Today I went walking near the area where the protest is taking place. Many people showed up against the mad cow disease problem. I just watched from a distance and seen how many young people line up to support the cause. Cops were everywhere I went and seemed ready to take action if needed. I really feel impressed and interested at the same time when I see this sight. Many people fighting for something they care about is really a new experience to see. But the media involved around this is interesting as well. This has got a response from Lee Myung-bak. I wonder how the result will end, I hope it ends in Korea’s favor.

One thing that happen that day was an older man asked a foreigner a question. He asked him “what do you think about this here?” the American foreigner said ” I don’t know”. This made the old Korean man respond with remarks as “how can you not know you can see with your eyes?” and ” America kills many people.”
I know this is a issue between Korea and USA but I think people should not be rude to others over this issue. It is not a problem between American people and Korean people but a problem between governments. How do you think?

 We all do text messaging. It’s easy because we can send it right away but somehow it’s not easy because receiver might get context wrong. Since there is no sound or voice, something wrong can happen when people don’t read between the lines. I often e-mail my father so does he. He lives out of town so this is one of the best ways that I can contact him. It works and this was considered as ‘good enough system’ for between my father and me. We know who we are better than others do. Very very well. However things happened. Last night he came Seoul yet he didn’t look okay. The way he talked me was agressive and strong. I asked myself weather I did something rude or not. Nothing was wrong as far as I thought. I couldn’t understand what’s going on.

 This morning he started to talk to me.  I’ve got to know that there was super duper huge “misunderstanding” as my father got a text message sent from me. I totally didn’t mean what he has understood but he was mad at me few days ago I don’t even know exactly. “You know me then you couldn’t get this wrong dad” I said. Unfortunately, he was disappointed at me because what he has read was not like me. It was kind of too late to have happy talk for Sunday morning.

Have you ever experienced  ”I-didn’t-mean-it” situation because of mute media such as e-mails and text messages?  

As you know, Media has given lot of information to us. These days, I am looking for some English course for summer vacation. Then, I got some information of the English school. However, I came up with the idea. I was wondering whether the information was trustworthy or not. In fact, all of courses look so great. In other words, all of them are romanticized by advertising only their advantages. I need to find something kind of personal reviews of someone who took part in the courses. I also know even the review can be manipulated by someone who takes a part time job writing advertising words down on the internet. However, I used the reviews for getting the truth of the English courses. Ironically, I used the media to know the truth of media.

I believe many people know developing internet gives many conveniences but also creates many problems and one of the biggest problem is privacy infringement. Few weeks ago it was pretty big issue that auction shopping mall hacked from “chinese” people and lot of people lost their personal information. Also, in my house 3 people lost our information. I heard some people tried to sue them but I am not sure really if it is important treatment. I knew some game called Lineage and a bank was also hacked before in the past.

Did you know you can lose your privacy easy and you might be surprised when you notice how people can get your information not just by hacking. Many people would use same Email address, same ID and have a password which is all same. Go to Google and search your email address and you can see your history of internet using. Of course there are not all records from you but when you see your information easily to find things like your interests and even personal information. Anyways some other way it seems almost impossible secure everything really well but I believe we should to know how much our information we are dropping unconsciously.

In the article Gin, Television, and Social Surplus the author mentions a change from entertainment. A change that makes the consumer become the creator of media. These two things exist today in separate forms mostly. People watch TV a controlled media and people use the Internet as an open collaborative media. It was interesting that how author give us 3 functions on media which are consumption, reducing and sharing. I was thinking it was so amazing that we can watch TV in computer at first but now people can put what they are doing now on computer or live TV program to broadcast by themselves and people come into the rooms and they watch and chat each others at the same time. Futhermore media on TV is now becoming more like the Internet too. I heard there are some channel where viewers can interact with the show through live chats, web cam and even games that show the results live on TV. This is a sign that media is evolving to build along with user input and interactivity. Also when you watch music channel such as M-TV you can also participate on TV using text-messages. I believe media TV and internet are becoming combine each other and they both have 3 functions. What do you think of this immediate interactivity with TV?

 Have you heard about the TV program, “we are married”? It’s a kind of reality show that records celebrities’ imaginary marriages. People are having fun to watching the celebrities’ marriage that they imagined before and I’m the one of them who enjoys watching the program. However, others say that it has many problems since it became a popular program.

 First of all, people say that it can be a problem since the celebrities are easy to get divorce from their imaginary marriages. The marriage is not a real and that means they wouldn’t be serious as they do in real life. Moreover, their behaviors influence on juveniles, so that juveniles could consider marriage lightly.

 Since the program is a focus of people in public, the events that prepared for women are controversial. Women who watch the program dream about the events that happens in the program though it is not popular in real life. That’s why men hate to watch the program because most women expect the same thing to their boy friends.

 However, I enjoys the program since it makes me to dream about the same things that happen in the program including events. Nevertheless, the problem that I mentioned first could be problem if it really affects on teenagers. How do you think?   

Whenever I need some information, I think I usually search internet sites like “google,” “naver,” or “empas.” Now, I am senior so I really need a lot of information for getting a job. I always look for much information about many kinds of jobs by using internet sites. In my opinion, if I do not have my computer or I can not connect internet, it is very difficult to apply for a job position. As a result, the media is very important because the media gives us useful information. Therefore, I think the media is information bank. Especially, in the modern society, the informaion is very necessary because  I think sometimes, the information can make people live or die. For example, if I can get a information that there would be an earthquake such as in china, I can take refuge from information. Consequently, the media is information bank and very important. ^^

Some of people are easily to be a perfectionist. When I was a child, I could play some musical instruments like violin, piano and guitar. I like english words and calculating numbers. (Not quite now though)

I wanted to be the top class when in my elementary ages. After the hardship, I had to go for the martial art class “Taekwondo.” And when I was middle school student I learned “Hapkido” also kind of a martial art. When I was learning the skills, I tried hard to better than others. I had to kick higher targets than I practiced. In playing games, my efforts are all that I should raise my character and lead others. Especially shooting game like a “Sudden Attack,” I can’t stand bening killed by others. In singing, playing, studying and making, I have had to do everything perfect and better than others.

The strong concepts have been controlled me until I realized that no one can be the perfectionist. After entering the university, I realized that there are lots of students good at those. Then I decided to think only one thing that I could do the best. Perfectionist makes me and others very tired. The “wish” to myself always keeps me feel aweful.

If you are a perfectionist (you think,) you’d better change your mind.

Importing U.S. beef is very controversial these days. According to the internet news, the beef from U.S. will be spread in Korea at least in 1 week. To demonstrate against that, a lot of citizens are gathering in many places in Korea with candles. They have insisted that the government should stop this trade for the health of Korean citizens.

However, the government totally has ignored the voices of citizens and said they won’t stop this horrible trade. Also they are saying that citizens are persuaded by wrong information and they can assure the safety of U.S. beef. But what the government is saying is wrong information. There were a lot of reports that warn people dangerousness of cow which is fed meat and we all know that Mad Cow Disease was found in England before. I can’t believe that how government will make it safe this new disease which doesn’t studied enough so that doesn’t have medicine at all.

In addition, I saw one article from Chosun express which says that students who are participating in the demonstration are related with “Korean Teachers & Education Workers’ Union”. That means teachers from that union instigated students to participate the demonstration for the political purpose. But real reason of why students participate in the demonstration is that because U.S. beef will be on their table as a school lunch. They are fighting for their life but conservative express use them for political purpose to repress “Korean Teachers & Education Workers’ Union”.

Everybody knows that Mad Cow Disease is fatal disease and it can be spread very easily because its infection way is various. Beef is used for food, medicine capsule, noodle soup, sanitary napkin and many more. Therefore, what the government is doing is killing citizens who vote for them. And conservative expresses who agree the opinion of the government are spreading wrong information which is related to people’s lives. They should stop this horrible trade and apologize to citizens for threatening their lives.