TL;DR ๐ฆ
- ๐ ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ means technological convergence: different technologies, industries, or fields combine to create new value.
- ๐ ํ์ means innovation, but not every tiny change deserves the crown; it usually implies meaningful improvement or transformation.
- โก Advanced Korean sounds natural when you use collocations like ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค (boundaries between industries break down), ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค (create synergy), and ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๋ฐํํ๋ค (demonstrate creativity).
๐ง Iru Helper Note โ Use Korean Helper Widgets to hear expressions like ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ (technological convergence), ๋์งํธ ์ ํ (digital transformation), and ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค (to create added value). Long tech-policy phrases sound less like a robot invoice after a few audio reps. ๐ค
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๐ The Big Picture
๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ (technological convergence) describes what happens when separate technologies or fields combine and create something new. Think AI plus healthcare, finance plus mobile platforms, education plus data analysis, or cars plus connectivity. The result is not just โtwo things sitting politely in the same roomโ; the goal is a new function, service, or value. ๐งช
ํ์ (innovation) is a meaningful change that improves an existing product, method, system, or social process. In advanced Korean, it often appears with words like ์ด์งํ๋ค (to promote), ์ด๋ฃจ๋ค (to achieve), ๊ฐ์ํํ๋ค (to accelerate), and ์ ํดํ๋ค (to hinder). ๐
This lesson is different from AI ethics or digital literacy lessons. Here, the focus is how fields combine, how industry boundaries shift, how synergy creates added value, and how creativity turns combination into innovation. Sparkly tech words are fun, but the real prize is precise noun-verb pairing. ๐ ๏ธ
๐จ The Core Technological Convergence Family
- ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ โ technological convergence. Different technologies or fields combine to create new products, services, or systems. Natural phrase: ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง๋ค (technological convergence takes place). ๐
- ํ์ โ innovation. A meaningful improvement or transformation, not just a small change. Natural phrase: ํ์ ์ ์ด์งํ๋ค (to promote innovation). ๐
- ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ โ boundaries between industries. These boundaries can weaken when platforms, data, and services overlap. Natural phrase: ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค (boundaries between industries break down). ๐งฑ
- ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ โ synergy effect. A stronger result created by combination. Natural phrase: ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค (to create synergy). โก
- ์ฐฝ์์ฑ โ creativity. The ability to produce new ideas or connect existing ideas in a fresh way. Natural phrase: ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๋ฐํํ๋ค (to demonstrate creativity). ๐จ
- ๋์งํธ ์ ํ โ digital transformation. The shift from analog or traditional systems into digital processes, platforms, and data-driven operations. Natural phrase: ๋์งํธ ์ ํ์ด ๊ฐ์ํ๋๋ค (digital transformation accelerates). ๐ป
- ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น โ added value. Extra economic, social, or functional value created through innovation. Natural phrase: ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ค (to raise added value). ๐
๐ ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence
- ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ๊ณผ ์๋ฃ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ตํฉ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ง์ถคํ ์ง๋จ ์๋น์ค๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
(As artificial intelligence and medical technology converge, personalized diagnostic services are developing.) ๐ฅ
Notes: ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ = artificial intelligence, ์๋ฃ ๊ธฐ์ = medical technology, ๋ง์ถคํ ์ง๋จ ์๋น์ค = personalized diagnostic service.
- ๋ชจ๋ฐ์ผ ํ๋ซํผ์ ํ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ธ์ต๊ณผ ์ ํต์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ์ ์ ๋ชจํธํด์ง๊ณ ์๋ค.
(With the spread of mobile platforms, the boundary between finance and retail is becoming increasingly unclear.) ๐ฑ
Notes: ํ์ฐ = spread, ๊ธ์ต = finance, ์ ํต = distribution/retail, ๋ชจํธํด์ง๋ค = to become unclear.
- ๋์์ธ๊ณผ ์ ๋ณด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ฒฐํฉ์ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ธ๋ค.
(The combination of design and information technology produces a synergy effect that improves user experience.) ๐จ
Notes: ๊ฒฐํฉ = combination, ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๊ฒฝํ = user experience, ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค = to improve.
๐งฉ General Formation Rule
This is an advanced vocabulary lesson, so the useful formation is concept noun + precise formal verb:
- A์/๊ณผ B๊ฐ ์ตํฉ๋๋ค = A and B converge
Example: ๊ต์ก๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ถ์์ด ์ตํฉ๋๋ค (education and data analysis converge). ๐
- ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค/๋ชจํธํด์ง๋ค = a boundary breaks down / becomes unclear
Example: ์ฐ์
๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค (boundaries between industries break down). ๐งฑ
- ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ค/์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค = produce/create synergy
Example: ์ฐ๊ตฌ ํ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค (research cooperation creates synergy). โก
- ํ์ ์ ์ด์งํ๋ค/์ด๋ฃจ๋ค/์ ํดํ๋ค = promote/achieve/hinder innovation
Example: ๊ณผ๋ํ ๊ท์ ๊ฐ ํ์ ์ ์ ํดํ๋ค (excessive regulation hinders innovation). ๐ง
- ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๋ฐํํ๋ค/์๊ทนํ๋ค = demonstrate/stimulate creativity
Example: ๋ค์ํ ๊ด์ ์ด ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ์๊ทนํ๋ค (diverse perspectives stimulate creativity). ๐จ
No irregular conjugation is being taught here; the challenge is choosing the right collocation so your Korean sounds like an advanced article, not a translated product brochure.
๐ Cross-check note
Key Korean terms and usage patterns were cross-checked against korean.go.kr resources and standard public/academic usage, including ๊ธฐ์ (technology), ์ตํฉ (convergence), ํ์ (innovation), ์ฐฝ์์ฑ (creativity), ๋์งํธ ์ ํ (digital transformation), and ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ (synergy effect). โ
๐ช Synonym Alert
- ์ตํฉ (convergence/fusion) vs. ํตํฉ (integration): ์ตํฉ suggests different elements combine to create something new; ํตํฉ often means separate systems are unified into one structure. ๐
- ํ์ (innovation) vs. ๊ฐ์ (improvement): ํ์ is stronger and more transformative; ๊ฐ์ can be smaller or gradual. ๐
- ์ฐฝ์์ฑ (creativity) vs. ์ฐฝ์กฐ์ฑ (creativeness/originality): both are related, but ์ฐฝ์์ฑ is very common in education, problem-solving, and innovation discussions. ๐จ
- ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น (added value) vs. ํจ์จ์ฑ (efficiency): ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น is extra value created; ํจ์จ์ฑ is doing something with less time, cost, or waste. ๐
โ ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge
- โ Using ํ์ for any tiny change โ โ Use it for meaningful transformation, like ๋ชจ๋ฐ์ผ ๊ฒฐ์ ์์คํ ์ ์๋น ๋ฐฉ์์ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์๋ค (mobile payment systems brought innovation to consumption patterns).
- โ Confusing ์ตํฉ and ํตํฉ โ โ ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ creates new value; ์์คํ ํตํฉ unifies separate systems.
- โ Saying ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๋ค every time โ โ In formal writing, prefer ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ค or ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค.
- โ Treating ์ฐฝ์์ as a fancy word for โniceโ โ โ Use it for original ideas, approaches, or solutions: ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ํด๊ฒฐ์ฑ (creative solution).
- โ Praising technology only โ โ Strong advanced answers also mention concerns such as ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๋ณดํธ (personal information protection), ์ผ์๋ฆฌ ๋ณํ (changes in jobs), and ์ค๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ ์ (ethical responsibility).
When fields collide thoughtfully, sparks become systems. That is the magic of ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ: not just shiny gadgets, but smarter connections. ๐โจ
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Try this exercise
Complete each sentence with the most natural word or phrase from this lesson. Focus on whether the sentence is about convergence, innovation, industry boundaries, synergy, creativity, or added value. Say the completed sentence aloud, then open the Answer toggle. ๐งญ
1. ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ๊ณผ ๊ต์ก ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๊ฒฐํฉ๋๋ ํ์์ ๊ธฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค.
The phenomenon of AI and educational technology combining is called technological convergence. ๐
Answer
์ตํฉ โ ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ means technological convergence.
2. ์ค๋งํธํฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ํต์ ๊ณผ ๊ธ์ต์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ๋ชจํธํด์ก๋ค.
With the development of smartphones, the boundary between telecommunications and finance became unclear. ๐ฑ
Answer
๊ฒฝ๊ณ โ ์ฐ์
๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ means boundaries between industries.
3. ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๊ฒฐํฉํด ๋ ํฐ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฉด ์๋์ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ์๊ธด๋ค.
When different technologies combine and create a stronger result, a synergy effect occurs. โก
Answer
ํจ๊ณผ โ ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ means synergy effect.
4. ์๋ก์ด ํด๊ฒฐ์ฑ
์ ์๊ฐํด ๋ด๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค.
The ability to think of new solutions is called creativity. ๐จ
Answer
์ฐฝ์์ฑ โ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ means creativity.
5. ๋์งํธ ์ ํ์ ๊ธฐ์
์ ์
๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํค๊ณ ์๋ค.
Digital transformation is rapidly changing companiesโ ways of working. ๐ป
Answer
๋ณํ โ ๋ณํ์ํค๋ค means to change or transform.
6. ๊ณผ๋ํ ๊ท์ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ ํดํ ์ ์๋ค.
Excessive regulation can hinder technological innovation. ๐ง
Answer
ํ์ โ ํ์ ์ ์ ํดํ๋ค means to hinder innovation.
7. ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ ๋์์ธ์ ๊ฒฐํฉ์ ์๋น์ค์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๋์๋ค.
The combination of data and design increased the serviceโs added value. ๐
Answer
๊ฐ์น โ ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น means added value.
8. ๊ธฐ์
์ ์ฐ์
๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ค๋ฉฐ ์๋ก์ด ์ฌ์
๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์๋ค.
Companies are crossing industry boundaries and creating new business models. ๐ข
Answer
๋ชจ๋ธ โ ์ฌ์
๋ชจ๋ธ means business model.
9. ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ด์ ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ฉด ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ ์๋ค.
Connecting different perspectives can stimulate creativity. ๐ก
Answer
์๊ทน โ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ์๊ทนํ๋ค means to stimulate creativity.
10. ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ์ค์ํ๋ค.
Technological convergence is important because it creates new possibilities. ๐
Answer
์ฐฝ์ถ โ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค means to create possibilities.
Vocabulary Box
- ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ โ technological convergence
- ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ โ artificial intelligence
- ๊ต์ก ๊ธฐ์ โ educational technology
- ํต์ โ telecommunications
- ๊ธ์ต โ finance
- ๊ฒฝ๊ณ โ boundary
- ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ โ synergy effect
- ์ฐฝ์์ฑ โ creativity
- ๋์งํธ ์ ํ โ digital transformation
- ๋ณํ์ํค๋ค โ to change/transform
- ํ์ ์ ์ ํดํ๋ค โ to hinder innovation
- ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น โ added value
- ์ฌ์ ๋ชจ๋ธ โ business model
- ์๊ทนํ๋ค โ to stimulate
- ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค โ to create
Tip ๐ก Memorize nouns with verbs: ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค, ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค, ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๋ฐํํ๋ค.
Want more reps? Visit the Practice Hub when you're ready! Your innovation vocabulary is already crossing industry boundaries. ๐
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๐ฏ Practice Hub โ Technological Convergence and Innovation
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Welcome to the innovation lab, where healthcare shakes hands with AI, finance moves into your phone, and vocabulary gets a tiny futuristic cape. ๐ฆธ Youโll practice Korean for technological convergence, industry boundaries, synergy, creativity, digital transformation, added value, and balanced innovation arguments. โก
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๐ Audio reminder: Use Korean Helper Widgets whenever phrases like ์ฐ์
๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค or ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค need a pronunciation check.
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๐ Instructions: Complete each sentence with the best Korean word or phrase. Decide whether the sentence is about combination, transformation, value creation, creativity, or a concern about innovation. Say the completed sentence aloud, then check the Answer toggle. ๐งญ
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Exercise 1 โ Convergence Core Terms ๐
A. ์๋ฃ์ ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋๋ฉด์ ์ง๋จ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค.
As medicine and AI converge, diagnostic methods are changing. ๐ฅ
Answer
์ตํฉ โ A์/๊ณผ B๊ฐ ์ตํฉ๋๋ค means A and B converge.
B. ๊ต์ก ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ถ์์ ๊ฒฐํฉ์ ๋ง์ถคํ ํ์ต์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
The combination of educational technology and data analysis made personalized learning possible. ๐
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๊ฐ๋ฅ โ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ํ๋ค means to make possible.
C. ์ค๋งํธ ๋์
์ ๋์
๊ณผ ์ ๋ณด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ฌ๋ก์ด๋ค.
Smart agriculture is an example of convergence between agriculture and information technology. ๐พ
Answer
์ตํฉ โ ์ตํฉ ์ฌ๋ก means a convergence example.
D. ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ถ์ผ์ ์ง์์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ตํฉํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ค.
A person who connects knowledge from multiple fields can be called convergence-type talent. ๐ง
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์ธ์ฌ โ ์ตํฉํ ์ธ์ฌ means convergence-type talent.
E. ์ฌ๋ฌผ์ธํฐ๋ท์ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํด ์๋ก์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ง๋ ๋ค.
The Internet of Things connects devices and networks to create new functions. ๐ก
Answer
๊ธฐ๋ฅ โ ์๋ก์ด ๊ธฐ๋ฅ means new function.
F. ๋ก๋ด ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ ์์คํ
์ด ๊ฒฐํฉํ๋ฉด ๋ฐฐ์ก ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋์์ง ์ ์๋ค.
When robotics and logistics systems combine, delivery efficiency can increase. ๐ฆ
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ํจ์จ์ฑ โ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ด ๋์์ง๋ค means efficiency increases.
G. ๊ฐ์ํ์ค๊ณผ ๊ด๊ด์ด ๊ฒฐํฉํ๋ฉด ์๋ก์ด ์ฒดํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ์๊ธธ ์ ์๋ค.
If virtual reality and tourism combine, a new experience service can emerge. ๐ถ๏ธ
Answer
์๋น์ค โ ์ฒดํ ์๋น์ค means experience service.
H. ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ์ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฐ์
์ ํ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ง๋ ๋ค.
Technological convergence creates possibilities that go beyond existing industry limits. ๐
Answer
๋์ด โ ํ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋์ด์๋ค means to go beyond limits.
I. ์๋์ฐจ์ ์ํํธ์จ์ด์ ๊ฒฐํฉ์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํค๊ณ ์๋ค.
The combination of cars and software is transforming the mobility experience. ๐
Answer
๋ณํ โ ๋ณํ์ํค๋ค means to change or transform.
J. ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ๋ฌธ์ฑ์ด ๋ง๋ ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์์ด๋์ด๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ ์๋ค.
When different expertise meets, new ideas can emerge. ๐ก
Answer
๋ฑ์ฅ โ ๋ฑ์ฅํ๋ค means to appear or emerge.
Vocabulary Box
- ์๋ฃ โ medicine/healthcare
- ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ โ artificial intelligence
- ์ตํฉ๋๋ค โ to converge
- ์ง๋จ ๋ฐฉ์ โ diagnostic method
- ๊ต์ก ๊ธฐ์ โ educational technology
- ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ถ์ โ data analysis
- ๋ง์ถคํ ํ์ต โ personalized learning
- ์ค๋งํธ ๋์ โ smart agriculture
- ์ ๋ณด ๊ธฐ์ โ information technology
- ์ตํฉํ ์ธ์ฌ โ convergence-type talent
- ์ฌ๋ฌผ์ธํฐ๋ท โ Internet of Things
- ํจ์จ์ฑ โ efficiency
- ๊ฐ์ํ์ค โ virtual reality
- ํ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋์ด์๋ค โ to go beyond limits
- ๋ณํ์ํค๋ค โ to transform
- ๋ฑ์ฅํ๋ค โ to emerge
Tip ๐ก Convergence sentences often start with two fields and end with a new service, function, or possibility.
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Exercise 2 โ Industry Boundaries and Digital Transformation ๐งฑ
A. ๋ชจ๋ฐ์ผ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ํ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ธ์ต๊ณผ ์ ํต์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด์ง๊ณ ์๋ค.
With the spread of mobile payment, the boundary between finance and retail is breaking down. ๐ณ
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ํ๋ฌผ โ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค means boundaries break down.
B. ํ๋ซํผ ๊ธฐ์
์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฐ์
์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ค๋ฉฐ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ํ์ฅํ๋ค.
Platform companies cross the boundaries of multiple industries as they expand services. ๐ข
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๋๋ โ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ค๋ค means to cross back and forth across boundaries.
C. ๋์งํธ ์ ํ์ด ๊ฐ์ํ๋๋ฉด์ ์
๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋๊ณ ์๋ค.
As digital transformation accelerates, work methods are being reorganized. ๐ป
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์ฌํธ โ ์ฌํธ๋๋ค means to be reorganized or restructured.
D. ์ ํต ๊ธฐ์
๋ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ํ๋ซํผ์ ๋์
ํ๋ฉฐ ์ฌ์
๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ์๋ค.
Traditional companies are changing their business structure by adopting online platforms. ๐งพ
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๊ตฌ์กฐ โ ์ฌ์
๊ตฌ์กฐ means business structure.
E. ์ฐ์
๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ๋ชจํธํด์ง๋ฉด ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒฝ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ํ์ฑ๋๋ค.
When boundaries between industries become unclear, a new competitive environment forms. ๐
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ํ๊ฒฝ โ ๊ฒฝ์ ํ๊ฒฝ means competitive environment.
F. ๋์งํธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์์ฐ๊ณผ ์๋น์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋์์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํจ๋ค.
Digital technology transforms methods of production and consumption at the same time. ๐ญ
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์ ํ โ ์ ํ์ํค๋ค means to transform or shift.
G. ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์๋ฃ ์๋ด์ ์๋ฃ ์๋น์ค์ ์ ๊ทผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋์ผ ์ ์๋ค.
Online medical consultation can increase accessibility to medical services. ๐
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์ฑ โ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ means accessibility.
H. ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋์
์ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ ๋์ ํ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ ์ ์๋ค.
The introduction of new technology can reveal the limits of existing systems. ๐
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๋๋ฌ โ ๋๋ฌ๋ด๋ค means to reveal.
I. ์ฐ์
๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋๋ฉด ๋
ธ๋ ์์ฅ๋ ํจ๊ป ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ค.
When the industrial structure changes, the labor market also changes together. ๐ท
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๋ณํ โ ๋ณํํ๋ค means to change.
J. ๊ธฐ์ ๋ณํ์ ์ ์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ ๊ธฐ์
์ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ ์๋ค.
Companies that cannot adapt to technological change may lose competitiveness. ๐
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์ โ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์๋ค means to lose competitiveness.
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- ๋ชจ๋ฐ์ผ ๊ฒฐ์ โ mobile payment
- ํ์ฐ โ spread
- ๊ธ์ต โ finance
- ์ ํต โ distribution/retail
- ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค โ boundaries break down
- ํ๋ซํผ ๊ธฐ์ โ platform company
- ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ค๋ค โ to cross boundaries
- ๋์งํธ ์ ํ โ digital transformation
- ์ฌํธ๋๋ค โ to be reorganized
- ์ฌ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ โ business structure
- ๊ฒฝ์ ํ๊ฒฝ โ competitive environment
- ์ ํ์ํค๋ค โ to transform
- ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ โ accessibility
- ๋๋ฌ๋ด๋ค โ to reveal
- ๋ ธ๋ ์์ฅ โ labor market
- ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์๋ค โ to lose competitiveness
Tip ๐ก Boundary vocabulary often uses movement verbs: break down, blur, cross, shift, reorganize.
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Exercise 3 โ Synergy, Added Value, and Creativity โก
A. ๋์์ธ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ฒฐํฉ์ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋์ด๋ ์๋์ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๋ธ๋ค.
The combination of design and technology produces a synergy effect that improves user experience. ๐จ
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ํจ๊ณผ โ ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ค means to produce synergy.
B. ์ฐ๊ตฌํ์ ๋ค์ํ ์ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ ฅ์ ํตํด ์๋ก์ด ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ค.
The research team created new added value through cooperation among various majors. ๐งช
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์ฐฝ์ถ โ ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค means to create added value.
C. ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ ค๋ฉด ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ด์ ์ ์กด์คํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
To demonstrate creativity, different perspectives must be respected. ๐จ
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๋ฐํ โ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๋ฐํํ๋ค means to demonstrate creativity.
D. ์ํธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํจ๊ป ์ฐ์ผ ๋ ๋ ํฐ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ธ๋ค.
Mutually complementary technologies produce a greater effect when used together. ๐งฉ
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๋ณด์ โ ์ํธ ๋ณด์์ means mutually complementary.
E. ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์์ ์ ์ตํฉ์ ์๋ก์ด ํํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ด์๋ค.
The convergence of technology and art opened a new method of expression. ๐ผ๏ธ
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๋ฐฉ์ โ ํํ ๋ฐฉ์ means method/style of expression.
F. ํ์๋ค์ ๋ค์ํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ฌธ์ ํด๊ฒฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ฑ์ ๋์ธ๋ค.
Team membersโ diverse experiences increase the creativity of problem-solving. ๐ง
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์ฐฝ์ โ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ means creativity.
G. ์ ์ ํ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ์๋น์์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ค.
The new product considered not only function but also consumersโ emotional value. ๐
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๊ฐ์น โ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์น means emotional value.
H. ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ์ ๊ธฐ์กด ์์์ ํ์ฉ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋์ผ ์ ์๋ค.
Technological convergence can increase the efficiency of using existing resources. โป๏ธ
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ํจ์จ โ ํ์ฉ ํจ์จ means efficiency of use.
I. ์๋ก์ด ์๋น์ค๋ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๋ถํธ์ ์ค์๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ์๋ค.
The new service is meaningful in that it reduced user inconvenience. โ
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์๋ฏธ โ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๋ค means to be meaningful.
J. ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ํด๊ฒฐ์ฑ
์ ์ต์ํ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
A creative solution makes us view a familiar problem from a different perspective. ๐
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๊ด์ โ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ด์ ์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ค means to view from a different perspective.
Vocabulary Box
- ๋์์ธ โ design
- ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๊ฒฝํ โ user experience
- ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ โ synergy effect
- ์ฐ๊ตฌํ โ research team
- ํ๋ ฅ โ cooperation
- ๋ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ์น โ added value
- ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค โ to create
- ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๋ฐํํ๋ค โ to demonstrate creativity
- ์ํธ ๋ณด์์ โ mutually complementary
- ํํ ๋ฐฉ์ โ method of expression
- ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์น โ emotional value
- ํ์ฉ ํจ์จ โ efficiency of use
- ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๋ค โ to be meaningful
- ๊ด์ โ perspective
Tip ๐ก Synergy is more than โtogetherโ; it means the combination produces a stronger result.
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Exercise 4 โ Innovation, Regulation, and Social Concerns ๐
A. ์๊ฒฉ ์ง๋ฃ๋ ์๋ฃ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ์ ๋์ธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ก๋ก ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค.
Telemedicine can be seen as an innovative case that increased access to healthcare. ๐
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ํ์ โ ํ์ ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ก means an innovative case.
B. ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํ์ฐ์ ์ผ์๋ฆฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ์ ์๋ค.
The spread of new technology can bring changes in jobs. ๐ท
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๋ณํ โ ์ผ์๋ฆฌ ๋ณํ means changes in jobs.
C. ํ์ ์ ์ด์งํ๋ ค๋ฉด ์คํจ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค.
To promote innovation, a culture that allows failure is necessary. ๐งช
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๋ฌธํ โ ์คํจ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๋ ๋ฌธํ means a culture that allows failure.
D. ๊ณผ๋ํ ๊ท์ ๋ ์ ์ฐ์
์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ ์๋ค.
Excessive regulation can hinder the growth of emerging industries. ๐ง
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์ ํด โ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ ํดํ๋ค means to hinder growth.
E. ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ด ๋น ๋ฅผ์๋ก ์ค๋ฆฌ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ํจ๊ป ๊ฐํ๋์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
The faster technology develops, the more ethical responsibility must also be strengthened. ๐งญ
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์ฑ
์ โ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ
์ means ethical responsibility.
F. ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๋ณดํธ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ฉ์ ์ค์ํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด๋ค.
Personal information protection is an important prerequisite for technology use. ๐
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์ ์ โ ์ ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด means prerequisite.
G. ์ฌํ์ ์์ฉ์ฑ์ด ๋ฎ์ผ๋ฉด ์ข์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ๋๋ฆฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต๋ค.
If social acceptance is low, even good technology is difficult to spread widely. ๐
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ํ์ฐ โ ํ์ฐ๋๋ค means to spread.
H. ํ์ ์ ์ฑ
์ ์ฐฝ์
์ง์๊ณผ ์ธ์ฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ค๋ฃจ์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
Innovation policy must address startup support and talent cultivation together. ๐ฑ
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์์ฑ โ ์ธ์ฌ ์์ฑ means talent cultivation/training.
I. ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋์
ํ ๋๋ ํจ์จ์ฑ๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ๊ณต๊ณต ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ๊ณ ๋ คํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
When introducing technology, public interest as well as efficiency must be considered. ๐๏ธ
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์ด์ต โ ๊ณต๊ณต ์ด์ต means public interest.
J. ํ์ ์ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๋ณํ์ ์์ ์ฑ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ท ํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ผ ์ง์๋ ์ ์๋ค.
Innovation can continue when it balances rapid change and stability. โ๏ธ
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๋ง์ถ โ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ค means to strike a balance.
Vocabulary Box
- ์๊ฒฉ ์ง๋ฃ โ telemedicine
- ์๋ฃ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ โ access to healthcare
- ํ์ ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ก โ innovative case
- ์ผ์๋ฆฌ ๋ณํ โ job changes
- ์ด์งํ๋ค โ to promote
- ์คํจ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๋ ๋ฌธํ โ culture that allows failure
- ๊ณผ๋ํ ๊ท์ โ excessive regulation
- ์ ์ฐ์ โ emerging industry
- ์ ํดํ๋ค โ to hinder
- ์ค๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ ์ โ ethical responsibility
- ์ ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด โ prerequisite
- ์ฌํ์ ์์ฉ์ฑ โ social acceptance
- ํ์ฐ๋๋ค โ to spread
- ์ฐฝ์ ์ง์ โ startup support
- ์ธ์ฌ ์์ฑ โ talent cultivation
- ๊ณต๊ณต ์ด์ต โ public interest
- ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ค โ to strike a balance
Tip ๐ก Balanced innovation writing mentions both benefits and concerns: growth, access, jobs, privacy, regulation, and public interest.
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Exercise 5 โ Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐ก๏ธ
A. โ ์์ ์๋ฆฌ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ = ํ์ โ โ
์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๋ณํ = ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ
Fix the idea: innovation means meaningful change, not a tiny rearrangement. ๐
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ํ์ โ ํ์ implies meaningful improvement or transformation.
B. ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด ํตํฉ๋ณด๋ค ๊ธฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๋ค.
If different technologies create new value, technological convergence sounds more natural than integration. ๐
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์ตํฉ โ ์ตํฉ creates new value; ํตํฉ unifies systems.
C. ๊ณต์ ๊ธ์์๋ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๋ค๋ณด๋ค ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ค๊ฐ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๋ค.
In formal writing, โcreate a synergy effectโ sounds more natural than โmake synergy.โ โก
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์ฐฝ์ถ โ ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค is a formal collocation.
D. ์ฐฝ์์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ฉ์ง ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์๋ก์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ค๋ ๋ป์ ๊ฐ๊น๋ค.
The word โcreativeโ does not just mean nice; it means presenting a new approach. ๐จ
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์ ๊ทผ๋ฒ โ ์๋ก์ด ์ ๊ทผ๋ฒ means a new approach.
E. ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์นญ์ฐฌํ ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๋ณดํธ ๊ฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ํจ๊ป ๊ณ ๋ คํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
Even when praising technological development, concerns such as personal information protection must also be considered. ๐
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์ฐ๋ ค โ ์ฐ๋ ค means concern.
F. ์ฐ์
๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด์ง๋ฉด ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒฝ์์๊ฐ ๋ํ๋ ์ ์๋ค.
When boundaries between industries break down, new competitors may appear. ๐งฑ
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ํ๋ฌผ โ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค means boundaries break down.
G. ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์์ ์ ๊ฒฐํฉ์ ํํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ค.
The combination of technology and art expands methods of expression. ๐ผ๏ธ
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ํ์ฅ โ ํ์ฅํ๋ค means to expand.
H. ์๋ก์ด ์๋น์ค๊ฐ ๋น์ฉ๊ณผ ์๊ฐ์ ์ค์ด๋ฉด ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์๋ค๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋ค.
If a new service reduces cost and time, it can be said to have increased efficiency. โฑ๏ธ
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๋ โ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๋์ด๋ค means to increase efficiency.
I. ๋ค์ํ ๋ถ์ผ์ ํ๋ ฅ์ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ ์๋ค.
Cooperation across various fields can stimulate creativity. ๐ก
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์๊ทน โ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ์๊ทนํ๋ค means to stimulate creativity.
J. ํ์ ์ด ์ง์๋๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ ๋ณํ์ ์ฌํ์ ์ฑ
์ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ท ํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ผ ํ๋ค.
For innovation to continue, the balance between technological change and social responsibility must be struck. โ๏ธ
Answer
๋ง์ถฐ โ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ค means to strike a balance.
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- ํ์ โ innovation
- ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ โ technological convergence
- ํตํฉ โ integration
- ์๋์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ค โ to create synergy
- ์ ๊ทผ๋ฒ โ approach
- ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๋ณดํธ โ personal information protection
- ์ฐ๋ ค โ concern
- ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ค โ boundaries break down
- ํ์ฅํ๋ค โ to expand
- ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๋์ด๋ค โ to increase efficiency
- ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ์๊ทนํ๋ค โ to stimulate creativity
- ์ฌํ์ ์ฑ ์ โ social responsibility
- ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ค โ to strike a balance
Tip ๐ก Pitfall patrol rule: do not just praise technology. Explain what combines, what value appears, and what responsibility remains.
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๐ Excellent work โ your ๊ธฐ์ ์ตํฉ and ํ์ vocabulary now has synergy, creativity, added value, and enough precision to make a startup pitch sound scholarly. ๐๐