INVENTIONS
What is a touch screen?
This invention lets you control a phone with your finger.
What is Asia?
The continent where South Korea is located.
Before touch screens, people used these or a special pen.
buttons
South Korea is a large country.
False
People use this invention to watch videos, play games, and read books without buttons.
a tablet
What is an MP3 player?
This small device started the era of mobile digital music.
South Korea is one of the most modern and _____ countries.
developed
Before MP3 players, people listened to music on these big, round objects.
records
The MP3 player was invented in South Korea.
True
You can listen to this type of music on an MP3 player, bus, or train.
digital music
What is a smart card?
You use this plastic card to pay for bus and train rides.
The number of people living in South Korea (in millions).
more than 50 million
Before smart cards, people used these to pay on transport.
tickets
A smart card can only be used for travel.
False.
It can be used for payment.
This is a general term for phones, computers, and TVs — something South Korea produces.
electronics
What is an internet café?
A place where you can pay to use the internet on a computer.
South Korea has a very important one of these for electronics.
industry
Life before digital music was less _____.
convenient/comfortable
The text says South Korea isn't important in technology.
False
This industry makes things like smartphones and computers, and South Korea is very strong in it.
electronics industry
This common feature on phones and ATMs was invented to replace buttons and special pens.
a touch screen
South Korea isn't large, but it is very modern and has many people. We call this a densely populated, _____ country.
developed / modern
What are cassettes and records?
Before you could carry all your music in your pocket, you had to carry these big machines or these round plastic tapes.
The text states that South Korean scientists invented the touch screen and the first MP3 player.
True
Thanks to a South Korean invention, you can now do this to a screen with your finger to give it an instruction.
touch