2. Heavy smoking rate increasing ...among teenagers
3. The number of smoking teens is increasing. Young teens want to imitate grown-up's behavior. Although this is teen's character, smoking is bad thing especially young people. According to this article, school must have education for prevention. But I doubt about education. Is this really succesful? I think we need something effective and practical that teens can understand surely.
4. An increasing number of young teens are smoking, and they are starting younger, a lawmaker said Thursday.
In a nationwide survey of 80,000 teenage students between 2005 and 2008, 12.8 percent of them were cigarette smokers who had smoked more than once over the previous 30 days, Rep. Lim Hye-kyu of the ruling Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit Thursday.
While the overall smoking rate saw fluctuations in recent years, the number of heavily smoking teens has continued to grow, Lim said.
Of the students surveyed, 6.5 percent smoked every day and 2.8 percent smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day in 2008, up from 3.9 percent and 2.1 percent in 2005, respectively.
The percentage of male students who smoked every day almost doubled from 5.3 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2008.
The smoking age also is getting younger, with three in 10 teenage smokers saying that they first smoked when they were in middle school.
Those who said they smoked before entering middle schools accounted for 10.3 percent of boys and 6.5 percent of girls in 2008. -------------------------- http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100930000701
2. Report: One-third of US teens are victims of cyberbullying
3. Bullying in schools has moved its stage to the Internet. The Internet makes our lives easy and convenient but it also has many problems. This cyber bullying is a good example. It seems quite serious that 1/3 of US teens are victims of cyber bullying. There would be more victims if the government and parents didn't do anything. But this article shows a bright side of the Internet as well. The Internet poll done by Associated Press-mtvU shows that the Internet can be a good way of connecting young generation. This article shows that many efforts are ongoing in the US and I think they are quite practical. I hope Korean government take the US’s case as an example and try to solve the same problems in Korea.
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More than half of American teens worry about safety on the Internet and know someone their age who has been targeted by hurtful electronic communications. Nearly a third have been targets themselves. Those recent survey results, released by the Chicago youth-market research firm TRU, hint at the scale of the problems being addressed more vigorously in the wake of the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi and other cases of cyberbullying. When it comes to safety online, young people’s main “knowledge gap” relates to “setting ground rules of what’s acceptable behavior ... and how that technology may be used against them ... where they could be blackmailed or cyberbullied,” says Richard Harrison, lead mentor for the Safe and Secure Online program, which enlists online security experts to volunteer in schools. The presentations, given by members of the professional information-security group (ISC)² are aimed primarily at grades 7 to 9. Students discuss scenarios and how to use good everyday judgment to prevent them from reaching the extreme cases they may have heard about in the news.
3. Actully, Gay or Lesbian sounds like another worlds to me. But thesedays we heard about this situation repeatedly. Now it is spreading to youths. And someones are try to support them. IT is not a one side problem. I think we have to think about What can we do for that.
-------------------------------------- Campus Pride. Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Support and other resources for gay young people are out there, sometimes only a click or a phone call away, but advocates said the recent suicide of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi and other teens who were believed to have been victims of anti-gay bullying point to the need for even more widespread help. In a country of about 12,000 public school districts, the education network known as GLSEN (glsen.org) counts about 4,000 Gay-Straight Alliances, the name for school clubs — mostly in high schools — that register with the group. "Youth in general are not very help-seeking," said the organization's executive director, Eliza Byard. "Getting people to reach out is one of the big challenges." Another nonprofit focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, the Trevor Project, operates a free, confidential hotline (866 4-U-Trevor) for counseling and suicide prevention around the clock. The hotline, among many crisis lines available, takes an average of about 30,000 calls a year, said a Trevor spokeswoman, Laura McGinnis. Trevor (thetrevorproject.org) also offers "TrevorChat," a free, secure online messaging service for counseling between 4 p.m. and midnight Eastern time. The organization's Trevor Space, a monitored social networking service for gay youth, has about 13,000 registered users, McGinnis said. "So if your town has only 300 people in it, you're not alone," she said. A search engine on the Trevor website allows users looking for resources or support to search by key word, state, city or ZIP code. Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG (pflag.org) is a national support, education and advocacy organization with local affiliates in more than 500 communities around the country and abroad. Support group meetings are available through PFLAG chapters for loved ones or whole communities. "PFLAG has grown as more Gen-X parents are learning about their kids or figuring it out before their kids do. They're getting more involved," McGinnis said. For youths not ready to seek help offline, an outpouring of videos from members of the gay community who have survived bullying and hatred as young people have been posted on a new YouTube channel set up by syndicated columnist Dan Savage (youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject). On college campuses, Campus Pride is nonprofit organization of student leaders and groups of gay students and their allies, including an effort focused on fraternities and sororities, lambda10.org. Off campus, CenterLink (lgbtcenters.org) supports LGBT community centers and helps new centers get started. The organization serves more than 168 centers in 45 states and the District of Columbia. The group's website provides a directory of centers. "The single most important line of defense for young people in crisis is a network of visibly supportive adults, in their own community, in school, at home," Byard said. "We're talking about a very big country, and far too few young people have access to those supports."
3. Actually, I wasn't happy after reading this article. I think it is so competitive to get good grade among teenagers in Korea. Because of that, many private institution are getting appeared. Someone think that studying a lot is great. Yes, I agree that opinion. But I don't think teenagers who are in Korea study to know about something. They just study to get good grade and go to good university. So, they don't have any dream. They study really hard than other nation but Korea isn't NO.1 country in the world. Rather than studying for grade, I hope our teenagers study for their future dream. And they are really pathetic. They don't have free time. But I think it is important they have their free time. It'll be really helpful to raise their intellectual ability. I think we need to change our thinking and parent also need to change their mind for their children. -------------------------------------------------
5. Korean youth study an average of three hours more per day than adolescents in 30 other OECD member countries, or 15 hours more per week, according to a report released by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs on Thursday. On the other hand, they sleep one hour less compared to their counterparts in five countries -- the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland and Germany -- and exercise 22 minutes less.
According to the comparative study on the life patterns of children and adolescents commissioned by the National Youth Policy Institute, Koreans aged between 15 and 24 spent an average of seven hours and 50 minutes per day on studying at school, private crammers or at home as of 2003, nearly three hours longer per day than the OECD average of five hours. Japanese students spent five hours and 21 minutes per day, Germans five hours and four minutes, and the British three hours and 49 minutes. --------
3. Nowadays young people are easily exposed to harmful media. Indiscriminately harmful material on the Internet that appears to threaten the safety of children are. But it was not strongly sanctioned so many damages occur. Previously many warnings that threaten emotion of youth are reported but we neglect them. Now that we know seriousness of the situation, we should make the policy to protect youth.
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5. Cyberbullying is an imprecise label for online activities ranging from barrages of teasing texts to sexually harassing group sites. The extent of the phenomenon is hard to quantify. But one 2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, an organization founded by two criminologists who defined bullying as "willful and repeated harm” inflicted through phones and computers, said one in five middle-school students had been affected.
Its amorphous nature and the rapidly changing technological landscape have made it difficult for schools and even the courts to address the cyberbullying. Few families in Long Island, for instance, were aware of Formspring, a site where users invite anonymous questions or comments, until after the March 2010 suicide of a 17-year-old West Islip soccer player who had received many nasty messages.
3.Recent lookism is the era of supremacy, as well as body. On average, young people normally slim, but they do not especially want to show. Grow them this season, irregular eating and hunger, lack of appetite for short-term physical development of the youth are reluctant to, as well as mental development. To their diet is natural that a culture of life is part of. They have serious problems posed by these irregular meals, and do not recognize, especially in the growing season this diet does not think a big problem. We young people have a uniform diet leads to mental and physical problems that will have to offer.
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5.Today, many young people by having irregular eating habits, they suffer from eating disorders. For girls, especially as a little food to eat, fasting and diet are becoming more common. This later leads to adults too. This is a lot of physical problems, mental illness, as well as to bring them. However, many adolescents and their parents are unaware such seriousness. Anorexia or bulimia happens to them, as well as a drop in physical function and to cause mental problems. we must treat the both side effect (physical, mental)
3. i sympathized video game addiction after reading this article. because i have seen game addicted people. this is very dangerous thing like drug addiction, alcoholism. These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality. Also, their health gradually failed. I think they should exercise and good eating habits.
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5. Technology brings an ever-more sense of reality to video games. Some people, especially those who are in the young impressionable age group, are addicted to this virtual world where they can get away with murder. In some extreme cases, these addicts act out on their deadly impulses. But still there are few legal measures to keep them at bay.
Video game addiction is not something new these days. It has emerged as a major social headache since high-speed Internet services became widely available in the early 2000s.
"Mentally-immature children can confuse their role in games with reality, meaning they can act in reality as if they were in the game as a character," Kwon said.
"This confusion is a key culprit behind violent acts children commit against their parents when they face any interruption in their gaming."
Game addiction is a curable disease, experts explain, but it can recur anytime when treatment is no longer offered and the person lacks self-control.
1. Kim Dana 2. students should learn using Korean rightly. 3. because of the internet korean students, especially teenagers started to using slangs . also typo. and they do make lots of grammar mistakes. for me, I thought im pretty okay with using slangs but nowadays I realized that im also should consider about to using slangs I mean we cant judge or blame cause slang is one of youth culture and it take huge part of their life . for fun, for fit to their age .. I would say.. but since that students just started to forget to using korean rightly. just like me. so I think parents cant make kids to using computer or cellphone. but I think they can handle them to let know how important to using our mother toungue langue well. nowadays Korea is getting famous and popular and also became strong economic country so .. I think not only parents but also teachers should help them to consider and think about them. I mean using formal language and words. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced that they will publish book for young children and teenagers to learn " using propel language" and also for " guide book for teenagers health". The book "using propel language" is devided 2 kinds of book for teenagers and for parents. and each of them are consist of 15 pages Teenagers were started to using typo slangs and some bad words which learned from internet, so now Ministry of Gender Equality and Family thinks its time for parents to handle it. and also consider to teach parents to learn how to having positive conversation with their kids.
That 2 books will offered in Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, so if you want to get it, you can go visit Ministry of Gender Equality and Family homepage and get them by internet.
3. These day, teens can't get a chance to exercise. Especially in Korea, teens have to study hard. They study not just in their school and but also in their institute (including extracurricular). I think now is the time for changing carricular to find better way for students. The human body is subject to constant metabolism. If metabolism is disturbed by something wrong, human feel uncomfortable. Exercise supports metabolism. Then students can enjoy excellent health and can study hard in good condition. ---------------------------------------------------------------
5. Four out of 10 teenagers scored below average in a recent nationwide physical examination, a lawmaker said Tuesday.
Of 95,635 middle and high school students in 16 cities nationwide, 23.9 percent and 21.1 percent, received the lowest two of the five grades in last year’s physicals, Rep. Bak Bo-hwan of the Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit.
Bak added that 31.7 percent scored the first and second grades, citing the data from the Education Ministry.
Nearly 60 percent of students in Incheon scored the lowest grades, leaving the city showing the least physical fitness in teenagers. It was followed by Gyeonggi Province with 51.6 percent and Seoul with 48.9 percent.
There was no apparent difference between fitness levels in middle and high school students.
“Even though the weakness in physical ability is a nationwide trend, the situation seems more serious in the Seoul metropolitan area and major cities.
“Schools should add more physical education programs into their curricul a while related facilities need to be installed, especially in the new towns in Gyeonggi Province,” the lawmaker said.
1.Yun Yeon Jung 2.36 percent of teenage girls experienced sex, a study found 3.Many teenager experienced sex,and they can contact sexual stuffs a lot. When I saw this article I was surprised. I think always boys have more interets of sex than girls. But In this article, girls have more intrests of sex than boys. It is really interesting. Because I think that boy can contact sexual stuffs more freely than girls. Like, sexual videos, and photos..etc. But I was curious, Is it only for US girls? In korea, Of course nowadays many korean girls have sex experience when they were young. But I have no idea korean girl teengaer have more interests of sex than boys. If so, It will be really intereting study. In korea especially we dont want to talk about sexual subjects at school. But We should teach them exact sexual education. Especially korea have to do lots of sexual education.
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About 36 percent of teenage girls aged 17 reported having sexual intercourse, a study conducted by the Indiana University on the sexual behavior in America showed.
Researchers collected information online from 5,865 people ranging in age from 14 to 94.
CNN reported that teenage girls between the ages of 14 to 17 showed more interest in sex than boys at the same age; ten percent of 14-year-old teenage girls reported having sex compared to four percent of boys at the same age.
(MCT)
Researchers also found that there are about 41 combinations of sexual acts.
Men’s and women’s perception of sex differed. The study on sex among adults found that 85 percent of men said their female partners had achieved satisfactory orgasms; about 65 percent of women said their male partners satisfied them, CNN reported.
According to NY Daily News, condom use by teenage boys is on the rise, with 79 percent reporting they had used one the last them they had sex.
Ten percent of women between the ages of 18 to 39 masturbate two to three days a week. Men and women ages 25 to 29 masturbate far more than teenagers, the study found.
Seven percent of adult woman and eight percent of adult man indentified as gay, lesbian or bisexual.
3. These day, teenage suicide is increasing. why does teenage suicide? first of all, we should know why teens suicide. also, we should find teens who suicide. so, we must help to prevent teens from suicide effectively. government had better open to inform about precious life and severe suicide problems. It is important for government to try to prevent teens from suicide. warm attention to teens is important too.
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5. The number of teenage suicides increased by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier to exceed 200 last year, with many of the reasons unknown.
A total of 202 elementary, middle and high school students committed suicide in 2009, Rep. Kim Choon-jin of the Democratic Party said Sunday in his analysis report to the parliamentary education committee.
The figure is a 47 percent increase from 137 in the previous year. After slight fluctuations in recent years, the number of teenage suicide cases surpassed 200 for the first time.
High school students accounted for the greatest number of teen suicides, with 140 of the total. Middle school students and elementary school students made up 28 percent and 3 percent, respectively.
Kim urged that the government work out more sophisticated prevention measures, saying that no specific reasons were found in nearly 30 percent of the cases.
“A trigger issue prompts suicide in teenagers who live in a complicated situation involving family and school. Considering that 29 percent of the cases occur without the reasons verified by teachers and family members, more sophisticated efforts are needed for prevention,” he said.
According to his report, many of the teenage suicide cases, or 34 percent, were related to family affairs.
Other reasons included depression at 13 percent, frustration about school grades at 11 percent, relationships at 6 percent, disease or appearance at 3 percent and school violence at 2 percent. ------------------------- 7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100815000232
2. Subway fight between teenager and elderly woman filmed, and spreads on Internet
3.Korean have the traditional proprieties from old times. But now days, Many things are change. Culture, values.. That changes go off short period of time. So many problems were happened. That is a typical example of problems. Some people think young people obey willingly to old people. Respect and obedience are difference each other. Who is wrong? In order for our society to improve, we need to free ourselves from outmoded traditions.
----------------------------------------------- A video of a violent fight in a public subway between a teenage female and a woman believed to be in her 60s appeared on various websites uncensored.
This short clip filmed by the public is being criticized as an invasion of right to privacy.
This video clip, titled ‘Subway Immorality,’ lasts 1 minute and 40 seconds and shows the elderly woman and the student aggressively pushing and grabbing each other by collar.
In the middle of the clip, the two females become tangled, yelling loudly inside the subway. Dozens of other passengers watch closely but do not attempt to stop the fight.
The clip ends with the older woman pushing the student to the side, sitting down in a seat and then moving to another room. The video was filmed inside the second line subway, near Hapjeong Station.
Both females’ identities can be clearly viewed in the video and this is creating an issue of their privacy rights. Netizens have shared different views on this video. Comments have included, “It was the student who started the fight,” and “It was elder women’s fault as she grabbed the students’ hair.”
1.Hong-seob 2.Teen “sex bracelet” 3.Recently article and media dealt with a 'sex bracelet' this is not just a bracelt which has mean 'I want a sex' Two opinion exist one is just a fashion bracelt and we don't care about wear bracelt the other is this has a sexual mean and we prohibit wearing that bracelt. In my opinion it is just fashion bracelt so we don't care about bracelt --------------------------------- 4.Bracelet with sexual meaning by colors is a craze between Brazil teenagers. The innocent looking bracelet became popular at the end of last year in Britain, and it has arrived in Brazil.
The color of the bracelet signifies the wearer’s readiness to take part in sexual activity. If someone breaks the bracelet, it means the breaker gets sexual reward.
3. It seems that improving techknowledges are not always doing good things for people's life. I think major reasons which cause teens' hearing loss are because of portable music players such as mp3 players, CD players. In my opinion, goverment should warn citizens how dangerous listening a portable music player will it be.
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One in five teenagers suffer from at least slight hearing loss, a significant rise from a decade ago, when the rate was only one in seven.
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Related Health Guide: Hearing Loss More Vital Signs ColumnsThe new study, published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data on about 1,771 youngsters aged 12 to 19 who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2005-6, and compared the prevalence of hearing loss with that of youngsters who took part in the survey in 1988-94.
The percentage with at least slight hearing loss increased by 30 percent, to 19.5 percent from 14.9 percent in the earlier study. For most the hearing loss is slight enough they may not even notice.
The number with greater hearing loss — called mild hearing loss — has also increased, from 1 in 30 teenagers a decade ago to 1 in 20 teens in 2005-6, the study found. With mild hearing loss, one might not be able to hear a person whispering in one’s ear.
Researchers could not explain why hearing loss had become more prevalent, and did not find a significant association with exposure to loud noise. But youngsters often say they are not being exposed to loud noise because they are simply unaware they are listening to music at dangerously high levels, said the paper’s lead author, Dr. Josef Shargorodsky, of the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
1. Jeong So Ra 2. clash of generations 3. Have you ever heard the words "Helicopter parent"? It means parents who go round their children everytime, everywhere. Korean's expression is "skirt-wind(blow)". They interfere everything related their children. Even they do protest when their sons receive F grade or get fired at work. These days, helicopter parents are more and more ordinary in Korea. Because the number of children is small. Under helicopter parent, children control their life by themselves. They are too much dependent their parents about not only simply mental problems but also financial ones. The problems is that its situation would be accelerated because our society is becoming old age society. People don't have babies, and medical technology develop everydays. The young may be considered far more important than the old. And I think this situation isn't good. 4. ------------------------------------------- 5. Financial issues have become the fodder for potential clashes among generations in Korea. On a family level, there is a joke. If parents want to get respect from their children, they must support them until their 60th anniversary. Parents must throw a party for them on their 60th birthday.
The baby-boomer generation, born after World War II, faces a dilemma. They must take care of their post-retirement life. Additionally, the duty of looking after their children does not end when the latter get married.
Some of them want to live with their parents as they delay marriage and are unable to find jobs. And even after getting jobs, they want to extend living with their parents due to expensive home prices.
Many married people rely on their parents financially ― they are called the Boomerang or Peter Pan generations. Like the character in the story, Peter Pan, the mischievous boy refuses to grow up. They are also called Twixters, a term that describes young people who are trapped between adolescence and adulthood.
This Western neologism is equivalent to the Japanese “parasite single.” They want to live with their parents as they are not financially independent, having unsteady and low-paying irregular jobs. They marry later than usual and get more college or career training.
In 2050, four out of every 10 Koreans will be aged 65 or older, as the population declines by 6.4 million to 42 million. The world population will grow from 6.8 billion now to more than 9 billion in 2050. Korea and Japan will be the only Asian countries where population levels will decline.
One young worker will have to take care of two or three retired senior citizens, due to the country having the world’s lowest birthrate. For the past four consecutive years, Korea has ranked lowest in the world with a birthrate of 1.15 per couple, and in 2030 Korea will become the fourth most-aged country. This means that Trophy-generation workers will shoulder the financial burden for the elderly.
The news is a shock to most Koreans as the country has drawn international acclaim for its cost-effective and comprehensive medical insurance system. Other social security bills, including employment, pensions, industrial accident compensation and basic livelihood protection will go up.
Incurring debt is a sin the older generation commits as they transfer the burden to the future generation. The government should no longer cite OECD statistics to explain that Korea’s fiscal deficit and its debts are internationally low. Policymakers pay little attention to the fact that Korea is one of the fastest aging societies. The nation must also brace for astronomical spending for a unified Korea. 6. --------------------------------------------- 7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/10/298_73762.html
1. kim ji young
ReplyDelete2. Heavy smoking rate increasing ...among teenagers
3. The number of smoking teens is increasing. Young teens want to imitate grown-up's behavior. Although this is teen's character, smoking is bad thing especially young people. According to this article, school must have education for prevention. But I doubt about education. Is this really succesful? I think we need something effective and practical that teens can understand surely.
4. An increasing number of young teens are smoking, and they are starting younger, a lawmaker said Thursday.
In a nationwide survey of 80,000 teenage students between 2005 and 2008, 12.8 percent of them were cigarette smokers who had smoked more than once over the previous 30 days, Rep. Lim Hye-kyu of the ruling Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit Thursday.
While the overall smoking rate saw fluctuations in recent years, the number of heavily smoking teens has continued to grow, Lim said.
Of the students surveyed, 6.5 percent smoked every day and 2.8 percent smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day in 2008, up from 3.9 percent and 2.1 percent in 2005, respectively.
The percentage of male students who smoked every day almost doubled from 5.3 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2008.
The smoking age also is getting younger, with three in 10 teenage smokers saying that they first smoked when they were in middle school.
Those who said they smoked before entering middle schools accounted for 10.3 percent of boys and 6.5 percent of girls in 2008.
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ReplyDelete2. Report: One-third of US teens are victims of cyberbullying
3. Bullying in schools has moved its stage to the Internet. The Internet makes our lives easy and convenient but it also has many problems. This cyber bullying is a good example. It seems quite serious that 1/3 of US teens are victims of cyber bullying. There would be more victims if the government and parents didn't do anything. But this article shows a bright side of the Internet as well. The Internet poll done by Associated Press-mtvU shows that the Internet can be a good way of connecting young generation. This article shows that many efforts are ongoing in the US and I think they are quite practical. I hope Korean government take the US’s case as an example and try to solve the same problems in Korea.
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More than half of American teens worry about safety on the Internet and know someone their age who has been targeted by hurtful electronic communications. Nearly a third have been targets themselves.
Those recent survey results, released by the Chicago youth-market research firm TRU, hint at the scale of the problems being addressed more vigorously in the wake of the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi and other cases of cyberbullying.
When it comes to safety online, young people’s main “knowledge gap” relates to “setting ground rules of what’s acceptable behavior ... and how that technology may be used against them ... where they could be blackmailed or cyberbullied,” says Richard Harrison, lead mentor for the Safe and Secure Online program, which enlists online security experts to volunteer in schools.
The presentations, given by members of the professional information-security group (ISC)² are aimed primarily at grades 7 to 9. Students discuss scenarios and how to use good everyday judgment to prevent them from reaching the extreme cases they may have heard about in the news.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1008/Report-One-third-of-US-teens-are-victims-of-cyberbullying
1. Kim min ah
ReplyDelete2. Support available for gay youths
3. Actully, Gay or Lesbian sounds like another worlds to me. But thesedays we heard about this situation repeatedly. Now it is spreading to youths. And someones are try to support them.
IT is not a one side problem. I think we have to think about What can we do for that.
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Campus Pride. Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
Support and other resources for gay young people are out there, sometimes only a click or a phone call away, but advocates said the recent suicide of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi and other teens who were believed to have been victims of anti-gay bullying point to the need for even more widespread help.
In a country of about 12,000 public school districts, the education network known as GLSEN (glsen.org) counts about 4,000 Gay-Straight Alliances, the name for school clubs — mostly in high schools — that register with the group.
"Youth in general are not very help-seeking," said the organization's executive director, Eliza Byard. "Getting people to reach out is one of the big challenges."
Another nonprofit focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, the Trevor Project, operates a free, confidential hotline (866 4-U-Trevor) for counseling and suicide prevention around the clock.
The hotline, among many crisis lines available, takes an average of about 30,000 calls a year, said a Trevor spokeswoman, Laura McGinnis.
Trevor (thetrevorproject.org) also offers "TrevorChat," a free, secure online messaging service for counseling between 4 p.m. and midnight Eastern time.
The organization's Trevor Space, a monitored social networking service for gay youth, has about 13,000 registered users, McGinnis said.
"So if your town has only 300 people in it, you're not alone," she said.
A search engine on the Trevor website allows users looking for resources or support to search by key word, state, city or ZIP code.
Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG (pflag.org) is a national support, education and advocacy organization with local affiliates in more than 500 communities around the country and abroad.
Support group meetings are available through PFLAG chapters for loved ones or whole communities.
"PFLAG has grown as more Gen-X parents are learning about their kids or figuring it out before their kids do. They're getting more involved," McGinnis said.
For youths not ready to seek help offline, an outpouring of videos from members of the gay community who have survived bullying and hatred as young people have been posted on a new YouTube channel set up by syndicated columnist Dan Savage (youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject).
On college campuses, Campus Pride is nonprofit organization of student leaders and groups of gay students and their allies, including an effort focused on fraternities and sororities, lambda10.org.
Off campus, CenterLink (lgbtcenters.org) supports LGBT community centers and helps new centers get started.
The organization serves more than 168 centers in 45 states and the District of Columbia. The group's website provides a directory of centers.
"The single most important line of defense for young people in crisis is a network of visibly supportive adults, in their own community, in school, at home," Byard said. "We're talking about a very big country, and far too few young people have access to those supports."
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http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20101010/LIVING02/10080354/Support-available-for-gay-youths
1. Jeong Kwang Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Korean Youth Study Longest Hours in OECD
3. Actually, I wasn't happy after reading this article. I think it is so competitive to get good grade among teenagers in Korea. Because of that, many private institution are getting appeared. Someone think that studying a lot is great. Yes, I agree that opinion. But I don't think teenagers who are in Korea study to know about something. They just study to get good grade and go to good university. So, they don't have any dream. They study really hard than other nation but Korea isn't NO.1 country in the world. Rather than studying for grade, I hope our teenagers study for their future dream. And they are really pathetic. They don't have free time. But I think it is important they have their free time. It'll be really helpful to raise their intellectual ability. I think we need to change our thinking and parent also need to change their mind for their children.
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5. Korean youth study an average of three hours more per day than adolescents in 30 other OECD member countries, or 15 hours more per week, according to a report released by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs on Thursday. On the other hand, they sleep one hour less compared to their counterparts in five countries -- the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland and Germany -- and exercise 22 minutes less.
According to the comparative study on the life patterns of children and adolescents commissioned by the National Youth Policy Institute, Koreans aged between 15 and 24 spent an average of seven hours and 50 minutes per day on studying at school, private crammers or at home as of 2003, nearly three hours longer per day than the OECD average of five hours. Japanese students spent five hours and 21 minutes per day, Germans five hours and four minutes, and the British three hours and 49 minutes.
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7. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/08/10/2009081000200.html
1. Jung-Kwan Lim
ReplyDelete2. Cyberbullying
3. Nowadays young people are easily exposed to harmful media. Indiscriminately harmful material on the Internet that appears to threaten the safety of children are. But it was not strongly sanctioned so many damages occur. Previously many warnings that threaten emotion of youth are reported but we neglect them. Now that we know seriousness of the situation, we should make the policy to protect youth.
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5. Cyberbullying is an imprecise label for online activities ranging from barrages of teasing texts to sexually harassing group sites. The extent of the phenomenon is hard to quantify. But one 2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, an organization founded by two criminologists who defined bullying as "willful and repeated harm” inflicted through phones and computers, said one in five middle-school students had been affected.
Its amorphous nature and the rapidly changing technological landscape have made it difficult for schools and even the courts to address the cyberbullying. Few families in Long Island, for instance, were aware of Formspring, a site where users invite anonymous questions or comments, until after the March 2010 suicide of a 17-year-old West Islip soccer player who had received many nasty messages.
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7.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cyberbullying/index.html?scp=6&sq=teenage%20suicide&st=cse
1. woo ji yeon
ReplyDelete2.Many Teens Risk Health for Slim Figure
3.Recent lookism is the era of supremacy, as well as body.
On average, young people normally slim, but they do not especially want to show.
Grow them this season, irregular eating and hunger, lack of appetite for short-term physical development of the youth are reluctant to, as well as mental development.
To their diet is natural that a culture of life is part of.
They have serious problems posed by these irregular meals, and do not recognize, especially in the growing season this diet does not think a big problem.
We young people have a uniform diet leads to mental and physical problems that will have to offer.
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5.Today, many young people by having irregular eating habits, they suffer from eating disorders.
For girls, especially as a little food to eat, fasting and diet are becoming more common.
This later leads to adults too.
This is a lot of physical problems, mental illness, as well as to bring them.
However, many adolescents and their parents are unaware such seriousness.
Anorexia or bulimia happens to them, as well as a drop in physical function and to cause mental problems.
we must treat the both side effect (physical, mental)
7.http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/04/19/2010041900381.html
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ReplyDelete1. Choi Ji Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Video Game Addict Kills Mother
3. i sympathized video game addiction after reading this article. because i have seen game addicted people. this is very dangerous thing like drug addiction, alcoholism. These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality. Also, their health gradually failed. I think they should exercise and good eating habits.
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5. Technology brings an ever-more sense of reality to video games. Some people, especially those who are in the young impressionable age group, are addicted to this virtual world where they can get away with murder. In some extreme cases, these addicts act out on their deadly impulses. But still there are few legal measures to keep them at bay.
Video game addiction is not something new these days. It has emerged as a major social headache since high-speed Internet services became widely available in the early 2000s.
"Mentally-immature children can confuse their role in games with reality, meaning they can act in reality as if they were in the game as a character," Kwon said.
"This confusion is a key culprit behind violent acts children commit against their parents when they face any interruption in their gaming."
Game addiction is a curable disease, experts explain, but it can recur anytime when treatment is no longer offered and the person lacks self-control.
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/02/117_61178.html
1. Kim Dana
ReplyDelete2. students should learn using Korean rightly.
3. because of the internet korean students, especially teenagers started to using slangs . also typo. and they do make lots of grammar mistakes. for me, I thought im pretty okay with using slangs but nowadays I realized that im also should consider about to using slangs I mean we cant judge or blame cause slang is one of youth culture and it take huge part of their life . for fun, for fit to their age .. I would say.. but since that students just started to forget to using korean rightly. just like me. so I think parents cant make kids to using computer or cellphone. but I think they can handle them to let know how important to using our mother toungue langue well. nowadays Korea is getting famous and popular and also became strong economic country so .. I think not only parents but also teachers should help them to consider and think about them. I mean using formal language and words.
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Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced that they will publish book for young children and teenagers to learn " using propel language" and also for " guide book for teenagers health". The book "using propel language" is devided 2 kinds of book for teenagers and for parents. and each of them are consist of 15 pages
Teenagers were started to using typo slangs and some bad words which learned from internet, so now Ministry of Gender Equality and Family thinks its time for parents to handle it. and also consider to teach parents to learn how to having positive conversation with their kids.
That 2 books will offered in Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, so if you want to get it, you can go visit Ministry of Gender Equality and Family homepage and get them by internet.
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http://kid.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/10/08/2010100801599.html
1. Jo Young Joo
ReplyDelete2. Teens’ fitness levels drop
3. These day, teens can't get a chance to exercise. Especially in Korea, teens have to study hard. They study not just in their school and but also in their institute (including extracurricular). I think now is the time for changing carricular to find better way for students. The human body is subject to constant metabolism. If metabolism is disturbed by something wrong, human feel uncomfortable. Exercise supports metabolism. Then students can enjoy excellent health and can study hard in good condition.
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5. Four out of 10 teenagers scored below average in a recent nationwide physical examination, a lawmaker said Tuesday.
Of 95,635 middle and high school students in 16 cities nationwide, 23.9 percent and 21.1 percent, received the lowest two of the five grades in last year’s physicals, Rep. Bak Bo-hwan of the Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit.
Bak added that 31.7 percent scored the first and second grades, citing the data from the Education Ministry.
Nearly 60 percent of students in Incheon scored the lowest grades, leaving the city showing the least physical fitness in teenagers. It was followed by Gyeonggi Province with 51.6 percent and Seoul with 48.9 percent.
There was no apparent difference between fitness levels in middle and high school students.
“Even though the weakness in physical ability is a nationwide trend, the situation seems more serious in the Seoul metropolitan area and major cities.
“Schools should add more physical education programs into their curricul a while related facilities need to be installed, especially in the new towns in Gyeonggi Province,” the lawmaker said.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101005000853
1.Yun Yeon Jung
ReplyDelete2.36 percent of teenage girls experienced sex, a study found
3.Many teenager experienced sex,and they can contact sexual stuffs a lot. When I saw this article I was surprised. I think always boys have more interets of sex than girls. But In this article, girls have more intrests of sex than boys. It is really interesting. Because I think that boy can contact sexual stuffs more freely than girls. Like, sexual videos, and photos..etc.
But I was curious, Is it only for US girls? In korea, Of course nowadays many korean girls have sex experience when they were young. But I have no idea korean girl teengaer have more interests of sex than boys. If so, It will be really intereting study. In korea especially we dont want to talk about sexual subjects at school. But We should teach them exact sexual education. Especially korea have to do lots of sexual education.
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About 36 percent of teenage girls aged 17 reported having sexual intercourse, a study conducted by the Indiana University on the sexual behavior in America showed.
Researchers collected information online from 5,865 people ranging in age from 14 to 94.
CNN reported that teenage girls between the ages of 14 to 17 showed more interest in sex than boys at the same age; ten percent of 14-year-old teenage girls reported having sex compared to four percent of boys at the same age.
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Researchers also found that there are about 41 combinations of sexual acts.
Men’s and women’s perception of sex differed. The study on sex among adults found that 85 percent of men said their female partners had achieved satisfactory orgasms; about 65 percent of women said their male partners satisfied them, CNN reported.
According to NY Daily News, condom use by teenage boys is on the rise, with 79 percent reporting they had used one the last them they had sex.
Ten percent of women between the ages of 18 to 39 masturbate two to three days a week. Men and women ages 25 to 29 masturbate far more than teenagers, the study found.
Seven percent of adult woman and eight percent of adult man indentified as gay, lesbian or bisexual.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101005001056
1. Kwak Bo Ram
ReplyDelete2. Teenage suicide increases 50%
3. These day, teenage suicide is increasing. why does teenage suicide?
first of all, we should know why teens suicide. also, we should find teens who suicide. so, we must help to prevent teens from suicide effectively.
government had better open to inform about precious life and severe suicide problems. It is important for government to try to prevent teens from suicide.
warm attention to teens is important too.
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5. The number of teenage suicides increased by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier to exceed 200 last year, with many of the reasons unknown.
A total of 202 elementary, middle and high school students committed suicide in 2009, Rep. Kim Choon-jin of the Democratic Party said Sunday in his analysis report to the parliamentary education committee.
The figure is a 47 percent increase from 137 in the previous year. After slight fluctuations in recent years, the number of teenage suicide cases surpassed 200 for the first time.
High school students accounted for the greatest number of teen suicides, with 140 of the total. Middle school students and elementary school students made up 28 percent and 3 percent, respectively.
Kim urged that the government work out more sophisticated prevention measures, saying that no specific reasons were found in nearly 30 percent of the cases.
“A trigger issue prompts suicide in teenagers who live in a complicated situation involving family and school. Considering that 29 percent of the cases occur without the reasons verified by teachers and family members, more sophisticated efforts are needed for prevention,” he said.
According to his report, many of the teenage suicide cases, or 34 percent, were related to family affairs.
Other reasons included depression at 13 percent, frustration about school grades at 11 percent, relationships at 6 percent, disease or appearance at 3 percent and school violence at 2 percent.
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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100815000232
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ReplyDelete1. Il-ho. Jang
ReplyDelete2. Subway fight between teenager and elderly woman filmed, and spreads on Internet
3.Korean have the traditional proprieties from old times. But now days, Many things are change. Culture, values.. That changes go off short period of time. So many problems were happened. That is a typical example of problems. Some people think young people obey willingly to old people. Respect and obedience are difference each other. Who is wrong? In order for our society to improve, we need to free ourselves from outmoded traditions.
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A video of a violent fight in a public subway between a teenage female and a woman believed to be in her 60s appeared on various websites uncensored.
This short clip filmed by the public is being criticized as an invasion of right to privacy.
This video clip, titled ‘Subway Immorality,’ lasts 1 minute and 40 seconds and shows the elderly woman and the student aggressively pushing and grabbing each other by collar.
In the middle of the clip, the two females become tangled, yelling loudly inside the subway. Dozens of other passengers watch closely but do not attempt to stop the fight.
The clip ends with the older woman pushing the student to the side, sitting down in a seat and then moving to another room. The video was filmed inside the second line subway, near Hapjeong Station.
Both females’ identities can be clearly viewed in the video and this is creating an issue of their privacy rights. Netizens have shared different views on this video. Comments have included, “It was the student who started the fight,” and “It was elder women’s fault as she grabbed the students’ hair.”
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101004000563
1.Hong-seob
ReplyDelete2.Teen “sex bracelet”
3.Recently article and media dealt with a 'sex bracelet' this is not just a bracelt which has mean 'I want a sex'
Two opinion exist
one is just a fashion bracelt and we don't care about wear bracelt
the other is this has a sexual mean and we prohibit wearing that bracelt.
In my opinion it is just fashion bracelt so we don't care about bracelt
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4.Bracelet with sexual meaning by colors is a craze between Brazil teenagers.
The innocent looking bracelet became popular at the end of last year in Britain, and it has arrived in Brazil.
The color of the bracelet signifies the wearer’s readiness to take part in sexual activity. If someone breaks the bracelet, it means the breaker gets sexual reward.
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5.http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/05/182_66516.html
1. Lww Woo Yong
ReplyDelete2. Hearing Loss problems.
3. It seems that improving techknowledges are not always doing good things for people's life.
I think major reasons which cause teens' hearing loss are because of portable music players such as mp3 players, CD players.
In my opinion, goverment should warn citizens how dangerous listening a portable music player will it be.
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One in five teenagers suffer from at least slight hearing loss, a significant rise from a decade ago, when the rate was only one in seven.
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More Vital Signs ColumnsThe new study, published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data on about 1,771 youngsters aged 12 to 19 who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2005-6, and compared the prevalence of hearing loss with that of youngsters who took part in the survey in 1988-94.
The percentage with at least slight hearing loss increased by 30 percent, to 19.5 percent from 14.9 percent in the earlier study. For most the hearing loss is slight enough they may not even notice.
The number with greater hearing loss — called mild hearing loss — has also increased, from 1 in 30 teenagers a decade ago to 1 in 20 teens in 2005-6, the study found. With mild hearing loss, one might not be able to hear a person whispering in one’s ear.
Researchers could not explain why hearing loss had become more prevalent, and did not find a significant association with exposure to loud noise. But youngsters often say they are not being exposed to loud noise because they are simply unaware they are listening to music at dangerously high levels, said the paper’s lead author, Dr. Josef Shargorodsky, of the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/health/research/24child.html?_r=1&ref=health
1. Jeong So Ra
ReplyDelete2. clash of generations
3. Have you ever heard the words "Helicopter parent"? It means parents who go round their children everytime, everywhere. Korean's expression is "skirt-wind(blow)". They interfere everything related their children. Even they do protest when their sons receive F grade or get fired at work.
These days, helicopter parents are more and more ordinary in Korea. Because the number of children is small. Under helicopter parent, children control their life by themselves. They are too much dependent their parents about not only simply mental problems but also financial ones.
The problems is that its situation would be accelerated because our society is becoming old age society. People don't have babies, and medical technology develop everydays. The young may be considered far more important than the old. And I think this situation isn't good.
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5. Financial issues have become the fodder for potential clashes among generations in Korea. On a family level, there is a joke. If parents want to get respect from their children, they must support them until their 60th anniversary. Parents must throw a party for them on their 60th birthday.
The baby-boomer generation, born after World War II, faces a dilemma. They must take care of their post-retirement life. Additionally, the duty of looking after their children does not end when the latter get married.
Some of them want to live with their parents as they delay marriage and are unable to find jobs. And even after getting jobs, they want to extend living with their parents due to expensive home prices.
Many married people rely on their parents financially ― they are called the Boomerang or Peter Pan generations. Like the character in the story, Peter Pan, the mischievous boy refuses to grow up. They are also called Twixters, a term that describes young people who are trapped between adolescence and adulthood.
This Western neologism is equivalent to the Japanese “parasite single.” They want to live with their parents as they are not financially independent, having unsteady and low-paying irregular jobs. They marry later than usual and get more college or career training.
In 2050, four out of every 10 Koreans will be aged 65 or older, as the population declines by 6.4 million to 42 million. The world population will grow from 6.8 billion now to more than 9 billion in 2050. Korea and Japan will be the only Asian countries where population levels will decline.
One young worker will have to take care of two or three retired senior citizens, due to the country having the world’s lowest birthrate. For the past four consecutive years, Korea has ranked lowest in the world with a birthrate of 1.15 per couple, and in 2030 Korea will become the fourth most-aged country. This means that Trophy-generation workers will shoulder the financial burden for the elderly.
The news is a shock to most Koreans as the country has drawn international acclaim for its cost-effective and comprehensive medical insurance system. Other social security bills, including employment, pensions, industrial accident compensation and basic livelihood protection will go up.
Incurring debt is a sin the older generation commits as they transfer the burden to the future generation. The government should no longer cite OECD statistics to explain that Korea’s fiscal deficit and its debts are internationally low. Policymakers pay little attention to the fact that Korea is one of the fastest aging societies. The nation must also brace for astronomical spending for a unified Korea.
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/10/298_73762.html