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Woosung Song Professor Adam Fagin Writing 111 4 February 2024 Literacy Narrative ‘Radio’ is Ra-di-o, and the word ‘card’ is Ka-d when we pronounce it in Korean. Cake, concept, ringer, complex, lemonade, pamphlet, barbecue, and bus: these are just a few examples of English words that Koreans use colloquially. According to the Standard Korean Language Dictionary, 23000 words out of 440,000, which is more than 5%, are from foreign languages, mainly English. The strong inclinati

When our summer enemies finally disappear and the short fall season passes, soldiers begin preparing for a new threat— snow clearing . Compared to mowing grass in the summer, snow almost feels like a kinder opponent. At least, that’s what I used to think. In summer, grass and resilient plants grow everywhere, all the time. No matter how much you mow, they grow back the next day, demanding nonstop work. Even worse, some of the areas we have to mow are rough and uneven, which i

I am currently stationed in the DMZ. This is a place where human hands have barely touched the land since the war ended. Because of that, the DMZ is filled with traces of the past—rusted structures, old barbed wire, and remnants that never disappeared. Among all of them, the most dangerous remains are landmines. It might sound unbelievable that landmines still exist more than seventy years after the war, but there is constant proof of their presence. That proof comes from the

What do you think is the very first thing they make you do on your first day in the military—even before they teach you how to salute? For me, it was getting my body measured from head to toe. Literally everything. In South Korea, where all four seasons are clearly defined, the military has to prepare millions of uniforms suited for every kind of weather. That first day made one thing clear to me: in the military, weather decides fashion. To understand why the South Korean mi

From piles of food waste in the South Korean military, entire ecological chains quietly form, with JJAM sitting at the center of the system.The first episode of this series introduced JJAM —the slang word for food waste—and looked at the negative effects of its massive volume, along with a simple solution. The second episode focused on an animal that had grown strangely dependent on JJAM: the cat, famously nicknamed the “JJAM-TIGER” in the military. Today’s episode is about a