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Merit should count more than academic background.
Lee Myung-bak
Background
More
Count
Merit
Academic
Than
Should
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
Lee Myung-bak
War
Luxury
Back
Having
Parks
Feet
Economy
Korean
Get
Trying
Just
After
Lee Seung-gi before the army and Lee Seung-gi after the army are totally different. Firstly, I've matured a lot. I used to feel pressured by a lot of things before fulfilling my military duties. Now, I'm proud that I've become more confident.
Lee Seung-gi
Army
Become
Before
Military
Pressured
Totally
More
Feel
Proud
Firstly
Lee
Lot
Matured
Confident
Duties
Different
After
Fulfilling
Used
Now
Things
Being in the special forces has really broken a lot of the limitations I thought I had. Thoughts like 'We've done this much, so we should take a break now' were ones that I had to ignore and overcome in my training. They taught me how to keep going, no matter how difficult a situation can get.
Lee Seung-gi
Me
Broken
Thoughts
Training
Overcome
Matter
Thought
Situation
Difficult
Take
Had
Like
Forces
Limitations
How
Were
Lot
Get
Done
Going
Taught
Being
Break
Much
Really
Should
Ignore
Special
Special Forces
Keep
Keep Going
Now
Many guys seem to think that his thoughts and feelings are always right and always the best option. I think I am the same kind of guy.
Lee Seung-gi
Best
Thoughts
Feelings
Think
Kind
Seem
Guy
Guys
Always
Am
His
Option
Same
Many
Right
Unlike office workers who improve their profession with repeated daily practice, entertainers don't have any work manual or daily workload. But, I personally set my daily workload, trying hard to invest a set amount of time to improve myself, like other professionals.
Lee Seung-gi
Work
Time
Myself
Daily
Practice
Other
Unlike
Entertainers
Invest
Like
Repeated
Improve
Office
Trying
Any
Personally
Workers
Hard
Manual
Who
Profession
Professionals
Amount
Set
PSY is a legend. I am just proud that a world star has risen from Korea and that a longtime friend was met with such astounding success.
Lee Seung-gi
Success
World
Met
Legend
Astounding
Risen
Longtime
Proud
Korea
Am
Friend
Just
Star
I am always ready for anything.
Lee Seung-gi
Ready
Always
Am
Anything
In 'Vagabond,' I'm acting like a gangster; it's very tough. I have to use my body for action scenes, and there is nothing gentlemanly about this character at all.
Lee Seung-gi
Character
Tough
Nothing
Action
About
Scenes
Like
Gentlemanly
Very
Body
Acting
Use
Gangster
When acting, I can wear another person's clothes and act out the attractiveness of a particular character, which is very interesting for me. Singing is something I love as well.
Lee Seung-gi
Love
Character
Me
Singing
Clothes
Out
Wear
Something
Particular
Well
Attractiveness
Another
Very
Person
Which
Interesting
Act
Acting
If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Experience
Giving
Own
Relate
Emergency
Through
Contact
Another
Discrete
Person
Going
While
Room
Thing
Do you know why we pay trainers and nutritionists? Because having to muster interest in the minor successes of someone else's journey toward pedestrian-ass healthiness is taxing and should be compensated.
Mary H.K. Choi
Journey
You
Pay
Else
Muster
Minor
Someone
Having
Toward
Do You Know
Know
Because
Trainers
Interest
Taxing
Successes
Should
Why
Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Learning
Ride
See
Park
Anyone
Public
Bike
Means
Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.
Mary H.K. Choi
Life
Daily
Try
Own
Meeting
About
Boss
Voyage
Salad
Bar
Your
Commute
Never post boring back-to-back selfies.
Mary H.K. Choi
Post
Boring
Never
Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Matter
Lyrics
Worse
Insipid
Case
He
Missed
Does
Still
His
Stink
Yes
Won
Lousy
Any
Tattoos
Skateboarding
Disingenuous
Justin
Justin Bieber
Actually
'Emergency Contact' is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions.
Mary H.K. Choi
Space
About
Emergency
Contact
Interactions
Inherent
Meat
Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.
Mary H.K. Choi
Time
Everyone
Presuming
Mystery
Along
Same
Same Page
Much
Page
Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.
Mary H.K. Choi
Me
Pirates
When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.
Mary H.K. Choi
Time
You
Tools
Everyone
Seemingly
Wins
Aloof
Most
Person
Which
I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Better
Potential
Stuff
Makes
Human
Sucker
I love my mother a not-normal amount.
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
Mother
Amount
When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign.
Mary H.K. Choi
Mom
You
Thought
Think
Would
Small
She
Because
How
Foreign
Snacks
Than
Get
Just
Really
Cooler
Her
I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.
Mary H.K. Choi
Great
Better
Though
Given
Talented
How
Am
How Much
Leaving
Left
Getting
Happened
Much
Should
Less
Pedicures are disgraceful.
Mary H.K. Choi
Disgraceful
In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Business
Fear
Year
Collect
Tormented
Thousand
Constant
Gum
Purse
Contacts
New
Encounters
Chewing
Chewing Gum
York
Pitch
New York
Being
Deposit
Your
Eventually
Cards
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