During the past twenties years, the divorce rate has been steadily increasing in Korea. I personally think there are three main reasons for the increase.
One of the reasons is that today, women are more powerful and independent than before as they get financial ability and high education. In the past, even when couples have big problems in a relationship, or husbands do something wrong seriously, women used to be patient and hesitated to get divorced mainly because of financial problem and their children. However, today, as women work in a society and received high education, they get financial ability and tend to consider their own life first.
The second reason is that couples don’t have enough time to spend together as society changes fast. It causes results of rising divorce rate due to no communication between couples. According to the National Statistical Office(NSO), the 1st reason for divorce is cited as character differences between spouses and it’s approximately 50%. Also, the 3rd reason is trouble among family members. It shows that communication is the most important between couples in a marriage. However, today they are almost double-income families and life is busy, so they don’t have enough time to understand each other by communication.
The last reason is spousal infidelity. As spousal infidelity rate is increasing, divorce rates are on the rise as well. According to the latest news report, 40% of the divorce linked to infidelity.
The divorce rate of Korea ranked third in the world following the United States and Sweden. According to the NSO, 125,000 couples in Korea were divorced last year and fortunately, it has been increasing each year.

Recently, with increased immigration around the world, interracial marriages are increasing as well. Some people have no problem with mixed-race couples, but others disagree with that. What are the disadvantages of interracial marriages?
First, interracial marriages can make married life harder because communication is more difficult. Also, it’s not easy to understand each other because they are from a different culture.
Second, he or her can have a hard time in adapting to a new country and an new environment because one of the couples has to live in a foreign country.
Finally, people everywhere in the world worry about mixed marriages because of problems their children might encounter. Their kids may lack real cultural identity, or they might suffer from racism.
Although this could be true, interracial marriages are increasing. However, Their divorce have been soaring notably each year at the same time. Therefore, if you want interracial marriages, you need to think carefully about these things.

In modern society, communication methods are becoming more and more diverse. Almost all people use a telephone at home, cell-phone, computer and internet, and so on everyday. Those are becoming essential in our life and make our life more convenient.
However, because of over-reliance on those communication devices, we seem to miss the personal touch. Some people talk on the on-line messanger even if they sit next to each other at work. Even others use the text message on the cell-phone when they say break-up to their girlfriend or boyfriend. That’s hard to understand for me.
Sometimes, traditional forms of communication are more powerful and impressive. I have received hand-written letters from friends on special days such as birthday and Christmas. That makes me more pleased.
On some occasions, it can be a better way to express our true heart to others by writing a hand-written letter or talking in person.

Although I was interested in the English subject since I was young, I didn’t study much. But as I grow older, I wanted to study English more properly and that is the basic reason why I chose it as my major. As I was learning English, sometimes I felt frustrated due to the lack of my ability however, I always encourage myself to do better. There are two reasons why I am studying English so hard.

The first reason is to have confidence. I wish to have fluency with English that is equivalent to the English majored student. I had
difficult times in communicating with the English native professor at first. And then I felt a disappointment with my never improving
comprehension and writing skills. But these days, I try to speak in English and willing to make the sacrifice of the mistakes. I try to
read many articles written in English and try to write as much as I can in English to improve my overall grammar skills.

The second reason is that I want to have a career. Since English is now an international language, the Korean government introduced English as an essential language to keep pace with the tendency of the times. That is why we need to be prepared with good English skills to get employment by a good company or to take important examinations from Korea. For me, it is also vital that I need to have good English skills to get a job I want and to position myself in the working environment.

In conclusion, I am studying English for the reasons but aware of the time that it requires. I feel happy and rewarded when I notice the improvement. There is no rule of right in studying English. Just that you need to make continuous effort. I am studying English to improve myself and to reach my goal.

Recently, the crimes involving children have taken place constantly such as raping and abduction children and murdering. That’s incredibly horrible crime.
By the way, What we need to consider is that many problems are revealed handling with these cases. Above all, one of the biggest problem is negligent reaction of police. They sometimes mishandle these cases and cover up those missing criminals. That’s very incompetent and irresponsible conduct. So people feel very angry at them at the moment.
Also, many people are arguing about that current punishment for heinous crimes like this case is enough? Police don’t release of their personal information and face due to personal rights. However, the rights of the victims are more important and we must protect future victims. Generally, they are in jail for years and commit crimes again.
We need to establish a harsher punishment.
How can we imagine the parents of victims mind? To prevent recurring crimes, we have to consider seriously about these problems.