Noonsong, after waking and getting ready to leave her home, asks "How's the weather today? What should I wear?" A few seconds later, the answer is heard. "It's sunny now, and the temperature is 23 degrees." Noonsong who gets the information dresses accordingly. After leaving the house, Noonsong hops

''Hello, you're here to buy this, aren't you?'' ''Yes, that's right. Here's what we agreed on.'' ''Thank you. Hope you get lots of use out of it!'' Many people will recall their own similar experiences reading that dialogue. Nowadays it's hard to find people who have never experienced buying or sell

The market is empty. There are no groceries or necessities on the shelves. All the supermarkets are in the same boat. Shops have run out of food and daily necessaries like tissue. Lots of people in many countries are hoarding groceries and daily necessities due to the lockdowns to curve the spread o

Imagine you are being on vacation and struggling with boredom. After cleaning up and searching for books that you are not likely to read, you still feel bored. Hoping to fix that, you turn on the TV looking for something fun to watch. Surfing the channels, you come across an audition program and put

“If you like dramas, watch Netflix. If you like movies, watch Watcha Play.” People can hear this comment whenever they are thinking about which OTT service to use. Anyone who has ever watched Netflix will have streamed the drama or all night long and hoped for the

“Customer is king”. These words were often heard in the service industry until recently. Workers used to receive training on how to meet consumer demands regardless of their manners. Employees were told to keep smiling to consumers. In addition to workers, consumers used to believe that they deserve

Let’s suppose you attend the first orientation of a new club. Strangers are sitting next you, and the only thing you know about them is that they are joining the same club. In time, you have time to introduce yourself to each other and provide details such as name, age, major, and so on. However, th

Meaningless World Made by the Moo-Mean GenerationLet’s think about vacations. Most of our memories will be of traveling or enjoying a hobby with friends not staying at home. However, more and more people today are finding their own meaning in the meaningless things at home. Some people enjoy looking

In 2017, lots of people took an interest in the culture of cost-effectiveness, and the trend spread rapidly through SNS such as Facebook and Instagram. As a result, people were easily exposed to feeds about cost-effective restaurants and gifts. It was so popular that cost-effectiveness became the to

Do you enjoy watching television dramas? Maybe not all, but many of you have probably watched at least one television drama. However, the age of television drama watching is slowly fading. Korean nature, especially society’s lack of patience, is bringing about an end to family TV dates. Instead, web

“The first gift of the new year is this Aladin mug. We promise to deliver better service and goods in the new year.” This was the Tweet from Aladin Book, welcoming the new year with a promise to its customers. Aladin Book is a well-known online bookstore. Its Tweet about goods was not referring to a

So many words describe the 21st Century, from information and technology centric to digital age to era of innovation convergence to era of invention, but at the center of all of these terms, there exists one constant. It is ‘idea’. Everyone in the 21st century dreams of creating, seeks to find, or c

The cultivating and managing of a bamboo forest has become trendy. On average, about 10,000 visitor visit universities’ bamboo forests, and the number of visitors to more famous bamboo forests around the name is about 200,000. The types of visitors range from enrolled students to ordinary people. Ha

Clangor and Clangor. Let’s begin. If you are nervous, don’t be. Just concentrate hard and enjoy your time. Take a seat with three other members. Across from you will be an opposing team of four. Greet your opposing team with a smile. The purpose of the game is not to win, but to understand and refle

After visiting several relative weddings recently, Son Hyewon, Division of Child Welfare & Studies '15, feels irked at the thought and sight of a wedding hall. She sees the need for a more challenging and slow-paced wedding ceremony. At the same time, she considers the wedding of the century in

On a hot summer day in a quiet countryside, there is a lone person wearing a straw hat pulling out weeds from a rice paddy with his sleeves folded up. Most likely 50’s or 60’s since farming is a dying profession among youngsters. How old would he be? Surprisingly, when he stands and turns his face,

The TV program Roommate is one of the most popular shows nowadays. On the program, twelve celebrities from various backgrounds live together in one house as roommates. In an era of increasing single-person households, this new lifestyle called ‘shared-housing’ is becoming popular among university st

In the virtual world, to grow a tree, you must first plant it in the desert ground. Your tree will grow with care and take root in the barren soil if you give it water and fertilizer. In reality, water pumps are delivered to African children who suffer from water shortages. This is how the virtual w