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Today's Headline News
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1. The Korean government will offer 100-thousand dollars in aid to Greece following last month's devastating forest fires.
정부는 최근 대형 산불피해를 입은 그리스에 구호금 10만 달러를 지원하기로 했습니다.
*대형 산불: devastating forest fires
*지원목적으로 10만불 지원하다: offer 100-thousand dollars in aid to
2. Gasoline prices are soaring again across the country with international crude oil prices set to renew high records.
국제 유가가 사상 최고치 행진을 이어가면서 국내 경제 성장에 부담을 줄 것이라는 분석이 이어지고 있습니다.
Q1) When do you feel that gasoline prices are soaring, these days?
Q2) Should our government reduce the portion of tax in gas? Why or why not?
3. The U.S. will only allow Koreans with e-passports to enter the country even if Korea joins the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) next year.
-미국은 한국이 비자면제 프로그램에 가입하더라도 전자여권을 소지한 사람에 한해 무비자 입국을 허용한다고 전했습니다.
*Visa Waiver Program: is a program of the U.S.A which allows citizens of specific countries to travel to the US for tourism or business for up to 90 days without having to obtain a visa
4. Former prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has been deported from Pakistan after attempting to enter the country.
-나와즈 샤리프 파키스탄 전 총리가 7년간의 망명 생활을 접고 귀국길에 올랐다가 네 시간여 만에 다시 추방당했습니다.
*deport: 국외로 추방하다
5. According to the revision bill of the Law on Gender-Equality in Employment, male employees will be granted a three-day paternity leave starting next July.
-내년 7월부터 남성근로자에게 배우자가 아이를 낳으면 출산휴가 3일을 주도록 의무화됩니다.
*grant: 수여/ 하사하다(=give)
*paternity leave: 아버지의 출산·육아 휴가
6. After months of excavation, a 1,300-year-old giant stone statue of Buddha revealed its perfectly preserved face yesterday in a mountainous area of Gyeongju.
-경주 남산 열암곡에서 국보급 마애 여래입상이 흙 속에서 1300여년 만에 완벽한 형태로 전체 모습이 공개되었습니다.
*excavation: 굴착; 발굴 *mountainous area: 산지 지역
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Morning Date with 황동혁 감독-"My Father"
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"My Father" is based- on a true story of Aaron Bates.
He was six years old in 1979, when he was adopted and moved to America. To find his real father, he became a soldier and came to Korea, but after the tough procedures, he found out his father was a criminal sentenced to death. This story was broadcasted in November, 2003, through KBS ‘Iryo Special'.
Making such a powerfully emotion-driven drama, it was bit hard for him to understand the obvious danger of too much melodramatic portrayal about a story that is already dramatic enough)
Also, Parker's present, like many other Korean adoptees around the world, is also saddled with a dilemma. He's working as a U.S. soldier in Korea, and he barely understands Korean, but his homeland is Korea.
When a clash of culture occurs between Korean and American soldiers, Parker finds himself stuck in between. He's neither a Korean nor an American, strictly speaking. Even though he has reunited with his birth father, his confusing identity has not changed a bit.
What is remarkable is that Daniel Henney pulls off an impressive act befitting the confused yet good-hearted Korean adoptee. Henney's performance-body gestures and facial expressions-seem natural for the most part.
Q3) Did you see this movie “My Father”?
Q4) Are Korean adoptees Korean or a person who belongs to the nation that he/she lives, now?
Q5) Are there any good ways to reduce those problems?
Q6) Who do you like among famous figures in the world? Why?
Q7) What movies have you watched recently? Tell us about the story !!