From the age of nine, when I first started reading newspapers
Broaden your perspective on the world by the age of thirteen!

This book is a 'newspaper optimized for elementary school students' that selects articles on topics worth paying attention to in the fields of economy, society, world, science, and environment from June 2022 to March 2023 and reorganizes them from a child's perspective.
The author, a Korean language education expert, refined unfamiliar current affairs vocabulary from 100 selected recent article texts into advanced vocabulary that children can understand, and organized these into sentences that are perfect for adults to use as well.
This encourages children to read newspapers with enjoyment, understand the content, and develop advanced vocabulary.
Furthermore, the 100 articles included are not articles to be consumed and evaporated like entertainment, but rather articles that will continue to be discussed for years to come and serve as a pivotal point in expanding into new phenomena and discoveries, making them essential for elementary school students to know.
In addition, this book helps you remember and organize the content of the article through blank-fill questions and true or false questions after reading the article.
Additionally, the discussion questions below provide food for thought and expand your child's thinking.
As children read this book, they will naturally connect the various phenomena of economy, society, the world, science, and the environment, and view the world from a bird's eye view.

Surprisingly, children find the newspaper fun to read?
"Smart Elementary Newspaper," Lowering the Barrier to Reading

This book, which simply contains background information, article content, true or false questions, newspaper vocabulary, and discussion topics on each page, focuses solely on the text itself without any unnecessary details.
Rather than trying to capture a child's attention with cartoons or picture characters, the content is comprised solely of newspaper articles and elements that encourage the child to understand and grasp the core content. This allows the child to focus more on the articles while developing a positive self-esteem that allows them to read newspapers like adults.
This will help you develop the ability to interpret social issues in your own way and make you more interested in reading newspapers.

This book contains 100 of the latest major news items, so children can choose to read as much as they want on any day they want.
It's also a good idea to read articles on economics, society, the world, science, and the environment to find areas of interest to your child and engage in deeper conversations.
In addition, if you guide your child to read articles that are out of sight of the child, you can effectively prevent picky eating.
In this way, children gradually acquire a wide range of the latest issues in each field, broadening their perspective on the world.

There are a total of 159 different stickers in Pokémon Bread, but some of them are difficult to obtain because they were made in limited quantities from the beginning.
Also, rare belt seals are said to be sold on the second-hand market for more than 20 times the price of bread.
The quantity of special seals is small, and many people want them, so the price of some seals is high.
The law of scarcity applies here too.
However, these days, there are more and more people who buy a lot of Pokémon bread to get the popular sticker, but then throw away the bread and only get the stickers.
What do you think about this phenomenon?
--- p.15

Fair trade pays producers a fair price and provides consumers with better quality products.
If you use bad materials or misuse the producer's labor, you cannot receive the Fair Trade certification mark.
Therefore, fair trade products can be seen as ethically superior quality products.
Fair trade, which makes both producers and consumers happy, is also called ethical consumption or good consumption.

--- p.39

Smombie is a combination of the words smartphone and zombie.
This saying comes from the fact that people walk while looking at their smartphones, which makes their gait resemble that of zombies.
According to a 2020 survey by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority, approximately 15% of all pedestrians were found to be using smartphones while crossing a crosswalk.
In fact, the number of pedestrian traffic accidents caused by smartphone use is increasing significantly.
Accidents occur not only at crosswalks but also on the subway, where people walk while looking at their smartphones and their feet get caught between the train and the platform.

--- p.84

The reason dolphins are dying because of the wars waged by humans is because of Russian ships and submarines.
The noise from ships is said to disorient dolphins and other sea creatures, preventing them from finding food or killing them by hitting landmines.
Or they get burned by bombs, and the oil from ships pollutes the ocean, negatively affecting marine life.
War is also a great disaster for marine life.
A war that hurts everyone, why do we have to fight it?
--- p.92

Mahsa Amini, 22, from Iran, was arrested by police in September 2022 for not wearing her hijab properly.
And he died three days after being arrested.
What's so great about the hijab that you get arrested by the police for not wearing it?
--- p.94

The Russian army that invaded Ukraine encountered an unexpected ambush.
They tried to extend the route through Belarus to Ukraine, but it was blocked by a dam built by beavers, making it difficult to proceed.

--- p.110

When we say the 'Anthropocene', it sounds like a tax that people have to pay to the Earth, but it's not a tax.
The Anthropocene refers to a new geological epoch created by human changes to the Earth's climate and ecosystem.
When dividing the 4.6 billion year history of the Earth from the largest to the smallest time span, it is divided into eon, era, period, epoch, and age.

--- p.128

NASA's James Webb space telescope has discovered the Tarantula Nebula, where stars are being born.
Nebulae are where stars are born in space.
Stars are formed when clouds of cosmic dust collapse due to gravity.
In the photo, stars are forming on the outer red side, and the blue dots in the middle are newly born baby stars.

--- p.132

It is said that the behavior of octopuses throwing shells or mud lumps is not done by chance, but rather occurs when interacting with other octopuses.
The number of cases where other octopuses were correctly guessed was as high as 17%.
Octopuses usually have darker skin when they are angry, and the darker their skin, the harder and more accurately they throw the clams.
When an octopus raises its leg to throw an object, the opposing octopus also changes its posture.
While lifting your legs or bending your body.

--- p.146

ChatGPT is a chatbot based on GPT-3, the smartest artificial intelligence language model in human history. While existing chatbots could only answer questions and sometimes spoke out of context, ChatGPT is said to be able to have natural conversations that are difficult to distinguish from humans.
Additionally, ChatGPT creates a post on the spot on any topic when a user asks for one.
The reason I can write so quickly is because I can find answers to the topic in a huge language database.

--- p.166

A pessimistic study has found that even if humanity reduces carbon emissions and limits global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, half of the world's glaciers will melt by the end of this century.
An analysis of 215,000 glaciers shows that even if we actively protect the environment from now on, 49% of the world's glaciers will disappear by 2100.
If the global average temperature rises to 2.7 degrees Celsius, 68% of the world's glaciers will disappear, and glaciers in central Europe, western Canada, and the United States will all melt.

--- p.181

According to one study, a person ingests about 2,000 microplastics in a week.
When we eat fish that have accumulated microplastics in their bodies or when we breathe, microplastics enter our bodies.
In terms of weight, it is equivalent to 5g, the weight of a credit card.
What should we do about plastic that cannot be recycled and microplastics that are gradually accumulating in our bodies?

--- p.187