creep - radio head
W 영어생각/IT's REAL!!!2009. 1. 6. 22:52
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When you were here before, Couldn't look you in the eye,
You're just like an angel, Your skin makes me cry,
You float like a feather, In a beautiful world.
And I wish I was special, You're so fucking special,
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
I don't care if it hurts, I want to have control,
I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul,
I want you to notice, When I'm not around,
You're so fucking special, I wish I was special.
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
She's running out again,
She's running out...
She's run run run runing out...
Whatever makes you happy, Whatever you want,
You're so fucking special,
I wish I was special...
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
I don't belong here.
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creep n.시시한 녀석
weirdo n.별난놈
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December 31, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
The JoongAng Daily’s sports section hops on the bandwagon with the top 10 sports stories of the year 2008, plus its choices for athlete, coach and team of the year. 1.Korea enjoys its best Olympics ever, winning 13 gold medals and finishing seventh In Olympic years, picking sports news items becomes much easier. And with Korea exceeding expectations to win 13 gold medals in Beijing, this was a particularly easy choice. Male judoka Choi Min-ho won the nation’s first gold on the first day of competition, and the rest was history. Female archers picked up their seventh straight Olympic gold in the team competition. Korea sent four athletes to compete in taekwondo, the maximum number for each nation, and they brought home four gold medals. Pistol shooter Jin Jong-oh fought off demons from the 2004 Athens Olympics and won the elusive gold. But the truly historic medal was... 2.Park Tae-hwan wins Korea’s first swimming gold medal and adds a silver The 19-year-old swimmer made history by winning the men’s 400-meter freestyle race, becoming the first Korean to win an Olympic swimming medal of any color. He also grabbed silver in the 200-meter freestyle, behind none other than Michael Phelps, who ended up with a record eight gold medals in Beijing. The gold medal transformed Park from a swimming star into a national icon. A tantalizing prospect: Park will only be 23 by the 2012 London Olympics and could go up against Phelps once again. 3.Korean baseball team wins the Olympic gold medal This was a memorable year for Korean baseball, but not always for the right reasons thanks to some off-field controversies. But the definitive highlight of the year for the sport was the improbable gold medal performance by the national team. Korea won all nine games it played, and in the dramatic final against powerhouse Cuba, Korea clinched the gold on a game-ending double play after Cuba had loaded the bases. 4.Figure Skater Kim Yu-na enjoys another banner year: World Championship bronze, two Grand Prix titles and silver at Grand Prix Final Among individual Korean athletes, only Kim can match or surpass Park in popularity polls. Kim has more than backed up her celebrity with her on-ice performance this year. She opened the year with her second straight world championship bronze in March and cruised to two Grand Prix titles in fall to advance to the Grand Prix Final in December in Korea. Kim settled for second, but she’s still first in the hearts of her many devoted fans.
Shin won everywhere she played in 2008 - Korea, Japan, Britain and the United States. She is the first non-LPGA Tour member to win three LPGA events in a season, is the youngest champion of the British Women’s Open, and her LPGA earnings would have ranked her in third place. That’s on top of the seven victories she claimed on the Korea LPGA Tour. Shin plans to play the U.S. tour full time in 2009. Think the KLPGA golfers are rejoicing? 6.SK Wyverns repeat as KBO champions For the second straight season, the Wyverns finished first in the regular season and defeated the Doosan Bears in the Korean Series. Under Manager Kim Sung-keun, who is also known as “Baseball God,” the Wyverns have been the most efficient ball club in the league. The key cog in this baseball machine is Kim Kwang-hyun, the 20-year-old lefty who won the MVP after leading the league in wins and strikeouts. 7.Suwon Bluewings win the K-League championship and League Cup, becoming only the fourth team to pull off the double.
8.Jang Mi-ran sets world records to win the Olympic weightlifting gold Without Jang’s main rival Mu Shuangshuang of China - each nation could only send a limited number of lifters - the question was by how much Jang would win gold in the women’s +75-kilogram division. And Jang dusted her competition, lifting 140 kilograms in snatch and 186 kilograms in clean and jerk for 326 total, all world records. The silver medal winner, Olha Korobka of Ukraine, had only 277 kilograms in total. 9.Kim Joo-sung helps the Dongbu Promy to the Korean Basketball League title and wins MVP honors in the regular season, all-star game and postseason Kim guided the Promy to their third KBL championship this decade and he’s been an integral part in each one. The Promy beat the Samsung Thunders in five games in the final; Kim poured in 25.6 points per game, more than 11 points higher than his season average. Kim was the unanimous choice for playoff MVP. 10.Moon Dae-sung becomes the first Asian voted to the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission
Athlete of the Year: Park Tae-hwan, swimming With all due respect to other fine athletes, no other single athlete had an accomplishment as significant as Park this year. Before he won the 400-meter freestyle gold medal, no Korean swimmer had even won a medal at the Olympics. He also won silver in the 200-meter free, and was so at ease with himself afterward that he joked he was disappointed not to hear the national anthem after getting silver. And the best part about his career is this: at 19, Park likely hasn’t hit his prime yet and will continue to improve.
Coach of the Year: Cha Bum-kun, football Cha’s Suwon Bluewings could have fielded a second team with injured players. When he ran out of regulars, Cha summoned bench warmers like Bae Ki-jong, Hong Soon-hak and Choi Sung-hwan and rode these unsung heroes to the League Cup and the K-League championship. A legend in his playing days, Cha didn’t previously warm up to players who couldn’t live up to his lofty expectations. But he mellowed this year and became more of a players’ coach. And he couldn’t have asked for better results. Honorable mentions: Kim Kyung-moon, Korean baseball team; Kim Sung-keun, SK Wyverns Team of the Year: National baseball team, Olympic gold medal winners As sports feats go, Korea’s winning the Beijing Olympics baseball gold medal was considered about as likely as Lindsay Lohan winning an Oscar. Korea defied all odds: it defeated regional rival Japan twice (the latter win in the semifinal), and overcame Cuba 3-2 in the thrilling gold medal match. It was certainly vindication for Korea, which didn’t even make it out of the Asian qualification for the 2004 Athens Olympics. |
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Tired of ultra-modern designs, these companies have utilized more unique, design-savvy looks to help their products survive in one of the fastest-developing and most competitive industries around. In the past, form followed function when it came to IT products, with the most important aspect of a product being the technical specs. PCs have grown notorious for this function-focused perspective, as size and weight had to be given priority with monitors and keyboards. Because of these limitations, consumers were left with little choice other than gray or gray. But recently, designers of major computer manufacturers have started to break that paradigm.
Its oval-shaped laptop case has the look of a luxury handbag, with an alligator leather exterior, inset Swarovski crystals and a sleek metal handle. The firm sets itself apart from others in the tech set by emphasizing luxury, tradition and texture. According to the company, you can even order a laptop specifically tailored to your taste. If you favor diamonds, more diamonds you will get. Although the laptop’s specifications are equal to those of any other highly efficient machine, the price tag can be up to 10 times bigger, approximately $10,000 to $20,000. Online orders are taken, but you can only see the real thing at department stores in New York, Paris and Dubai. Common brands such as HP are also moving toward bolder designs. In August, HP gave designer Vivienne Tam the job of giving their new laptop an artistic touch, to coincide with New York Fashion Week. Tam put pink peony blossom patterns on a red background, interlacing the product with her fashion sensibility. This laptop will go on sale worldwide next year. Desktop markers are also following the trend. LG recently introduced the Black Picasso 2 as the successor to last years’ release. On the PC’s outer casing, there is an embossed waterwork that looks as if sculpted by an artist. Dell started selling the Studio Hybrid mini desktop PC series in August. The eco-friendly computers come in a variety of colors, but perhaps their most unique feature is that their outer surface is made of bamboo, to complete the green image. Miniature IT products have long appealed to more fashionable sensibilities. Unlike laptops, which took a while to become fashionable, miniature IT product have focused on design above price or technology from the beginning. The most obvious example is the iPod, which has grown to become a cultural icon and a strong lesson in how design translates into sales. The latest product out in Korea that stimulates the analog senses is iRiver’s Mplayer, with its popular Mickey Mouse shape. The new Mplayer Eyes version includes LED lights that act as Mickey’s eyes. The company’s other MP3 player, the Spin, has added a peculiar sense of touch, with a clacking sound when you turn the wheel, in a bid to stimulate all of a user’s senses. The People, iRiver’s PMP, attempts to recreate the dial functionally and design of 1970s and ’80s analog radios. “Our main focus was recapturing the analog sense of past electronic products through tactile and auditory additions,” said Kim Kyung Ryul, marketing director of iRiver’s manufacturing company ReignCom. In June, Samsung Electronics released a new MP3 player, Yepp S2, that resembles a sleek pebble. Far removed from the familiar square designs of the past, the Yepp has a comfortable, minimalist feel. And local firm Cowon will be releasing the chic S9, with a contoured hand grip. “The design of mobile products has arrived at the point where it can compete with fashion,” said Cowon public relations representative Park Min-hee. |
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Kolata came to Korea to participate in the World Women’s Forum recently. She’s a science reporter for The New York Times and the author of “Ultimate Fitness: the Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health,” which argued that regular exercise might not be all that it’s cracked up to be. Her new book, Rethinking Thin, argues against strict dieting. Kolata recorded the clinical trials held by three American universities’ research centers for obesity. Three hundred and sixty people weighting over 100 kilograms (220.5 pounds) each were placed in two groups. One went on a low-carb, high-protein diet and the other took up a traditional low-calorie, low-fat diet. After six months, all the participants had become slimmer but as time passed, they got fatter and after two years, they were back where they started. Neither diet had led to better health. Kolata notes that one’s genes are a major influence on weight and health, describing studies of adopted kids whose weight runs parallel with that of their biological, not their adoptive, parents. The author is thin and always has been. She did not interpret the scientific evidence to rationalize her weight. She said she lost the 5 kilograms that she gained after she gave birth. Her husband is also skinny, and likewise their two kids. “If I were fat, people would criticize me for writing such a book, thinking I wrote to justify my size,” she said. |
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But listening to this 35-track best album, I got to admit, I was tapping my foot and nodding my head. As the “king of pop” Jackson has released several best-of albums already, but this is the first whose tracks are hand-picked by his Korean fans. It has also been released in limited numbers. This makes it the album to get for local Jackson fans, or just for those who love pop. As expected “Billie Jean” is the No. 1 track as Koreans’ all-time Jackson favorite, followed by “Beat It” and “Black or White.” More softer tunes like “You Are Not Alone,” “Man in the Mirror,” and “You Are My Life” provide nice little breaks between the strong beats. Michael Jackson “King of Pop (The Korean Limited Edition)” Label: Sony Music Genre: Pop |
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Pop idols dominate the charts in 2008
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December 29, 2008 | ||||||||
Big Bang’s “Haru Haru (Day By Day)” topped online music site Dosirak’s chart for six consecutive weeks this year, becoming the most popular song in 2008. Wonder Girls trailed behind with “So Hot,” which sat at No. 1 for five consecutive weeks this year. Big Bang, a five-member boy band, enjoyed that honor last year. Their song “Last Goodbye” stayed at the top spot for six straight weeks and “Lie” held the place for five weeks in 2007. In another indication of their popularity this year, Big Bang and Wonder Girls were picked as the people’s favorite artists in a recent survey by Gallup Korea.
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‘If global warming skeptics still exist, this book should be stuffed in their Christmas stockings as reading material for the New Year.’
December 20, 2008 | ||||
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change under the United Nations released a report in 2007 that said average global surface temperatures could rise between 1.1 to 6.4 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. Six degrees? You might wonder if that’s such a big deal. It’s smaller than the range of the highs and lows of a typical day at this time of year. But environmental journalist Mark Lynas’ new book “Six Degrees” underlines the significance of those six degrees using research materials garnered from Radcliffe Science Library at the University of Oxford. There is an enormous amout of research information referenced in Lynas’ book indicating what kind of impact global warming could have on the planet, from Tanzania’s corn harvest to snowfall in the Alps. The author’s sense of urgency and his shock at the way research results are quickly forgotten, or ignored, underscores the tale. While contemplating how to let the whole world know about this, he came up with the degree by degree guide to the globe’s future. If the globe’s average temperature rises by one degree, disaster begins on the mountains and fields. The soil under arable land will be exposed due to drought and there will be landslides following the polar icecap melt. Two more degrees higher will result in more disastrous droughts and floods all over the world, since it takes longer for the summer monsoons to dissipate. Also, as carbon dioxide, one of the main causes of global warming, is absorbed into the ocean, the water turns acidic. An increase of three degrees will cause desertification even in the wet Amazon regions and a four-degree rise will unlock the waters in the glaciers. After a five-degree hike, the world will be almost unrecognizable, an inhospitable land for humans. Even the glaciers of the North Pole will melt away and as people crowd into habitable areas, war will break out as people fight for space. With a six-degree increase, most life on Earth will become extinct. The author emphasizes that we should not let the average temperature of the globe rise more than three degrees. Anything more than that will send the Earth into a vicious cycle of self-sustaining environmental destruction. As the soil in the tropical rainforests warms up, bacteria from dead plants will be released, which will lead to greater amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. Siberia’s permafrost will melt, which will lead to increased carbon and methane emissions. Consequently, methane hydrate discharge from the warm ocean will worsen and the world will be confronted by catastrophe. Models show that this disastrous scenario will unravel uniformly, but the solutions don’t seem clear. As an alternative to the cap and trade system, which makes it possible for developed nations to buy CO2 emission rights from developing nations, the author points out that developed countries discharge far more CO2 than developing nations. He also warns that if we neglect environmental problems because of the global economic crisis, we will witness a worst-case scenario. In other words, if it is not environmentally sustainable, we cannot expect the long-term survival of the economy. Published last year in English and recently translated into Korean, this is a shocking and profoundly moving read, one that outlines the future of our planet in the harsh light of cold, scientific facts. If global warming skeptics still exist, this book should be stuffed in their Christmas stockings as reading material for the New Year. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Author: Mark Lynas Genre: Science and nature Publisher: Sejong Books By Lee Ji-yong JoongAng Ilbo [estyle@joongang.co.kr] |
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W 영어생각/IT's REAL!!!2008. 12. 27. 11:11
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Christmas shoppers were busy browsing through the CD and DVD section at Kyobo Book Center in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, one recent weekday, hunting for the latest albums by their favorite artists. But among the classical and Korean pop music shelves, one section was remarkably less active. In fact, there was just a lone, middle-aged man looking through the season’s offerings. Other buyers were put off by the sign in big, red tape: “Cannot Be Purchased by Those Under 19.” Korean record shops have had this special section since 1997, in accordance with the Youth Protection Law. Korean authorities categorize albums that contain songs with what they consider sensational or lewd material as albums that shouldn’t be sold to people under 19.
But there was a rare sighting this time. At the top of the shelf were the latest albums by two major artists in Korea, possibly two of the most famous and successful pop singers in the country: Dong Bang Shin Gi, a boy band also known as TVXQ, and Rain. TVXQ’s fourth album, “Mirotic,” has sold more than 482,000 copies as of Nov. 30 since its release in September, making it the best-selling album since Seo Tai-ji put out his seventh album in 2004. Not only that, TVXQ won the Grand Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Korea’s pop industry, at the Golden Disk Awards last Wednesday. Rain, an award-winning singer-cum-actor, released his fifth album, “Rainism,” in October, two years after his previous album. His return to the local pop scene made headlines, as he has focused on his career abroad for the last couple of years. He was in the Hollywood movie “Speed Racer” this year. Just last month, the Commission on Youth Protection, under the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, categorized TVXQ’s Mirotic and Rain’s Rainism as “harmful material for youths,” along with 108 other recent songs.
The Korea Media Rating Board began to rate songs in 1999 in line with the revised Youth Protection Law. The job was transferred to the Commission on Youth Protection in 2006. The songs categorized as harmful materials for young people cannot be broadcast before 10 p.m. If they are not labeled according to the law, the record producers or music shop owners face fines or even imprisonment. But in the decade since the rating system was put into operation, top acts have not been affected. In Rainism, the lyrics that troubled the commission’s radar were “my magic stick that is rolling in your trembling body.” The members of the commission reckon the “magic stick” symbolizes a penis.
“Rain was working on his dances using a stick and that is how the phrase ‘magic stick’ came out,” Rain’s management company J.Tune Entertainment is quoted as saying. “It wasn’t the writer’s intention to imply anything provocative, but the commission has taken the lyrics on its individual discretion.” But J.Tune Entertainment decided to accept the commission’s ruling and released a “clean version” of Rainism with revised lyrics. As for Mirotic, the commission said the general mood of the song is highly suggestive and could have a negative impact on teenagers. But such an inarticulate explanation has both TVXQ’s producers and, of course, the fans furious. “We will make a clean version in accordance with the commission’s administrative order, but since we cannot fully accept the ruling, we plan to make a provisional disposition with the relevant court to nullify the administrative order,” said an official with SM Entertainment, TVXQ’s management company.
If SM Entertainment makes the provisional disposition, it would mark the first time the music producer has filed a claim against the authorities’ rating decision. Meanwhile, TVXQ performed the clean version of the song at the Golden Disk Awards last week. Lyrics such as “I got you” were changed to “I chose you” and “I got you under my skin” to “I got you under my sky.” Immediately after the commission’s decision came out, TVXQ fans put up angry postings on the message board of the commission’s Web site (www.youth.go.kr). It’s been more than two weeks since the ruling was announced and a week after it came into effect, but the fans are still leaving such messages. “You guys say you’re working for us, but how come you’re forbidding us the songs and singers we love,” Seo Han-ol wrote on the board. “When we listened to the song, we didn’t have the ‘weird thoughts’ you had. I guess different people hear it differently, but few people hear it the way you did,” Kim Haeng-seon, another Web user, wrote. At Agora, a major online discussion forum run by Daum, more than 15,959 people have signed a petition against the commission’s decision. The latest incidence has triggered heated debate over the measuring stick used for rating music. Critics point to the effectiveness of the rating as it comes out weeks, even months, after the release dates of the albums. “TVXQ’s album has sold more than 400,000 copies already. Plus, they’ve performed on TV many times. What’s the point of the rating at this point?” an official with a record company said, refusing to be named. In response, the commission says its bigger goal is to red flag sensational media in general. “There are three rounds of deliberation in total. It takes at least 26 days for the rating to take effect,” said an official with the commission. “We went ahead with our screening, hoping to present a social standard that can put a break on provocative materials.” But reining in the spread of the song’s original versions online remains a challenge. The commission has ordered portal site operators to see if the songs rated as over-19 only are properly labeled and kept from teenagers. But one can still find their songs and music videos of the “unclean” version in the blogosphere. The commission says it entrusts the job of online control to portal site operators. But controlling files that are posted on a real-time basis isn’t an easy task for the operators. The limited number of rating authorities is another problem. While about 30,000 new songs come out every year, there are just 11 members in the commission, excluding several other monitoring officials and outside experts. Opponents of the commission’s rating decision also underscore the issue of freedom of expression and creativity. “This ruling will limit the artistic freedom of music producers,” said Seong Wu-jin, a music critic. “It’s like pre-release censorship has been reborn.” This system was in place from the 1960s to 1990s when more than 380 Korean songs were banned for reasons like “alarming ideology,” “demoralization” and “Japan-oriented.” In 1996, the song “Sidaeyugam,” loosely translated as “Regrets of the Times,” by Seotaiji and Boys, a popular boy band in the 1990s led by Seo Tai-ji, was also banned. The incident led to mounting public criticism and eventually to the demise of the pre-release censorship policy. “Since the kind of harm they talk about is so subjective, they must present realistic standards,” said Kim Jak-ga, a pop music critic. Concern about provocative material in the mass media has alerted some conservative parents. In the latest incident, singers Lee Hyo-ri and T.O.P. kissed during their performance, triggering a heated debate online. The kiss was pre-meditated, their management companies said. Despite the ongoing controversy, the Commission on Youth Protection will have another round of talks this Thursday on some 80 new songs. If the members decide to rate some of them as harmful material for youths, another batch of CDs will soon find a new home on the red-taped shelves. By Kim Hyung-eun Staff Reporter / Jung Hyun-mok JoongAng Ilbo [hkim@joongang.co.kr] |
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