[Hyunjun Go's News]



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It's time for current affairs critic Hyun-Jun Go's news.

What is the first news today (27th)?



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What would be the state of living separated from the outside in an underground cave without a single point of sunlight?



In fact, this experiment was conducted in France.




It's an underground cave in Longbrieve in southwestern France. Last month, 15 men and women entered the experiment where they lived for 40 days in this cave completely shut off from the outside.



The purpose of this experiment is to study how far the limit of human adaptability is when the frame of time and space is broken. Participants used bicycle pedals to obtain the necessary electricity while living in a tent in a cave and used water 45m underground.



I couldn't get in touch with the outside world and didn't have a watch, so I slept according to my circadian rhythm and settled for meals.



As expected, most of the participants who came out of the cave after 40 days had forgotten their sense of time and were also very tired, and one participant was mistaken for having been living in the cave for only 23 days, according to local media.



The research team is planning to identify and present changes in brain activity and cognitive function before and after entering the cave.

I am also curious about the final research results of the



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research team. What's the second news?



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Egypt, a man who was trapped in a cargo ship abandoned in a large sea and stood alone for four years finally regained freedom.



This is the 4,000-ton cargo ship MV Aman, which was left unattended off the coast of Egypt in 2017.



When the Egyptian court decided to administer the court due to a sudden financial crisis, everyone left with only one sailor left.




Aisha, a Syrian sailor who became a court officer without knowing English, spent four years alone waiting for a rescue effort.



From the next year when the cargo ship was neglected, even electricity was cut off, and at night, he had to live in pitch-black darkness, and when storms struck, he was said to have been at the crossroads of life and death.



The International Federation of Transport Workers' Unions, who learned his story belatedly, began to actively mediate, and Aisha got on a plane to his home country on the 23rd, four years after his detention.



The federation emphasized that the Aisha incident was a clear example of the abandonment of seafarers prevalent in the shipping industry.



In addition, he urged countries to actively resolve such cases, saying that more than 250 cases of abandonment of crew members worldwide are still unresolved.



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I don't know well, but I thought it was a very special case while watching this story at first.



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About 250 cases are being handed down around the world right now, and they are also divided into representative human rights blind spots. It seems that the international community's efforts to address these areas will be needed.



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really a blind spot for human rights, what's the last news?



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In India, where the number of corona19 confirmed cases is hitting a daily high, the number of deaths is rapidly increasing due to a lack of medical oxygen, which is essential for patient treatment these days.



The number of new coronavirus cases in India now exceeds 350,000 per day.




Public hospitals are already saturated with patients, and medical oxygen cannot be supplied in time, so it is an emergency for each hospital to secure oxygen.



Medical oxygen is obtained by extracting and liquefying oxygen from the air we breathe, but the supply is not keeping up with demand.



India currently needs more than 8,000 tons of oxygen per day for medical purposes, and it can only supply about 3,500 tons, less than half. 



It is also a problem to deliver this to the hospital, because the infrastructure such as a pipeline that transports oxygen is not equipped, so it has to be transferred to an oxygen tank and sent, but even the oxygen tank and the container are in short supply.



India is the second largest number of confirmed cases in the world, with more than 17 million confirmed cases and close to 200,000 deaths until yesterday.



India is facing a more serious situation than any other country, with a lack of oxygen for medical use in this situation.