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I’ve watched a movie, The Bucket List. It’s about two men who lived totally different life, but they meet in a hospital because they are suffered from cancer. Since they are in the same sick room, they get to know each other then start to make a list that they really want to do before their death. the list they make in the movie is called ‘The bucket list’ and it is derived from a saying ‘Kick the bucket’.

When I decided to watch the movie, I didn’t really mean to look back on the past. However, as they try to finish on their bucket list, I started to think about my bucket list. I’m just 22 years old, but I don’t really think that I’d be able to do everything for the rest of my life. Since I like to avoid other’s attention, I don’t really do whatever I want to do though it’s the only chance for me to live in the world.

We usually say that we should live every second with our best try at our lives. Do you think that you’re doing your best on your life? for every second? 

I like music, especially classical music most. This isn’t related with elegant or something!

From the Vivaldi’s Four seasons to Yiruma’s piano music, I like some instrumental music. It really makes me calm and relieved when I feel awkward and frigntened. I have hundreds of CD of classic.

My favorite musician is Rachmaninoff who is often used a theme in the films like Shine, For Horowitz and Nodame Cantavile(Japanese TV program.) And I like Chopin and Beethoven also. I have their music album and listen them whenever having meal or doing some homework.

And I like the sound of Basoon in the orchestra. Its calm and holy sound takes me another world. If I have any chance I really want to play that instrument.

I sometimes watch interesting video clips in the Youtube site. The site has enormous videos and gives me lots of sources I want to see. The videos are given to us for fun as free stuffs. I think the function of media is good to us, and thus should be promoted by making more videos. However, there are some problems of copyright. When I read the Free Culture, I got one fact. We usually upload the video clips as it is or modified and remixed one, which are regulated in the same ways by the law. However, the regulation of the former and the latter should be separated according to the book. The reason is that the using of original sources as it is violates creator’s property, but remixed and modified ones can promote the creativity and the industries. I agree with his opinion. As I mentioned above, In the Youtube, there are a host of interesting video clips which has great creativity. I believe that the kind of modified creations should be protected by the law to boost our creativities and the industries.

TV Show Program ‘We are married’ There is a TV show called ‘We are married.’ There are four star couples who are pretending as if they are married; they actually live in a same house together and have time together as real couple. The show pretends as if they are showing the couples’ private life and it’s quite interesting.

However, I am little bit uncomfortable with how the couples interact with each other in a view of role stereotype. Usually, men are preparing events and performances for women and women usually receive those in this show, and I feel women are passive in that situation. Also there are many scenes that show stereotype of woman and man, for example men are handling all the hard works and women are showing as someone who needs protection of men.

I agree that it’s actually what happens in real life but by showing that through media and stars it reinforces the stereotype of men and women.

Do you know Ho Soo-Kyung who is radio presenter. She is called miss mom that means woman who choose to have babies through artificial insemination without being married and sexual intercourses. Last year, she announced that she is expecting a baby. But she didn’t identify the baby’s father. She just said, she had undergone artificial insemination. And then she gave a birth successfully. Actually I didn’t know anything about that at that time. I just know what’s going on to her by seeing a documiniserises ‘human theater’ recently. After her announcement through media, matter of miss mom becomes hot issue. So people begin to talk about whether miss mom should be accepted as a new type of a family or not. I don’t think miss mom is wrong. But I worry about that miss moms’ children may suffer from social prejudice.

  I saw over 4 TV programs that deal with ‘International marriage.’ Especially nowadays beautiful women from Uzbekistan are famous.  There is stereotype that women there are all pretty and sexy because of some of youngsters on TV show, “Beauties’ Talk.” What I saw was over hundred men who are in their 40′s, from rural communities arrived at Uzbeckistan and had 15 blind date a day. Each meeting takes exactly 15 minutes and a couple is supposed to be matched in few days. A man and the woman have marrige ceremony there and come to Korea for good. They were smiling but I don’t see their clear future. I was sorry for them and their children. There are some articles that women from other countries left home without saying anything and her husband even people around her know anything about it. I guess she was suffering from lonliness, missing her family, and having melancholia. Marriage is not a easy decision because it includes our future life. Yet 15minutes and getting marry with a person from defferent country whom they never seen each other before? I don’t think this is suppoesed to happen. The more international marriage rates go up the more their divorce rates go down as well. We have to consider this seriousness. What do you see?

A few days ago, my friend from America visited my place. Sitting on sofa and watching a comedy show, he said, “Why the hell are comedy TV shows made in Korea filled with excessive subtitles? It’s like a Japanese comedy show that I watched in the hotel when being in Japan.” He wondered what the reason is, because American comedy shows are not.

As he said, compared with other countries’, it is true that Korean comedy shows are filled with so many subtitles. Since about 10 years ago, Korean comedy shows have started imitating Japanese shows filled with excessive subtitles. In terms of the content, imitating TV shows made in other countries is a custom of long standing in this field, which is one of the things that people criticize Korean TV shows. That is, most of the TV shows made in Korea are lack in originality.

Of course, inserting proper amount of subtitles to the shows has advantages. Above all, when viewers have difficulty understanding what performers in the TV show are saying, it will help them to grasp the import of the statement. Also, sometimes the subtitles made by production crew members move the viewers to laughing.

However, immoderate subtitles confuse the viewers in understanding content of the show. As the viewers have to follow performers’ saying while reading the subtitles, they feel confused. These days, Most TV shows are filled with uninteresting, rubbish subtitles because the producers suffer from the obsession to make funny subtitles.

Also, the subtitles made by producers tend to remove the viewer’s critical ability. Imagine that a comedian who is considered as a stupid person expresses his serious thoughts about the society. At that time, one subtitle appears on the screen: His thought is still unreasonable. This affects how people think about him. That is, even though somebody agrees with the comedian, he or she is likely to be affected by the subtitle: He is still stupid.

Therefore, in my opinion, proper amount of subtitle makes it easy to understand content of the show, but excessive subtitles make the viewers confused and remove their critical ability.

Have you heard about the new about AI, Avian Influenza? AI has been being issue because AI has spread over all area of the Korea. Many people are scared of the AI. I got the fact that the authorities did not practice quarantine measures properly. They did the measures just one time after receiving the news of AI case from the agriculture ministry, and they did not anything during testing the AI case. Now the AI is pervaded over the Korea. Therefore, we should something to prevent ourselves from AI. One of those is not to feed the bird. Moreover, when we have chickens and eggs, the chickens and eggs should be cooked on the fire over the 75 degree for more 5 minutes. In conclusion, although AI is threat people in Korea, AI can be prevented if we take care of a few things about AI.

 I don’t think I need to introduce these two for you but if you need more information do a search. They are the two big issues with food these days with mad cow being the one most talked about. From what I read the avian flu seems to be a problem more these days in Korea. It has spread from all over Korea except Jeju Island. Mad cow has not spread just people care about the potential of it spreading. So what I want to ask is what do you think is our problem right now? I know we should focus both but which one is the leading problem.  

http://www.dailyseop.com/section/article_view.aspx?at_id=79992&gb=da

 I’m sure that you know well about Yuna Kim, a famous figurer in Korea. Recently, I read an article about her. According to the article, she said that she felt aggrieved at people who were calling her name while she practiced. The important thing was that she was practicing with other figurers when people called her name to take a photographs of her. She said that she was so sorry that she was there since they would have been able to concentrate on their practices if she hadn’t been there.

 Before I read the article about her, I thought she would be happy to be the center of people’s attention because she often appears on the television including commercial films or show programs. Moreover, she is just treated as a star, so that people nicknamed her ‘A figure fairy’. However, she wasn’t happy that much contrary to my expectation. She asked people to let her concentrate on her practice since she is not a monkey in a zoo. I believe that her aim must be a international figurer, not a star who should be in attention of the public. I feel sorry that she is obviously under a lot of stress because of her popularity that she doesn’t want to have.