Competition is not always right answer.

The government and ‘Hannara’ party want to establish profit hospital in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and Song-do international city. This is not a first time. In 2008, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province’s governor tried to propel establishing profit hospital. He said that it make many jobs for province citizen and has huge economic effect in Jeju. He promoted this plan. They take a public-opinion poll to Jeju citizen. The result was that 38.2% agree with his plan, but 39.9% disagree with that plan. However, in 2009, he changed the name from profit hospital to opened invest hospital and started to propel it again. I totally disagree with the establishing profit hospital because medical is not object that can deal, it is the beginning of the privatization of health care and it brings polarization of health care.

First of all, medical treatment cannot be traded each other. Patrick Pelloux who is medical treatment revolution crusader said that “Medical treatment is not the object that can be sold and bought. If doctor works with the economical logic, they start to see only patients’ diseases not the patients itself.” Medical treatment is action that should include justice. It is holy thing. Also, there are some rules that can protect the medical treatment from market. In medical law 33rd, a doctor and nonprofit cooperate only can establish medical institution. In the case of nonprofit cooperate hospital, all income through the treatment have to be used only for re-invest.

In addition, it is the beginning of the privatization of health care. If the hospital tries to get profit from patients, they will build fancy building to attract rich people. In this situation, the price will be increase necessarily. For example, in U.S, when women give baby birth, they have to pay huge money close 30000 dollars in the fancy hospital. Therefore, the women cannot stay there until they recover. In Europe, when women give baby birth, they don’t pay anything. Even though they have to pay 40% of the salary, they think that it is worth. In Korea, women who give baby birth have to pay 360000 won which is already decreased by benefit of medical insurance. Korea medical insurance is mixed by market medical system and public medical system. Many people satisfy this Korea medical insurance.

Also, profit hospital brings polarization of health care. Rich people want to go fancy hospital which is profit hospital because they can afford to pay the huge money. The rich enrolls the private insurance. This phenomenon destroys present medical insurance system. Medical treatment has to be always fair. This is everyone’s right.

There is no country that has nice and efficient treatment insurance system like Korea. Korea’s medical skill is already high and the equipment is better than other countries have. Therefore, people get high medical service without any profit hospital. Competition is not the only one right answer.

People Give up Chasing Compulsion for Three Reasons.

 

      Hana, a 22-year-old woman, opened her eyes slowly and blinked several times to figure out what time it was. When she peeped out the window and saw dark atmosphere, she felt relief because of the reason she could sleep at least ten minutes. The happiness, however, wasn’t very long. Her alarm clock started warming up to shout and it did: Rrrrrrr! She turned off the alarm clock desperately. Still the bed and blanket was warm and cozy. The cold air told her it was too early to wake up. The pillow didn’t allow her head to leave it. It was an inevitable agony to decide between sweet sleep and welcoming a new day. Hana considered for a minute and decided to overcome from her sleep compulsion. This was because she had to go to school for good grade and she always kept learning her major in mind as the most important aim. The biggest reason, however, she didn’t have enough courage to break her common day. Likewise, there are three reasons that people cannot follow their compulsion: reality, ultimate goal, and lack of courage.

      The realistic condition is the first reason for people to give up the compulsion. In the busy society, one person takes a number of works and roles. The society expects various conducts to one person. Be perfect, be kind and be nice! Don’t forget being good father, competent officer, and great citizen! For satisfying all kinds of expectation, people should evade to face the compulsion. The time hurries people to finish works by saying, “Only 24 hours a day!” again and again. Once people escape from time’s pressing and take a breath, the money grabs people’s ankles and locks their act. Even though people cannot know why they try to make and save the money, they pursue it blindly. In this circulation, people ignore what the compulsion they have because seeking the compulsion leads to lose money and time which are reality.

      Also, people decide not to follow the compulsion because it usually conflict with the aim which they really want to achieve. By chasing the impulse, people can obtain instant delight, but the momentary joy guide to the way which is opposite from eventual goal. For example, there is a man who wants to be a good politician for Korea. He always does his best in the all field which he accepts. One day, he feels that unbearable sexual desire and decided to slept with a bar maid by paying money. After this and few years later, he forgets it and continues to study and he becomes a politician eventually. He thinks he is success, but one newspaper publishes shocking interview: a woman who have five years old son. She was the object who the politician slept with. Because of this interview, he loses all honor and aim. People concern that one mistake can change whole life and they treat the compulsion is a prime suspect which leads to mistake. So, people try to avoid following compulsion.

     The most powerful reason to suppress impulse is insufficient courage to do it. Most people have fear to go outside from their society. Being an outsider by going to other group is one of the most terrible experiences to common people. Also, walking new path which a person has never walked bring great anxiety. The compulsion is like a path through a ghostly forest where people cannot know what happens in that road. He gives up early walking a chilly forest’s road because of an anxiety which a person doesn’t feel yet. Breaking a daily life and dreaming wonderful day off are the just fantasy shown on the television programs, films, or novels to him. The ordinary day –do not absent, do not nod off, or even do not sneeze in front of the boss- brings great stability, so they ignore –pretend to ignore – what the impulse says.

      Most of people have various compulsions and dream to achieve their satisfaction by chasing the impulse. They close their eye, however, to see the compulsion because 24 hours and money are always chasing people to do excellent job. The tough suspect of murder tempts people to follow him for a way which is far from people’s life goal. Also, the dark and spooky forest treats people do not approach. In other words, the actualities, obstacles of the goal, and lack courage lead people to abandon their compulsions.

Korea Government and company have to increase minimum wage.

Recently, people start to ask government to increase minimum wage. However, many company owners said that ‘If se increase workers’ wage, we have to fire some workers.” In addition, Korea government doesn’t check that owners give their workers minimum wage. In this situation, many people who work as a security guard or kindergarten teacher cannot receive their money fairly.

The general argument made by Margaret Thatcher in 1797, when she became prime minister in UK, is that the minimum wage system is useless for developing economic. More specifically, Margaret Thatcher argues that the minimum wage system weakens national competitiveness and this system has a bad influence to increase the unemployment rate. She said that, “Government should not intervene market for increasing economic.” In this passage, Margaret Thatcher is suggesting that UK have to abolish the minimum wage system. In conclusion, Margaret Thatcher’s belief is that when UK abolishes the minimum wage system, UK can get better national competitiveness.

But according to David Cameron’s view, Margaret Thatcher must be wrong, because the system is not related to unemployment rate. More specifically, David Cameron seems to believe that there is no relationship with hiring and firing. For example, David Cameron said that, “The minimum wage system is more successful system than people expect. The system is a factor that brings unemployment,” in 2010 at BBC. David Cameron seems to disagree with Margaret Thatcher on the issue of this system. Margaret Thatcher thinks that this system is useless, while David Cameron maintain that this system is successful policy. Therefore, David Cameron concludes that he try to develop and keep this system.

In fact, I strongly agree with David Cameron’s claim that the minimum wage system is useful for the country. I think that Korea also have to develop this system. David Cameron’s claim that, “This system is not related to unemployment rate also it is successful policy,” is correct. This is because after UK started again this system in 1997, the unemployment decreased. In 1998, the unemployment rate is 7.5%, but in 2003, the rate is 4.3%. In addition, it is worth considering make minimum wage committee. For example, UK made independence non-government minimum committee and the committee suggests the minimum wage every year. Therefore, I must conclude that Korea also have to have friendly attitude about minimum wage for workers.

Korea really needs to increase the minimum wage. 2011, the minimum wage is 4320won per hour. However, this is not enough to live stably. If workers work at company 8 hours a day, after 1 month, they can only get 691200 won. As time goes by, price is increasing fast. People need to earn more money to keep their life. Government and company have to feel responsibility about employs’ life. Also, they should try to make better result for workers.

Don’t find the excuse to give up the life

In 1995, Karen lived as a vegetable and her parents asked the doctor disconnecting the respirator form her. Parents decided that death can release her from the suffering. Next year, ‘Justice of the Supreme Court’ said that “We don’t have evidences that Karen have to keep her life like vegetable.” On the other hand, some eugenicist said under the Nazi that “People who have incurable illness or who is a physically challenged person should be killed because they don’t have any worth to live life.” Still, mercy killing is hot potatoes in this society. However, people should not accept mercy killing even passive euthanasia because medical science keep developing even right now, nobody knows that people who don’t have consciousness want to die and the patient might be able to choose to die because of high hospital bills.

To begin with, nobody can judge steps of impossible recovering. Medical science keeps developing even right now. Even though doctor judge that the patient cannot recover today, drugs or treatment may be developed tomorrow. Nobody can have conviction of their judge at that time.

In addition, people cannot know that patient who does not have conscious want to die. Even though the patient filled out the agreement paper before he or she lost heir conscious, in front of the death, they might want to choose that keep their life. Taking a breath is the basic instinct thing. People cannot control taking a breath with rational. If a man who wants to suicide falling in the river, but suddenly he shout in the water ‘help! Help!’ do we have to save him? Of course, the safe guard goes to the river to save him. If a man who wants to suicide so falls in the water and just stays in water without any asking, do we have to save him? Of course, the safe guard has to go there to save him. Lastly, if one man who wants to suicide falling in the river and ask the safe guard “Please, let me die, don’t save me,” what is the next reaction of the safe guard? Of course, the safe guard has to save him. However, why people just try to find excuse to give up the patient life?

Also, people have to understand the patients’ suppress because of the hospital’s bills. If the patients have chance to choose about their death, they must be forced by other condition around them. Under the suppress situation, they cannot select what they really want to do about their life, even though they want to hold their life. Patients feel uncomfortable that their family is suffering because of themselves. This fact forces them to sign the euthanasia agreement paper.

Many people said that death is the end of the life. Yes, of course. However, at the same time death is also one of the processes of the life. We have to treat the death carefully. People must not find more excuses to give up their life.

Striking of ass

          Shaa – you might hear that sound everyday. This sound looks like a waterfall. It pierces all your distress and agony came from your mind. Sometimes like a magic, and sometimes like a mint, it heals you wholly and gives refreshment. This sound is not come from special place but just from the toilet. Toilet is one that can’t live without, even just one day. We don’t usually notice it how precious this is but there is more surprise thing we didn’t notice. That’s toilet paper. Without this, we can’t come out from the door with enjoyment and relaxed mind. For this reason, toilet paper takes a very important part in our life. I cannot deny the fact that our school well equipped toilet paper but the quality of it is so awful that our ass is screaming of its brutality. This terrible thing, quality of toilet paper, need to be improved because it goes against human basic right and also affects our student attitude in class and give danger to our school’s reputation.

           There are three things our human nature can’t avoid. That is Eating, toilet thing and sleeping. If we are deficient one of these, we become very stressed. Just imagine that without food and sleep. You can barely move and finally will die. Think about without releasing this filth. I can’t imagine this terrible thing. This is very dirty thing but necessary thing for our living. This is like a foot. We treat it badly in spite of using it every day very cruelly. We have to give better treatment for our precious hole and for this, the quality of toilet paper is necessary.

          If our toilet paper is not sufficiently leveled, our small part will be hurt. We can endure some pain, as we grow up, but there are some parts we can’t tolerate. That part is this, asshole. We even can’t walk. Especially, to the student who mainly study with sitting at the desk long hours it is same word with ‘Go to hell’. He or she might can feel torturing every min and even per second.

         To improve the quality of the toilet paper can actually give our school’s reputation higher. We don’t need to seek for our school reputation in enormous thing like school system. School has to know that student is very simple and sensitive apes. They impressed very easily by small thing and improving toilet paper also becomes one of them.

         There is a word, “If you can’t avoid, just enjoy it”. We cannot avoid every day pooing. This is very dirty and avoided word but you have to know that there is eternal truth in there. After we cherish and reexamine what we ignore, we can be step forward to higher maturity in our soul. And That step may be begin with this small devil.

Turning Point

My life was like tasteless beer. Unlike the other enthusiastic students, I was far less interested in my life and what I was going to do with it. Moreover, I hardly ever had dreams, goals and intentions of going to school. Even the university was where I met people and hung out with them. What was surprising is that I didn’t even know my life was that much meaningless, because I never had a chance to make myself think about it. Flat beer is just a perfect word to describe my life at the University, just before I came across someone.                In 2008, when I was 25 years old, it was just one of those days. I was studying aimlessly only for the exams. On that particular day, I was copying someone else’s notebook to fill in what I missed while sleeping in the class room. Then, I saw a very little young female student by chance, and assume that she was in her first year at the CUK. As far as I am concerned, she changed my life for two reasons.                                                           First, she gave me an elementary of a surprise by speaking English very fluently with native English speaker’s level of pronunciation. Nowadays, it is fairly common to see people speaking English, and no longer surprising for many people, but it was very shocking enough to make me have more interest in English myself. In addition, she also got me thinking about my meaningless life. For instance, I was very much comfortable and satisfied with my life and really busy only hanging out with friends. However, all of these are not quite related to studying or doing something productive. This means that I didn’t seriously think about my life before I saw her. After I saw her, not only did I become more interested in English but also changed the way I live, think, and see.  I started to have broad sights and see things differently. So now I have become more tasty beer which has an enthusiastic attitude about everything I need to deal with in a daily life.                                    Second, I would like to say the same thing but with a different point. it is related with the Korean society. Since English is becoming more and more important and has been playing a key role in business and many other fields, it is almost imperative that almost everyone learn English. Every company requires students to be proficient in English, even if their jobs are not directly related with English. As a further matter, I have never seen exams and interviews without English. Thus, it was fortunate that I stumbled on the young female student and was given such a nice chance to drag myself into the English world and change my life.                                                                                                                              Having said that during the meaningless life time at the CUK, firstly, she got me thinking about my life  and secondly, made my life changed by showing me very proficient English skills. These are the two reasons that she influenced me and my life in an optimistic way.

The Middle and High School Ought to Include Culture as a Regular Curricular.

      “They are Westerner and their culture is more open-minded than us, so we have to understand.” “Japanese like animation, so they are all otaku.” When you meet foreigners in Korea, what the image of them do you recall in your mind? Don’t you have embarrassing experience because of your thought of them? Many people in Korea already know some universal and unique features which other countries have. These ideas, however, don’t come from accurate information or experience. Most of them are derived from stereotype which the media shows and people believe the aspects of each country as it shows. Especially, teens received what they see and encounter with non-filtering, so those concepts about other countries affect teens greatly without criticism. The misunderstanding about other culture leads to great gap from reality and it causes big problem: stereotype. Therefore, Korean middle school’s regular curriculum ought to include foreign culture subject and the high school’s should include enrichment program about culture subject for establishing own identity, avoiding error, and developing idea.

      The first reason the high school curriculum should contain culture study subject is that the accurate understating of own culture is one of the important ways to comprehend “culture” which is the best method of figuring out each country. “Each consciousness pursues the death of the other,” George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a famous German philosopher, wrote. It means that to define myself and our group, it is necessary to compare others. The culture part has the same way to define, as well. To establish our own cultural characteristics strictly, it is the best way to find out differences from other countries’ cultural features. Korean students can learn Korean culture’s unique traits and attribute by learning other countries’ culture. Also, this can be a good way because Korean students who don’t have pride of Korea due to the cultural toadyism can have self-esteem to their nation, Korea, by obtaining Korean endemic culture.

      Furthermore, teaching culture study to high school students keep them from growing stereotypes of other countries’ culture. Most of the media shows various stereotypes of Western, Middle Asian, and even Africa. Even many documentary films, the program which conveys only the truth without dramatic fiction, deploy the stories by using certain stereotype. Teens who are exposed the media thoughtlessly accept what the media say and they begin to build their own idea about others by using the only information which the media produce. This is the problem because the concept which teens form affects them until they become adult. Seung-Woo Go, professor of Journalism and Mass Communication in Korea, said that it is important to educate the teenager from indiscriminately accept foreign culture by the media. Through the school class, teachers produce wrong and right part of media’s expression of other countries and students can learn what is true and false about their concept of others. Therefore, the school -especially the middle school- has responsibility to teach students who are teenager cultural field as a subject to protect them from wrong ideas’ development.

      Moreover, the students advance their thoughts by getting exact idea of own culture and other culture. There is famous saying in Korea: If you know your enemy and yourself, you can win every battle.  In Korea, however, two sayings are accepted as general. First idea is that it is enough for students to learn what is right and wrong till they are in the high school. The other one is that it is enough for students to learn various sights of the same situation from the university. Also, Dae-Hyun Song who is the professor in Catholic University of Korea, said that the biggest difference between education of the elementary school to the high school and education of university is this: making a discrimination between right and wrong and making a own idea about the same situation. This idea leads people to think that it is satisfactory to teach high school students only the words and logics about culture such as cultural relativity, imperialism, distinctiveness or universality.

      In my perspective, teaching the condition’s right and wrong is enough till middle school students. More specifically, I believe that the high school students already know what is false and true through 9 years’ education and they have the enough ability to build their own view. For example, the current major curriculum of Society in the middle and high school follow the basic and enrichment program. In the middle school, the students learn Society in general. After that, the Society separate 11 kinds of subject such as Korean Geography, Law and Society, and Economy in the high school. Through many kinds of the detailed subjects, the high school students learn thorough part of Society. What’s more is that they can share and integrate different part as one path in the each class. Therefore, I insist that teaching culture subject totally in middle school and then teaching the detailed subject such as Western Culture, Middle Culture, or African Culture in high school are the great way to make the students understand more specifically about culture and grow creative and critical idea about culture. The advanced concept about own culture and other culture heads to make positive change of Korean culture.

      The Korean Education system has been experienced lots of changes, but it always draw a line that “culture” don’t have value to learn in school. So, the students who want to study culture cannot have chance to learn it except entering university. Even though the Korean students can learn about culture as an academic course in university, new concept and idea of culture sometimes makes the students confused and gave up to understand owing to shortage of knowledge about culture. So, the culture subject in the middle and high school deserves to teach for the students because it helps them to have strict identity of Korean culture, form right idea of other counties’ culture, and go forward to good change of Korean culture by integrating.

Remove the baby box

“If you cannot afford to nurture your baby because you are single mother or you have disability baby, please don’t abandon and just put here your baby.” In 2009, Lee, Sung-lock who is minister of one church in ‘Gwanak-Gu’ in Seoul made the baby box with the sentence. The minister made tool in the baby box to know when the baby is put in the box by their parents. When he found the abandoned baby who almost dies because of hypothermia in front of his church, he decided to make baby box. However, whatever his intention, he should remove the baby box because it encourage deviation, Korea already have programs for abandoned baby, the church is not an authorized facilities and the babies cannot know about their birth information.
First of all, he aggravates evils. Until now, 26 babies were abandoned in the box. If he didn’t make the box, the babies might not be abandoned their parents. He must not give parents chance to abandon baby. The baby box can less the parents’ guilty. They can abandon their baby without big agony. Also, the baby box can make light of baby’s life. This situation make adolescents have less responsibility of babies and it can lead adolescents to disorderly life.
In addition, the program for parents who cannot afford their baby is already made. If the parents cannot nurture baby, they can ask help ‘Ministry of Health and Welfare.’ Government is running system ‘129 call center’ and the parents can tell the experts about their problems. Parents don’t need to use baby box. Therefore, baby box cannot be replaced existing system with baby box.
Thus, the babies who were put in the baby box never can know their birth information. When the babies grow up and want to find their real parent, they don’t have any ways to find their parents. If the parents use the government program, the baby can have their information about who I am. The baby box disturbs to meet their physical parents.
Finally, this is the biggest problem that the church is non licet. Government cannot check their situation freely. It can bring another problem. People cannot notice what is happening in there. Even though the minister. Lee don’t have any bad intention, someone may make baby box for his or her bad purposes pretending to be kind and honest.
This is the slippery slope, minister. Lee have to remove the baby box soon and the government have to expand the facilities for single mom and abandoned babies. Babies are already perfect human. Parents don’t have right to abandon or throw away them. Even though they cannot raise their baby, they have to find the way to solve their problem. At least, they have to leave their baby in institution with trust not the baby box in front of the illegal place.