Everyone wants success. And I want it either. Who can say he or she doesn’t want it? If so, what is success? Money? Honor? or power? To be honest, let alone two things, honor and power, I want to be economically succesful. I mean, I want big money. Weirdly, people seem to consider money as a negative thing although they want to get it if there is a chance. The money can not be the only reason of my life, but it can be stimulus for me to be succesful. With money, I want to do many things. That would be buying a car and house or supporting my future family. I really know it well that how miserable the life without money is because I had experience the life before. I don’t go back to the days.

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There is a popular adage that says, “Life begins at forty”. Simple truths about life are expressed and popularized by proverbs or sayings. However, people interpret these in many different ways, normally depending on their experiences. I assume that the reason why the saying goes like this is because people in their early days usually only see what’s in front of them, and don’t know much about life resulting from the lack of many life experiences. However, I disagree with the statement because of three reasons.

To begin with, people already experience life as soon as they come into the world. As individuals go through the normal process of growth and development, they are already experiencing life. This includes gaining knowledge and understanding about the environment and people around us. Life is an endless process of doing ordinary activities, accepting responsibilities and accomplishing tasks. Like I said, not a single person has the exact same life style and way a person thinks and behaves. Ask yourself with a question like this. What’s the specific criterium when life begins? It is really hard to say only the specific time like 40.

Another point is that saying that “life begins at forty” is like saying that everything before that point is not life. People experience changes in life. One stage flows to the next without people even noticing it. However, as people grow and mature, they become more apprehensive of what the next stage of life will bring. Fears and questions are raised up. They are afraid of getting old and ask themselves if reaching a certain age is the end of youth. Others might start thinking of missed opportunities and might become regretful of the decisions they have made. These make people re-evaluate their lives, but it doesn’t mean that this is the point where their lives began.

Final view point of mine is that the saying “life begins at forty” applies more to males than females. This is the time when most men experience mid-life crisis. Doubts about their physical and emotional capacity emerge. These psychological problems urge them to relive the days of their youth. They fear getting old since they believe that this might be the end of some aspects of their lives, including love and adventure.

In conclusion, people have different life styles and thoughts about many things and see things differently. Sometimes we see things that others don’t really see or see them but don’t want to accept that they have seen them. The meanings of proverbs also differ from one person to the next. The moment a person takes his or her first breath is the moment when life begins. Turing forty is only another stage in life that people must face with courage and hope for the future.

I want to be successful in many parts of my life. Of course, if some people think up the word in their heads, theiy will think about fame or momey. howeverI think the word, success, includes many things, such as love, family and friends including fame and moy. Fame and money can be measured easily with specific standard. However, in parts of family and love, it is very hard to classify them. It is not a matter to be seen to eyes.For the reason,I think being successful in love and family is more difficult than in fame and money.

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I want a success but I haven’t exactly thought about how I get to a success. I just want to real some articles dealing with successful people in whatever their fields. then there’s TV programs that introduce to us from the failure of their life to successful life I don’t know how they dragged themselves to successful world, I just envy them, now I’m thinking that maybe they have successful genes from their parents or just they just make efforts to make a success or achieve something others cannot even reach. when I look at successful people they are all diligent and see things in a different way, I feel it’s amazing because I feel maybe Im dull? i don’t know. maybe I’m facing the harderest time in my life which is all about getting a job and all the undecided life directions.

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         ‘It takes only 8 years to graduating of university, isn’t it so fast. Ha ha ha’. This saying criticizes these days university tuition issue. Although,  we have to take 8semesters for graduating. It just takes 4 years actually. but because of huge expensive entrance tuition, students have to make their money after each semester and resister semester after next. According to research, more than 80% Korea university students have ever been pressed about tuition and more than 30% students of seoul universities take our loans to make tuition. It doesn’t make sense. Education is not the member of market principle.

Education is public service. According to Constitution, a nation has the right of education.  And education is not just for individual but it can be helpful for society. because educated people are the engines of future social progress. So it shouldn’t be left to the market.

         People who against half-price tuition maintain it is form of populism which is not realistic policy but just for getting interest from nation as politic purpose. They think it is impossible to half-price tuition by present national finance. To do this, government collect taxes from nation, it will be burden to nation again. It is possible. but it is not best way. Collect tax is not the only way to half-price tuition. We already pay taxes, so use it. For example, repealing the tax cuts for the rich feed is one of the ways. : tax cut for the rich feed is 90 trillion in Korea.

         Some people think education is option. They said that our nation, Korea, is applying compulsory education until middle school, so university is out of responsibility of government. but in Korea, is it matter of personal choice weather enter university or not? Actually in Korea, university has been recognized as a course of getting a job. Furthermore entrance rate of university is 80%. Graduating of university is connected directly to getting job. So education is not just option as social atmosphere in Korea.

         Public service should be universal. So everyone should have an education opportunity regardless of their parent’s economic power. Especially, society makes silent oppression that a university education is essential. In this situation, entrance tuition burden which make debtor students is not a big fuss and half-price tuition is also not just political demand. This demand is natural and government actualized it by viable alternative.

“I don’t love man, I love a person who is a man” This is famous sentence related to homosexuality. Recent, Korean drama start to include homosexual things. Still, there are a lot of people who hate the homosexual codes in drama for several reasons. However, this is hot issue and people think that this is worth enough to argue. This situation already can be one of the evidence that people ready to talk about homosexual to a positive way. Korean government has to legalize homosexual couple marriage because of diversity, the right to pursue people’s happiness and it doesn’t make society dizzy.

First of all, some people said heterosexual is normal thing originally people love opposite sex. However, according to Foucault, knowledge and ‘truth’ are produced through discourses. There are no pre-existent ‘truths’ that representations simply reflect. ‘Seen to be believed’ which is written by Richard Dyer wrote this “’Homosexual’ and ‘lesbian’ have been negative sexual categories, at best to be viewed pathologically, at worst as moral degeneracy.” People tend to think that homosexuality is sickness or sin. They believe that heterosexual is right thing, but what is the truthful and normative? Can we believe normative ways are really normative truth? When something becomes ‘common sense’, it also becomes naturalized. After naturalizing, people don’t think about whether it is truth. They just accept is as a truth and don’t want to challenge it. However, what you believe is not truth. It is just your belief.

In addition, homosexual couple marriage is right to pursue their happiness. Everybody have right to meet and marry person whom he or she love. Nobody disturbs it even though this is not major. This is their choice. This is their freedom. The freedom doesn’t hurt people. Therefore, people also cannot hurt them. Homosexual people also one of the members whom society have to protect them from other force which can hurt them. Not to bother them is not society’s duty. To protect them is society’s duty.

Furthermore, homosexual cannot throw the society into chaos. When it comes to homosexual thing, people might say that it has bad influence to the young generation. However, this point of view is already quite distorted. People follow their inborn tendency. Even though young child see homosexual couple who live next door, it cannot influence to the child. The child just keeps his or her natural tendency. The homosexual couple lives their life and the child also lives his or her life.

Homosexual is not sickness and it is not a sin. This is only their tendency. There is no pre-existent truth in the world. Korean government should accept diversity of people’s tendency and protect their right to pursue happiness through legalization of the homosexual couple marriage.

What are the things that come into your mind when we say “Christmas”? Of course it’s the occasion where even the most cold-hearted person shows generosity and warmth. Aside from generosity and warmth, there is a thing that we should put on one of our hot topics which we can see all around the city, those twinkling, little, electric lights, in short as “light bulb”. When it’s December, we can see trees along the streets covered from head to toe by light bulbs. Some says it’s beautiful but there are hidden facts we want to ignore. People have to remove the light bulbs which wrapped by bulbs because it can be stress people’s eyes, it torments trees and it is a waste of electricity.
To begin with, all of you know about our eyes, and how they get stress. The causes of the eye stress can be some activities that cause you to focus your eyes for long periods of time, and the lights around us. In spite of too much stress caused by sign boards, radiant lights from TVs and computers already, when Christmas season comes people cover the trees with a lot of lights which isn’t beautiful anymore for it adds more stress to the eyes. Also, because of the lights bulbs, drivers sometimes cannot see important traffic sign. We call it light pollution.
In addition, we should discuss about putting light bulbs is that trees are also suffering. Nobody said that Christmas is an occasion that other life forms too should be treated as well like humans but it’s just too selfish for human beings to afflict trees for a moment of romance or art. It is painful for trees to be wrapped around by electric wire and feel the heat of the light bulb. We should be considerate to trees especially on such occasions.
Moreover, economically it is a waste of electricity. Based on what I have said before, it ends up as a waste of electricity. Over a month, around thousands of lights bulbs are lit every night. Unfortunately, it is useless. Actually, people don’t need the lights. Korea is oil-poor. We don’t have oil enough to light the thousands of bulbs around the trees which are arranged along the path.
After few weeks, we will face beautiful and cheerful Christmas. We can enjoy Christmas without light bulbs. If people remove the thousands of light bulbs around the hundreds of trees, people can enjoy more peaceful Christmas. Christmas season is beautiful because it filled with people’s laughing sounds, the bell sounds of the Salvation army not because of the lights bulbs.

Few years ago, government made a law related to school food. They said that cafeteria should not sell carbonated drink, soda. It looks like that Korean government really worried about Korean students. However, they missed huge thing or they just ignore it. Korean students’ obesity is not because of carbonated drink. Actually, Korean students don’t have time to exercise. Especially, middle school and high school students only have 2 hours for gym class a week. Even, gym class is optional class, it is not essential class to high school second and third grade. According to Seoul metropolitan office of education, 14.1% of the students never exercise during a week. For them, walking and claiming stairs is exercise activity. Also, 23% of the Korean students answered that they don’t have gym class even once during a year. This situation brings a lot of problems and school should teach students gym and expand time to exercise. This is because exercising helps people to keep their health, it can be their hobby and exercising is important especially to the adolescents

First of all, they don’t know how to enjoy exercise and they don’t have chance to enjoy exercise. Exercise is really important to their life because exercising brings us nice feeling and healthy life. If school doesn’t teach them gym, it means that school just takes their healthy life. Also, exercise takes people’s stress. People can release their stress and violence when they exercise. This is very useful and effective way to remove stress. Therefore, enjoying exercise is really essential thing to students.

Also, variety of exercise can be students’ hobby in their future. Unfortunately, they miss it a lot. According to the research, students are asked this question “Why don’t you exercise?” 45% of the students answered that we don’t have time to exercise and 21% of the students said that I don’t like gym and exercise. What do you think about this answer? These answers can be understood two ways. First, they don’t like gym, the other is they don’t know how to exercise. The latter is right. Exercise like swimming, running or jumping rope can be a good hobby, even though it is simple thing. However, nobody teaches them how to exercise. School don’t have right to take their hobby.

In addition, Adolescent period like 16,17,18-years-old is really important time because they have experienced a lot of change physically. If they don’t have chance to exercise, their body cannot develop perfectly. Especially, during 3 years their lung grows up very much and become perfect.

I cannot forget one sentence. One student wrote this sentence in internet. “Before the summer vacation, I always go to the food restaurant for lunch in school but after the vacation, school serves the lunch from the restaurant to our class so I don’t have to move even lunch time.” The school and the Ministry of Education let students move and exercise. This is their duty for Korean future.

“Fragmentary knowledge is not related to liberal. The people only have knowledge is the most useless in the world.” Alfred North Whithead said this in his book ‘The aims of education.’ Today, university students tend not to consider philosophy subject. They only focus on practical learning. I can make sure this situation brings about disaster in our future. Liberal subject is necessary. It is not optional thing. We have to study. This is because liberal subject stir people to think creatively, when liberal subject and practical subject combined, students can be real talented people and study liberal subject is not only students’ duty but also their right.

First of all, liberal art is driving force of human’s development. Spider can make strong and elaborate net which cannot be broken down by wind. When it comes to sunflower, we can see how the seeds are arranged mathematically. However, human don’t have any skill. Even though human’s poor skill, human build great civilization. What makes people to construct a great civilization? That is because of liberal art. Human is also kind of animal. Human also have animal needs like sexual desire and appetite. However, human can be distinguished because of liberal art.

In addition, when people study liberal art and practical study both, the people can be real talented people who can contribute to developing this society. Liberal art is based on practical study. If people cannot understand liberal art enough, they also cannot know practical study well. This is the study’s dualism. Liberal art and practical study never be divided. These two studies have to be harmonized. When people focus on only practical study, people become un-intellect experts. When people focus on liberal art also, people become creative people who are essential in the world.

Moreover, today, a lot of university students try to get a nice job. They study English to get a high score on TOEIC, try to attain many licenses, go abroad volunteer without deep thinking. Students try to do their best in order to be a people whom big company need, whom big company needs. They don’t try to be what they want to be. Finally, they confused between what they want to be and what company want them to be. In this situation, after they get a good job. This is because they cannot find their way and standardized make them stressful without thinking about themselves. When people have their conviction and philosophy about their work, they can satisfy and achieve their goal. Imagine that there are two people one is only study to get a nice job without her or his thinking. Another has her or his own belief and conviction of her or his work. If you were a CEO, who do you want to hire? Of course, company also wants to hire creative and thoughtful people.

Aristotle said this “The happiest life is seeking the truth life.” I hope that university students also live the happiest life.

Few years ago, MBC asked people who are from 10 years old to 60 years old “What do you regret most?” 10’s people answered “I regret that I didn’t study hard.” 20’s people answered “I regret that I didn’t study hard past.” 30’s people also answered “I regret that I didn’t study hard when I was young.” 40’s people answered that “I regret that I didn’t study hard.” 50’s people answered that “I regret that I didn’t study hard.” Now, can you guess the answer of 60’s people? 60’s people answered that “I regret that I didn’t make my children study hard.” Study is important part of Korean life. Many Korean think that human resource is our future. Therefore, competition between students is also high in terms of their grade. According to National Statistical Office, one student spends 240000 won for their study in 2010. Korea has huge private education market. Korean government tries to force the private education market not to grow up anymore. Unfortunately, their efforts are not working because people think that private education disturbs students and it brings a lot of problem in this society. However, this is their mistake. Korean government should encourage private education because it has good education system, it can take care of children after school and the price of private education will be low.

To begin with, actually Korean private education system is good. ‘Hakwon’ teach the students effectively. Especially, in terms of English, it is not enough to learn only from school. Students also can have more chance to repeat their study. ‘Hokwon’ system makes the students study hard and get a good grade. ‘Hakwon’ program is very efficiently, many students can be evidence of this argument. Repeating is a big trait of ‘Hakwon’ system. ‘Hakwon’ teach students until they know exactly.

In addition, ‘Hakwon’ can be a place to take care of students or protect them from other dangerous system. Most of the parents have job and they cannot take care of their children. In this situation, students can break the rule easily. For example, they can smoke or drink alcohol after school. Also, they might not consider their study because parents who have a job cannot control them. However, students who have to go ‘Hakwon’ after school, they cannot break the rule easily and they have to focus on their study. ‘Hakwon’ can less students’ breakaway.

Moreover, if government encourages private education, the price will be low. Many students cannot receive private education even though they want to study more because of the price. If government let ‘Hakwons’ competitive each other, they will less the education fee. Students can choose ‘Hakwon’ among the various ‘Hakwon.’ It can guarantee students’ right to select what they want. Also, the ‘Hakwon’ will try to develop their program be better. The good system of ‘Hacwon’ helps students study hard and effectively.

‘Hacwon’ should be spread in Korea and students who are underprivileged also can get good education. Government has to help the students not to regret in their future about their study.