lot. | |
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Kim Yeong-ran, a Chairwoman of the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, opened to the public a draft of The Improper Solicitation and Graft Act in August 2012, and the Kim Yeong-ran Law was finally implemented last month. It was proposed as a result of the Benz Prosecutor Affair. It started when Lee, the former public prosecutor, fell in love with Choi, a lawyer and former public prosecutor in 2007. | |
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Nowadays, there are some people who have smelled a bad odor in downtown Cheong-ju. According to the Heungdeok-gu Office, the main reason of the stench is polluted air and water from the factories in the industrial complex near the apartments of G-well City. Since the factories in the industrial complex are manufacturing companies, a large amount of wastewater and raw materials used in the factories flows into the sewer pipes, so especially in dry seasons, a stench occurs in the sewer pipes | |
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Recently, numerous support programs for unemployed youths have appeared. These programs aim to raise the personal abilities of youths by helping them to search for their own paths that fit the needs of society and their own personal desires. However, there are some controversial issues over this project. | |
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Nowadays, the game industry, which is the main industry in Korea, has a crisis because of tight regulations from the government, lack of creativity, and the inducement of additional fees. Globally, the game industry is considered to have a lot of growth potential opportunity due to its endless development possibilities. Google also has entered the game industry with the game company Niantik. | |
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Last June, there was an incident in a hair salon in Chungju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do. The hair salon’s owner pushed the handicapped people to pay too much money for a long time. In one instance, the owner of the hair salon served dyeing without saying about prices to the disabled customers until she had finished the service. When it was time to charge, she disclosed to the customer that the final price was 520,000 won. The owner has arrested and finally sentenced. | |
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‘The 2016 Cheong-ju Martial Arts Mastership’ will be held in Cheong-ju from September 2nd to the 8th. The theme of this event is ‘The harmony of the world’s martial arts’. In this contest, which is hosted by Chungcheongbuk-do and Cheongju-si and supervised by the Cheong-ju Martial Arts Mastership Organization Committee, 2,300 athletes from 89 countries will be invited to participate in 17 events. | |
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Mr. Mo, an anonymous student of CBNU, lives alone, away from his parents, to attend university. He wakes up at 7 A.M. on weekdays for morning classes. He must get up with no one’s help, so he sets his alarm to repeat every 5 minutes. He usually eats his meals at the cafeteria. The reason why he prefers eating his meals at the cafeteria is because eating out is more expensive than eating at the school cafeteria. | |
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The Financial Supervisory Service announced ‘Different ratio of financial credit loans for each age group’. According to them, 31% of loans to people in their twenties were occurring at savings banks or loan companies. With information from last June, 16.2% consumers in their 20s and 30s borrowed from savings banks and 14.6% borrowed from companies. | |
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Lately, some dating applications have been attracting lots of people. This is a new style of dating based on social network services(SNS). These dating applications give people some good services from the most basic ways to the more complex ways. For instance, people who want to date someone can figure out whether he or she fits with them well or not by searching for some information such as marital status, personality and appearance. | |
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A university freshman, Lee, has been preparing for the overseas program since last year. However, he was shocked at the news that TOEIC is going through a major revision. The change felt so unfair to him because his seniors had the chance to study the unorthodox techniques for higher marks. ETS had promised that the test difficulty would remain the same. | |
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In our country, accidents caused by the obsession with being fast have been a continuously troubling problem. One of the biggest issues in 2011 was caused by the 30-minute delivery guarantee rule of Dominos. A teenage pizza delivery rider died on the spot after being hit by a bus. | |
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How much time do people spend on Social Network Services(SNS)? Recently, as smartphones have become more popular, many people come into contact with SNS more easily than in the past. Although many problems related to SNS addiction are occurring, there are people who get things they want by using SNS actively | |
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Arthur John Patterson, who has been strongly considered as a murder suspect for an Itaewon murder, was finally convicted 19 years after the murder happened in 1997. When Patterson was 18 years old, he was suspected of murdering a 22-year-old man, Cho Choong-pill, who was attending Hongik University. | |
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PEET(Pharmacy Education Eligibility Test) is a test that examines the fundamental eligibilities of students to be educated in the College of Pharmacy. This test first started in 2009 with a reorganization of the 4-year pharmacy school into a 6-year program. The existing 4-year pharmacy schools were abolished and students who completed 2 years in other colleges or universities have a qualification to take PEET. | |
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Recently, celebrities gambled and it affected society. Three Samsung Lions baseball players missed a recent game. It caused the club to lose the game, and fans of the club were disappointed. The prosecution and the police expanded the range of the investigation, which was gambling by baseball players. 12 businessmen also gambled overseas in a gambling house. They gambled about 50 billion won. | |
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Halloween originated from Samhain, a custom festival of ancient Celts. Celts regarded Halloween as the last day of a year, and they appeased dead souls and cast out demons by having a ceremony. People who were afraid of demons decorated themselves strangely like demons to confuse the demons. | |
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This year’s Nobel Prize season ended. Some Chinese and Japanese candidates were selected as Nobel Prize winners. Japan has had 21 Nobel Prize winners including this season. Nevertheless, Korea, which is sandwiched between Japan and China, hasn’t produced any Nobel Prize winners yet. | |
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Maruta. It means logs in Japanese. In general, many people know Maruta means subjects who were sacrificed in human trials by Unit 731, which developed biological weapons in the Second World War. The Japanese military officers named the living-body tests as Maruta tests because they saw the human bodies as logs. | |
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