763-word version: Through the gaps in the gloomy clouds, the dark-blue rain drops fall on me. As if the rain can read my mind, it flows with the saddened flow of my tears. "Here! Here!" I beckon with my hands to the paramedics and lead them into my house. And my sister, the ‘Slee..

814-word version: Just as I returned to Seoul for summer vacation in 2006, sorrow pervaded all my senses. As my parents came to meet me at the airport, I saw my uncle’s ominous visage overlapping behind my parents’. That was the year my uncle died of lung cancer at the age of 55. He di..

453-word version: In October 2007, the House of Representatives in the United States unanimously approved the measure calling for apology from Japan to surviving victims, especially those known as “comfort women,” of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War, but in the summer..

As the world has grown closer with previously inconceivable developments in the communication technology, the cell phone has become a major means of communication in our daily lives. Cell phones not only provide an omnipresent means of communication, but they also provide ubiquitous conveniences f..

...Although I had heard of China’s dramatic economic growth through the media, I could hardly believe not only the orderly and affluent metropolis of Ching Tao that stood before me, but also the modern amenities bustling with in-style pedestrians...

...Ever since I attended school in America, I played lacrosse in spring. During my freshman year at 고등학교명, I was rather haughty by thinking that I was good enough to be in the 고등학교명 varsity lacrosse team. After the first day of tryouts, however, I realized that reality was far from what..