유전자 교정
Scientists are debating how to limit their newly-discovered power to change genetic structure. Scientists already modify the genes of farm animals and agricultural plants to make them more productive or stronger.

심리를 꿰뚫어 보다
Reading is a popular activity for people all over the world. There is nothing quite like getting lost in a really good book.

시어스 타워
The Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, is the tallest office building in the United States. It was built between nineteen seventy and nineteen seventy-four. For more than twenty years, it was the tallest building in the world.

당신 안의 제임스 본드?
Of course it's one thing for an action hero to break down a door, leap from a moving motorcycle into a car, or fend off a killer shark. But how would the ordinary, out-of-shape reader do it?

공개 연설
Students in American schools learn from an early age to give presentations as part of their regular classroom activities. Children as young as five years old often give brief talks about objects they bring in to school - called “show and tell,” this training is a basis for later public speaking.

힘든 시간이었죠
Jen: Jimmy, you are wearing a Vietnam Veteran’s hat. Tell me a little about that. What’s on there? There’s a little badge I see, right?

번개는 같은 장소를 두 번 때리지는 않는다
Lightning is one of the most powerful forces in nature. Scientists describe lightning as a huge burst of electricity between clouds, the air, or the ground.

서브프라임 모기지
Subprime mortgages are loans to people who may not have enough money to repay them. These and other risky housing loans are often grouped with other mortgages and sold as debt investments.

술의 위험
Alcoholic products -- whether beer, wine or spirits -- are sold almost everywhere around the world.

한국 문화 캠프
Campers and teachers at Korean Culture Camp in St. Paul, Minnesota, start the day by saying “hello” in Korean. “Anyunghaseyo, Anyunghaseyo.”

펩시콜라
Pepsi Cola started in a drug store in New Bern, North Carolina in eighteen ninety-six. At the time, most drug stores included a long, high, narrow table where people could gather socially.

빵
Now, most countries around the world have some sort of bread in their food culture.

바오밥 나무
Baobab trees are not only iconic images of dry, hot areas of Africa. Baobabs are important because they supply water and food for people and animals.

주가가 내려갔어
Did you hear the news regarding today’s stock market? No I didn’t. It’s headed south again.

뉴욕 그랜드 센트럴 터미널
The huge building has not changed much since it opened in February, 1913. About 750,000 people pass through Grand Central every day. Some just come to look at it, others to visit the stores. But most are there to catch the trains that enter and leave from the station.

이래라저래라 했다고?
Growing up, my younger sister used to boss me around. What? Your younger sister used to boss you around? But she is younger than you.

브로드웨이 무대 감독
The job requires them to spend a lot of time looking at video camera images. They also usually wear a headset that lets them hear and be heard by members of the cast and crew.

미모 압박감
In South Korea, a woman weighing over 50 kilograms is considered by many to be big, no matter how tall she is.

꿈의 실현
The “pot of gold at the end of the rainbow” is something you really want to have or you really want to achieve.

편하게 있어
Hey, thanks for coming! No problem! Thank you for inviting me to your house warming party.