After watching the movie “Inside Job”

Do you know the exact reason of the 2008 financial crisis? In my case I thought I knew, but I realized that I was all wrong after watching this movie. This movie criticizes the reality of this break down and wants to point out the problem of current America society that is ruled by the wall street key players.

By the bankrupt of the main companies like AIG, Lehman Brothers, and Godlman Sachs, there was a severe economic crisis in the year 2008. For the economies are all linked together, this financial crisis had a huge effect not only to America but also to the world economy. Millions and millions of people lost there job and loosed their money. This movie is showing how the 2008 financial crises occurred, and it is pointing out that the financial crises was occurred because of the corruption of the key players and employers who were the core of these main companies.

In this movie they interview economists, professors and CEOs who know well about the US economy and the financial crisis. These people all say that the 2008 financial crisis was decisively occurred by the deregulation. By this deregulation, the key players of the main companies played a fraud against the customers and laundered money. The most important thing is that within the company they tried to help conceal this fact. The irony is that the government hires these people as a the treasury secretary. So they call the government the ‘Wall street government’

Before I saw this movie I did not know that the 2008 financial crisis was occurred because of the company itself. As watching it, I realized that this movie has the same opinion as Jang Ha-joon who is an economist and a professor of Cambridge University. Jang Ha-joon emphasizes the role of the government and their regulation. He believes the role of the government should be expanded and the restrictions are necessary. I also think that because there were know regulations against there companies like Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, they tried to only consider their profits and expand their volumes. So this financial crisis was not an accident but was caused by an out of control industry.

This movie simply interviews people and shows charts. However it has a great effect on showing people what is the truth about the break down of the US economy, and it also lets me think about the influential of America. We should always have an eye on the world economy because nowadays everything is linked together and they give and receive the impact.

Interracial marriage in Korea

Nowadays we can often hear of the word “globalization”. This word means the world is becoming closer and closer. So are the countries. We can say that the boundaries between countries have no meanings. As the world is becoming one, interracial marriage is also prevalent. However this can be an issue because there are not only advantages but disadvantages too.

To go ahead with the good influences interracial marriage can bring, I think that interracial marriage can solve population problems in Korea. Korea’s birthrate is low, and it keeps falling as years pass by. Therefore I see interracial marriage as a solution.

Interracial marriage can also help to improve political relations between countries. As the world is becoming closer, country’s economical, political, social events can give a big impact to each other. They need to help each other and these marriage can play an important role to improve relationships between countries.

Finally, interracial marriage can carry out cultural understanding. They can experience each others culture through marriage. It makes them learn their difference of culture, lifestyle and language They would have to tolerate and under stand each other.

However I know there are many problems as well, like the children of mixed percentage can experience a lot of difficulty and have identity crisis. Or parents themselves can also be treated bad and suffer from the difference of langage and culture. That is why I believe that their should be many programs that support these multi-cultural families, because the number of these families are increasing rapidly.

There are many arguments about interracial marriage. I think there many advantages and the problems will be solved, because as time goes by people are becoming open minded as the world is also becoming a global village. Interracial marriage is a natural happening and its number will increase. We should accept and regard it in a good way.

Oragan trafficking and organ donation

A few days ago, I read a article about organ trafficking, and felt that this is a serious problem. The article pointed out the problems of it and made me think about not only organ trafficking, but also about organ donation. I want to talk whether selling organs should be illegal or not, and whether people who donate their organs after death should have the top priority when they need organ transplant. I also want to compare laws in other countries related to organ donation. In my opinion I believe that selling organs can increase many crimes and cause people to sell it in unfair prices. Also, I think that people who donate organs should be moved on the top list of organ transplant.

First, I would like to argue about selling organs. Some people say that we can sell our hair and our blood, but they wonder why selling organs is illegal? We can reproduce our hair and our blood, but we can not reproduce our organs because we only have one of each in our body. For this reason, many crimes will increase to buy and sell these precious organs. Especially I’ve heard that in the process of buying and selling organs illegally, the brokers use deceptions and violence to buy kidneys from impoverished people. This is a serious problem and need to be strictly scrutinized by the law.

Secondly, I think that the people who donate their organs should be given the privilege of receiving organ transplant. Even though they voluntarily donate their organs I think that they should be appreciated for what they have done. We should pay them buy putting them on the top list when he or she needs organ transplant right away. They can also encourage people to donate their organs afterwards by giving the donors the privilege.

Finally, I want to argue about laws related to organ donation. They are different in America and European countries. In the American law they have to sign a form to have their organs donated, while in the European countries they automatically considered a donor unless they expressly declare that they do not want to be one. I think the American laws is better where people have the right to choose whether they will donate their organs or not after their death, because everyone should have the right to decide.

The article I read made me think deeply about organ donation and organ trafficking. In Korea, organ donation is legal while organ trafficking is not. I know that selling organs have many problems, and that is why the law of selling it should be illegal. Also, people should have the right to choose whether to donate their organs or not. When they do, they should be appreciated for what they have done in a way of giving them the priority of organ transplanted when needed. In this way crimes will decrease and people will be encouraged to donate their organs than before.

Should foriegners take an audition even though they can not speak Korean?

Nowadays auditioning programs like ‘American idol’ in America or ‘Super Star K’ and ‘The Great Audition’ in Korea are popular. People audition and try to show their talents on these shows regardless of age, sex, and race. Especially on the audition show ‘Super Star K’ a foreigner named Chris appeared on the show. He couldn’t speak Korean but he was an outstanding singer. Some people think that foreigners who can not speak Korean should not audition on Korea auditioning programs. However I disagree with those opinion.

First of all, the purpose of these programs are not to show off their language skills. These programs are made to give the opportunity to show one’s talent to the public. This means that the auditioning programs are focused on finding people’s possibility to become a great singer and make them one. Everyone has the chance to take part in this audition if they only have the talent to sing.

Some people say that language can be a barrier. However I strongly believe that foreigners can definitely improve their Korean as time goes by. Even though they can not speak a word they can fully deliver the feelings and emotions to people. For an example, there is a famous singer in Korean, and her name is Park Junghyun. She lived in the states for a very long time and could not speak a single word in Korean. However she is one of the most popular singers in Korea and is loved by many people. I think this shows that foreigners can absolutely improve their Korean and can communicate through singing even though they can not speak Korean.

Finally we can see that Korean actually don’t care whether foreigners can speak their language or not. This is proved by the fact that Chris, who auditioned on ‘Super Star K’, made it to the top7 even though he could not speak Korean. This shows that people in Korea do not care about their Korean skill. They just want a singer who can move their hearts by singing, and Chris dragged Korea people’s attention in this point of view.

There are some voices saying that people that have an audition on auditioning TV programs have to require language skills basically. However language has no relationship with showing one’s talent in singing, and has no problem delivering their emotion to the audience. Though foreigners can not speak Korean they have the right to audition and show their potential.

Should we always follow our compulsions?

Everyone have feelings and turn these into expressions or actions. Sometimes we can not, because there are several reasons to hold these feelings back. There is a word ‘compulsion’ and we usually use this word when we have strong desires that are difficult to hold back or control. For an example, sometimes when we do our homework we want to go to bed so bad, but we can’t because we have to do the homework which is due until the next day. In this case we can call our strong desire longing to go to bed compulsion, and I want to talk whether we should follow our compulsion or not. In my opinion I think we have to follow our duties.

Everyone has something to do whatever their jobs are. They have the responsibility to carry out their duties. Some people are rewarded by accomplishing it, while others have to deal with the consequences of their actions. This depends whether they have done it or not, and individuals have to pay the prices when they only have followed their desires. That is why I believe that one must carry out their duties rather then their compulsions to undertake their responsibilities whatever position they are in.

Also, if everyone only follow their strong desires the world would definitely become destabilized. Imagine living in a world where everyone tries to avoid difficult work. Relationships would either break or would not last long. People would put of their work, and it will become a total chaos. To make the world run properly people should sometimes keep their compulsions that give bad effect to theirselves and other people.

Most or all, when we go after our compulsions the person that feels most uncomfortable is the person himself or herself. Everyone knows what their responsibilities are how they should behave in situations. They also know the consequences they have to pay later on. That is why people should absolutely carry out what they must do for their own comfort.

Everyone stands in the middle of their desires and their duties, and we are the person who knows exactly what we should do. We should not always follow our compulsion to carry out our responsibilities, keep the world stabilized, and make ourselves live in comfort.