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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
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The italicized sentences in this article were not written by me, or any human being. They were generated by GPT-2, a powerful neural network that can adapt to the style of the text, and predict what you should write next. I wanted to take some of the power and flexibility of neural networks and appl
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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In the three months since COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic, many sources of entertainment have been out of reach. As people mostly remain at home, audiences have been unable to watch new movies in cinemas or attend the concerts of their favorite bands. Aside from that, people also cannot g
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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Two years ago during the winter break, utterly bored with life on the empty campus, I decided to do something productive. In search of something unrelated to my studies, I opened my phone and downloaded Duolingo. After a quick sign-up process, the app asked me to pick a language to learn. I spent so
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.05.26 21:58
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In the last week of December 2019, a couple of friends and I visited Québec City, Canada, to commemorate the end of the semester and, of course, the year. Our itinerary consisted of a visit to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) — which I, as someone who is more of a meme enthusiast
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Seowon Choi Junior Staff Reporter
2020.05.26 21:58
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This Is Not What I Was Expecting — the title of the book pretty much sums up the author’s reflections on his marriage. In his latest book, cartoonist Jessoo reveals how he went from being cat-phobic and determined to stay single, to a happily married husband and loyal butler to three cats. He narrat
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Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2020.05.26 21:58
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Since its first animated series began 20 years ago, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters has been a cherished part of many childhoods, including my own. This year, the seventh series began airing on April 4 with a new main character: Yuga Ohdo, a fifth-grader who is fed up with the rules made by adults, decides
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Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.05.26 21:58
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“Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high…” I hear this line in Judy Garland’s voice whenever I read it in my head — and I can’t be the only one. While the poetic lyrics and her dreamy singing still touch our hearts almost a hundred years later, Garland herself may have been the one person that was
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Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2020.04.30 21:49
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When I imagined the world of 2020 back in 2008, I pictured flying cars, virtual classrooms, portable libraries, and AI toasters. As I grew up, I realized that some of these fantasies were absurd. My brother told me that flying cars already existed, and they are called airplanes. When I complained th
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Hanbit Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2020.04.30 21:49
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Many modern storytellers use ancient mythology as a tool to give their work an interesting yet familiar flavor. It’s not uncommon for stories to put their own spin on ancient mythologies, most notably Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson novels based on the Greek legends of gods, heroes, and monsters. Earli
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Staff Reporter
2020.04.30 21:41
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Amidst the global pandemic and the many unprecedented complications it brings , I, a responsible member of society who is doing my part by “social distancing”, am peacefully slurping away on the last bits of my instant noodles, and scrolling through “new releases” on Netflix. As I struggle to pick o
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Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2020.04.02 21:36
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Although Women’s History Month has just ended, the rest of 2020 still holds much in the way of female-led superhero movies. In February, Birds of Prey featured an entire team of female characters, led by popular antihero Harley Quinn. Later this year, Black Widow will finally tell the titular Avenge
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Staff Reporter
2020.04.02 21:36
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Before winter begins, bats fly into caves and other dark and secluded places to hibernate. This makes winter the best time for scientists studying bats to see how their population has changed over the year. Counting bats is not a simple task — scientists need to enter, or more often than not, crawl
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.04.02 21:36
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Disclaimer: this review has spoilers for Itaewon ClassThe hit 2020 Korean drama series Itaewon Class has recently broadcast its last episode. With over 16% national viewership, Itaewon Class is the sixth highest-rated cable drama series ever in Korea. The show is based on a Daum webtoon of the same
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Jehyuk Cho Junior Staff Reporter
2020.04.02 21:36
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Of course, I didn’t expect my life at KAIST to be as exciting and romantic as the Korean university life often portrayed in mass media — cherry blossom-colored campuses of rainbows and unicorns, exciting MTs and OTs, exhilarating freshman life, and so on. But even then, life at KAIST also isn’t so m
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Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2019.12.20 22:56
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Ciudad Juárez is a Mexican city with a population roughly equal to that of Daejeon. Located in the north of Mexico, the city is just a 40-minute drive away from El Paso, Texas. This makes Juárez the major border crossing point into the United States. Whoever controls Juárez, controls drug traffickin
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Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2019.12.20 22:56
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"I hope you understand that there are some things in life that can be neither undone, nor escaped, nor forgotten. You will have to go on with life knowing that you did it to yourself; you will close your eyes and find regrets tattooed on the inside of your eyelids…” — the decision was made long ago,
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Assem Dikhayeva Junior Staff Reporter
2019.12.20 22:56