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Growing Luxury Goods Markets due to MZ Generation's "Flex" Culture
Nowadays, because of COVID-19, all industries around the world are suffering from eco-recession. In South Korea, however, luxury goods markets are still growing. According to Euromonitor International, while personal luxury goods markets worldwide decreased rapidly from 297 billion in 2018 to 246 billion in 2020, personal luxury goods markets in South Korea increased from 12.24 billion in 2018 to 12.5 billion in 2020. Luxury goods marke...
2021-12-22 윤서영
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The New Variant, Omicron, Receives Favorable Evaluations
The new COVID-19 variant called Omicron was discovered on November 9, 2021. This mutation was turned out to be five times more contagious than the original virus, and some say that the vaccine is also a useless thing for this virus. It is dangerous because the virus is highly contagious. However, some scientists and COVID-19 experts have been giving opinions that Omicron is a blessing of this pandemic. Omicron is a mutant of SARS-CoV-2. ...
2021-12-22 이영채
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Greenwashing: Is It Really Eco-Friendly?
When we do shopping, we can see the images of leaves, animals, and blue sky on products. The products are labelled "Certified", "100 % Organic", and many others. Are there enough supportive evidences to prove it? No. This is called as "Greenwashing". Some companies do greenwashing and mislead consumers. Greenwashing is a compound word of "green" and "white washing". It is an act of giving misleading information to consumers th...
2021-12-22 오경택
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Meat Alternative Food
Nowadays, the meat alternative foods are increasing, and we can easily see them because consuming meats causes global warming. The livestock we raise for meat releases lots of carbon dioxide which comprise about 14.5 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. So, alternative meat food production is one of the important tasks we have to solve now. In a recent study, animal-based food productions cause a higher level of greenhouse ga...
2021-11-29 윤서영
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Belugas Being Used for People's Fun
The whales are suffering from the small size of water tank and people's cheering noise. The endangered whale, beluga, is an example of this. Though belugas are endangered, they are suffering and being killed in aquariums. Therefore, we must be interested in belugas and try to protect them. Belugas are endangered wild sea animals selected by IUCN, (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources). There are 138000 ad...
2021-11-26 오경택
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Seven Korean Shows with Disney+
There are many people who watch lots of programs including dramas, documentaries and TV shows. So, Disney+ opened seven new Korean shows which will be launched in South Korea on November 12. There are five dramas titled "Moving", "Grid", "Snowdrop", "Rookies", and "Sixth Sense Kiss". There is also a documentary titled "Blackpink: The Movie" and a TV show titled "Running Man". The drama, "Moving" is a hero thriller based o...
2021-10-25 은채은
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Is Caffeine Intake Related to Suicide?
In this modern society, coffee has become a thing of daily necessity, especially for teens and test-takers. They consume considerable amount of caffeine through coffee, or high-caffeine energy drinks, to fight sleepiness. However, in the situation of teenagers ingesting caffeine to get rid of sleep and strengthen their concentration, we need to know what are actually the effects of caffeine. The negative side effects of the ingestion of ...
2021-10-25 김원휘
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The Adoption Programs for Afghan Refugees
Because of the 2021 Taliban offensive in Afghanistan, a lot of citizens who are living there have evacuated until now. Also, lots of countries have opened some places for them, and South Korea is one of those. The Korean government has how provided many programs and activities for the adjustment and independence of the refugees in the future. If the refugees come to a new country and try to adjust on their own, they will have a lot of di...
2021-10-25 이영채
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What Are the Causes of the Problem on microplastics?
Nowadays, the use of plastics has deeply increased because people cannot go outside due to COVID-19, and they use delivery a lot. Plastics are one of the common things around us. They are used in clothes, bags and many things. These plastics become smaller and smaller by corroding, and they are called "microplastics". However, most people do not know that they are intaking a lot of microplastics every day, and microplastics can cause probl...
2021-10-25 윤서영
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The Popularity of OTT Media Services
Squid Game, a Korean drama, is ranked as the first most popular program in 82 countries among 83 countries on Netflix. How could this Korean drama become such a popular drama? It is because of the most popular OTT media platform in the world, Netflix. OTT is an abbreviation of 'over the top', and it means a media service that provides movies, broadcast programs, and education through the internet. OTT media service provides very vario...
2021-10-13 오경택
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