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ByKwakHyun-jeong
Editor-in-Chief
EscapistFantasyfromtheDrudgeryofRealLife
Sequestered at home on lockdown, for an unknown, possibly interminable duration, the debut of
ⓒTwitch
Nintendo’s latest instilment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons on March 20, has been flying off the
shelves. Physical copies in Japan alone have already eclipsed 3 million, not including any digital
downloads,accordingtothevideogamepublicationFamitsu.
Jung Da-eun (Division of Chinese Foreign Affairs and Commerce ‘19), who have played Animal
Crossing for over 10 years, remarks, “Instead of handing gamers any grand goals to accomplish, the
title offers surrogate habits?the monotonous, repetitive actions of collecting wood, chasing insects,
and catching fish with cute cartoon animals. There are no losers here, nor dangers in social mixing.
Thesedays,IhearthatstocksaresoldoutandAnimalCrossingisevenaboutashardtofindasahand
sanitizer.”
Meanwhile, in Korea, the explosive demand of this new-hit game has been drawing a barrage of criticism, since “No Japan”
boycottbeganlastsummer.ItisnowconsideredatabootoplayNintendoSwitchpublicly.
Transitionof
SouthKoreaGoesAheadwitha
FirefighterStatus
ParliamentaryElection
Last November,
SouthKoreaheldalegislative
ⓒSBS
Ilbo
the centralization
election on April 15, even
ⓒJoongang
of fire personnel
during a time of social-
has passed
distancing. The election body
through the
instructedpeopletocleantheir
relevant bills in the National Assembly, and
hands with sanitizer, wear
officially has started to work out from April
face masks and disposable
1. Previously, South Korea had only about an
plastic gloves. Voters had
1.3 percent of 52,516 career firefighters hired
their temperature checked
bythestateitself,leadingregionaldisparityin
in front of the polling booth as well, standing at least one meter (3ft)
publicsafety.Therestwereemployedbylocal
apartfromoneanother.Thosewithmorethan37.5degreesCelsius(99.5
fire agencies supervised by their respective
degrees Farenheit) had to cast their vote in a separate booth, and the
municipal governments, which eventually had
coronaviruspatientswereallowedtovotebymail.Ultimately,theoverall
chronicshortageofmanpowerbudget.Valued
voter turnout was 66.2 percent, higher than any parliamentary elections
investmentforthosewhofacelife-threatening
since 1992. The victory went to the President Moon Jae-in’s ruling
dangers in the line of duty, should proceed
party, securing 180 of 300 seats in the National Assembly. This is the
further.
remarkableturnoutsinceSouthKorea’stransitiontodemocracyin1987.
4
www.theargus.org
News
ByKwakHyun-jeong
Editor-in-Chief
EscapistFantasyfromtheDrudgeryofRealLife
Sequestered at home on lockdown, for an unknown, possibly interminable duration, the debut of
ⓒTwitch
Nintendo’s latest instilment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons on March 20, has been flying off the
shelves. Physical copies in Japan alone have already eclipsed 3 million, not including any digital
downloads,accordingtothevideogamepublicationFamitsu.
Jung Da-eun (Division of Chinese Foreign Affairs and Commerce ‘19), who have played Animal
Crossing for over 10 years, remarks, “Instead of handing gamers any grand goals to accomplish, the
title offers surrogate habits?the monotonous, repetitive actions of collecting wood, chasing insects,
and catching fish with cute cartoon animals. There are no losers here, nor dangers in social mixing.
Thesedays,IhearthatstocksaresoldoutandAnimalCrossingisevenaboutashardtofindasahand
sanitizer.”
Meanwhile, in Korea, the explosive demand of this new-hit game has been drawing a barrage of criticism, since “No Japan”
boycottbeganlastsummer.ItisnowconsideredatabootoplayNintendoSwitchpublicly.
Transitionof
SouthKoreaGoesAheadwitha
FirefighterStatus
ParliamentaryElection
Last November,
SouthKoreaheldalegislative
ⓒSBS
Ilbo
the centralization
election on April 15, even
ⓒJoongang
of fire personnel
during a time of social-
has passed
distancing. The election body
through the
instructedpeopletocleantheir
relevant bills in the National Assembly, and
hands with sanitizer, wear
officially has started to work out from April
face masks and disposable
1. Previously, South Korea had only about an
plastic gloves. Voters had
1.3 percent of 52,516 career firefighters hired
their temperature checked
bythestateitself,leadingregionaldisparityin
in front of the polling booth as well, standing at least one meter (3ft)
publicsafety.Therestwereemployedbylocal
apartfromoneanother.Thosewithmorethan37.5degreesCelsius(99.5
fire agencies supervised by their respective
degrees Farenheit) had to cast their vote in a separate booth, and the
municipal governments, which eventually had
coronaviruspatientswereallowedtovotebymail.Ultimately,theoverall
chronicshortageofmanpowerbudget.Valued
voter turnout was 66.2 percent, higher than any parliamentary elections
investmentforthosewhofacelife-threatening
since 1992. The victory went to the President Moon Jae-in’s ruling
dangers in the line of duty, should proceed
party, securing 180 of 300 seats in the National Assembly. This is the
further.
remarkableturnoutsinceSouthKorea’stransitiontodemocracyin1987.
4
www.theargus.org
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