気持ちが悪い: 기분이 나쁘다

態度が悪い: 태도가 나쁘다

口が悪い: 입이 거칠다

胸がわくわくする: 가슴이 두근두근 거리다

わくわくしながら待つ: 기대하면서 기다린다

期待に膨らんで、わくわくする: 기대에 부풀어 두근두근 거리다

As human beings, we all have “rights.” Some are obvious, some not so. There are newly recognized rights that we have fought to get. One of those that are now being debated is the right to be forgotten. The right to be forgotten ensures individuals the right to request their information to be either deleted from the web database or become unsearchable.

As the name itself suggests, the right to be forgotten is a “right” to be protected. It is distinct from privacy rights. Privacy rights deal with information that is not publicly known, whereas the right to be forgotten involves publicly known information as well. It includes photos and videos of oneself once publicly known. If there is information containing data about him/her that the individual wishes to be removed, then it should be granted based on this right.

There is criticism against the right to be forgotten. If this right is recognized, it may violate one of the most important human rights ― freedom of speech. It could also constitute censorship and a reduction in the freedom of expression.

This right would also make the search results biased, which hurts the neutrality of the Internet. Information shown on search engines would only show the information people want to see, not theunbiased truth.

Also, big data companies would have to go through great lengths to identify third parties with other people’s information to remove it. It would also mean that these ‘big’ data companies many not be as big as they were, with a vast number of information people would request to be eliminated.

On the other hand, people argue with these criticisms saying that the web was not so unbiased before. They claim the net is a big fused storage containing numerous information written by billions of people, so it cannot be neutral. The right would not change the neutrality of the web.

Moreover, as stated before, it is a “right” and it needs to be kept. The information that a person can erase can only be about him/herself and not somebody else’s, so why oppose the right to be forgotten? Everyone has a past that they want people to not see, and this right enables them to make a fresh, clean start.

There is much debate about the right, whether it should be kept or not and to what extent should we allow the obliteration of our past? Still, the question remains: how far do we go to protect the right to be forgotten?

気が沈む: 마음이 침울해지다

葉っぱが水に沈んだ: 나뭇잎이 물어 가라앉았다

日が沈む: 해가 지다

The number of single households in Korea topped the five million level for the first time last year, and some 60 percent of those people were married at least once. According to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, the number of single households hit 5.11 million in October 2015, up 171,000, or 1.3 percent, compared to the previous year. Among the total, 59.2 percent were or are married but are living alone, up 3.5 percent from a year ago. “Many of them said they are living alone because their spouses have passed away or they have divorced,” a Statistics Korea official said. “And the rest said they have spouses that don’t live with them for various reasons such as jobs or education.” 

South Gyeongsang recorded the largest ratio of single households, 33 percent of total households. It was followed by South Jeolla (32.8 percent) and Gangwon (32.1 percent). The ratio was the lowest in Incheon at 24 percent. “Rural areas tend to have more single households since the population in general is aging out there compared to big cities in the nation,” said Shim Won-bo, a director at Statistics Korea. Meanwhile, there were a total of 11.86 million married households as of last October, and in 43.9 percent of them, or 5.21 million households, both spouses work. The ratio of dual-income households was the highest on Jeju Island at 61.4 percent, while it was the lowest in Busan at 37.6 percent. “The figure was high in regions where there are many jobs related to agriculture, fisheries and restaurants,” Shim said. 

According to Statistics Korea, more than 50 percent of Koreans in their 40s and 50s belong to dual-income families, and the ratio of dual-income households rose in all age groups except for people in their 40s. The stats also showed a rise in couples who live apart because of work. There are some 543,000 households where spouses are living in different locations due to their jobs, up 3.7 percent from the previous year. “We didn’t ask specific reasons why they are living separately, but we believe the location of workplaces plays a big part,” Shim said. “Additionally, we think that Sejong City, where thousands of civil servants are being transferred, might have had a slight impact on this figure.” Average working hours per week for men in dual-income households recorded 46.7 hours, 5.8 hours more than the 40.9 hours of women. Working hours for men and women dropped 0.1 hours and 0.5 hours each compared to the previous year. 

鳥が飛んでいる: 새가 날고 있다

高く飛んでください: 높게 날아주세요

風船が飛んでいる: 풍선이 날고 있다

Why do nations form alliances? According to realists, nation states are the key actors and the survival under anarchic system with no global government is a major concern. 

あなたのことを覚えています: 당신을 기억하고 있습니다

そんなこと覚えていません: 기억나지 않습니다

ちゃんと覚えてください: 제대로 외워주세요

Different sectors of the society are looking into the use of artificial intelligence as a key component for improvement and positive change. Good examples are oil and gas companies turning to artificial intelligence to cut costs and increase productivity and telecommunications companies incorporating artificial intelligence to make systems automated and standardized. Artificial intelligence is seen as a game changer and an indispensable feature of the future. However, there are also concerns regarding the threats that it poses to earth and its people.

At the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) held in Geneva on April 11 to 15, 2016, different state parties and representatives of the Human Rights Watch, a non-profitinternational organization that is known to perform studies germaneto the development of the society and a human rights group that supports different advocacies, brought up the issue concerning the development of “killer robots.” 

Officially called “lethal autonomous weapons systems,” these “killer robots” are weapons equipped with a different level of artificial intelligence as they are able to engage targets and make life-and-death determinations without meaningful human control. Artificial intelligence experts predict that the creation of such robots capable of surpassing the abilities of humans may come soon. The famous AlphaGo already exists, and robots that have deep learning abilities are being developed in countries with high-tech militaries.

During the said convention, experts and human rights advocates highlighted the importance of maintaining meaningful human control over critical functions of weapons with artificial intelligence. They emphasized that human control should not only be over the overall outcomes of operations but over every individual attack made by any machine.

As a way to maintain meaningful human control over lethal weapons with artificial intelligence, the creation of an international law that will mandate human control over the new class of weapons that may be created in the future was discussed during the convention. It is proposed that the law should prohibit the use of fully autonomous weapons, and that humans should remain in control of every weapon used, regardless of it being a device with artificial intelligence or a simple lethal weapon.

This year’s convention on lethal autonomous weapon systems is the third of its kind. It was first held on May 13 to 16, 2014. The second one was held on April 13 to 15, 2015. The same agenda—the emergence of a new kind of weapon that may be a threat to the human populace, is discussed every year.

かなり慌てている: 굉장히 당황하다

慌てないで、ゆっくりと: 당황하지 말고, 천천히

あたふたと慌てている: 허둥대고 있다