JOB & RECRUITING┃시사&English More opportunities for a stupid "send"
More opportunities for
a stupid‘ send"
We’ve all had the embarrassing experience of sending a text message to the wrong person. You may have sent a message intended for your boyfriend to your father.
❶ Or messages talking about your boss to a co-worker could have been sent to the boss instead. But these are harmless mistakes.
However, if you are having an extramarital affair and send a message intended for your girlfriend to your wife, that’s a different story.
You have to prepare for a war, indeed. And it will result in a casualty, as well. ❷ Anyone who lacks prudence and dares to have an affair is either stupid or reckless, or both.
The age of text messaging brings both comedy and tragedy. ❸ A slip of a finger can lead to tremendous social impact.❹ 4. Not so long ago, a prosecutor who intended to send a text message to a colleague regarding the half- hearted prosecution reform actually sent it to a hungry journalist. ❺
5.The prosecutor ended up quitting his job. He was browsing his“ recent calls” list to look for his colleague, but mistakenly chose the reporter whom he had just spoken with.?
Earlier this year, a Blue House secretary thought he had sent a text message celebrating the ruling party’s nomination of his friend as a candidate in the thenupcoming general election. ❻ But the message was delivered to a spokesperson of the opposition Democratic United Party and led to allegations of Blue House intervention in the general election. It is an age of finger scandals.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of SMS, or short message service. On Dec. 3, 1992, British computer engineer Neil Papworth of Sema Group sent Richard Jarvis, a technology director at Vodafone, a text message that read “Merry Christmas.”
❼ Thanks to the revolutionary development of mobile technology, six billion mobile phone users worldwide send and receive seven trillion SMS messages every year. That is 200,000 texts every second. However, SMS is not as powerful as before.
❽ With the rapid spread of free mobile instant messaging services such as KakaoTalk in Korea, users are using SMS - which charges a fee for sending messages - less and less.
KakaoTalk’s 27 million users send 4.1 billion messages a day, or 150 per user.❾ Yearly per-user SMS messages on the three leading mobile service providers drastically decreased from 7,240 in 2010 to 5,060 in 2011 to 1,485 in the first half of 2012. In response, the providers jointly developed a mobile messenging service, Joyn, to be unveiled as early as this week.
Consumers can now choose from a greater variety of text message services. But we shouldn’t only welcome the change. The risk of“ finger scandals”is growing, too. ❿ Once you spill the water, there is no way of putting it back into the glass. Before you regret the slip of your finger, you need to make sure your message is delivered to the right person.
More opportunities for a stupid ‘ send’
더많아진기회 (스마트폰)‘ 보내기’잘못누르기
1. Or messages talking about your boss to a coworker/ could have been sent to the boss instead.
아니면 동료에게 사장님에 관한 뒷담화를 보내려 한 메시지가/ 그 대신 사장님께 보내지게 될 수 있는 상황도 벌어졌을 것이다.
2. Anyone who lacks prudence and dares to have an affair/ is either stupid or reckless, or both.
조심성도 없으면서 감히 한눈 팔 생각을 한 사람이라면 어느 누구든지/ 멍청하거나 아니면 무모하며 아니면 이 둘 다이다.
3. A slip of a finger can lead to tremendous social impact.
살짝 잘못 누른 손가락이 엄청난 사회적 파장을 불러올 수도 있다.
4. Not so long ago,/ a prosecutor who intended to send a text message to a colleague/ regarding the halfhearted prosecution reform/ actually sent it to a hungry journalist.
① 얼마 전,/ ③ 문자 메시지를 한 동료에게 보내려 했던 한 검사가/ ② 마음에도 없는 검찰 개혁에 관한/ ④ 실제로는 기사감에 굶주려 있던 한 기자에게 그것을 잘못 발송해 버렸다.
5. The prosecutor ended up quitting his job.
(잘나가던) 이 검사는 결국 옷을 벗었다.
6. But the message was delivered to a spokesperson of the opposition Democratic United Party and/ led to allegations of Blue House intervention in the general election.
하지만 그 메시지가 야당인 민주통합당의 대변인에게 (잘못) 보내졌고/ 청와대의 총선 개입 의혹을 자초하기도 했다.
7. Thanks to the revolutionary development of mobile technology,/ six billion mobile phone users worldwide/ send and receive seven trillion SMS messages every year.
모바일 기술의 혁명적 발전 덕분에,/ 지금은 60억 명에 달하는 전 세계 휴대전화 가입자가/ 매년 7조 건의 SMS를 주고받고 있다.
8. With the rapid spread of free mobile instant messaging services such as KakaoTalk in Korea,/ users are using SMS - which charges a fee for sending messages - less and less.
한국의 카카오톡 같은 무료 모바일 메신저 서비스의 급속한 확산과 더불어,/ 이용자들은 문자 보기에 요금을 부과하는(유료 서비스인) SMS를 점점 더 적게 사용하고 있다.
9. Yearly per-user SMS messages on the three leading mobile service providers/ drastically decreased from 7,240 in 2010 to 5,060 in 2011 to 1,485 in the first half of 2012.
그 탓에 통신 3사의 1인당 연간 SMS 발송 건수는/ 2010년 7,240건에서 2011년 5,060건, 올 상반기에는 1,485건으로 급감했다.
10. Once you spill the water,/ there is no way of putting it back into the glass.
일단 물을 엎지르게 되면,/ 잔에 다시 담아 넣을 방법은 없다.
