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뉴스룸 앵커브리핑을 시작하겠습니다. This is today’s Anchor Briefing. "짜장면" 혹은 "자장면" 발음과 표기가 전 국민적 관심사가 되었을 만큼 대표적 서민 음식으로 자리 잡은 짜장면. 지난 주말. 무려 19년 만에 다시 그 짜장면을 먹어봤다는 한 사람의 이야기가 전해졌습니다. “Jjajangmyeon” o..

Korea JoongAng DailyThursday, August 18, 2016 Thae Yong-ho, a North Korean diplomat who vanished from his post in London in mid-July, is in South Korea with his wife and children, the South Korean government announced Wednesday. Thae is the most senior diplomatic defector ever. [JoongAng Ilbo] 7월 중순 런던의 주영 북한 대사관에서 사라졌던 북한 고위 외..

Aug 20,2016 On Sunday, August 14, I arrived at Gimpo Airport. It was after 5 p.m. Among the tourists clad in sunglasses and shorts, I could see a woman in her 50s, wearing a red union t-shirt. Ms. Y is part of the cleaning staff at the airport. I followed her out of the airport building. The waiting room for the cleaning workers was in the “Passenger Terminal Renovation Cons..

A group of 10 lawmakers and their retinues wave Korean flags upon their arrival on the Dokdo islets Monday as they celebrate the 71st anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule. The visit to Dokdo on Liberation Day is a symbolic message reaffirming Korea’s sovereignty over the islets, which Japan claims, too. [JOINT PRESS CORPS] 국회의원 10명과 수행원들..

BRAINSTORMING주제어: Expressway Rest Stops 고속도로 휴게소 road trip 도로 여행 / feature 선보이다 sheer variety 순수한 다양성 / be in for a treat 정말 마음에 들 것이다 summarize something in one word ~을 한마디로 요약하다 mind-blowing 정말로 신이 나는, 놀라운 make one's mouth water 군침이 돌게 하다 한국의 고소도..

Aug 23,2016Yesterday was the day of Cheoseo, one of the 24 seasonal divisions of the lunar calendar, when the intense summer heat wave begins to recede./ 어제가 여름 무더위가 한풀 꺾기기 시작한다는 연중 24절기 중의 하나인 처서였다But the seasonal clock seems to have stopped now./ 하지만 지금은 계절시계가 멈춘 것 같다Seoul’s tem..

'변화를 위한 뉴스?'…다시 저널리즘 생각하기뉴스룸 앵커브리핑을 시작합니다. This is today’s anchor briefing. '두테르테. 마약과의 전쟁 이기다' 며칠 전 필리핀에서 창간된 신문의 1면 머릿기사입니다. 신문에선 무자비한 공포정치와 막말로 악명 높은 대통령에 대한 비판은 찾아볼 수 없었..

Park In-bee of South Korea reacts after winning the gold medal on the 18th hole during the final round of the women’s golf event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday. Park became the only golfer in the history of the sport to have titles from four major championships and the Olympics. [NEWSIS]한국 여자골프 박인비가 토요일 브라질 리..

As readers in the autumns or winters of their lives will recall, Koreans put off democracy in order to pursue security and economic growth during the Cold War era. Amid rivalry and security threats posed by North Korea, Koreans as a group, as a people, experienced a kind of compromised liberty and partial human rights before democratization took place. Due to these memories an..