South Korea Is Considering Shutting Down all Virtual Currency Exchanges

South Korea’s financial regulator chief said the government is considering shutting down all local virtual currency exchanges in a national policy committee meeting on Thursday.

“(The government) is considering both shutting down all local virtual currency exchanges or just the ones who have been violating the law,” said Choi Jong-ku, chief of Financial Services Commission, to a question from a parliament member.

His comments came after the world’s most popular virtual currency, bitcoin,slid 18% on Wednesday on reports suggesting South Korea could ban tradingof cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin stood at $11,560 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange as of 0218 GMT, paring a bit of its previous losses.

Hong Nam-ki, minister of the office for government policy co-ordination, said that opinions on cryptocurrency trading are sharply divided within the government, but vowed to make a decision on regulations during Thursday’s meeting.

South Korea’s justice minister had said last week the ministry was preparing a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading, which sent bitcoin prices plummeting.

The shift toward tighter regulation sparked strong reaction from many South Koreans, thousands of whom signed a petition on the website of the presidential Blue House to stop a ban on cryptocurrency trading.

Reference: bbc.com

Reference: bbc.com

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Finding a mix tape given to you by an old boyfriend or girlfriend

Stashed away in shoe boxes, basements, and broom closets around the world are some of our greatest treasure. That's where we might find only prom photos, expired driver's licenses, handwritten letters from faraway friends, or maybe, if we're really luck, one of those beautiful gems known as a Love Tape.

Love Tapes are simply any mix tape carefully put together by someone who like-likes you. Yes, that blurry, distant boyfriend or girlfriend probably spent hours timing everything to fit perfectly, waiting for songs to play on the radio , pains-takingly scrawling out notes and drawings, and maybe, if you're lucky, even spraying it with a bit of perfume.

Depending on your time frame, your mix tape may contain gems such as:

1. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

2. Exteme - More than words

3. Bryan Adams -(Everything I do) I do It for You

4. UB40 - (I can't Help) Falling in Love with you

5. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

6. Meatloaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)

7. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

8. Bob Marley - Is This Love

9. Boyz II Men - End of the Road

10. Jewel - You Were Meant for me

11. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

12. Cyndi Lauper- Time After Time

13. The Bangles- Eternal Flame

14. Rod Stewart- Have I Told You Lately

15. LeAnn Rimes- How Do I Live

16. Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

17. Guns N'Roses - November Rain

18. Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True

19. Sinead O'Connor- Nothing Compares 2 U

20. Mr. Big - To Be with You

So search your heart. Search your soul. And when you find mix tables there, you will search no more. So don't tell me they're not worth looking for. You can't tell me they're not worth hunging for . You know it's true.

Eveything mix tables do.

They do it for you

AWESOME!

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Shoulda coulda woulda

오늘 캐나다 총리 Trudeau의 CTV 인터뷰에서 나온 표현입니다. "Shoulda Coulda Woulda"는 "Should have been done, Could have been done, or would have been done"을 줄인 표현으로, 과거에 어찌됐던가는 소용없다는 표현입니다.

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How to write good college application essays

에세이는 충분한 정보를 수집하고 잘 정의된 글씨기 프로세스를 따를 때에 비로소 훌륭한 에세이가 될 수 있습니다. 생각한 대로 좋은 글을 쓸 수 있으면 좋겠지만, 전문 작가도 단번에 좋은 글을 쓸 수는 없습니다. 많은 정보 수집과 정리, 아이디어 구조화, 그리고 끝 없는 다듬기를 통해서 마무리를 하게 됩니다. 영어권 대학을 준비하는 학생들이 많이 보는 Writers INC라는 글쓰기 책에서 발췌한 글씨기 프로세스를 공유합니다.

Today, I am going to introduce you the wring process to write good essays. This is just a summary of the writing process and you may find a better reference or a good teacher, but the essence of the writing process will not change at all.

The Writing Process in action

1. Prewriting
Choosing a topic and gathering details
Search for a meaningful writing idea and collect information about it. This first step is as important as the others because the amount of your knowledge defines your level of understanding and expressions.

2. Writing the first draft
Connecting your ideas
Write down your thesis statement; structure the story and list up key points in each part.
Write the initial draft by rewriting the key points and connecting them.

3. Revising
Improving your writing
Review your first draft, checking the ideas, organization, voice, word choice and sentence fluency of your writing.

4. Editing and proofreading
Checking for accuracy
Ask a reliable editor to check your writing for errors you may have missed.

5. Publishing
Sharing your work
Share the finished product with your teacher, writing peers, friends, and family members.

Reference: Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning