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When you reminisce about your past, what pops up in your mind? For many teenagers and young adults like myself, it is Maplestory. It is an MMORPG, short for “Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game,” in which users develop their characters’ abilities and defeat monsters. When I was young, the
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Jeonghun Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2021.03.28 16:33
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As Korea’s first venture into space blockbusters, the film Space Sweepers could only ever have been met with high expectations. Fresh off Parasite’s multiple wins at the Academy Awards a year before as well as riding the Hallyu wave that continues to sweep across the globe, all eyes were on the lucr
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Head of Culture Division
2021.03.28 16:33
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By the end of this year, Adobe will stop maintaining Flash Player. Flash has dominated the tech market in the 2000s, providing the environment to launch games and view multimedia files. However, failing to catch up with the changes in the industry, by the 2010s, Adobe's product started becoming the
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.12.14 13:56
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” This is the iconic opening line of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, as translated from the original German by Edwin and Willa Muir in 1933.Here’s a different version of the same lin
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Head of Culture Division
2020.12.14 13:56
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Spoiler alert: this review contains details about the plot of The Queen’s Gambit. The Queen’s Gambit, a Netflix adaptation of the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, follows the life of Beth Harmon, a young chess prodigy. Since its release, the seven-episode miniseries has taken Netflix by storm. The show h
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2020.12.14 13:56
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The protagonist is you. You, dear Reader. The one holding a book titled If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller. The book isn’t actually If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller, by the way, but that’s a spoiler. You’re about to meet the love of your life, you will endure some awkward moments trying to impress
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Tung Nghiem Xuan Junior Staff Reporter
2020.12.14 13:56
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When GoldLink, a prominent hip-hop artist, came to record a live performance of his song at the COLORS studio in Berlin in 2016, he thought he had come to the wrong place. Later, he told TIME that the place was “so danky and small… It was in this weird, sketchy building — you didn’t know if you were
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.11.20 22:36
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Football is undoubtedly the most popular sport in the world. No other sport comes close to it in the number of professional and recreational players, fans, and general market capitalization. It is also one of the most lucrative sports, bringing in substantial profits from TV broadcasting rights, mer
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2020.11.20 22:36
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In 2005, Rick Riordan published a novel about a twelve-year-old boy with dyslexia and ADHD who discovers that he is the son of the ancient Greek god Poseidon. What began as a bedtime story inspired by his own son, who himself had dyslexia and ADHD, ended up becoming a whole saga of stories that brou
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Head of Culture Division
2020.11.20 22:36
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I have always had a hard time introducing people to Gorillaz’s work. As a rule, the interest in my friend’s eyes rapidly fades into a fathomless blankness as I go on with the list of loosely-related genres and influences, and eventually, I am forced to withdraw in defeat. However, it is hardly ever
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Assem Dikhayeva Staff Reporter
2020.11.19 16:10
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You’ve probably wondered at some point in your life what it would be like if your favorite cartoon character suddenly appeared in front of you. How would you feel if a 2D drawing made of lines and speech bubbles materialized into a real, live person? Of course, we all know this is impossible. But pe
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Hae-Rim Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:18
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In November 2016, the day after the United States presidential election, workers at the Department of Energy were in a hurry. They waited for the new president’s men in the corridors of a faded department building in Washington. This was protocol: whoever comes to take charge of the department after
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:18
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Sir David Attenborough is undeniably an icon. With a career spanning almost 70 years, he has traveled all over the world to show its natural wonders to the rest of humanity. But while previous generations may have seen his work to marvel at nature’s beauty, his most recent film tells a horrifying ta
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Head of Culture Division
2020.10.18 02:18
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We live in an era of memes. It is virtually impossible to use the internet and not be familiar with them. They are enjoyed by people from all walks of life, and can be created by anyone — from beginner “memers” to seasoned internet veterans. It’s hard to imagine the internet without memes. Memes hav
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:18
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Disclaimer: the following review contains spoilers for I'm Thinking of Ending Things.I’m thinking of analyzing things. Just a few things - in particular - those related to Charlie Kaufman’s long-awaited Netflix film called I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Bizarre and confounding, it is a film that res
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Ipsita Singh Junior Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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You may not be that old yet, but you may feel old upon hearing about TikTok. Just like many other people around you, you may have only a superficial knowledge of this app — it’s just people recording short videos, often with little sense in the content. It seems like it is enough to dance or lip syn
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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I was never a huge fan of Korean dramas. Since I was younger, I have always been surrounded by people who watched K-dramas religiously, but I never caught on to the habit myself. Based on what I’d seen, K-dramas were mostly about cliché romances that, while too good to be true, would always work out
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Head of Culture Division
2020.09.25 19:46
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The death of Chadwick Boseman sent shock waves across the globe when it was announced on the morning of August 28. The actor passed at the age of 43 after battling colon cancer for four years. Thousands of posts and messages flooded the internet as people grieved and said farewell — a testament to h
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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Earlier this month, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson published a short e-book titled Unreported Truths About COVID-19 and Lockdowns, intended to be the first part of an extensive effort to build on and further the narrative of coronavirus pandemic skeptics. The book was delisted by Amazo
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Zunnoor Awan Junior Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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The first season of Hospital Playlist, which ranked number one on Netflix Korea for multiple weeks in a row, aired its final episode at the end of last month with huge success. As the most recent television series by Director Wonho Shin, who also directed the hit series Reply and Prison Playbook, Ho
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Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2020.06.23 01:47