This is the 10th year since North Korean leader Jong-un Kim came to power. As Chairman Jong-il Kim died of a myocardial infarction on December 17, 2011, his eldest son, Chairman Jong-un Kim assumed the supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army on December 30, 13 days later. He was born in 1984, so he was 27 years old at the time.
Yeajin HongThe weather was not good for boating. The sky was a flat grey, as if it was about to snow. We boarded the boat, smothering our worries under fluttering excitement. We had no plan on how to return, but that didn’t matter to us. That day, we had to go into town. We couldn’t stand it any longer.
Geechan ParkFollowing the success of Parasite and BTS, ‘Squid Game’ received explosive love from people around the world. It can no longer be explained in terms of ‘accident’ or ‘the consideration of the cultural imperialist country’. So people came to call them by bigger and better names such as K-Contents, K-Soft Power, and K-Culture. What is the reason for its success? Not only domestically, but also abroad, they are unable to explain the secret clearly.
Chang-bong Lee[Lee Chang-bong, Professor of English Language and Literature, Catholic University of Korea] The presidential race between Democratic Party candidate Jae-myung Lee and People’s Power candidate Seok-yeol Yoon is fierce. Just a week ago, most opinion polls showed that candidate Seok-yeol Yoon was ahead of candidate Jae-myung Lee outside the margin of error. The situation has suddenly turned around, and recent public opinion polls suggest that the approval rating between the two candidates is thin or that Lee is ahead. How could such a sudden reversal happen in just one week?
Kwang- yong Song[Kwang- yong Song, a teacher and essayist] Novelist Haruki Murakami had so many favorite T-shirts that he published a book of prose titled “Murakami T” with the absence of “My Love T-shirts.” The collection of T-shirts is grouped into three or four themes, including articles on how the T-shirts were obtained and what stories were intertwined with them. I couldn’t collect a huge collection of T-shirts like Haruki, but many T-shirts passed through my body. Some of them were so enthusiastic that they wore them until their necks were stretched out, and some of them were so bad that they tried to find the same thing.
필진이 고른 이번 주의 글과 편집자의 한마디. 언제든 구독을 해지할 수 있습니다.
화면은 군더더기를 덜어 더 간결하게, 사진보다 글이 먼저 눈에 들어오도록 꾸몄습니다. 깊은 붉은빛으로 품격을 더했습니다.
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