Culture
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What? The Ticket Costs 180 Million Won?
Bruno Mars concert tickets, 180 million won for 8 seats.” This is the text of the world pop star Bruno Mars’ concert ticket price on a used trading site. People felt angered by the ticket price in that posting nicknamed the ‘scalped ticket,’ because the original concert ticket price is just a maximum of 250,000 won for 1 seat. Scalping refers to tickets resold for a profit. Scalping occurs in all fields. It has regularly...
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The Webtoon Industry Is Growing at High Speed - An Interview with Rongtopia
The original web-novel drama "Reborn Rich" recently ended after a successful run, and it is still being produced as a webtoon that continues to be popular. The drama "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" also absorbed drama fans as it appeared as a webtoon. In addition to these two famous shows, other original webtoons are scheduled to be dramatized. Examples include National Death Penalty Vote and After-school War Activities, which are set to air in 202...
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E-Sports Newly Introduced at the 2022 Asian Games
E-sports were first introduced to the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. They had already been adopted as a pilot event for the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games in 2018, attracting young people's attention. Of course, it was enough to attract attention even if winners did not receive medal benefits because it was a pilot event. Originally, the World Cup, the Olympics, and the Asian Games were three major international festivals, but compared to the ...
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Do Stars In Caricatures Have Portrait Rights?
The hot Tokyo Olympics are over. The Olympics are an event that creates many issues every time it is held, but especially this year, the response seems to have been particularly hot, perhaps due to the rise in TV ratings due to COVID-19. Regardless of whether they win medals or not, many athletes who have given intriguing athletic performances have quickly reached stardom and are enjoying popularity as great as celebrities even after the Olympic...
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China’s National Isolation Policy
Recently, rapidly growing Chinese game companies have dominated the global game market. Tencent, the big technology and game company in China, ranked eighth in market capitalization in the world in 2020. Tencent has been growing since 2010 by buying shares in Blizzard, Ubisoft and Epic Games and acquiring Riot Games, a famous game company in the U.S. NetEase, an Internet company that competes with Tencent, had more than double the sales of Nexon...
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Enjoy Art at Home; Online Cultural Life
The art industry is suffering from a slump that has delayed the release of movies or canceled scheduled exhibitions due to Covid-19. However, in line with this situation, various technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) have rapidly developed, allowing humans to experience and enjoy art in new ways. Pharos wants to understand online exhibitions and the use of OTT services during ‘onlin...
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Vaccination, the First Step to a New Start!
COVID-19 first broke out in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and then spread throughout China and around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on January 9, 2020 that the cause of the pneumonia was a new type of coronavirus. On February 11, 2020 corona was named by the International Committee on the Classification of Viruses. Vaccination of COVID-19 has started since early 2021, and keywords related to vaccines are receiving a lot of ...
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A New Profession Is Keeping Up With the Fourth Industrial Revolution Trend : Big Data Professional
In order to understand the current fourth industrial revolution, we first need to understand the past, how everything has proceeded to connect and evolve into a more intelligent society. The first industrial revolution in the 18th century was a steam engine-based mechanization revolution. Based on the steam engine, machines started being used for manufacturing and transportation. The second industrial revolution, which took place in the 19th and...
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The Rising Star: Electric Cars in The Automobile Industry
In the 21st century, environmental pollution became an important issue in the world, and a business atmosphere has been created that considers environmental aspects, not just economic aspects. In particular, the automobile market which is the main source of emissions has become competitive. The government has made a policy about encouraging people to purchase electric cars and the number of electric car charging stations has increased. Thus, the ...
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What Is Your MBTI?
These days when people meet each other, they often ask, “What is your MBTI?” When we are curious about a particular person or want to know his or her tendencies, we often ask about the MBTI. The MBTI is a self�reporting personality test tool based on psychological typology. It is used in many places that value people’s relationships because it does not take long to analyze and is accessible to everyone. ...