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<Today's Soup> prepared on Wednesday, November 16th, is full of nutritious and warm content that is good for the body and mind.

We'll pick out three of them.



-[Soup Economy] Does the chance of winning increase if you bunt?


-[The Prophets] In 2080, the future city is revealed


-[N Korea Official] Until Kim Jong-un decided to go on a diet...

Looking back on 'Kim Jong-un's health anomalies' ①




The first recommended <Soup of the Day> is [Soup Economy].

The first episode, a hot and cool economic issue, starts with the bunt scene of the recently ended KBO playoffs.

It's not even [baseball chatter], what does the economy and baseball have to do with it?

The current situation is diagnosed as an 'economic bunt', a strategy that is difficult to increase the win rate.   


[Soup Economy] Does bunt increase the chance of winning?


Q: You are a baseball manager.

A best-of-five series, the third match with 1 win and 1 loss.

With a two-point gap behind, a chance to secure 1st and 2nd base came at the beginning of the 8th inning.

Your choice?



- Let's start with a tie.

After making a bunt and making 1 company, 2nd and 3rd base, aim for a tie.


- Seunggi should be caught when you can catch it.

Try a strong ball and aim for 2 or more points.



1. If you're quick-witted, especially if you're an LG fan, you'll have noticed right away. This is the actual situation of the recent playoff between LG and Kiwoom.

From LG's point of view, if we lose today, we will be in a corner with 1 win and 2 losses.

You absolutely must win.

In the most important situation where everything he had accumulated this year was at stake, the winning move LG coach brought out was a bunt. 





In the collaboration project [The Prophets] between Soup and KAIST, Professor Kim Seung-gyeom of KAIST, who has mainly researched urban climate change strategies and sustainability of future cities, foresaw future cities in 2080.

How likely is Professor Kim's prediction that a completely polarized city will appear in the future 60 years from now, with vertical cities and horizontal cities?


[The Prophets] 2080, unveils the city of the future


In 2080, we live in a world completely divided - a super-dense vertical city where skyscrapers are connected like a net to form a huge fortress, and a low-density horizontal city that stretches endlessly.



Over the past 200 years, we have witnessed changes in the form and structure of cities as they repeatedly concentrate and disperse at each stage of technological progress.

In the era of industrialization - as mass production became possible - from cities with a mononuclear structure centered on industry, as cities expanded due to the development of the transportation and automobile industries, they had to go through the problem of reckless development, and communication technology and advanced automation broke down the physical boundaries of the city, making it an ultra-wide area city. has created




How exactly do you see North Korea?

[N Korea Official], which calmly examines issues on the Korean Peninsula based on objective 'reality' rather than 'expectations' and 'perspectives', Ahn Jeong-sik, a North Korean reporter who has been covering North Korea since 2006, ' will be discussed in depth.

We can also guess what the reason for Kim Jong-un's diet was. 


[N Korea official] Until Kim Jong-un decided to go on a diet.


It has been two and a half years since the 'Kim Jong-un's health anomaly', which was once even mentioned as a death rumor, was raised.

At that time, various theories were rife until Secretary Kim Jong-un reappeared, and after Secretary Kim reappeared and confirmed that he was in good health, opinions that 'fake news' should be punished were strongly raised. 



Of course, there was 'fake news' back then.

The death of Kim Jong-un was a representative fake news.

Considering the impact the North Korean supreme leader's change will have on the Korean Peninsula, it is worthy of criticism for talking about unconfirmed information as if it were true. 



However, did nothing really happen to Kim Jong-un at the time?

Now, after a considerable amount of time, a cool and calm observation of this issue seems necessary.

At the time, the government asserted that nothing had happened to Kim Jong-un, and the position on the theory of Kim Jong-un's health appeared as a subject of confrontation between the progressive and conservative camps, creating a situation in which it was impossible to even raise a reasonable level of problem at the time.