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진행: 임정요, Kevin Lee Selzer 1. Leafleting: decisive propaganda or empty provocation? [1] Even in the 21st century with all its technical wizardry and social media, old-fashioned propaganda leaflets seem to matter a great deal on Korean Peninsula, the world’s last remaining Cold War frontier. *wizardry: 마법 *social media: SNS *old-fashioned: 고전적인 *propaganda leaflets: 삐라, 선전 전단지 *frontier: 국경 [2] The act of flying huge gas-filled balloons carrying leaflets and other materials denouncing the rival regime has lately become the source of sudden ratcheting up of tensions between the two Koreas. *denounce: 비난하다 *ratcheting up: 증가시키다 *tension: 긴장감 [3] Enraged by defectors here sending anti-North Korea leaflets across the border, Pyongyang last week publicly blew up the inter-Korean liaison office in its border city Kaesong, which served as a de facto embassy between the two Koreas. It warned to take further actions, including sending its own propaganda leaflets across the Southern border. *enraged: 격노하다 *defector: 탈북자 *blew up: 폭발시키다 *liaison office: 연락 사무소 *de facto: 실질적인 기사전문: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200621000197 2. Jeju Island No. 1 in jobless growth from COVID-19 [1] South Korea saw the number of recipients of unemployment benefits surge 30.4 percent to 660,464 in only three months in the wake of the novel coronavirus. *recipient: 수혜자 *unemployment benefits: 실업자 혜택 *in the wake of: ~의 여파로 [2] While the government paid more in benefits to those who lost their jobs in all 17 regions nationwide, data from the Korea Employment Information Service showed disparities among regions. *disaprity: 격차 [3] Jeju Province had 8,286 recipients in April, compared with 5,135 in January, when the first coronavirus case was reported in Korea. That is a 61.3 percent increase, the highest in the nation. *compared with: ~와 비교해보면 [4] Self-employed businesspeople make up a high proportion of the province’s residents. Particularly over the past decade, many small retailers including coffee shop owners, have rushed from the mainland to the nation’s largest island. *self-employed: 자영업의 *small retailers: 소상공인 기사전문: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200623000330