TL;DR ๐ฆ
- ๐ ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค means a broadly applicable standard, not a rule that every single person must personally love. (universal standard)
- ๐ ๊ท๋ฒ is a norm: a shared rule, expectation, or standard that guides behavior. (norm)
- โ ์ค์ means compliance: following standards, rules, laws, procedures, or ethical requirements. (compliance)
๐ง Iru Helper Note โ For formal phrases like ๊ตญ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ค์ํ๋ค (to comply with international standards), paste the full sentence into Korean Helper Widgets and listen for the phrase rhythm. Policy Korean gets friendlier when it has a beat. ๐ฅ
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๐ The Big Picture
Standards are the quiet traffic lights of society. ๐ฆ They tell people, institutions, companies, and countries what counts as acceptable, reliable, fair, safe, or professional.
๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค (universal standards) are standards that can be applied broadly across people, places, systems, or fields. They are not necessarily โabsolute truths,โ but they should have wide applicability and reasonable legitimacy. ๐
In advanced Korean, this topic often appears with ๊ท๋ฒ (norm), ์์น (principle), ํ์ค (standard), ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋ (global standard), ์ค์ (compliance), and ์ ์ฉ (application). These words are useful in ethics, law, business, human rights, technology, education, and public policy. ๐งญ
๐จ The Core Universal Standards Family
- ๋ณดํธ์ = universal / broadly applicable. It comes from ๋ณดํธ, meaning something that applies widely or generally.
- ๊ธฐ์ค = standard / criterion. It is the reference point used to judge, compare, or decide.
- ๊ท๋ฒ = norm. This can be social, legal, ethical, or institutional.
- ํ์ค = standard. Often used for technical, professional, linguistic, or quality standards.
- ์์น = principle. It is more conceptual and value-based than ๊ธฐ์ค.
- ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋ = global standard. This loan phrase often appears in business, governance, finance, technology, and professional ethics.
- ์ค์ = compliance / observance. It pairs naturally with ๋ฒ (law), ๊ท์ (regulation), ์ ์ฐจ (procedure), ๊ธฐ์ค (standard), and ์ค๋ฆฌ (ethics).
- ์ ์ฉ = application. It asks where and how a standard is used.
๐ ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence
- ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋์ ๋ง๋ ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ง๋ จํด์ผ ํ๋ค. (Companies must establish ethical standards that match global standards.) ๐ข
๊ธฐ์
= company, ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ค = ethical standards, ๋ง๋ จํ๋ค = to prepare or establish.
- ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฌธํ๊ถ์์๋ ์ค๋๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ผ ํ๋ค. (Universal standards should be persuasive even across diverse cultural spheres.) ๐
๋ฌธํ๊ถ = cultural sphere, ์ค๋๋ ฅ = persuasiveness, ๊ฐ์ง๋ค = to have.
- ๊ณต๊ณต ๊ธฐ๊ด์ ์ ์ฐจ์ ๊ท๋ฒ์ ์ฒ ์ ํ ์ค์ํด์ผ ํ๋ค. (Public institutions must strictly comply with procedural norms.) ๐๏ธ
๊ณต๊ณต ๊ธฐ๊ด = public institution, ์ ์ฐจ์ = procedural, ์ฒ ์ ํ = thoroughly.
๐งฉ General Formation Rule
Formal Korean often creates standard-related phrases by stacking nouns:
- ๋ณดํธ์ (universal) + ๊ธฐ์ค (standard) โ ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค (universal standard)
- ๊ตญ์ (international) + ๊ท๋ฒ (norm) โ ๊ตญ์ ๊ท๋ฒ (international norm)
- ์ค๋ฆฌ (ethics) + ๊ธฐ์ค (standard) โ ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ค (ethical standard)
- ์ ์ฐจ (procedure) + ์ค์ (compliance) โ ์ ์ฐจ ์ค์ (procedural compliance)
Helpful verb pairings:
- ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ง๋ จํ๋ค (to establish a standard)
- ๊ท๋ฒ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค (to follow a norm)
- ํ์ค์ ์ ์ฉํ๋ค (to apply a standard)
- ๊ท์ ์ ์ค์ํ๋ค (to comply with regulations)
- ์์น์ ํผ์ํ๋ค (to undermine a principle)
๐ Cross-check note
The core vocabulary was cross-checked against ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ตญ์ด์ / korean.go.kr, including ๋ณดํธ as something that broadly applies or reaches across cases, and the official use of language norms such as ํ์ค์ด ๊ท์ . โ
๐ช Synonym Alert
- ๊ธฐ์ค (standard / criterion) โ practical reference point for judgment or decision.
- ํ์ค (standard) โ often technical, official, quality-related, or widely recognized.
- ๊ท๋ฒ (norm) โ social, legal, ethical, or institutional expectation.
- ์์น (principle) โ broader value or guiding rule.
- ์ค์น (rule / guideline) โ formal rule-like guidance, often in institutional contexts.
โ ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge
- โ ๋ณดํธ์ = โabsolutely everyone agreesโ โ โ It means broadly applicable or generally valid, not unanimous approval.
- โ ๊ธฐ์ค, ํ์ค, and ๊ท๋ฒ are always interchangeable โ โ choose by context: judgment criterion, technical standard, or behavioral norm.
- โ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋ always means โbetterโ โ โ it means internationally recognized practice; quality still depends on context.
- โ ์ค์ํ๋ค only applies to laws โ โ it can apply to rules, procedures, standards, ethics, and agreements.
- โ ์์น is the same as ๊ท์ โ โ a principle guides; a regulation specifies.
You now have the vocabulary to talk about standards without sounding like a dusty rulebook. Global, ethical, procedural, and just a tiny bit glamorous. ๐โจ
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Choose the best standard-related word for each sentence. Read the Korean sentence, decide which concept fits, then open the Answer toggle for the nuance.
1. ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํ๋ ์ธ๊ถ ๋ณดํธ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ค.
The international community emphasizes universal standards for protecting human rights. ๐๏ธ
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๋ณดํธ์ โ The standard should apply broadly across people and societies.
2. ๊ธฐ์
์ ํ๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ค์ํด์ผ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ป์ ์ ์๋ค.
Companies can earn trust only when they comply with accounting standards. ๐
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๊ธฐ์ค โ ํ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ค means accounting standards or criteria.
3. ์ฌํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ณํํ ์ ์๋ค.
Social norms can change over time. ๐งโ๐คโ๐ง
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๊ท๋ฒ โ Shared social expectations are ๊ท๋ฒ.
4. ์์ ์ธ์ฆ์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ถฉ์กฑํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
To receive safety certification, technical standards must be satisfied. ๐ ๏ธ
Answer
ํ์ค โ Technical or quality standards are often ํ์ค.
5. ๊ณต๊ณต ๊ธฐ๊ด์ ์ ํด์ง ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
Public institutions must comply with established procedures. ๐๏ธ
Answer
์ค์ โ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ค์ํ๋ค means to follow procedures.
6. ์ ์ฑ
ํ๋จ์๋ ๋ช
ํํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
Policy judgment requires clear criteria. ๐งญ
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๊ธฐ์ค โ A decision needs a reference point: ๊ธฐ์ค.
7. ์ ์ ๋๋ ๊ตญ์ ๊ท๋ฒ์ ๋ง๊ฒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
The new system should be applied in line with international norms. ๐
Answer
์ ์ฉ โ ์ ์ฉ๋๋ค means to be applied.
8. ์ ๋ฌธ์ง ์ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๋จ์ํ ๊ท์ ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์ค์ํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ค.
Professional ethics are not merely regulations but important principles. ๐ฉโโ๏ธ
Answer
์์น โ A guiding value or principle is ์์น.
9. ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์์ฅ์์๋ ๊ตญ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ง์ถ ํ์ง ๊ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค์ํ๋ค.
In the global market, quality control aligned with international standards is important. ๐ฆ
Answer
์คํ ๋ค๋ โ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋ is a common business phrase.
10. ๊ท๋ฒ์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ฉด ์กฐ์ง์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ฝํ๋ ์ ์๋ค.
If norms are violated, the organizationโs legitimacy may weaken. ๐๏ธ
Answer
์ ๋น์ฑ โ ์ ๋น์ฑ means legitimacy, often tied to rule-following and norms.
Vocabulary Box
- ๋ณดํธ์ โ universal; broadly applicable
- ๊ธฐ์ค โ standard; criterion
- ๊ท๋ฒ โ norm
- ํ์ค โ standard, often technical or official
- ์ค์ํ๋ค โ to comply with; observe
- ์ ์ฉ๋๋ค โ to be applied
- ์์น โ principle
- ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋ โ global standard
- ์ ๋น์ฑ โ legitimacy
Tip ๐ก If people judge by it, it may be ๊ธฐ์ค; if people are expected to follow it, it may be ๊ท๋ฒ.
Want more reps? The Practice Hub below turns standards vocabulary into precise analysis. ๐
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๐ฏ Practice Hub โ Universal Standards
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Welcome to your standards-and-norms practice zone. ๐ This set helps you distinguish ๊ธฐ์ค (standard/criterion), ๊ท๋ฒ (norm), ํ์ค (standard), ์์น (principle), and ์ค์ (compliance) with polished advanced nuance.
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๐ Audio reminder: Use Korean Helper Widgets when long formal sentences need a pronunciation check.
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๐ Instructions: Complete each sentence with the best standards-related term. Focus on whether the sentence is about judgment, technical standardization, social expectations, legal/procedural compliance, or ethical principles.
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Exercise 1 โ Standards and Criteria ๐
A. ํ๊ฐ์ ๊ณต์ ์ฑ์ ์ํด ๋ช
ํํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
Clear criteria are needed for fairness in evaluation. โ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธฐ์ค โ A reference point for evaluation is ๊ธฐ์ค.
B. ๊ตญ์ ์ธ์ฆ์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ ค๋ฉด ํ์ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ถฉ์กฑํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
To receive international certification, quality standards must be met. โ
Answer
๊ธฐ์ค โ ํ์ง ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ถฉ์กฑํ๋ค is a natural compliance phrase.
C. ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํ์ ๊ณตํต ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ง์ถฐ ์์ฐ๋๋ค.
Technical products are produced according to common standards. ๐งฐ
Answer
ํ์ค โ Technical common standards are usually ํ์ค.
D. ๋ณดํธ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
Universal standards should consider cultural differences. ๐
Answer
๊ธฐ์ค โ ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค is the lessonโs central phrase.
E. ์๋ฃ ํด์์๋ ์ผ๊ด๋ ํ๋จ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์๊ตฌ๋๋ค.
Data interpretation requires consistent judgment criteria. ๐
Answer
๊ธฐ์ค โ Judgment requires a criterion: ํ๋จ ๊ธฐ์ค.
F. ํ๊ฒฝ ์ ํ์๋ ์๊ฒฉํ ์ธ์ฆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ ์ฉ๋๋ค.
Strict certification standards apply to eco-friendly products. ๐ฑ
Answer
๊ธฐ์ค โ ์ธ์ฆ ๊ธฐ์ค means certification criteria.
G. ์
๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋์์ง๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์
์ ๋น์ฉ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ์ ์๋ค.
If industry standards rise, company costs may also increase. ๐ญ
Answer
ํ์ค โ When the field-level technical or quality level rises, ํ์ค fits well.
H. ๊ณต์ ํ ์ฑ์ฉ์ ์ํด ์ฌ์ฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๊ณต๊ฐํ๋ค.
The screening criteria were disclosed for fair hiring. ๐งโ๐ผ
Answer
๊ธฐ์ค โ ์ฌ์ฌ ๊ธฐ์ค means screening criteria.
I. ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ฌํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ์ ์ป๋๋ค.
Universal standards gain force through social agreement. ๐ค
Answer
ํฉ์ โ A broadly accepted standard often depends on ์ฌํ์ ํฉ์.
J. ์๋ก์ด ํ์ค์ ์ค์ ํ์ฅ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ์ ์์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
A new standard should be applicable in real settings. ๐ ๏ธ
Answer
์ ์ฉ โ ์ ์ฉ๋๋ค means to be applied.
Vocabulary Box
- ํ๊ฐ โ evaluation
- ๊ธฐ์ค โ standard; criterion
- ํ์ง ๊ธฐ์ค โ quality standard
- ํ์ค โ technical/official standard
- ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค โ universal standard
- ํ๋จ ๊ธฐ์ค โ judgment criterion
- ์ธ์ฆ ๊ธฐ์ค โ certification criteria
- ์ฌ์ฌ ๊ธฐ์ค โ screening criteria
- ์ฌํ์ ํฉ์ โ social agreement
- ์ ์ฉ๋๋ค โ to be applied
Tip ๐ก ๊ธฐ์ค judges; ํ์ค standardizes.
Exercise 2 โ Norms and Principles ๐งญ
A. ์ฌํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์์ ํ๋์ ์กฐ์ ํ๋ค.
Social norms regulate membersโ behavior. ๐งโ๐คโ๐ง
Answer
๊ท๋ฒ โ Shared behavioral expectations are ๊ท๋ฒ.
B. ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์ ์ฌํ์์๋ ๋ฒ์น์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ค์ํ๋ค.
In a democratic society, the principle of rule of law is important. ๐ณ๏ธ
Answer
์์น โ A guiding value is ์์น.
C. ๊ตญ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ฌด์ํ๋ฉด ์ธ๊ต์ ๋นํ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋ค.
Ignoring international norms can invite diplomatic criticism. ๐๏ธ
Answer
๊ท๋ฒ โ ๊ตญ์ ๊ท๋ฒ is a natural phrase for shared international expectations.
D. ์ฐ๊ตฌ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์๋ฃ ์กฐ์์ ๊ธ์งํ๋ค.
The basic principles of research ethics prohibit data manipulation. ๐ฌ
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์์น โ Ethical foundations are usually called ์์น.
E. ๊ณต๋์ฒด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ฝํด์ง๋ฉด ์ ๋ขฐ๋ ํ๋ค๋ฆฐ๋ค.
When a communityโs norms weaken, trust also shakes. ๐๏ธ
Answer
๊ท๋ฒ โ Community expectations and shared rules are ๊ท๋ฒ.
F. ๊ธฐ์
๊ฒฝ์์๋ ํฌ๋ช
์ฑ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
Corporate management needs the principle of transparency. ๐
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์์น โ Transparency as a guiding value is a ์์น.
G. ์๋ก์ด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ค๋ฆฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋์ ํ๋ค.
New technology challenges existing ethical norms. ๐ค
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๊ท๋ฒ โ ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ท๋ฒ means ethical norms.
H. ๊ณต์ ์ฑ์ ์ ๋ ์ค๊ณ์ ํต์ฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ค.
Fairness is a core principle of institutional design. โ๏ธ
Answer
์์น โ A core guiding idea is ํต์ฌ ์์น.
I. ๋ฒ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณผ ์ฌํ์ ๊ท๋ฒ์ ํญ์ ๊ฐ์ง๋ ์๋ค.
Legal rules and social norms are not always the same. ๐
Answer
๊ท์ โ A specific legal rule is ๊ท์ , not a broad norm.
J. ๊ท๋ฒ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์์ ํ๋์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ ์ญํ ์ ํ๋ค.
Norms play a role in guiding membersโ behavior. ๐งญ
Answer
์ ๋ โ ์ ๋ํ๋ค means to guide or lead behavior in a direction.
Vocabulary Box
- ์ฌํ ๊ท๋ฒ โ social norm
- ์์น โ principle
- ๋ฒ์น โ rule of law
- ๊ตญ์ ๊ท๋ฒ โ international norm
- ์ฐ๊ตฌ ์ค๋ฆฌ โ research ethics
- ํฌ๋ช ์ฑ โ transparency
- ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ท๋ฒ โ ethical norm
- ๊ณต์ ์ฑ โ fairness
- ๊ท์ โ regulation; specific rule
- ์ ๋ํ๋ค โ to guide; induce
Tip ๐ก ์์น guides thinking; ๊ท๋ฒ guides behavior.
Exercise 3 โ Compliance and Application โ
A. ๋ชจ๋ ์ง์์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๋ณดํธ ๊ท์ ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
All employees must comply with personal-information protection regulations. ๐
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์ค์ โ Rules and regulations are naturally followed with ์ค์ํ๋ค.
B. ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ด๋
๋ถํฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋๋ค.
The new standard will be applied to all institutions starting next year. ๐๏ธ
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์ ์ฉ โ ์ ์ฉ๋๋ค means to be applied to a case or institution.
C. ์ ์ฐจ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ํ์ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋์ธ๋ค.
Procedural compliance increases administrative trust. ๐งพ
Answer
์ค์ โ ์ ์ฐจ ์ค์ is a common institutional phrase.
D. ๊ธฐ์
์ ํ๊ฒฝ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ถฉ์คํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
Companies must faithfully comply with environmental standards. ๐ฑ
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์ค์ โ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ค์ํ๋ค means to comply with standards.
E. ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ผ๊ด๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ ์ฑ
ํผ๋์ ์ค์ธ๋ค.
Consistent application of standards reduces policy confusion. ๐งญ
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์ ์ฉ โ The sentence is about how the standard is used in practice.
F. ๊ณ์ฝ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋ฒ์ ๋ถ์์ด ์๊ธธ ์ ์๋ค.
If contract terms are not observed, legal disputes may arise. ๐
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์ค์ โ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ ์ค์ํ๋ค means to observe conditions.
G. ์๋ก์ด ์์ ํ์ค์ ํ์ฅ ์ํฉ์ ๋ง๊ฒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
The new safety standard should be applied according to field conditions. ๐ฆบ
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์ ์ฉ โ Standards become meaningful through practical application.
H. ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋ น ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ์ ๋ฌธ์ง ์ ๋ขฐ์ ํต์ฌ์ด๋ค.
Compliance with the code of ethics is central to professional trust. ๐ฉบ
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์ค์ โ ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋ น ์ค์ means compliance with a code of ethics.
I. ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ํฉ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ์ ์๋ค.
Even universal standards may be applied differently depending on specific situations. ๐งฉ
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์ ์ฉ โ This tests nuance: universal does not mean mechanically identical in every case.
J. ๊ท์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ฌ๋ถ๋ ๊ฐ์ฌ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ํ์ธ๋๋ค.
Whether regulations were complied with is checked during the audit process. ๐
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์ค์ โ ์ค์ ์ฌ๋ถ means whether something was complied with.
Vocabulary Box
- ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๋ณดํธ ๊ท์ โ personal-information protection regulation
- ์ค์ํ๋ค โ to comply with; observe
- ์ ์ฉ๋๋ค โ to be applied
- ์ ์ฐจ ์ค์ โ procedural compliance
- ํ๊ฒฝ ๊ธฐ์ค โ environmental standard
- ์ผ๊ด๋ ์ ์ฉ โ consistent application
- ๊ณ์ฝ ์กฐ๊ฑด โ contract terms
- ์์ ํ์ค โ safety standard
- ์ค๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋ น โ code of ethics
- ์ค์ ์ฌ๋ถ โ whether there was compliance
Tip ๐ก ์ค์ follows rules; ์ ์ฉ uses rules in real situations.
Exercise 4 โ Global Standards and Legitimacy ๐
A. ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ง์ถ ๊ฒฝ์์ ํด์ธ ํฌ์์์๊ฒ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ค.
Management aligned with global standards gives trust to foreign investors. ๐ผ
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์คํ ๋ค๋ โ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋ is common in business Korean.
B. ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ํญ๋์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ์ป์ ๋ ํ์ ๊ฐ์ง๋ค.
Universal standards gain force when they obtain broad legitimacy. ๐๏ธ
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์ ๋น์ฑ โ A standard needs legitimacy to be persuasive and accepted.
C. ๊ตญ์ ๊ท๋ฒ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ธ๊ต์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ์ค์ผ ์ ์๋ค.
Following international norms can reduce diplomatic conflict. ๐๏ธ
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๊ฐ๋ฑ โ ์ธ๊ต์ ๊ฐ๋ฑ means diplomatic conflict.
D. ๋ฌธํ์ ๋ค์์ฑ์ ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ต๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์๋ค.
Cultural diversity can make the application of universal standards difficult. ๐ญ
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์ ์ฉ โ The issue is how to apply broad standards across contexts.
E. ๊ตญ์ ํ์ค์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ ์ ํ์ ์์ฅ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋์์ง ์ ์๋ค.
Products following international standards may have higher market acceptance. ๐
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์์ฉ์ฑ โ ์์ฉ์ฑ means acceptability or acceptance capacity.
F. ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ ํน์ ์ง๋จ์ ์ด์ต์ ๋์ด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ง๋ค.
Universal values have publicness beyond the interests of a specific group. ๐
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๊ณต๊ณต โ ๊ณต๊ณต์ฑ means publicness or public value.
G. ๊ตญ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ์์ฉํ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ๊ตญ๋ด ํ์ค๊ณผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
Rather than accepting international standards unconditionally, they should be harmonized with domestic reality. ๐งฉ
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์กฐํ โ ์กฐํํ๋ค means to harmonize or balance.
H. ์ธ๊ถ ๊ท๋ฒ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๊ฐ ํ๋ ฅ์ ๊ณตํต ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
Human-rights norms become a common foundation for cooperation between countries. ๐ค
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ํ ๋ โ ํ ๋ means foundation or basis.
I. ํ์คํ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ค์ด๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ฑ์ ๋์ธ๋ค.
Standardization reduces transaction costs and increases predictability. ๐ฆ
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์์ธก ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ โ Standards help people know what to expect.
J. ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋๋ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋นํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค.
Global standards require critical review depending on context. ๐
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๊ฒํ โ Not every global standard is automatically suitable; review matters.
Vocabulary Box
- ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋ โ global standard
- ์ ๋น์ฑ โ legitimacy
- ์ธ๊ต์ ๊ฐ๋ฑ โ diplomatic conflict
- ๋ฌธํ์ ๋ค์์ฑ โ cultural diversity
- ์์ฉ์ฑ โ acceptability
- ๊ณต๊ณต์ฑ โ publicness; public value
- ์กฐํํ๋ค โ to harmonize
- ํ ๋ โ foundation
- ์์ธก ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ โ predictability
- ๊ฒํ โ review
Tip ๐ก Global standards sound strong, but advanced analysis asks whether they are legitimate, applicable, and context-aware.
Exercise 5 โ Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐ก๏ธ
A. ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ชจ๋์ ๋ง์ฅ์ผ์น๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ํญ๋์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ปํ๋ค.
A universal standard means broad applicability, not unanimous agreement by everyone. ๐
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์ ์ฉ โ โ universal = unanimous โ โ
universal = broadly applicable.
B. ๊ธฐ์ ๊ท๊ฒฉ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ณต์์ ์ด๊ณ ํต์ผ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ณดํต ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค.
An official and unified standard such as a technical specification is usually called a standard. ๐ ๏ธ
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ํ์ค โ โ Using only ๊ธฐ์ค for every standard โ โ
use ํ์ค for technical or official standardization.
C. ํ๋์ ์ด๋๋ ์ฌํ์ ๊ธฐ๋๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๊ฐ๊น๋ค.
A social expectation that guides behavior is closer to a norm. ๐งโ๐คโ๐ง
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๊ท๋ฒ โ A behavioral expectation is a norm, not merely a measurement criterion.
D. ๊ฐ์น ํ๋จ์ ๋ฐํ์ด ๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ค.
An idea that forms the basis of value judgment can be called a principle. ๐งญ
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์์น โ ์์น is more value-guiding than ๊ท์ .
E. ๋ฒ๊ณผ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ค.
Following laws and procedures is a matter of compliance. โ
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์ค์ โ โ ์ค์ only for laws โ โ
also for procedures, ethics, standards, and agreements.
F. ๊ท์ ์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์กฐํญ์ด๊ณ ์์น์ ๋ ๋์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ค.
A regulation is a specific clause, while a principle is a broader direction. ๐งญ
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๋ฐฉํฅ โ This catches the pitfall: principles guide; regulations specify.
G. ๊ตญ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๊ตญ๋ด ์ ๋์์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ฑ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ฐ์ ธ์ผ ํ๋ค.
International standards should be examined together with compatibility with domestic systems. ๐งฉ
Answer
์ ํฉ โ ์ ํฉ์ฑ means suitability or compatibility.
H. ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํ ๋ค๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋๋ผ๋ ๋นํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ํ์ํ๋ค.
Even when following global standards, critical review is necessary. ๐
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๊ฒํ โ โ global standard = automatically better โ โ
context-aware review is still needed.
I. ๊ณต์ ํ ์ ๋๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ผ๊ด์ฑ๊ณผ ์ ์ฉ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ฑ์ ์๊ตฌํ๋ค.
A fair system requires consistency of criteria and fairness of application. โ๏ธ
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๊ณต์ โ ๊ณต์ ์ฑ means fairness; standards must be applied fairly.
J. ๋ณดํธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ํ์ค๊ณผ ์ถฉ๋ํ ๋ ์กฐ์ ๊ณผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค.
When universal standards collide with reality, adjustment and deliberation are necessary. ๐ฃ๏ธ
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ผ์ โ A strong standard becomes usable through discussion, adjustment, and legitimate application.
Vocabulary Box
- ์ ์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ โ applicability
- ๋ง์ฅ์ผ์น โ unanimity
- ํ์ค โ technical/official standard
- ๊ท๋ฒ โ norm
- ์์น โ principle
- ์ค์ โ compliance
- ๊ท์ โ regulation
- ์ ํฉ์ฑ โ suitability; compatibility
- ๊ฒํ โ review
- ๊ณต์ ์ฑ โ fairness
Tip ๐ก The final test is precision: choose the word that matches the level โ principle, norm, criterion, standard, or compliance.
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๐ Excellent work โ you can now discuss universal standards with nuance: ๊ธฐ์ค judges, ํ์ค standardizes, ๊ท๋ฒ guides behavior, and ์ค์ keeps everyone from freestyle chaos. ๐๐