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As we all know, South Korea is a crowded country, with more than 50 million people. Approximately 90% of that land is mountainous, meaning that people had to use the space available in the most creative way to fit everyone. A Goshiwon, also known as an “off-campus dormitory” is no more than a small room with everything you can find on a normal house, needed to live. In these small rooms you can find a bed, fridge, TV, and not always but sometimes they also have a bathroom. Rent prices in South Korea can be expensive so a Goshiwon is a solution to this, they can be small but so… Read More

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How do we live a happy life and achieve real happiness? The Courage to Be Disliked paperback has sold over 3.5 million copies, and is a Japanese phenomenon that shows how to live a life and achieve real lasting happiness. It’s already an enormous bestseller and based on Alfred Adler’s philosophical tenets. He believes we can all live happy and fulfilled lives without worrying about the past or future. It’s also written by an award winning professional writer, Ichiro Kishimi and writer Fumitake Koga. In the book, Adler’s philosophy is that all problems are interpersonal relationship problems. To live a happy life, we must be able to accept ourselves as… Read More

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An 87 year old grandmother from Japan, learned coding at the age of 81. Her name is Masako Wakamiya. Masako Wakamiya realized that there were no applications, especially game applications, that seniors could enjoy. Then Masako Wakamiya approached young game developers to make it. But they rejected it. And said that they didn’t know what the elderly people were asking for. So, Masako Wakamiya had to make it herself and she really did it herself. At the age of 81, Masako Wakamiya learned how to code so she could make games for seniors. The games application is called Hinadan and has received a rating of 4.9 and more than 100… Read More

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Learn English from news. CNN – Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is the world’s most polluted city, according to a new study, and the country’s president may have the cough to prove it. The news came just days after the Swiss company IQAir released data showing that Jakarta’s air quality had deteriorated in recent weeks to become the worst in the world. Air pollution has long plagued the Greater Jakarta area, with factories, coal-fired power plants and traffic congestion all contributing to the smog, according to experts. The government officer informed that the first strategy involves pollution control through policies and regulations. Meanwhile, the second strategy involves reducing emissions that cause pollution… Read More

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What a made up tragedyLooking at thе ocean, and calling it half emptyYou could spend a thousand yearsStressing over nothing or you could come and join me I used to think that worst case would always be in first placeBut now just look at this lifeI thought happiness was hard to find, that I could never love my lifeBut today, I’m waking up with a smile on my face Grammar Check- Bound PrepositionsBound prepositions usually don’t have any independent meaning and they depend on other words in the sentence, like verbs, nouns or adjectives. Here’s an example:You can rely on me. Here the preposition ON is a bound one. It… Read More

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