世

Organization name

Unification Church (kor: Tongil Gyohoe); The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

forever and ever

worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism

Buddhism

retribution spanning the three temporal worlds (present, past, future)

all the worldly (mundane) matters; everything in this world

drama about domestic life

Computing

world coordinate; WC

Organization name

World Council of Churches; WCC

conventional wisdom

generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues

intergenerational (social) exchange

secular humanism

main currents (the trend) of thinking in the world

doomsday clock

Quotation; From the death poem of Ishikawa Goemon

the sand on the beach may disappear, but the makings of thieves never shall

Proverb

life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient

this transient world

Computing

fourth generation language; 4GL

Proverb

a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next

intergenerational equity

three-family house

to flatter; to pay empty compliments

second-generation believers; people following their parents' religion

21st century