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Mosque project tests South Korea's tolerance for increasing diversity
Like many nations, South Korea has an aging and shrinking workforce, and the country looks to immigrants to bolster it. But a case in Daegu, South Korea's third largest city, is testing the nation's tolerance for increasing diversity. NPR's Anthony Kuhn traveled there and filed this report.

 

Like many nations, South Korea has an aging and shrinking workforce, the country looks to immigrants to bolster it.
*look to …에 주의하다, 경계하다
*bolster 북돋우다, 강화(개선) 하다
students have been trying to build a proper mosque to accommodate more worshippers.
*accommodate (…을 위한) 충분한 공간을 제공하다, 수용하다
The construction of the mosque would have been finished by now if residents had not obstructed the builders.
*obstruct 방해하다
We would have objected to anything.
Inside it sit three severed pigs' heads.
*sever [ˈsevə(r)]  (두 조각으로) 자르다[절단하다], 잘라 내다
*backlash (사회 변화 등에 대한 대중의) 반발
Or more xenophobia against them.
*xenophobia 외국인 혐오(증)
*account for (부분·비율을) 차지하다
Foreigners now account for about 4.4% of South Korea's population of 52 million.
Muslims account for about an estimated 0.4%.
*hate speech 혐오발언
*amount to ~에 이르다, 해당하다
South Korea lacks an anti-discrimination law.
*international covenant 국제 협약
*covenant [ˈkʌvənənt] (특히 정기적으로 일정액의 돈을 주겠다는) 약속[계약]

*line up 이루다, 줄서다
For now, civic groups are lining up on opposing sides of this issue.

 

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Mosque project tests South Korea's tolerance for increasing diversity

Mosque project tests South Korea's tolerance for increasing diversity