If you are a woman, of course, you will want to lose weight. This means most women want to lose their weight. Also, some men want to lose weight like most of women. As every woman wants to do that, there are many ways to lose weight. These are different according to time of results, processes, physical influences and so on. For example, many ways for losing weight are classified into exercising, following a particular diet, having a surgery and reducing calories.

     The most popular and useful way is exercising. Most women think this is the most effective. In this way, there are so many specific exercises, too, for example, boxing, weight training, jazz dancing and so on.  In Korea, nowadays, the most popular exercise is Yoga. As that, most Korean women choose this. However, they should admit that they have to endure results for a long time. Also, it is not easy to show results quickly.

     Another way is following a particular diet. This means people plan to eat only one kind of food in every meal, for example, only grapes or only potatoes. I think this is a very unhealthy way because it can make people damage our healthy balance. Therefore, if we follow the particular diet for a long time, we will not be able to lose weight and also we might get sick. According to these reasons, I do not like to recommend this way.

     If some people want to lose weight and show the results very quickly, they will think about liposuction. Liposuction makes them very slim directly by medical surgeries. This is a very comfortable way in some people that do not want to exercise and show results very quickly like people who choose to follow a particular diet. This is also a very unhealthy way because after suddenly losing weight in a day, people can have difficulties to adjust to new body and new physical conditions. Also, their health conditions can get worse than before. Therefore, this way is not a good way except when you desire to lose weight urgently.

    The last way is reducing calories. This is very effective like exercising. We can stay health. Because even though calories are reduced by some food’s calories like cakes’ and chocolates’, we get necessary calories. Therefore, like exercising, many people choose and follow this way. As exercising, reducing calories is effective and popular. Many people fuse and follow these two ways at the same time. These are good for your health and are very effective to lose weight.

     Overall, ways to lose weight can be classified into healthy and unhealthy ways. All women want to be beautiful. This is desires of all women. According to Euro surveillance, a newspaper of British newspaper, they said obesity people can get flu more easily than normal people. However, more dangerous things are starving ways. Therefore, for our health, appropriate ways to lose weight are needed, but immoderate ways are too bad for our health.  As time goes by, new ways for losing weight will be made. However, we have to think, “What is the most basic thing? If you lose weight by unhealthy ways, you will be satisfied with your new slim body line, but you will also regret to choose ways because you will worry about your bad health. Also, if we focus on results too much, we will get back weight easily. Therefore, before we choose ways to lose weight, we have to think our health and choose ways carefully for our bodies because no matter how important slim body line is, more important thing is our health.

In the world, the language that the most people speak is Chinese because of just a number of Chinese is the most. What is the language that the most various people speak? It is English. For example, not only America, England and Australia but also many countries whose first language is not English use English. That is why English is very important in the world. As that, there are various ways to study English. The ways can be classified into studying in the county which speaks English, going to an academy, and studying English independently.

     The first way is studying English in countries in which the first language is English. This way is very popular and common for undergraduates in Korea. In Korea, most undergraduates prefer this way including youths. When people go to the country in which first language is English, it is very effective to study English because there are people who speak only English surrounding oneself. Therefore, it is good to concentrate on English, especially speaking and listening. Also, it looks not studying, but acquisition. However, it is not only popular, but also a problem. This is very popular for young people, but if they want to go to another country to study English, they have to live without their parents. Because of that, many Korean young people do not study English and socialize with the other Korean young people. Because there are no parents around themselves in another country, juvenile delinquents are increased. Koreans regard bad influence of young people who go to another country to study English as a very serious problem. Bad influences are that because most youths who study abroad feel lonely, many Korean youths hang out in only Korean groups and do not study. Therefore, if people want to study English in another country, they will have to think seriously, “Why do I want to go to another country?” Also, they have to consider studying English in another country is a very special chance and should not regard it as a chance to escape because in Korea, many people think studying in other countries is a chance to escape.

     Another way is to go to an English language institute. In Korea, as many people choose the way that they go to another country to study English, this is also very popular. Almost everyone goes to a language institution from young children to adults who have a job. These language institutes can be also classified into institutes for tests, such as TOEFL and TOEIC, for speaking and so on. Many people study English even though they already have their job because English is always important in every part. For example, in a work place when someone’s salary is set, being able to talk to foreigners freely or not is very important. Therefore, many people go to English language institutions in dawn, around 6a.m to 8a.m. This way is also very effective for people who do not have much time to study.

     Finally, the last way is to study English alone using books. I also used this way in my college. It is very good for people who want to study and go over English step by step from the beginning. Especially, when we study English words, we have to concentrate on and memorize words. I think teachers and institutions are not helpful for us in fields of words and listening. Because of that, I want to recommend people to study alone. Of course, teaching and explaining meaning of words and listening are helpful, but I mean that classes are not effective comparing other sides of English, for example, grammar, reading, writing and so on. For example, if you go to another country, you will have to study words and listening alone by memorizing and practices. Also, before going to another country to study English, if you do not prepare to study, you would be sick and tired of studying in another country and failed. I think whenever studying, this way is the most important.

The more important English is, the more people will study it and the more ways to study will be existed. Nowadays, in Korea, too young children also start to study English at 3 or 4. Also, people spend too much money letting their children study English. These are the biggest talk of the trade for several years. As that, when candidates were competing in presidential elections, many candidates asserted solutions to reduce private education expenses. However, as English is important and everybody knows that, the solutions were unrealistic. Because how can people achieve and understand English is very different, everyone’s studying ways are different. I think the ways which many people follow are not always good. We have to find out proper ways for us.

Can you imagine the 1990s? Back then, the Korea had a more conservative concept than now. When ‘Seu Tae Ji and boys’ who were one of the best popular boy-group-singer in Korea debuted in 1992, most Koreans thought they were crazy and rude because of their unique fashion and different music style. Nowadays, however, although people who have diverse styles are shown on television, the public don’t treat they have some problems anymore. Since information technology and ways of interacting with other people have developed, many subcultures started to appear. The subculture is an opposite culture of the total, main culture and the most representative example is the youth culture. With appearance of various cultures continuously, people have to absorb those things because of expressing, estimation, and being accurate.

      First of all, human being should respect individual rights of all the people. Every person has the same right to be respected. In addition, respect for man’s life and dignity is an essential law in democracy. Man’s right to respect means not only natural rights but also all people’s different styles and preferences. The politics textbook in high school published at Dae-Han Textbooksays the right to pursue one’s happiness, one of natural rights of respect for man’s life and dignity, can protect individuality.

      The other reason is that evaluation about own culture from others. The modern life is a multi-cultural society and diverse thoughts are coming out with globalization. In low fertility and graying society, the inflow of foreigners will increase and it means that our country will become a more multi-cultural society. If we don’t understand those cultures, our country is evaluated as a selfish nation and it can be a great harm to interact with other countries. Sungkyul University Multiculture and Peace Institute’s manager Sim Hea-young professor says the attitude of looking down on other cultures leads to ethnocentrism and it can cause retrogression from the world’s main flow. Third, accepting various cultures can lead to creating new, improving culture. All cultures have a cycle: creation, growth, extinction. To grow our culture, we have to adopt other culture’s merit and exploit our own culture. Kim Bum-Soo who is Pyeongtaek University’s Culture Interchanging professor, says meeting new cultures can even make something out of nothing such as coexistence and symbiosis of Asia.

      Lastly, we are more likely to be accurate when we are open. Since stereotypes are a form of prejudice, it also means that the paradigm itself carries biased information. Obviously, such data lacks precision and credibility. For instance, according to Choson Daily, the “D” corporation was one of the topnotch firms with no doubt among South Koreans in 1997. Many people believed and assured the stability of the company within at least 25 years, and they started to buy a tremendous amount of stock. The strong belief that the company would never go bankrupt under any crisis and the positive prospects of the economy, however, left people with empty hands due to the IMF crisis. The major mistake was that the people were not open-minded towards any possible risks or other critical information; all they considered was the blind faith based on others’ biased opinion. We can see here that such form of information can result in serious consequences. This means that the more we are aware and open to, the more we are likely to obtain objectivity. Therefore, the benefits we gain from opening are that as we try not to stick on one point of view, we gradually acquire reliability and validity which also means that we get chances to judge correctly about new people we meet. 
 

     Taking other cultures makes us be a person who has basic human right. Also, people who accept others’ thought and features without repulsion can get good image and estimation from both inside and outside. Furthermore, it is easier to be accurate to evaluate own culture and problems which people tend to ignore and justify. Thus, when we encounter people who have different point and style, we try to understand them and embrace a new culture.

      The Korea Immigration Office reports that the number of foreigners who reside in Korea is about 11.5 million in 2010 and it will be grown every year. According to Cho sun daily newspaper’s January first, 2010 article, 20 percent of Korean general population will comprise of inter-racial marriage families. This alludes that Korea is multi-cultural society. It sounds like the Korea follows a good path of globalization with global village. But, there are three disadvantage sides of being multicultural society such as fail of establishing identity, lower nation image, and medical insurance.

      The first weakness is that identity crisis of second generations. Chung-Ang University’s psychology professor, Park Jun-sung, states that 50 percent of interracial marriage’s juniors think they are foreigner in his work, Elementary School Adjustment in Korea of Children from Multi-culture. Also, 40 percent of second generation of interracial marriage replies that they are both Korean and foreigner even though their surrounding groups think they are foreigner. The others’ perspective affect greatly to their lives until around the adult, as well. For example, if children’s mother or father doesn’t speak Korean well so they cannot teach Korean to their children, their children’s ability of Korean delays and the time when the kids enter the elementary school is also pushed back. The worse thing is that the rate of dropout students in middle, high school is more sextuple than students who have Korean parents. According to research in government offices conducted by the National Assembly, 69.6 percent high school aged adolescents don’t attend school because of their differences from other students and identity crisis.  

      The other problem is that Korean national image can fall down because of violent and gross people who look down people from other culture. The paper, International Marriage Migrant Women’s Real Damage and Solution, produces lots of examples. In 2007 bride from Vietnam named Huanmami was broken her 18 ribs and dead because of her husband’s assault. Also in March 2008 Chinese bride death leaped to avoid her husband’s beating. Not only these two occurrences but also so many harm illustrations exist. In addition Korean Law of International Marriage has weak points. One point is that there is no duty to inform to international marriage people about their spouses’ history of violent crime, drug addiction, alcoholic, and financial problem. Also, if migrant people want to get visa, there are so many complicated processes. Like this, laws for migrant women’s position, right as a human and stable sojourn don’t exist. For reasons of these violent exemplify, community of nations think that Korea doesn’t have any consideration so they don’t want to interact with Korea.

      Third weakness is that problem of medical insurance. Kim Hae-sung who is the representative of Policy Research of Multicultural Family Forum says that about 65 percent foreigner don’t have health insurance. Also, multicultural family’s low join rate of health insurance is big problem because the rate of unfaithful pay rises. So, although many foreigners live in Korea with their Korean family, they can’t receive proper pay. In addition they are in the blind spot of medical treatment so they can’t get treatment when they have to go to hospital.

      Be global, be familiar, and show how good multicultural society Korea has! The problem is not way of showing Korean international culture and society. The matter is that just absorbing which the world says goodness without serious thought about being a multicultural society.  First of all, this is the most important thing is that Korean society should find out some negative conditions such as the identity, image, and medical problem. After concern about all possible things and prepare comprehensive countermeasure, Korea can show how great multicultural society Korea have.

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.

“Eat a lot of delicious thing and play a lot during the vacation” was written on the one newspaper in 1937, December, 25th before winter vacation. ‘Green Mountain calls us, green forest calls us. Let’s go to the mountain to pick up the mountain strawberry. Let’s go to the forest with net to catch cicada’ this is song which name is summer vacation. We can know that what the purpose of vacation through the two script. The purpose of the vacation is to take a rest. However, vacation is not a time to take a rest to some students. Students have to have time to take a rest during vacation. This is duty to the students because the study efficient cannot reach like usual in summer, winter season, students can learn a lot of thing and vacation is only period to gather family.

First of all, vacation season is always summer and winter. We have to think that why vacation is held in summer and winter. This is because in summer and winter, we have to take a break. Everybody has that experience that we cannot concentrate on our study because of the weather. During the vacation, studying efficient is decreased automatically. Here are some examplesfor supporting this. In Korea era, the students who study in private school always go to the fresh mountain to make poem and talk with friends every summer. People called it ‘Ha-Gwa.’ In chosun era, ‘Seo-dang’ which is school to teach students let students to read or create poem instead of memorize quotation in summer.

In addition, vacation is time to learn a lot of things. During the vacation, students can have chance to experience the world. If they use the time well, they can know how to enjoy their life. For example, when the students go to historic site, they can understand the history related to the site easily. If students go to the tidal flat and watch a lot of lives which live in there, they realize that why do they have to protect environment. Unfortunately, 71.3% of the elementary school students said that their summer vacation plan is studying. 92% of the elementary school students feel that “Sometimes, they like vacation.” There are a lot of things that students have to learn and there are also a lot of thing that students cannot learn from school in the world. To let them experience these things also adults’ duty.

Lastly, vacation is only time to gather family. Nowadays, people are busy everyday. Even it is not easy to eat meal together once a day. They also cannot talk to each other. 24% of the students said that “I want to travel with my family in the vacation.” However, there are only 18% of the family who has elementary school students have plans to go travel.

To take a rest in vacation is one of the education processes. This is students and their parents’ duty. They have to play and enjoy the time. According to ‘Korea Education Study Center,’ vacation is time for reading a book, exercising and travel. Even though they live in high competition society, they have to have time to rest. Students can be a better person when they can enjoy their rest time.

         From ancient to now, human being have kept struggled to acquire what they want. Sometimes it was war and sometimes by other tactics. Food was major causes of this battle but nowadays it changed a little bit different with before. When we think about the image of battle, you can conjure up sword first and you can develop this idea to nuke weapon. But actually this is not true. In fact, we are fighting with pen and paper. So if we want to survive in this tough era, we have to study and our country’s competence is quite dubious. Korean student should study more hard because of international competence and their moral maturity and for the happiness of parents.

First of all, International competence is extremely high in this era. All countries are actually in danger and very carefully adjust this problem. For example, President Obama, who is American president, addresses urgent need of improving America’s education. He refers to our country and India for fever peak of education and he told that they need to learn from ours, But actually this is not true. We cannot rest our mind in a peace because when we compare the total hours and efficiency of studying, we lack very seriously of studying hours compared with them.

Next, we have to study more because it improves our mental maturity. In the bible there is words related to this, “Man cannot live only by bread”. This originally means that we need strong belief to our god but we also can apply this general truth to studying. We cannot only live with basic human nature like eating, sleeping and toilet thing. We need higher moral value to live happily and that will be study.

Finally, I cannot go without telling our parents. Our parents are the one who give a birth to us. Surely I cannot say that they only think study of being a good child. They unconditionally love us in spite of our lacking. However if you miss it in your life they inescapably might be disappointed because they know that this is very easy way to live in this brutal society. Especially, our former religion was Confusion. I dare say that we respect the old more than other country and we consider the best when we doing well to our parents. In this society, our country has more burden about being a good son or daughter. If that way is studying, we have to do more than other country.

Someone might say that studying hard is not a only way to become success. But other way is like a rugged road. We can hardly anticipate anything. And in this high competitive world, studying hard doesn’t give any harm to our country student. “Studying hard and survive in this cruel battle”

That can shed light on us our future.

Do you happen to know the difference between machines and mankind? Let’s take a moment to think about it. Imagine that you are using an old machine that used to work well, what would you do if the machine is no longer working properly and it is unusable? I assume that most of you would probably throw it away at the speed of light. The reason? Because it is designed for a specific purpose and once it has gotten bad in its condition, it is surely difficult to upgrade itself. We humans, however, evolve ourselves by experiencing, learning, and thinking. This is the difference between the two.

As the standard of living in Korea has been better and better, and our economy has been vastly improved, the number of elderly people entering school has been increased and it has become a new booming trend in Korea. At this moment, perhaps you wonder why they would ever need education. There are three reasons why the old would like to enter a college.

First of all, one reason is that old people want to do business. According to Korean Business Magazine, almost one fifth of the old are planning to do a venture business. Moreover, it is because after they are retired, some want to do their own business to feel they are still financially and physically robust. Others say that since the retirement from a company, they have felt lonely, so they have started business to meet people and socialize themselves again.

Second of all, some of the elderly go to school to actually learn something. If you think about it, you would understand. Some elderly people are illiterates. In the past, when they were going through the Korean War or When Korea was a colony of Japan, they had no time to educate themselves. Instead, they were busy either struggling at their daily war-like lives or educating their children, not themselves again! Nowadays colleges for the elderly provide them with high-quality educational programs and activities. For this reason, old people go to school.

Lastly, old people who are already in business of their own and need friends go to school to find new friends, business partners, and potential partners. For instance, my father has been running a business and one day he felt he needed to build a new business network that might help him in many ways. The next thing I know is that he entered a college and met many people while studying there. Another example is my grand mother. Since my grandfather passed away in 1976, she has dedicated herself to raising six children herself. As you can imagine, she has never had a chance to have friends. However, since she entered a college, she said that she has never felt lonely.

In conclusion, as we have looked through, significantly improved economy has brought us better lives as well as many more opportunities to educate ourselves. As a result, like my father and grandmother benefited from late started learning in colleges, colleges offer many educational programs and activities to the elderly and flourish their lives in terms of business chances, opportunities to learn and make new friends. As far as I am concerned, these are the three main reasons why the old have been flocking to colleges.

The 2012 is coming and I feel time flies so fast. The next year, I will be 27. It’s not so old but also not so young. Looking back on what I really did for myself this year, I found the best choice was, of course, that I started learning boxing this march. Sometimes, people wonder why I do boxing and even say, “Why you learn the hard way?” Whenever I got this kind of questions, I explain to them why I love this sport instead of scowling at them.

First of all, boxing is a lot of fun. It is regardless of age or sex. You just need inspiration for it! The basic punches consist of just four skills. Jab, straight, hook and upper-cut. That’s it! Of course, though there are another skills instead of the basic skills, you just need the four! (Actually, you need to practice the one skill at least for three months to master it.) But it’s ok. You do boxing because you don’t want to be bored with it but to have fun. You can make a choice.

Personally, I used to weight about 67kg before I started learning boxing. But now I weigh about 61kg. That means that I cut my needless flesh. If you invest 2 hours a day, five times a week, you will lose your weight and have more muscles on your body in three months. But remember that you never miss a day. Let alone the basic training, there are other activities such as jumping rope, road work and diet-boxing plan foe women. If you keep steady, you will make it soon.

What are the chances of being beaten in life? If you are in the similar ages with me, I think the chances are close to zero. We are already grown up and careful of our behavior in the society. Nevertheless, we might be still physically threatened accidentally. If you are in such cases, what would you do? It sounds funny, but the dangers such as robbery, rape or sexual crime happen in our society. So we need to learn something that can defend ourselves. Boxing is not only a sport but also a powerful martial art. Boxing is the best answer to the question.

The only thought as I have been doing boxing was that “Why didn’t I start this sport earlier?” Thankfully, now I look like slim and healthy externally. The more thankful thing is that I have been getting confident. Now I can’t imagine my life without boxing. All I hope is that other people enjoy boxing like me. Let’s do it!

      The first stream was led by Yon-sama and Jiwoo-heme. On the back of them, TVXQ and Boa became the second stream. And now, the third stream is arrived by Girls-generation and KARA. The appearance and prevalence of the Korean pop culture in Japan is one of the hot issues. It is so-called the Korean Wave. The public cultural Korean Wave affects to various countries, but situation in Japan receives the best attention and success. Even lots of entertainers treat entering Japan is the first step of being a leader of Korean Wave. These circumstances which Korean wave is prevail in Japan greatly are because of the similar culture treats, unique style, and triumph of history.

      First of all, alike cultural atmosphere and looks of Korean and Japanese are the reason. The Korean and Japanese are all the East Asian, so their looking is familiar with each other. Also, The lineal distance between the City Hall of Seoul and Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Building is only about 838km. Because of this short distance, Japan and Korea have had lots of interchanges and kept deep relationship. For example, during Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, Kang-Hang, a classical scholar in the Joseon, disseminated the doctrines of Chu-tzu. After this, Japanese began to serve the Japanese emperor even though it was Japan’s feudal government. Also, Japan spread suit and hair in Korea during Japanese imperialism. So, people in Korea start to hair cut shortly matched with the suit. These lots of sharing make Korea and Japan develop similar cultural style, so Korean pop culture don’t cause sense of difference to Japan. These similarities make Korean culture be popular.

      Another reason is a difference. Even though Korea and Japan have shared lots of ideas and style, they are still different country, so they have their own pop culture style. The most famous Japanese pop culture is animations and cartoons. Many Japanese youth like costume play which dress up as a cartoon character and they get familiar with story plot of animations. This tendency affects to other culture industry such as drama and group-singers. Japanese dramas and singers tend to follow the plot of animations. They include kinds of fantasy, cute scene, and make up looked like certain character which can be found in cartoon story. Also, the fan of group singers is almost men. On the other hand, Korean pop culture tends to be Western. It means that Korean public culture, especially group singers, tends to be sexy, chic, and strong-minded. This sort of image is not common in Japan, so it can have unique advantage compared to Japanese culture. Also, this appeal to Japanese women and it can be more spread to Japanese culture industry.

      The last one is emotional power of historical relationship between Korea and Japan. It is well known that Japan conquered Korea for long years. During Japanese colonial era, Korean lost many not only cultural heritages but also cultural spirits. The life of suppression was deeply remained still in Korean. The idea of repression from Japan seems to lead to try to enter Japanese culture using Korean own pop culture. This is another version of conquering and colonial. Through diffusing Korean culture in Japan powerfully, Korean looks like to feel triumph. The past colonial era is compensated by recent cultural permeate without gun and knife. The historical uneasy relationship with Japan becomes a catalyst for Korean to concentrate on Korean wave in Japan. This focus leads people put every effort to advance in Japan and be succeed. Because of this effort, Korean pop culture can be more spread in Japan than any other country.

      The globalization makes people all around the world can share own culture. The culture which was considered as endemic thing in the past now becomes a most powerful weapon to percolate to other country. Many countries try to make unique symbolic of showing their own culture and spread it to others for occupying superiority in culture field. With this main stream, Korea also makes effort for holing a dominate position in culture, informing Korea or earning foreign currency. In this effort, the three things such as the familiar cultural features, differences with opponent country, and historical relationship make Korean effort prevail in Japan particularly.