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1. Mark Whitaker
2. School Organization is Someone's Choice Instead of a Neutral Social Issue
3. The following article describes the "unschooling" movement, with a case study of some parents/children in Canada.
Think sociologically: what do our modernization theory summaries say is the 'natural issue' with schooling socialization for youth in 'modernizing societies'? What happens 'naturally' to the family in this theory? Is it really natural? I am skeptical it is: read this. There are many paths of choices (if allowed by the State) that are 'swept under the rug' if such a modernization theory is believed to be based on case study (which it is not, as we shall see).
Moreover, think about how much most 'modernized' youth culture socialization is dependent upon a specific form of mass schooling (which fails to benefit everyone). Think about children now socialized outside of it for a comparison.
It interests me to find some research dealing with 'unschooled/home schooled' children to examine these children's socialization and educational attainment in 20 years, to see if there are different educational and youth culture socialization outcomes or job outcomes.
In Korea, organizational issues are mostly decided for you by the state or by the Confucian culture. To what extent is this true, however? Not really a prominent decision, though the laws in Korea allow for it:
"Compulsory Education Ages:
Children ages 7 to 15 are subject to the federal compulsory attendance law. High school is not mandated.
Legal Status:
The law is vague and the business community is supporting homeschooling, so homeschoolers are largely left alone.
Number of Korean Homeschoolers:
Estimated at 600 to 1,000 families
Currently, homeschooling is not technically permitted by law in South Korea—but neither is it prohibited!
Homeschoolers have been able to peacefully remove their children from public school without any government intervention. The South Korean government’s new 2008 administration has announced plans to legalize homeschooling by 2010. Despite this good news, it is not yet clear what restrictions and requirements might be attached to this legalization. Chris Klicka of HSLDA plans to provide model legislation and assist the process.
The current Christian homeschool population is estimated to exceed 1,000 families; the total homeschool population is about double that number. [http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/SouthKorea/200811060.asp]
Contact Information
Homeschool Information
KHomeschool
President: Stephen Kim
Contact: Pastor Daniel Chang
Email: gjchl@hanmail.net
Website: www.khomeschool.com (Korean language)
Homeschooling is Growing in South Korea
Korea has experienced a steady growth in homeschooling in recent years, fueled in part by the leniency of the country's education laws, and via the support of the business community.
South Korean law does require school attendance for children ages 7 to 15, and homeschooling is not specifically protected. However, the laws are rather vague, and many business leaders are supportive of homeschooling, so few families have experienced difficulties with government authorities.
Recently a group of South Korean homeschool leaders and families visited the offices of Home School Legal Defense Association, and met with Mike Smith, President of HSLDA and Chris Klicka, HSLDA's Senior Counsel. The South Korean leaders represented the Church and Home Educators Association (CHEA) of South Korea, and have been working hard to promote homeschooling in their country.
HSLDA is committed to supporting the work of CHEA and the homeschooling community in South Korea as they continue to expand. [http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/SouthKorea/200408190.asp]
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[the Canadian news article:]
More families are deciding that school’s out – forever
Carlo Ricci teaches his daughter Karina, 5, centre, at home in Toronto.
Annabel, 7, goes to regular school.
JENNIFER ROBERTS FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL
It may sound flaky, but the ‘unschooling’ movement's ideas are going mainstream as parents are increasingly opting to keep their kids out of class
by Kate Hammer
From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 5:00PM EDT Last updated on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010 5:46PM EDT
It has been Saturday in the Laricchia household for nearly a decade.
The family's three teenagers, Michael, Lissy and Joseph, have known nothing of alarm clocks, races for the school bus, arguments over homework or report-card angst since their parents started “unschooling” them in 2002.
The small but growing movement the Laricchias have joined is known by many other names, including deschooling, life learning and edu-punk. At base, unschooling is home-schooling returned to its postwar progressive roots, far from the [religious instruction based] Bible-thumping mould that has come to dominate the modern image of home-schoolers.
“ An unschooling family mostly just looks like a family living life … hanging out on the weekend. But there is lots of learning going on. ”— Pam Laricchia, mother
Unschooling takes children out of schools, but, unlike a lot of home-school approaches, it doesn't import the classroom into the home. It does away altogether with educational clutter such as curricula and grades.
Unschoolers maintain that a child's learning should be curiosity-driven rather than dictated by teachers and textbooks, and that forcing kids to adhere to curricula quashes their natural inclination to explore and ask questions.
To an outsider, unschooling may sound like pedagogical tofu: a shapeless, idealistic substitute for an education. But there's a growing consensus that unschoolers might be on to something. Their ideals have been quietly infiltrating public education.
“An unschooling family mostly just looks like a family living life … hanging out on the weekend,” says mother Pam Laricchia, a former nuclear engineer who lives in Orangeville, Ont. “But there is lots of learning going on when you take the time to look at it from the kids' point of view.”
Anita Roy and her husband Mehdi Naimi decided to 'deschool' their sons Kian, left, and Zaman Naimi-Roy.
Home-schoolers – and unschoolers in particular – are by nature difficult to count. But observers say that, thanks in part to social networking and the blossoming of Internet resources, their movement is growing.
One sign is that dozens of unschooling families will converge near Ms. Laricchia's home this weekend for the fifth annual Toronto Unschooling Conference. Another is that since 2002, unschoolers have had their own publication, Life Learning Magazine. (More recently, it has metamorphosized into
LifeLearningMagazine.com.)
Meanwhile, school boards and education ministries are embracing experiential learning.
There was a time when students were drilled and heavily tested on rote memory, such as the names and dates of British sovereigns. But research suggests that this is a temporary, limited form of learning: Kids gain more when they can ask questions and learning is tied to emotion.
The change in thinking has been slow, but it surfaces in the expansion of high-school co-op programs, or the emphasis on play in the new full-day kindergarten curriculum Ontario launched this week.
Some children thrive in the ["one-size doesn't-fit-all"] classroom and others don't and, despite the best of intentions, the system sorts them into winners and losers.
Recent initiatives by education ministries and school boards to shrink dropout rates, promote alternative schools and improve kindergarten are all fundamentally an effort to reduce the sorting. Unschooling's underlying idea is that all kids are winners.
Gretchen Theakston-Larabee, seated on the couch, watches over the studies of her children, from left to right, Sarina, 12, Silas, 7, and Samantha Theakston, 14, at home in Toronto.
A LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING
The foundational tome of the unschooler is How Children Fail, the first book by an American teacher named John Holt published in 1964. The writer suggested that smart children struggle “because they are afraid, bored, and confused.
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In How Children Fail John Holt states his belief that children love to learn, but hate to be taught. His experiences in the classroom as a teacher and researcher brought him to the conclusion that all children are intelligent. They become unintelligent because they are accustomed by teachers and schools to strive only for teacher approval and for the “right” answers, and to forget all else. In this system, children see no value in thinking and discovery, but see it only in playing the game of school.
Children believe that they must please the teacher, the adults, at all costs. They learn how to manipulate teachers to gain clues about what the teacher really wants. Through the teacher’s body language, facial expressions and other clues, they learn what might be the right answer. They mumble, straddle the answer, get the teacher to answer their own question, and take wild guesses while waiting to see what happens- all in order to increase the chances for a right answer.
When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become “producers”, rather than “thinkers”, they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought. They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made. They believe that the only good response from the teacher is “yes”, and that a “no” is defeat.
They fear wrong answers and shy away from challenges because they may not have the right answer. This fear, which rules them in the school setting, does their thinking and learning a great disservice. A teacher’s job is to help them overcome their fears of failure and explore the problem for real learning. So often, teachers are doing the opposite — building children’s fears up to monumental proportions. Children need to see that failure is honorable, and that it helps them construct meaning. It should not be seen as humiliating, but as a step to real learning. Being afraid of mistakes, they never try to understand their own mistakes and cannot and will not try to understand when their thinking is faulty. Adding to children’s fear in school is corporal punishment and humiliation, both of which can scare children into right/wrong thinking and away from their natural exploratory thinking.
Holt maintains that when teachers praise students, they rob them of the joy of discovering truth for themselves. They should be aiding them by guiding them to explore and learn as their interests move them. In mathematics, children learn algorithms, but when faced with problems with Cuisenaire rods, they cannot apply their learning to real situations. Their learning is superficial in that they can sometimes spit out the algorithm when faced with a problem on paper, but have no understanding of how or why the algorithm works and no deep understanding about numbers.
Holt believes that end of year achievement tests do not show real learning. Teachers (Holt included) generally cram for these tests in the weeks preceding. Meanwhile, the material learned is forgotten shortly after the tests because it was not motivated by interest, nor does it have practical use.
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“They are afraid, above all else, of failing, of disappointing or displeasing the many anxious adults around them, whose limitless hopes and expectations for them hang over their heads like a cloud.”
Mr. Holt supports his thesis with observations from a sort of classroom diary he kept throughout the 1950s and 60s. He concludes that “a child who is learning naturally, following his curiosity where it leads him, adding to his mental model of reality whatever he needs and can find a place for, and rejecting without fear or guilt what he does not need, is growing – in knowledge, in the love of learning, and in the ability to learn.”
The idea puts a lot of faith in children, their innate interest in learning and in their intelligence. It also restores faith in parents, returning some control over their children's growth that they handed to educators and politicians more than a century ago.
This was the philosophy behind home-schooling when it emerged in the 1960s and 70s as a way for children to learn from the world around them. Then, in the past few decades, home-schooling was embraced by the Christian right, which saw it as a way that kids could be shielded from the secular world.
Then the Internet galvanized unschoolers. It provided a support network for parents seeking alternatives, and made satisfying the whims of a child's curiosity a lot easier. Why is the sky blue? Google it. How do you make a baking-soda volcano? Ask YouTube.
This type of experiential learning suits boys and concrete learners in particular, who “are set up to fail in the regular school system,” according to Ron Hansen, a professor at the University of Western Ontario.
He says the school system favours abstract learners, the half of the population who find it easy to think in symbols and signs, for whom written work comes naturally. Concrete learners “need action, they need projects, they need to be tactile as well as using their eyes and their ears.”
Although Mr. Hansen believes that unschooling might not work in every home, he thinks its emphasis on experiential learning is laudable and has a thing or two to teach public education.
There is an obvious objection, and one familiar to home-schoolers of any stripe: Does any kid who hangs out all day with his parents and who lives by the whims of his own curiosity have any hope at being anything less than a dork?
Though unschooled children tend to have highly developed critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, some find it difficult to socialize with large groups of children, according to Paige Fisher, an instructor in education at Vancouver Island University who has observed unschooled children.
Another concern more specific to unschooling is if children's education is formed by their own interests, or solely by those of their parents, there are likely to be gaps.
“Individual children might be happy, but it's not clear that this makes for an autonomous or well-rounded adult, or for a better community,” Christopher Lubienski, an associate professor at the University of Illinois, writes by e-mail.
Structured learning, with external direction, “can force people to experience things that they wouldn't otherwise, and quite often find new interests. ... Ones that may also have some wider social value.”
OFF THE BUS, BUT NOT ENTIRELY OFF THE GRID
This week, as most children kissed their parents goodbye and boarded yellow school buses, a group of home-schooling families gathered in a park in Toronto's west end for a Welcome Back to Not-School party.
They represented a fair cross-section of the city's home-schooling community, and most would place themselves somewhere on the unschooling spectrum.
Generally white and well-educated, the unschoolers were the kind of middle-to-upper-middle-class parents who don't dream of a home in Rosedale or their kids graduating from medical school.
They didn't fit any other stereotypes, except that all were able to stay home at least part-time. And they knew their kids' daily lives in a detail that made the average helicopter parent seem negligent.
They stood in clusters, discussing current events and their children, who buzzed about from swings to picnic tables in swarms of mixed-age groups. The sight was a bit jarring to eyes accustomed to traditional school playgrounds, where kids tend to stick with their classmates.
Carlo Ricci, an associate professor at Nippissing University, was pushing his younger, unschooled daughter, Karina, 5, on a swing. His older daughter, Annabel, 7, attends Grade 2. He had gradually figured out the differences that made one girl prefer unschooling while the other was drawn to the classroom.
“[Annabel] is like a movie star when she goes to school. She gets a lot of praise," he said. Karina is more shy.
John Day's 10-year-old daughter, Brenda, has never seen the inside of a classroom. Still, he specified, “I'd say we're part-unschoolers.”
Mr. Day, an engineer who holds graduate degrees from Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford, lets his daughter's interests drive most of her learning. That may mean writing Artemis Fowl fan fiction, watching the pop science program Mythbusters or a trip to the Ontario Science Centre.
“It's awesome,” said Brenda, a spindly pre-teen with sun-bleached hair. “I spend more time outside and I see my friends every day.”
However, Mr. Day added: “I think potentially one of the problems with the unschooled kids is they haven't been prepared with the basics.” So on top of her self-directed learning, Brenda follows a math curriculum and solves problems in graded workbooks.
THE MANY SCHOOLS OF UNSCHOOLING
There are other factions within the movement, from the radical unschoolers, who extend the philosophy beyond education to parenting, to those who reject the term unschooling altogether.
Some unschoolers will refer to the occasional exercise book for math lessons. Others will never consider a number outside a speedometer or a grocery receipt. Some are vegans, while the unschoolers who let their children eat more liberally quietly refer to them as the Granola Gestapo.
“There's everything from very earthy grassroots people to very educated professional people,” says Judy Arnall, a Calgary-based author on parenting who has unschooled her five children. She is on the phone from Newfoundland, where she is dropping her 18-year-old son off at Memorial University.
“I think the one thing everyone agrees on is that we want our kids to foster a love of learning that's intrinsic.”
“Unschooling is an acknowledgment that schools and education are in many ways contradictory, that there's an implicit tension between them,” says Jason Price, an assistant professor at the University of Victoria.
“Education is about the production of more democracy, production of peace, production of happiness whereas schooling is often the production of global economic competitiveness.”
In Orangeville this weekend, over campfires and potluck dinners, unschoolers will discuss ways of supporting their children's learning at Ms. Laricchia's Toronto Unschooling Conference.
Throughout the day, guest speakers will address quandaries such as the ways kids learn math without a textbook and how to transition your children out of the regular school system – a sort of psychological-detox process known as deschooling.
When the conference is over, Ms. Laricchia will return to collaborating on building an online business with her son, Michael, 13. Her daughter, Lissy, 16, is a photographer who was recently invited to participate in a show in New York. The oldest child, Joseph, has turned 18 and is no longer being actively unschooled. His mom happily admits that the change has had almost no effect on his day-to-day life.
Kate Hammer is The Globe and Mail's Education Reporter.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/back-to-school/more-families-are-deciding-that-schools-out-forever/article1703185/
1. Kim Ji Young
ReplyDelete2. Breaking the taboo: Sex education in spotlight
3. Times changed. We are not in 80's no more. We need proper sex education. Korea has very little sex eduction in a curriculum compare to other countries. Many youths use sex in bad ways and there are many sex crimes. If many people grow up with good sex education, there will be less sex crimes.
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The challenge, however, is convincing parents and teachers that sex education in the classroom - long a taboo subject in Korea - can help address several major societal problems.
Lee Hyun-hye, a professor at the Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education, said that learning sex education at a young age could have helped people like Cho Du-sun, a 57-year-old man who brutally raped an 8-year-old girl. The victim lost 80 percent of her colon and genital organs as a result.
“If Cho grew up with good sex education,” Lee said, “he wouldn’t have raped the little girl in that cruel way.”
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2913348
1. Jo Young Joo
ReplyDelete2. Youth: Teen-Age Nightclubs
3. Nowadays, there are no places for teenager's rest. The rest I meant is having a fun without surveillance. I agree the place that has some rules to keep teens safe like Teen-Age Nightclubs. In these clubs, teens can blow away their stress and they can make new friends. Especially, teens can take "New Communication World". However, to maintain these clubs, adult intervention is needed. I think it's difficult to settle the degree of intervention and freedom.
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5. "There are years more before I can go anyplace fun," said San Francisco High School Senior Claudia French as she marked her 17th birthday. For many a U.S. teenager, the task of finding nighttime amusement that will meet with the approval of parents and the law is a similarly doleful problem. The nightspots that serve food and nonalcoholic drinks usually lack the entertainment or dance floor that teen-agers look for. Those that have such features usually serve liquor, which is forbidden to the under-21 crowd by law in 47 states* and by the stern disapproval of many parents in all 50 states. What is more, few nightspots that specialize in adult customers are anxious to cater to the teen-ager's meager budget.
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7. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870130-1,00.html
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ReplyDelete1. Lee Woo Yong
ReplyDelete2. The delay of being adults.
3. Especially in current Korea, we can see many 20's still in the period of adolescent, acting just like they are still in children. However, just go back to the 1 century before, age in 20 somethings means they are already adults. For exemple, They might be had a family to take care, had a job to work. We can not exactly define what "adult" is, but somehow ,including me, the fact that many 20's are feeling they are still in childern is really true. The problem is kind of that situation now causes a lots of confilicts in the family. Why? Since 20's already grown up, they want to think and act by their own wills. Then, what cause the delay of the being adults? I think one of the important causes is difficulty of getting financial independency in early age.
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Even if some traditional milestones are never reached, one thing is clear: Getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever. But why? That’s the subject of lively debate among policy makers and academics. To some, what we’re seeing is a transient epiphenomenon, the byproduct of cultural and economic forces. To others, the longer road to adulthood signifies something deep, durable and maybe better-suited to our neurological hard-wiring. What we’re seeing, they insist, is the dawning of a new life stage — a stage that all of us need to adjust to.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=adolescence&st=cse&scp=1
1. Min Jee Kwak
ReplyDelete2. Young entertainers sexually objectified
3. Nowdays, many young people become entertainers. Though it helps to find out what they want to do earlier, also easy to hurt or ruin their life earlier. Most serios thins is ,even they didn't notice, they are abused by the poeple who creats an illusion that young performance are earning mashine. In personal thought, I disagree to debute young singers or acteress. It's nice to do something they like, but there is something more to learn in school or teenager. Before they vent their talent, they have to know about their basic right and controlling their feelings. There are lots of people who felt lost because of early broadcasting work. I concern about abusing young entertainters than anything. As you see the news i attached, Plastic surgery, forced dieting, missing school and long working hours that kind of behavier can be seen so easily in young broadcaster. If they're forced to do it, It must be the chance to look our entertain society. We have to care about the talented young to become good celebrity in their future.
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5. Plastic surgery, forced dieting, missing school and long working hours.
Being a teen entertainer in Korea demands more than talent and effort. At least one out of every 10 young entertainers is sexually objectified by their superiors, including being forced to reveal certain body parts and receive plastic surgery, a government survey said Monday.
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Youth Policy Analysis and Evaluation Center last month jointly conducted a survey with 103 entertainers ― 53 male and 50 female ― aged between 9 and 24. Among the 88 participants who are age 19 or younger, 56.1 percent said they had been told to lose weight to work in the industry, while 14.6 percent said they were advised to get plastic surgery.
About 10 percent of the teen respondents said they have exposed specific parts of their body for work, such as legs, breasts and buttocks. Among them, 60 percent of the female teens said they were forced to do so.
Thirty-six percent of respondents younger than 18 said they have worked more than eight hours a day. About 10 percent said they have worked more than 40 hours a week, while 41 percent said they have worked on weekends and night shifts, which is against the labor law.
Among respondents who are elementary, middle or high school students, 47.6 percent said they have missed more than half of their weekly classes, while 34.1 percent said they cannot make time for their homework. 19 percent said they had “absolutely no time” for studying.
Among female respond 64.8 percent report suffering from insomnia while 14.3 percent take antidepressants, the survey said.
Kim Ki-hun, a research fellow at the Youth Policy Analysis and Evaluation Center, said the problems young entertainers face now can have a life-long impact. “Many of them experience 'sexual objectification' without knowing they are victimized,” Kim told The Korea Herald. “There has to be a legal safety net so they can enjoy their basic rights as teenagers, such as access to education.”
On Monday, Gender and Family Minister Paik Hee-young told reporters the ministry will “draw measures against sexualization of young entertainers.” The Youth Policy Analysis and Evaluation Center will hold a seminar to brainstorm possible measures to protect the teens ― from legal sanctions to education rights and support networks ― on Thursday.
By Claire Lee (clairelee@heraldm.com)
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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100824000757
1. Min Jee Kwak
ReplyDelete2. Young entertainers sexually objectified
3. Nowdays, many young people become entertainers. Though it helps to find out what they want to do earlier, also easy to hurt or ruin their life earlier. Most serios thins is ,even they didn't notice, they are abused by the poeple who creats an illusion that young performance are earning mashine. In personal thought, I disagree to debute young singers or acteress. It's nice to do something they like, but there is something more to learn in school or teenager. Before they vent their talent, they have to know about their basic right and controlling their feelings. There are lots of people who felt lost because of early broadcasting work. I concern about abusing young entertainters than anything. As you see the news i attached, Plastic surgery, forced dieting, missing school and long working hours that kind of behavier can be seen so easily in young broadcaster. If they're forced to do it, It must be the chance to look our entertain society. We have to care about the talented young to become good celebrity in their future.
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5. Plastic surgery, forced dieting, missing school and long working hours.
Being a teen entertainer in Korea demands more than talent and effort. At least one out of every 10 young entertainers is sexually objectified by their superiors, including being forced to reveal certain body parts and receive plastic surgery, a government survey said Monday.
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Youth Policy Analysis and Evaluation Center last month jointly conducted a survey with 103 entertainers ― 53 male and 50 female ― aged between 9 and 24. Among the 88 participants who are age 19 or younger, 56.1 percent said they had been told to lose weight to work in the industry, while 14.6 percent said they were advised to get plastic surgery.
About 10 percent of the teen respondents said they have exposed specific parts of their body for work, such as legs, breasts and buttocks. Among them, 60 percent of the female teens said they were forced to do so.
Thirty-six percent of respondents younger than 18 said they have worked more than eight hours a day. About 10 percent said they have worked more than 40 hours a week, while 41 percent said they have worked on weekends and night shifts, which is against the labor law.
Among respondents who are elementary, middle or high school students, 47.6 percent said they have missed more than half of their weekly classes, while 34.1 percent said they cannot make time for their homework. 19 percent said they had “absolutely no time” for studying.
Among female respond 64.8 percent report suffering from insomnia while 14.3 percent take antidepressants, the survey said.
Kim Ki-hun, a research fellow at the Youth Policy Analysis and Evaluation Center, said the problems young entertainers face now can have a life-long impact. “Many of them experience 'sexual objectification' without knowing they are victimized,” Kim told The Korea Herald. “There has to be a legal safety net so they can enjoy their basic rights as teenagers, such as access to education.”
On Monday, Gender and Family Minister Paik Hee-young told reporters the ministry will “draw measures against sexualization of young entertainers.” The Youth Policy Analysis and Evaluation Center will hold a seminar to brainstorm possible measures to protect the teens ― from legal sanctions to education rights and support networks ― on Thursday.
By Claire Lee (clairelee@heraldm.com)
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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100824000757
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a lot of games for teenager and problem
3.Recentely,there are many games for aiming at teenager.This is probably for money.At first,companies are pursuing that boys are gonna be addicted to their games,but today, there are lots of games even for girls.As society developes,machine like computer does too.And for teenager, there are no room where they can speak.they look for room like cheating room.
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Would you believe that computer games -- even usage -- may stunt developing brains?
Tracy McVeigh, the education editor of the Observer, noted in an article dated August 19, 2001, the fact that high tech mappings of the brain were indicating that computer games were damaging brain development and could lead players -- especially younger players -- into being unable to control violent behavior.
Holy cow! The next thing they’ll be telling us is that “It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis”! Well... actually, it does rain in Indianapolis. Acid rain, perhaps, but still... rain... sort of.
Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe -- the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual’s behavior in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
Children often do things they shouldn’t because their frontal lobes are underdeveloped. The more work done to thicken the fibers connecting the neurons in this part of the brain, the better the child’s ability will be to control their behavior. The more this area is stimulated, the more these fibers will thicken. The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior.
“The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,” Kawashima told The Observer. “There is a problem we will have with a new generation of children -- who play computer games -- that we have never seen before. The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.”
Kawashima, in need of funding for his research, originally decided to investigate the levels of brain activity in children playing video games expecting to find that his research would be a boon to manufacturers. He expected it to reassure parents that there are hidden benefits to the increasing number of hours their children were devoting to computer games and was startled by what he discovered.
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward085.htm
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a lot of games for teenager and problem
3.Recentely,there are many games for aiming at teenager.This is probably for money.At first,companies are pursuing that boys are gonna be addicted to their games,but today, there are lots of games even for girls.As society developes,machine like computer does too.And for teenager, there are no room where they can speak.they look for room like cheating room.
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Would you believe that computer games -- even usage -- may stunt developing brains?
Tracy McVeigh, the education editor of the Observer, noted in an article dated August 19, 2001, the fact that high tech mappings of the brain were indicating that computer games were damaging brain development and could lead players -- especially younger players -- into being unable to control violent behavior.
Holy cow! The next thing they’ll be telling us is that “It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis”! Well... actually, it does rain in Indianapolis. Acid rain, perhaps, but still... rain... sort of.
As for the computer game syndrome (CGS), Tracy, writes :
Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe -- the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual’s behavior in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
Children often do things they shouldn’t because their frontal lobes are underdeveloped. The more work done to thicken the fibers connecting the neurons in this part of the brain, the better the child’s ability will be to control their behavior. The more this area is stimulated, the more these fibers will thicken. The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior.
“The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,” Kawashima told The Observer. “There is a problem we will have with a new generation of children -- who play computer games -- that we have never seen before. The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.”
Kawashima, in need of funding for his research, originally decided to investigate the levels of brain activity in children playing video games expecting to find that his research would be a boon to manufacturers. He expected it to reassure parents that there are hidden benefits to the increasing number of hours their children were devoting to computer games and was startled by what he discovered.
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward085.htm
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a lot of games for teenager
3.Recentely,there are many games for aiming at teenager.This is probably for money.At first,companies are pursuing that boys are gonna be addicted to their games,but today, there are lots of games even for girls.As society developes,machine like computer does too.And for teenager, there are no room where they can speak.they look for room like cheating room.
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Would you believe that computer games -- even usage -- may stunt developing brains?
Tracy McVeigh, the education editor of the Observer, noted in an article dated August 19, 2001, the fact that high tech mappings of the brain were indicating that computer games were damaging brain development and could lead players -- especially younger players -- into being unable to control violent behavior.
Holy cow! The next thing they’ll be telling us is that “It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis”! Well... actually, it does rain in Indianapolis. Acid rain, perhaps, but still... rain... sort of.
As for the computer game syndrome (CGS), Tracy, writes :
Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe -- the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual’s behavior in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
Children often do things they shouldn’t because their frontal lobes are underdeveloped. The more work done to thicken the fibers connecting the neurons in this part of the brain, the better the child’s ability will be to control their behavior. The more this area is stimulated, the more these fibers will thicken. The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior.
“The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,” Kawashima told The Observer. “There is a problem we will have with a new generation of children -- who play computer games -- that we have never seen before. The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.”
Kawashima, in need of funding for his research, originally decided to investigate the levels of brain activity in children playing video games expecting to find that his research would be a boon to manufacturers. He expected it to reassure parents that there are hidden benefits to the increasing number of hours their children were devoting to computer games and was startled by what he discovered.
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward085.htm
1. Il-ho. Jang
ReplyDelete2. Young men sell sex on the Internet
3. Generally male adults have paid sexual relations with minors. but opposite case happened recently. female adults did that. They shared information on internet community site. System administrator was youth. He said that he wasn't directly connected that. Actually he was indirectly concerned in the affair. I think problem is we don't have any laws about protect youth on internet. If aught there be, it's no use and impossible. They need protection. Internet is very useful. But youth stand a chance of indiscriminately accept that. So they need a collect education of internet. Make the Minor Protection Law about internet. We don't criticize the wrong youth. because adults responsible for them.
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An illegal paid sexual relationship is no longer just for an adult male sponsor and an underage girl, but vice versa too.
The Seoul police have recently been investigating the members of an online community which allegedly arranged paid sex between teenage boys and elderly women, said officials.
Most of the members were young men in their teens and early 20s, who posted their profile and contact number, selling themselves as sexual partners. The female “buyers” were mostly women whose ages ranged from late 20s to 40s, and many of whom were married.
The 17-year-old male high school student surnamed Oh who opened the website in March, said he was inspired by a popular cable TV program which dealt with a master-pet relationship between an adult woman and a teenage boy.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100909000867
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ReplyDelete1. Chung JoonKoo
ReplyDelete2. Youth unemployment weighs on economy
3. As a job seeker, I can totally understand these people in this article. It's getting harder to get a job in Korea these days. I mean we can get 'a job' but not a decent one. There are a lot of unfairness and discriminations in job market. Many companies prefer to hire people from specific universities. Job applicants sometimes need to prove how much they can drink(is it something to do with work performance?). There are many workers who is working 'unpaid' overtime almost everyday. There are much more things left for examples but I think they are enough. Anyway we have to get a job despite these poor conditions. So we have to spend more time to fulfill the needs of the companies. Even if people get a job most of them aren't paid well enough so they need some to save money for their marriage. These delays are result in late marriages which may lead to low birth rates or other social problems. I know it's really difficult to solve these problems but we must do something to end this vicious circle in Korean society.
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The Korean economy has been haunted by the specter of jobless growth ― economic expansion with no job creation. The concern has been waning in line with a mild recovery in the local job market fueled by a fast economic rebound.
However, the country is faced with another malaise in the job market ― youth unemployment. Joblessness among young adults has continued on an upward spiral despite a slight recovery in the overall job market. This is seen as a serious problem for the economy as theproblem has a lasting impact on the entire economy through multiple channels.
According to Statistics Korea, the employment rate among those aged from 20 to 29 logged 59.2 percent last month, down 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier. The jobseekers in their 20s are the only age group which suffered from a decrease in employment except for those in their 60s.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/07/123_69935.html
1. Dana Kim
ReplyDelete2. "Im too fat." normal size kids also concerned about theirselves
3. after i read this news article i totally agreed about what writer says. I mean, since when people started to think thin and slim is the most beautiful body shape,
even normal people thinks theirselves as a obesity . and always saying they need a diet! not just me but also lots of friends of mine thinks theirselves are fat and chubby.
even they, we are a normal size . doctors saying that most of people has optical illusion that whenever people look theirselves via mirror, they think they look fat.
i believe that its also happening to teenagers or even younger kids. because of culture of DIET is making our kids to loosing their self confidence. so i think that not just TV or magazines
should showing some other models that not just skinny and thin. make people or reader to think & Change their mind average body shape isnt thin and skinny. also let them
believe they are looks great just they are.
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Kim sun hee(10), who lives in Seoul Dangsan-dong is 150cm, 37kg, normal size. but because of her cubby cheek she thinks herself as a obesity. so she is on a diet since 2 months ago never eating breakfast.
her parents keep saying to her that she is normal size, but she never believes.
Korea Food & Drug Administration researched 6600 of kids in korea since 2007 november. at least 6 people from 10 believes theirselves as a obesity.
optical illusion of obesity is spreading to young kids also.
from a reasearch, 30.5% of girls, 22.1% boys answered theirselves are fat but through their weight, 46.5% of them were normal sized. Korea Food & Drug Administration said that "if kids are keep thinking
wrong way about their body shapes, it will influenced to their growth"
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http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/09/10/2010091001866.html
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a lot of games for teenager and problem
3.Recentely,there are many games for aiming at teenager.This is probably for money.At first,companies are pursuing that boys are gonna be addicted to their games,but today, there are lots of games even for girls.As society developes,machine like computer does too.And for teenager, there are no room where they can speak.they look for room like cheating room.
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Would you believe that computer games -- even usage -- may stunt developing brains?
Tracy McVeigh, the education editor of the Observer, noted in an article dated August 19, 2001, the fact that high tech mappings of the brain were indicating that computer games were damaging brain development and could lead players -- especially younger players -- into being unable to control violent behavior.
Holy cow! The next thing they’ll be telling us is that “It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis”! Well... actually, it does rain in Indianapolis. Acid rain, perhaps, but still... rain... sort of.
As for the computer game syndrome (CGS), Tracy, writes :
Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe -- the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual’s behavior in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
Children often do things they shouldn’t because their frontal lobes are underdeveloped. The more work done to thicken the fibers connecting the neurons in this part of the brain, the better the child’s ability will be to control their behavior. The more this area is stimulated, the more these fibers will thicken. The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior.
“The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,” Kawashima told The Observer. “There is a problem we will have with a new generation of children -- who play computer games -- that we have never seen before. The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.”
Kawashima, in need of funding for his research, originally decided to investigate the levels of brain activity in children playing video games expecting to find that his research would be a boon to manufacturers. He expected it to reassure parents that there are hidden benefits to the increasing number of hours their children were devoting to computer games and was startled by what he discovered.
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward085.htm
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a lot of games for teenager and problem
3.Recentely,there are many games for aiming at teenager.This is probably for money.At first,companies are pursuing that boys are gonna be addicted to their games,but today, there are lots of games even for girls.As society developes,machine like computer does too.And for teenager, there are no room where they can speak.they look for room like cheating room.
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Would you believe that computer games -- even usage -- may stunt developing brains?
Tracy McVeigh, the education editor of the Observer, noted in an article dated August 19, 2001, the fact that high tech mappings of the brain were indicating that computer games were damaging brain development and could lead players -- especially younger players -- into being unable to control violent behavior.
Holy cow! The next thing they’ll be telling us is that “It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis”! Well... actually, it does rain in Indianapolis. Acid rain, perhaps, but still... rain... sort of.
As for the computer game syndrome (CGS), Tracy, writes :
Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe -- the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual’s behavior in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
Children often do things they shouldn’t because their frontal lobes are underdeveloped. The more work done to thicken the fibers connecting the neurons in this part of the brain, the better the child’s ability will be to control their behavior. The more this area is stimulated, the more these fibers will thicken. The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior.
“The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,” Kawashima told The Observer. “There is a problem we will have with a new generation of children -- who play computer games -- that we have never seen before. The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.”
Kawashima, in need of funding for his research, originally decided to investigate the levels of brain activity in children playing video games expecting to find that his research would be a boon to manufacturers. He expected it to reassure parents that there are hidden benefits to the increasing number of hours their children were devoting to computer games and was startled by what he discovered.
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward085.htm
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a lot of games for teenager and problem
3.Recentely,there are many games for aiming at teenager.This is probably for money.At first,companies are pursuing that boys are gonna be addicted to their games,but today, there are lots of games even for girls.As society developes,machine like computer does too.And for teenager, there are no room where they can speak.they look for room like cheating room.
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Would you believe that computer games -- even usage -- may stunt developing brains?
Tracy McVeigh, the education editor of the Observer, noted in an article dated August 19, 2001, the fact that high tech mappings of the brain were indicating that computer games were damaging brain development and could lead players -- especially younger players -- into being unable to control violent behavior.
Holy cow! The next thing they’ll be telling us is that “It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis”! Well... actually, it does rain in Indianapolis. Acid rain, perhaps, but still... rain... sort of.
As for the computer game syndrome (CGS), Tracy, writes :
Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe -- the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual’s behavior in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
Children often do things they shouldn’t because their frontal lobes are underdeveloped. The more work done to thicken the fibers connecting the neurons in this part of the brain, the better the child’s ability will be to control their behavior. The more this area is stimulated, the more these fibers will thicken. The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior.
“The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,” Kawashima told The Observer. “There is a problem we will have with a new generation of children -- who play computer games -- that we have never seen before. The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.”
Kawashima, in need of funding for his research, originally decided to investigate the levels of brain activity in children playing video games expecting to find that his research would be a boon to manufacturers. He expected it to reassure parents that there are hidden benefits to the increasing number of hours their children were devoting to computer games and was startled by what he discovered.
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward085.htm
1. Jeong Kwang Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Teenagers should have enough sleep
3. I found very interesting article that is about teenager's sleep and weight. According to the study, teenagers who sleep less 8 hours are likely more fat than who sleep more 8 hours. I've also heard many times about the importance of sleep. I think sleep affect not only weight but also learning ability. Teenagers can focus on their class time after good sleep. Before the development of internet, many teenagers went outside to play or read many books. So they could feel tiredness and sleep well because of physical activities like that. But these time is getting decreasing due to the development of internet. They doesn't sleep like before so it cause obesity, depression. I hope teenagers in Korea reduce their internet time, go out for sports and sleep well. I think the healthy nation is from healthy teenagers.
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5. US researchers suggest teenager who get less than eight hours of sleep a night, are more likely to indulge in eating fatty foods and snacks, as compared to those who sleep eight or more hours every night.
Getting too little sleep, the researchers said beings about chronic changes in their diet increasing the risk of obesity, especially in girls.
While, previous studies have also pointed out the link between lack of sleep and weight gain, new findings reveal where the extra calories come from.
Lack of sleep has been seen to result in an increased intake of high calorie fatty foods, including an increase in daily caloric intake, which on a routine basis leads to excess fat.
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http://visitbulgaria.info/14561-teenagers-who-sleep-less-also-indulge-fatty-diets
1. Jo Sugn-jin
ReplyDelete2. Sex and youth: plenty to talk about
3. when their children ask about 'baby making process' most of parents are ambrassed. Children nowadays have lots of chance to know what their parents don't want them to know. Just telling our children about fairy tales on pregnant is not enough now. It's very uncomfortable issue for parents but It's something we have to think about now.
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In the analysis of 141 families that included children between the ages of 13 to 17, researchers found that, by the time parents got around to the sexuality sermon, 40% of the kids had already had intercourse. That terrible timing is particularly troublesome considering that heaps of research show that kids actually want to learn about sex from their parents, and are in fact more likely to delay sex and engage in safe sex if they've discussed it with a parent.
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7. http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/12/07/sex-and-youth-plenty-to-talk-about/
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ReplyDelete1. Jung-Kwan Lim
ReplyDelete2. wrong direction of Entrance examination system
3. Whom does entrance examination system exist for?
Entrance examination system should give youth various plans for living diversely, but it seems to push them into one direction in reality.
Diversity is not admitted. Many people think that if they meet some people who are different from them, they would say they are wrong instead of saying they are different from themselves. Because of these thinking, wrong systems are not fixed well. And so many changed system is another problem that makes youth confused. People who make entrance examination system must more focus on youth situation.
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5. In her departure speech to teachers in late June, the principal cited several reasons for her decision, including tensions over a lack of diversity at the school, which had been the subject of a controversial graduation address the day before by one of the school’s few African-American students.
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7.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/nyregion/05hunter.html?scp=1&sq=The%20principal%20at%20Hunter%20College%20High%20School%20&st=cse
1. Woo Ji Yeon
ReplyDelete2. Young men sell sex on the Internet
3. In our society, there are many problem in the cyber world, such as internet.
there are easily exposed many thing,
expecially this space has sex problem.
moreover, young teenager abused the sex in the cyber world.
they are not notice the discernment for sex.
we must educate the sex which happen to the young teen, we must protect the young teengager in this society.
more over we intercept the cyber world that access the sex area to the teenager.
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5. The police have been investigating the members of an online community which allegedly arranged paid sex between teenage boys and elderly women, said officials.
It was inspired by a popular cable TV program which dealt with a master-pet relationship between an adult woman and a teenage boy.
many teenage boy won the money easily, so they were attracted.
this situation were very serious problem.
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100909000867
1. Kim min-ah
ReplyDelete2. Growing concern of students overwhelmed by education loans
3. There are so many hard things to alive. These days its getting worse. Lots of student worry about how to get the job after graduation. Unfortunately they have to worry about another things that how much do they have to pay for study. I think it is very sad things that we have to worry about the money, before we earn some money. Government should work out a countermeasure about this problem.
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As high school seniors contemplate next year, they should think about how much debt to take on
By Eileen Ambrose, The Baltimore Sun
September 12, 2010
Consumers have hit a new milestone: Student loans now exceed credit card debt.
Student debt reached nearly $830 billion in June, surpassing credit card and other revolving debt for the first time by more than $3 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which recently reported this troubling statistic. This spurred FinAid.org to launch a student debt clock that shows borrowers slipping deeper in the hole, by $2,854 per second.
Consumers have been paying down card debt in the past two years, while student borrowing has been rising. Nearly two-thirds of students at public universities take out loans, and borrowing is even more widespread at private schools. The average debt for graduating seniors rose to $23,200 in 2008, a 24 percent increase in four years, the most recent figures from the advocacy group Project on Student Debt shows.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/money/bs-bz-ambrose-student-debt-20100912,0,1523616,full.story
1. Kwak Bo Ram
ReplyDelete2. Teens in a bad way
3. in a society teens' problems are increasing. our society prevents from teens' problems.
Before establishing laws, our society has to approach teens' real problems mentally.
we have to learn teenager's really suffered problem. also, parents must not ignore teenager's attempts. more carefully watch our teens.
So, the important thing is to approach teens' real problems.
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Parents at fault for rising suicides, drinking, gangs
Parents are to blame for shock increases in the number of teenagers attempting suicide, binge drinking, joining gangs and falling pregnant.
Research released yesterday by the Medical Research Council revealed that one in five children between grade 8 and grade 11 had tried to commit suicide in the six months before they were interviewed by the researchers.
The proportion of respondents who had attempted suicide had risen to 21% from 17% in 2002.
Research director Priscilla Reddy said the increase in the proportion of teenagers who engaged in binge drinking was "very alarming". She said that more boys than girls drank excessively, "especially in rural provinces like Eastern Cape".
Of those polled, 35% of the teenagers said they had drunk alcohol in the past month.
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http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article412981.ece/Teens-in-a-bad-way
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ReplyDelete1. Hong-seob shim
ReplyDelete2. sensitive teens(suiside girl)
3. Teenagers are very sensitive. so they are damaged easily and they are very jealousy.
so they cause case( delinquency )accidently and they tend to group activity.
I'm shocked by news that teenage girl commit suiside because the other teenagers bully that girl since she is so pretty.
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4.A teenager hanged herself after allegedly being bullied by pupils for being ``too pretty,'' Metro reported on Thursday.
Blonde haired Poppy Bracey, 13, was bombarded by crank calls from jealous youngsters saying she should join a model agency for ``ugly people.'' She was found dead in her bedroom last week after returning to her foster home from classes at the 1,000-pupil Lowton High School, Greater Manchester.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/03/182_62245.html
1. Jung Won Bum
ReplyDelete2. The Prevention of teenager's smoking must be strengthen
3. Nowadays, teenager's smoking percent is increasing. Teenagers are too weak to get over the diseases when they have smoking. Recently reasearch said that the death rate of teenagers is higher than adults when they smoke before they're not all growing. So, we have to strengthen the prevention of teenager's smoking problem. I don't understand their thinking. Because when I was young, I think that the cigeratte is only for adults. But today's teenagers don't know that. I think we have to change their thinking first.
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5. Recently, research said that the death rate of smokers who smokes after 20 is higher than nonsmokers over 9 times, and the smokers's death rate who smokes before 15 is higher than nonsmokers by 20 times. It's also a serious national loss. So the law about teenager's smoking must be strengthen.
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7. http://www.kado.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=478885
1. Choi Ji Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Preventing youth smoking, drinking
3. These days, young people on the street, passing by the arrival of tobacco can be easily seen. Despite the liberal modern world, I in this situation is very unpleasant.
Basically, there is need to keep the social commitmentsin the society. despite already knowing social promise, i think it is wrong against social promise. and it shold be correct right now!
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5. Use of nicotine and alcohol, substances, identified as dangerous by the World Health Organization (WHO), has become so common in South Korea that the damage from such abuse is reaching its critical stage.
Apart from the well-known health risks associated with smoking, the rise in cigarette smoking among youths, who often smoke in groups, is becoming a serious problem.
The division also plans to establish anti-smoking and -drinking classes in schools, expand the operations of model schools, and support the Seoul Education Office`s campaigns against smoking.
Smoking cigarettes not only harms smokers, but also innocent people around them through second-hand smoke. Many studies show that exposure to second-hand smoke by pregnant women can cause birth defects.
I hope that this year can become a turning point, when the older generation will take action to provide a healthy environment for our young people and prevent them from smoking, drinking and taking drugs.
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7. http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=108&oid=044&aid=0000028356
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a lot of games for teenager and problem
3.Recentely,there are many games for aiming at teenager.This is probably for money.At first,companies are pursuing that boys are gonna be addicted to their games,but today, there are lots of games even for girls.As society developes,machine like computer does too.And for teenager, there are no room where they can speak.they look for room like cheating room.
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Would you believe that computer games -- even usage -- may stunt developing brains?
Tracy McVeigh, the education editor of the Observer, noted in an article dated August 19, 2001, the fact that high tech mappings of the brain were indicating that computer games were damaging brain development and could lead players -- especially younger players -- into being unable to control violent behavior.
Holy cow! The next thing they’ll be telling us is that “It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis”! Well... actually, it does rain in Indianapolis. Acid rain, perhaps, but still... rain... sort of.
As for the computer game syndrome (CGS), Tracy, writes :
Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe -- the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual’s behavior in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
Children often do things they shouldn’t because their frontal lobes are underdeveloped. The more work done to thicken the fibers connecting the neurons in this part of the brain, the better the child’s ability will be to control their behavior. The more this area is stimulated, the more these fibers will thicken. The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior.
“The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,” Kawashima told The Observer. “There is a problem we will have with a new generation of children -- who play computer games -- that we have never seen before. The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.”
Kawashima, in need of funding for his research, originally decided to investigate the levels of brain activity in children playing video games expecting to find that his research would be a boon to manufacturers. He expected it to reassure parents that there are hidden benefits to the increasing number of hours their children were devoting to computer games and was startled by what he discovered.
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1. Yun Yeon jung(20090542)
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3. Nowadays, We can see many foreigners anywhere.
Of course, we can see not only white people
but also asian people(here means like from vietnam, philippines..etc) So, now, Many korean guys marry other asian girls. But especially korean have prejudice except white race people.
Especially to other asian people. I dont know exactly, but I think some koreans ignore them. It is really bad behavior,and we should change this problem. In the future, more various race will appear in korea. Like half-blood people.
So We should teach to our children How to treat them.And we should remind that We are just equal.
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It seems Korean society still has a long way to go before it is truly accepting of diversity. Although there are opportunities everywhere in Seoul to interact with foreigners nowadays, the children of migrant workers, multicultural families and North Korean defectors still bear a huge burden.
“One day I visited a sick friend at the hospital and her mother tried to report me to the police because I was a foreigner,” said one middle school student from Mongolia. “She also warned me never to hang out with my friend again.”
Since June, a group of 16 teenagers from Mongolia, North Korea, Russia, Taiwan and Vietnam, together with 11 Korean teenagers, has hosted several talks on how Korean society can better deal with prejudice and discrimination against non-Koreans. They announced their conclusions at an event on Thursday, titled “A debate among teenagers from multicultural and defector families on the social integration of Korea,” hosted by the Rainbow Youth Center and the National Assembly’s Forum on the Future of Teenagers.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:54:00 PM
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