Empowering women in decision-making enables stronger, safer society: EU envoy

Q. What challenges have you faced as a female ambassador, and how have you overcome them? Do you believe female representation in diplomacy and politics has improved globally? As a mom of three children and as a career woman, it was not easy to balance family life and work. However, the European Union provided good infrastructure so I could choose to continue my career. Without support systems, such as kindergarten, afterschool classes, it would have been very challenging for me to continue choo

March 6, 2025

Women’s empowerment a win for both individuals, the nation: Canadian envoy

Q. What challenges have you faced as a female ambassador, and how have you overcome them? Do you believe female representation in diplomacy and politics has improved globally? The major challenges I have faced have, like many other senior managers and executives, come trying to balance obligations at home and in the professional context. This is where societal changes, for all of us, are most needed in terms of sharing our caregiving responsibilities and roles. This relates to raising children b

March 6, 2025

Gender equality created through education, mentoring, system reforms: Philippines envoy

Q. What challenges have you faced as a female Ambassador, and how have you overcome them? Do you believe female representation in diplomacy and politics has improved globally? As a woman and as a public servant, one of my regular activities is to read the findings of the annual WEF Global Gender Gap Index, the longest-running tracking index for closing the gender gap globally across critical areas of women's engagement and is very informative for the work that I do as a diplomat. Some of the sta

March 6, 2025

[해커스 TOEIC] 토익 점수 Up 단어, Part 5 문제

2) 파트 5 3문제 1. Jeremy will not be able to watch the final game with us because he has an important term paper -------. (A) is revising (B) revised (C) to revise (D) will revise 해석 Jeremy는 수정할 중요한 학기 말 리포트가 있기 때문에 우리와 같이 결승전을 볼 수 없을 것이다. 해설 to 부정사 채우기 문제 because로 시작하는 접속사절은 주어(he)와 동사(has), 목적어(an important term paper)를 모두 갖춘 완전한 문장이므로 빈칸은 수식어 거품으로 보아야 한다. 빈칸 앞에 명사(an important term paper)가 왔으므로 수식어 거품이 되는 동시에 형용사처럼 명사를 꾸며줄 수 있는 to 부정사 (C) to revise가 정답이다. 어휘 final game 결승전 term paper 학기 말 리포트 re

March 6, 2025

[Jeffrey Frankel] Trump’s imaginary victories

The torrent of far-out policy moves that Donald Trump has announced during the first month of his second presidency has left pundits struggling to find method to the madness. Some say it is all a negotiating tactic: Trump starts by staking out an extreme position, so that he later has space to exchange “concessions” with the other party without giving up anything valuable. They point to Trump’s 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal,” which encourages readers to “do things that are bold or controversia

March 6, 2025

[Editorial] Build strength

Pause of military aid to Ukraine, comment on Taiwan hint at Trump's 'deal-making' US President Donald Trump reportedly ordered a pause to all US military aid to Ukraine. The move comes just days after an argument at the Oval Office meeting in which Trump and US Vice President JD Vance upbraided Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being insufficiently grateful for Washington's backing. Pausing aid is a step to pressure Zelenskyy into accepting Trump's plan to end the Ukraine war through pea

March 6, 2025

[Wang Son-taek] Moments that made a diplomatic fiasco

The heated exchange in the White House on Feb. 28 between US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shocked the world. The meeting was supposed to be a routine diplomatic event where national leaders exchanged opinions using calculated expressions and sophisticated language. However, what transpired shattered every fundamental element of diplomatic communication. Given the significance of this failure, a thorough review should be meaningful. W

March 6, 2025

[영어답게 표현하기] 유용한 비즈니스 영어 표현들

이번 회에는 저희 책 Advanced Vocab에서 소개한 중상급 영단어들을 알려드립니다. 단어의 우리말 뜻을 기억하는 데에 그치지 않고, 난이도 있는 단어를 실제로 활용하는 단계까지 나아가 보기 바랍니다. <비난, 조롱, 불평> 1. smear [smíər] 더럽히다 원래 ‘기름이나 끈적한 것을 문지르다’라는 의미에서 유래하여 ‘얼룩이 지게 하다’라는 뜻이 되었고, 나아가 ‘비방하다’, ‘중상모략’이라는 의미로 발전했다. The incumbent mayor was the victim of a smear campaign by his fellow opponents, who claimed that he took bribes during his first term in office. 현 시장은 그가 첫 임기 중에 뇌물을 받았다고 주장하는 경쟁자들의 중상모략 선전의 희생자였다. ● 그 보도는 저널리즘으로 가장한 중상모략 전술의 일부였다. The report was part of a smea

March 5, 2025

[Editorial] Division exacerbates crisis

Rival parties stuck with wasteful wrangling amid ongoing political turmoil, economic woes The March extraordinary session of the National Assembly is set to begin Wednesday, but concerns are mounting over whether the ruling and opposition parties can handle urgent bills including a supplementary budget due to the intensifying partisan strife that has regrettably aligned with street protests over impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. Since Yoon's Dec. 3 botched martial law declaration, South Korea h

March 5, 2025

[Robert D. Atkinson] Korea’s digital gamble: Will new tech rules hurt innovation and help China?

South Korea is on the verge of making a costly mistake by copying Europe’s misguided digital competition regulations. The Korean government’s proposed competition rules for major internet platforms misunderstand how digital markets function and would actually hurt Korean consumers’ online experience. Even worse, by unfairly penalizing large American technology companies, these policies risk provoking President Trump, who is already looking for excuses to slap tariffs on adversaries and allies al

March 5, 2025