3.We can see our parents have troble each other. Especially, parents can cause a lot of effect to growing children.
--------------------- A child’s mind is very fragile. Each gesture of ours can turn enormous in a child’s eyes. So does a quarrel between his or her parents.
Try to see your fight from the child's point of view and be aware of its consequences in the long term. When you raise your voice, the child senses something is not right and bad things are usually associated with that in his or her mind A child’s mind is very fragile. Each gesture of ours can turn enormous in a child’s eyes. So does a quarrel between his or her parents.
Try to see your fight from the child's point of view and be aware of its consequences in the long term. When you raise your voice, the child senses something is not right and bad things are usually associated with that in his or her mind ----- http://technorati.com/lifestyle/family/article/quarrels-between-parents-affect-their-children
3. There were many demonstration in korea. Especially in 1980 university students are against president. In this time, university students very concerned about politics and social atmosphere. They voluntarily participated demonstration and also held. It means that students are interested in society. But nowadays almost students doesn't care about society. They just take interest in their concern such as entertainer, games, their friends and etc. So people who have power don't care about students, when they make a policy. This problem are made by ourselves. But there is a easy way to solve this problem. Just vote! If you vote with your thought, voting for whomever is of little important. A country belongs to the people. So if you want to be the people, you must exercise your right.
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5. President Obama will continue his attempts to engage younger voters this week, holding a rally with a musical guest, the Roots, in Philadelphia on Sunday and a town-hall-style meeting on MTV on Thursday. Younger voters were among the Democrats’ strongest supporters in 2008, and they have the highest approval ratings of the president. But in the last two midterm elections, only one in four people under age 30 voted, about half the rate for recent presidential elections. And, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center in September, young Democrats are currently even less engaged than they were in 2006.
3. Parents' the economic and social status determines the status of the child. Perhaps, this fact will not change for a while. That is not fair. Social conflict is caused by the unequal status. Government and educational institutions should control the situation. They should give the same chance of moving up in social standing. Youth should not experience frustration at a early age.
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Social mobility is decreasing as the disparity in academic achievement between rich and poor is widening, a report found Monday.
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs published Monday the report, which divided Koreans into four classes depending on their income.
Those in the bottom category earned less than half the national median income, a situation considered relative poverty.
According to the report, low-income households that moved into a higher income bracket decreased from 43.6 percent in 1990-1997 to 31.1 percent in 2003-2008, while middle-income households that fell to a lower bracket during the same period increased from 12 percent to 17.6 percent.
It has also become more difficult for people to get out of poverty since 2000, the report said.
Of the households that were included in the low-income class in 1999, 48.9 percent got out of the poverty bracket the following year. But the corresponding figure decreased to 31.8 percent between 2007 and 2008.
The report said it was unlikely that social status had been passed onto the next generation in the past.
In a separate survey of 1,349 fathers and their 1,586 children, the income of parents did not much affect that of their children, with 33.1 percent moving upward, 33.6 percent downward and 33.3 maintaining their status.
There was also no apparent connection between the employment status of parents ― regular or temporary workers, employers and business owners ― and that of their children.
However, the income of parents was the deciding factor in their children’s education, which is highly connected to future income.
The report said the social and economic status of their households affected children’s academic achievements, and that this influence was becoming more important.
Children’s academic performance was proportional to their study hours and those from richer households studied for longer hours, the report said.
“The nation’s educational environment seems to be a meaningful indicator to predict the future status mobility. The present education system is isolating students from lower-income households, increasing the possibility that their parents’ social status is passed to the next generation,” said Kang Shin-wook, the author of the report.
3. These day, for students exercise time is short. a lack of physical fitness of weak students is increasing. So, that cause social problems. Teens' health is important, but society emphasis on study. school reduce physical education. so, student's physical strength is weaker and weaker. school and society emphasis on study. also, students think that physical education is a waste of time. When I was middle school student, in physical education doing exercise is a waste of time. That is wrong. our society should note physical education is important. students' physical strength is as important as study. society and school should make pleasant physical education through changing class' surroundings. society and school should lead students participate physical education actively.
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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.
3. It's growing the number of students who are obese. They prefer instant food like pizza and hamburgers to traditional food. As you know, Korea traditional food is really healthy and low calories. But they are familiar with instant food than healthy food. So, the rate of obesity is growing. It is a problem in Korea. I think parents need to control their children food. They don't have to give instant food their children. Although it take some time to make healthy food, they should make food themselves for their children. If this symptom keep going until they are adults they will have a variety of disease. They need to work out steadily.
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5. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 13 percent of elementary, middle and high school students are obese. For the first time, the number of students with extreme obesity, those who weigh more than 1.5 times those with normal weight, has exceeded 1 percent of the total student population. The main culprit is the abundance of unhealthy, high-calorie foods consumed by the young such as hamburgers and instant noodles.
1. Jeong SoRa 2. Arson by 13-year-old boy kills family of four 3. A teenager just 13 years old, killed his family when they sleep by arson. According to another news, He said that He wanted to kill only his father and tried to save the rest of family, but The fire was raging, He gave up saving them and went out for himself. It is very horrible acciedent. How pity he is! Leaving his faults out, He now should live feeling guilty with no family. I think it’s accident show the absence of communication of family. Teenage is the time that they(teenagers) are more sensitive than other time. And they always want to win esteen from their surroundings. If his fathere treated son, It would have not happened. 4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A teenager set fire to his apartment in Seoul on Thursday after a dispute with his father, killing four of his family in their sleep sleep.
According to police reports, the teenager, identified by his surname Lee, used gasoline to set the apartment on fire shortly after 3 a.m.
The fire spread in moments, killing his father, mother, grandmother and his 11-year-old sister. His aunt, who lives with the family, was at work at the time and came home later, avoiding the blaze.
The 13-year-old had wished to attend an arts high school. Lee’s father refused, cursing Lee and abusing him, which led to his decision, he testified during the police questioning.
Police said the arson was premeditated and elaborately thought out. They found that Lee had bought the gasoline two days before and hid the canister in his room. To avoid the CCTV in the elevator he deliberately took the stairs. He also gave his gasoline-soaked jacket to a homeless person in a redevelopment project nearby.
By Robert Lee (rjmlee@heraldm.com) 6.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101021000949
1.Yun Yeon Jung 2.[Letters] Social attention for computer game addiction
3.Online game makes people addictive. Especially teenager, they can be addicted online computer game easily. They have lots of time to do computer game. And also they do computer game with their friends. It is usual their life. In korea, Many teenagers are addicted by computer game. Their parents are just trying to ban them. But already some teenagers can't live without computer game. It is quite important issue about teenager. Some teenager committed a crime because they confused between real world and virtual world on computer game. If parents want to make them using less computer game, they have to talk with their children. Only parent's interest make them less addicted status.
------------------------------- One of the biggest temptations that lead adolescent boys into deviation is computer games. Boys begin to play games when they are very young and often get hooked on computer games in their middle and high school years. When I attend a meeting with parents with teenagers, we always talk about the confrontation between parents and children. The parents are trying to ban or limit game playing while some teenagers cannot live without computer games.
A father said he had thrown away the computer out of the apartment balcony and a mother has confiscated the computer mouse. Parents unplugged the keyboard from the computer and brought it to the meeting to make sure their son didn’t play games while they were away.
Nowadays, computer games are highly advanced and addictive and once you indulge yourself into game playing, you might not be able to distinguish reality from the virtual world.
Nearly every parent in Korea has serious issues with computer games today. However, there is very little social attention to the gaming issue. The media frequently cover the development of the game industry in Korea but rarely address the computer game addiction and the struggles that children and teenagers go through.
Today, many parents with adolescent sons are struggling and hiding the problem within the family. While they hush up the addiction and downplay the problems, the social cost related with game and internet addiction is too serious to be approached as personal issues.
We need to review whether the legal system is properly implemented to prevent gaming problems in advance, whether we have sufficient budget and whether we have appropriate rehabilitation programs. With constant consideration for those suffering from addiction, we have to continue to work together as a society to treat this problem.
3. It's growing the number of students who are obese. They prefer instant food like pizza and hamburgers to traditional food. As you know, Korea traditional food is really healthy and low calories. But they are familiar with instant food than healthy food. So, the rate of obesity is growing. It is a problem in Korea. I think parents need to control their children food. They don't have to give instant food their children. Although it take some time to make healthy food, they should make food themselves for their children. If this symptom keep going until they are adults they will have a variety of disease. They need to work out steadily.
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5. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 13 percent of elementary, middle and high school students are obese. For the first time, the number of students with extreme obesity, those who weigh more than 1.5 times those with normal weight, has exceeded 1 percent of the total student population. The main culprit is the abundance of unhealthy, high-calorie foods consumed by the young such as hamburgers and instant noodles.
3. There are many people in the world. In the capital of the world’s biggest concentration of people, China has a problem on several issues. as the photograph are seen, it occurs cruelly. there is no right of free health, or education or other social security benefits. practically, the irresponsible parents neglected their children. Sadly, that is reality in china. so there was nothing we could do about it.
5. The children in photo reflect the heartbreaking lives of immigrant workers in China.
Unable to pay the most rudimentary child care, the workers face no choice but bring their children to workplace, according to the Mail Online.
There is a factory in the city of Jiaxing in the south east of the country where parents toil 10 hours a day. Migrant workers in China mostly aged between 16 and 40 years old are reaching the number of 110 million whereas their children still have no crèche to be taken care.
2. Economic Slump Drives More Teenage Girls into Prostitution
3. There are many reasons why girl sell sex. Most of them are ridiculous. But we must watch out those for teenager. Teenagers want make money, but they don't have many chance. So they choose easy way, but dangerous way. As we know, all they are not poor girl. Society make an uncomfortable atmosphere. They are affected by society and their friends. We need a wide surveillance network. When we face situation that teenagers meet old guy in strange place, don't just pass by. I think they need not money, but attention.
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5. The prolonged economic slump is driving more teenagers out on the streets to sell sex, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said Thursday.
The ministry's Central Inspection Bureau enforced a crackdown on the online teenage sex trade between July and December last year and found the number of teenagers caught nearly doubled to 69 from 36 six months ago.
Among those caught was a 17-year-old Lee, whose family defected from North Korea. Lee said she sold sex online to make money. She was living with her family. It is not only ``girls gone wild'' who get involved in prostitution, bureau chief Park Eun-jung said.
While prostitution stemmed mostly out of curiosity six months ago, this time, teenagers have to sell sex ``to make ends meet,'' Park said. About 44 percent said they needed the money to make a living while 38.2 percent did it to get cash for entertainment.
About 74.5 percent of teenagers caught said they were paid more than 100,000 won ($75) per assignment, more than they could have made at ordinary jobs. ``It shows that teenagers are easily lured by the amount of money they can make amid the economic downturn,'' Park said.
Others sold sex for shelter, according to the report. A 23-year-old Kim had sex with a 15-year-old Park and after learning that she'd run away from home and didn't have a place to stay, kept her at his house for nine months and forced her to sleep with two other men for money. Park said she was sexually abused by the man but could not resist because she was afraid of being thrown out.
Bureau chief Park said economic hardship is harming families and more teenagers are running away from home and getting involved in such activities. Moreover, those who run away from home once are more likely to run away again after being sent home, she said.
``Experts say it is very difficult to get a girl who has sold sex to more than 100 men to go back to ordinary schoolgirl life. The government should pay attention to returning teenagers who have just ran away from home through counseling and therapy,'' she said.
1. Joonkoo Chung 2. Haiti’s children being smuggled and exploited 3. It's really sad that still this kind of incidents are ongoing around the world. There should be some efforts to figure out this tragedy.
-------------------- The heartbreaking stories of abandoned and exploited young Haitians in the Dominican Republic shock the conscience. The traffic in children and adolescents is conducted openly and shamelessly along the Haitian-Dominican border, condemning thousands of young lives to years of pain, destitution and unrelieved misery. It must be stopped.
The complicity of governments willing to turn a blind eye to the abuse of the most vulnerable members of society compounds the outrage. Theirs is not only a failure to act, but a failure to give a damn.
As reported in detail by Jacqueline Charles of The Miami Herald and Gerardo Reyes of El Nuevo Herald, the action takes place right under the noses of police and guards along the border and in the tourist towns where young Haitian prostitutes ply their trade to make a living.
These guardians of law and order are too busy taking bribes or looking the other way while smugglers transport children across the border unhindered and turn them over to be exploited for sex or servitude.
Meanwhile, governments and institutions with the power to take effective action are unwilling to take responsibility.
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive acknowledged there’s a lack of political will to do anything about it. Dominican President Leonel Fernandez did not respond directly, but his office said in an e-mail that the government has intensified border security, prosecutions and sanctions against smugglers.
1. kim min ah 2. As youth unemployment climbs, administration announces first measures 3. Young people's unemployment problem has been very serious, and looks like nothing better. According to this situation, president announces first measures. Hopely this time, get better about this. So many people having a big problem with umemployment. I also worry about to get a job after few years. Our administration should concentrate on solve this serious problem.
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Observers say the program’s 71,000 jobs and internships fall short of the 1.24 million jobs needed by next year.
By Jeon Jong-hwi
The Lee Myung-bak administration announced youth employment measures Thursday that are to create 71 thousand new jobs by 2012, mainly in the public sector. On the same day, it held a joint citizens’ economy countermeasures and national employment strategy meeting, presided over by President Lee Myung-bak, and announced its first project, “Young People: Making a Job for Me.”
According to the announcement, public corporations involved with areas such as energy, research, and development will reportedly take on 7,200 new employees, and the government is to reflect this performance during corporation management assessment. Also, an additional 1,350 public servants are to be newly hired in areas that are viewed as having an insufficient work force relative to demand, including firefighting, public order, and trademark application review. Approximately 5,800 new positions are to be created in disaster prevention and lifestyle-integrated public jobs. Additionally, the youth employment internship system for smaller enterprises is to be extended to medium-sized companies, with more than 37 thousand people to be formally employed at the companies in question by 2012 after completion of their internships.
Also, in order to induce the private sector to take active steps in youth employment, the administration will support the establishment of partnerships between large corporations and contracting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for jointly discovering and training young workers, and pursue the self-sustained spread of the “Sharing Jobs Between Generations Model.”
However, a number of observers have expressed doubts about the efficacy of these measures. One problem that is being mentioned is that the scale of newly created youth jobs is too small. According to official government statistics, the number of youth unemployed stands at around 295 thousand. After factoring in the roughly 626 thousand graduating university seniors looking for employment and the 322 thousand people who have given up the job search completely, the total number of people actually in need of jobs amounts to around 1.24 million. Observers say that the 71 thousand jobs created through the government measures only scratches the surface.
“If you exclude internships and social enterprises, the actual number of jobs in public institutions and the lifestyle-integrated public service sector is just 13,000 or so per year,” said the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) in a statement Thursday. “In an employment crisis like the present, the government needs to create jobs first, guiding and stimulating job creation in other sectors.”
The unpalatability of realistic means for inducing job creation is also casting doubts on the efficacy of the measures. Ideas such as introducing a “youth employment quota system,” requiring large corporations and medium-sized companies to hire young people, were excluded from the measures for “running counter to the market economy.”
At a press conference Thursday afternoon at the Gwacheon Government Complex, Minister of Employment and Labor Park Jae-wan said, “For this first round of measures, we only announced the things that have been set in stone. There will be a second and third announcement in their turn.”
1. Kim Dana 2. texting before going to bed will interrupt your sleep 3. i know that texting before going to bed is DEFINATELY interrupt my sleep. i can tell, maybe im not the only one. i cant say this article's insistence is totally right(about pain in the legs). but i think texting is making people to wait somebody else's answer and that makes people to having trouble to go to bed. and they said not just cell phone but also electronic equipments are interrupting too. which i can TOTALLY AGREE with. cause i went bed at 12am, but because of incoded movies in my ipod i usually go to bed at 2am. i always wathing those movies IN MY BED! ------------------------------------------------ http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/08/2010110800950.html ------------------------------------------------ America's ABC broadcasting informed that kids which usually texting before going to bed are mostly struggling with human understanding, during the daytime.
Newjersey, Dr. Peter forlos (JFK Medical center) said he got the result of using electronic equipments before going to bed are having not just insomnia, but also pain of the legs. from 8~22 years old students survey. and they (people who using electronic equipment late.) also have ADHD((an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), nervous, hypochondria, learning difficulty and obstruction of feeling.
those result of study insisted that electronic medias are offering stimulus which make people to oppose to sleeping. those electronic media's graphic and fast reactions are more interacted than watching TV. "using those equipment less, before going to bed will be more rational." researchers advised.
and they also said parents should consider a counterplan about set up a time for texting or using electronic equipments. and also get rid of their computer from bed room.
America's Society of chest (CHEST), David gerturman said "insomnia and the other obstruction of sleeping are influential to kids in school." "doctors should ask patient about USING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT cause this is so important to ask than it used to be."
this research were about 40 patients from JFK clinique of sleeping. their average age is 14.5 . they mostly sent mail for 3.7people and sent text about 33.5. usually 10minutes ~ 4hours before going to bed.
boys are like to play internet game or internet surfing, girls are prefer to texting or talking on the phone. those students are nearly wakeful night at least once, more than 77% of them were having trouble with sleeping.
this research will announced in conference of CHEST, 10th.
Computer age makes so much gap between the parents and the child, it rips the good relationship of a parent-child connection. help for parents of teenagers
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.Parents'behavior affect their children
3.We can see our parents have troble each other. Especially, parents can cause a lot of effect to growing children.
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A child’s mind is very fragile. Each gesture of ours can turn enormous in a child’s eyes. So does a quarrel between his or her parents.
Try to see your fight from the child's point of view and be aware of its consequences in the long term. When you raise your voice, the child senses something is not right and bad things are usually associated with that in his or her mind
A child’s mind is very fragile. Each gesture of ours can turn enormous in a child’s eyes. So does a quarrel between his or her parents.
Try to see your fight from the child's point of view and be aware of its consequences in the long term. When you raise your voice, the child senses something is not right and bad things are usually associated with that in his or her mind
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http://technorati.com/lifestyle/family/article/quarrels-between-parents-affect-their-children
1. Jung-Kwan Lim
ReplyDelete2. turnout of voters
3. There were many demonstration in korea. Especially in 1980 university students are against president. In this time, university students very concerned about politics and social atmosphere. They voluntarily participated demonstration and also held. It means that students are interested in society. But nowadays almost students doesn't care about society. They just take interest in their concern such as entertainer, games, their friends and etc. So people who have power don't care about students, when they make a policy. This problem are made by ourselves. But there is a easy way to solve this problem. Just vote! If you vote with your thought, voting for whomever is of little important. A country belongs to the people. So if you want to be the people, you must exercise your right.
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5. President Obama will continue his attempts to engage younger voters this week, holding a rally with a musical guest, the Roots, in Philadelphia on Sunday and a town-hall-style meeting on MTV on Thursday. Younger voters were among the Democrats’ strongest supporters in 2008, and they have the highest approval ratings of the president. But in the last two midterm elections, only one in four people under age 30 voted, about half the rate for recent presidential elections. And, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center in September, young Democrats are currently even less engaged than they were in 2006.
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7.http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/the-elusive-youth-vote/?scp=4&sq=youth&st=cse
1. Il-ho. Jang
ReplyDelete2. Educational disparity fuels poverty
3. Parents' the economic and social status determines the status of the child. Perhaps, this fact will not change for a while. That is not fair. Social conflict is caused by the unequal status. Government and educational institutions should control the situation. They should give the same chance of moving up in social standing. Youth should not experience frustration at a early age.
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Social mobility is decreasing as the disparity in academic achievement between rich and poor is widening, a report found Monday.
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs published Monday the report, which divided Koreans into four classes depending on their income.
Those in the bottom category earned less than half the national median income, a situation considered relative poverty.
According to the report, low-income households that moved into a higher income bracket decreased from 43.6 percent in 1990-1997 to 31.1 percent in 2003-2008, while middle-income households that fell to a lower bracket during the same period increased from 12 percent to 17.6 percent.
It has also become more difficult for people to get out of poverty since 2000, the report said.
Of the households that were included in the low-income class in 1999, 48.9 percent got out of the poverty bracket the following year. But the corresponding figure decreased to 31.8 percent between 2007 and 2008.
The report said it was unlikely that social status had been passed onto the next generation in the past.
In a separate survey of 1,349 fathers and their 1,586 children, the income of parents did not much affect that of their children, with 33.1 percent moving upward, 33.6 percent downward and 33.3 maintaining their status.
There was also no apparent connection between the employment status of parents ― regular or temporary workers, employers and business owners ― and that of their children.
However, the income of parents was the deciding factor in their children’s education, which is highly connected to future income.
The report said the social and economic status of their households affected children’s academic achievements, and that this influence was becoming more important.
Children’s academic performance was proportional to their study hours and those from richer households studied for longer hours, the report said.
“The nation’s educational environment seems to be a meaningful indicator to predict the future status mobility. The present education system is isolating students from lower-income households, increasing the possibility that their parents’ social status is passed to the next generation,” said Kang Shin-wook, the author of the report.
By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldm.com)
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101101000862
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ReplyDelete1. Kwak Bo Ram
ReplyDelete2. Teens’ fitness levels drop
3. These day, for students exercise time is short. a lack of physical fitness of weak students is increasing. So, that cause social problems. Teens' health is important, but society emphasis on study. school reduce physical education. so, student's physical strength is weaker and weaker. school and society emphasis on study. also, students think that physical education is a waste of time.
When I was middle school student, in physical education doing exercise is a waste of time. That is wrong.
our society should note physical education is important. students' physical strength is as important as study. society and school should make pleasant physical education through changing class' surroundings. society and school should lead students participate physical education actively.
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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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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101005000853
1. Jeong Kwang Hoon
ReplyDelete2. The Koreas’ weight problem
3. It's growing the number of students who are obese. They prefer instant food like pizza and hamburgers to traditional food. As you know, Korea traditional food is really healthy and low calories. But they are familiar with instant food than healthy food. So, the rate of obesity is growing. It is a problem in Korea. I think parents need to control their children food. They don't have to give instant food their children. Although it take some time to make healthy food, they should make food themselves for their children. If this symptom keep going until they are adults they will have a variety of disease. They need to work out steadily.
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5. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 13 percent of elementary, middle and high school students are obese. For the first time, the number of students with extreme obesity, those who weigh more than 1.5 times those with normal weight, has exceeded 1 percent of the total student population. The main culprit is the abundance of unhealthy, high-calorie foods consumed by the young such as hamburgers and instant noodles.
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7. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2927737
1. Jeong SoRa
ReplyDelete2. Arson by 13-year-old boy kills family of four
3. A teenager just 13 years old, killed his family when they sleep by arson. According to another news, He said that He wanted to kill only his father and tried to save the rest of family, but The fire was raging, He gave up saving them and went out for himself. It is very horrible acciedent. How pity he is! Leaving his faults out, He now should live feeling guilty with no family. I think it’s accident show the absence of communication of family. Teenage is the time that they(teenagers) are more sensitive than other time. And they always want to win esteen from their surroundings. If his fathere treated son, It would have not happened.
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A teenager set fire to his apartment in Seoul on Thursday after a dispute with his father, killing four of his family in their sleep sleep.
According to police reports, the teenager, identified by his surname Lee, used gasoline to set the apartment on fire shortly after 3 a.m.
The fire spread in moments, killing his father, mother, grandmother and his 11-year-old sister. His aunt, who lives with the family, was at work at the time and came home later, avoiding the blaze.
The 13-year-old had wished to attend an arts high school. Lee’s father refused, cursing Lee and abusing him, which led to his decision, he testified during the police questioning.
Police said the arson was premeditated and elaborately thought out. They found that Lee had bought the gasoline two days before and hid the canister in his room. To avoid the CCTV in the elevator he deliberately took the stairs. He also gave his gasoline-soaked jacket to a homeless person in a redevelopment project nearby.
By Robert Lee (rjmlee@heraldm.com)
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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101021000949
1.Yun Yeon Jung
ReplyDelete2.[Letters] Social attention for computer game addiction
3.Online game makes people addictive. Especially teenager, they can be addicted online computer game easily. They have lots of time to do computer game. And also they do computer game with their friends. It is usual their life. In korea, Many teenagers are addicted by computer game. Their parents are just trying to ban them. But already some teenagers can't live without computer game. It is quite important issue about teenager. Some teenager committed a crime because they confused between real world and virtual world on computer game. If parents want to make them using less computer game, they have to talk with their children. Only parent's interest make them less addicted status.
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One of the biggest temptations that lead adolescent boys into deviation is computer games. Boys begin to play games when they are very young and often get hooked on computer games in their middle and high school years. When I attend a meeting with parents with teenagers, we always talk about the confrontation between parents and children. The parents are trying to ban or limit game playing while some teenagers cannot live without computer games.
A father said he had thrown away the computer out of the apartment balcony and a mother has confiscated the computer mouse. Parents unplugged the keyboard from the computer and brought it to the meeting to make sure their son didn’t play games while they were away.
Nowadays, computer games are highly advanced and addictive and once you indulge yourself into game playing, you might not be able to distinguish reality from the virtual world.
Nearly every parent in Korea has serious issues with computer games today. However, there is very little social attention to the gaming issue. The media frequently cover the development of the game industry in Korea but rarely address the computer game addiction and the struggles that children and teenagers go through.
Today, many parents with adolescent sons are struggling and hiding the problem within the family. While they hush up the addiction and downplay the problems, the social cost related with game and internet addiction is too serious to be approached as personal issues.
We need to review whether the legal system is properly implemented to prevent gaming problems in advance, whether we have sufficient budget and whether we have appropriate rehabilitation programs. With constant consideration for those suffering from addiction, we have to continue to work together as a society to treat this problem.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2927961
1. Jeong Kwang Hoon
ReplyDelete2. The Koreas’ weight problem
3. It's growing the number of students who are obese. They prefer instant food like pizza and hamburgers to traditional food. As you know, Korea traditional food is really healthy and low calories. But they are familiar with instant food than healthy food. So, the rate of obesity is growing. It is a problem in Korea. I think parents need to control their children food. They don't have to give instant food their children. Although it take some time to make healthy food, they should make food themselves for their children. If this symptom keep going until they are adults they will have a variety of disease. They need to work out steadily.
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5. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 13 percent of elementary, middle and high school students are obese. For the first time, the number of students with extreme obesity, those who weigh more than 1.5 times those with normal weight, has exceeded 1 percent of the total student population. The main culprit is the abundance of unhealthy, high-calorie foods consumed by the young such as hamburgers and instant noodles.
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7. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2927737
1. Choi Ji Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Children of China's migrant workers in misery
3. There are many people in the world. In the capital of the world’s biggest concentration of people, China has a problem on several issues.
as the photograph are seen, it occurs cruelly. there is no right of free health, or education or other social security benefits. practically, the irresponsible parents neglected their children. Sadly, that is reality in china. so there was nothing we could do about it.
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5. The children in photo reflect the heartbreaking lives of immigrant workers in China.
Unable to pay the most rudimentary child care, the workers face no choice but bring their children to workplace, according to the Mail Online.
There is a factory in the city of Jiaxing in the south east of the country where parents toil 10 hours a day. Migrant workers in China mostly aged between 16 and 40 years old are reaching the number of 110 million whereas their children still have no crèche to be taken care.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100422000673
1. Jo Young Joo
ReplyDelete2. Economic Slump Drives More Teenage Girls into Prostitution
3. There are many reasons why girl sell sex. Most of them are ridiculous. But we must watch out those for teenager. Teenagers want make money, but they don't have many chance. So they choose easy way, but dangerous way. As we know, all they are not poor girl. Society make an uncomfortable atmosphere. They are affected by society and their friends. We need a wide surveillance network. When we face situation that teenagers meet old guy in strange place, don't just pass by. I think they need not money, but attention.
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5. The prolonged economic slump is driving more teenagers out on the streets to sell sex, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said Thursday.
The ministry's Central Inspection Bureau enforced a crackdown on the online teenage sex trade between July and December last year and found the number of teenagers caught nearly doubled to 69 from 36 six months ago.
Among those caught was a 17-year-old Lee, whose family defected from North Korea. Lee said she sold sex online to make money. She was living with her family. It is not only ``girls gone wild'' who get involved in prostitution, bureau chief Park Eun-jung said.
While prostitution stemmed mostly out of curiosity six months ago, this time, teenagers have to sell sex ``to make ends meet,'' Park said. About 44 percent said they needed the money to make a living while 38.2 percent did it to get cash for entertainment.
About 74.5 percent of teenagers caught said they were paid more than 100,000 won ($75) per assignment, more than they could have made at ordinary jobs. ``It shows that teenagers are easily lured by the amount of money they can make amid the economic downturn,'' Park said.
Others sold sex for shelter, according to the report. A 23-year-old Kim had sex with a 15-year-old Park and after learning that she'd run away from home and didn't have a place to stay, kept her at his house for nine months and forced her to sleep with two other men for money. Park said she was sexually abused by the man but could not resist because she was afraid of being thrown out.
Bureau chief Park said economic hardship is harming families and more teenagers are running away from home and getting involved in such activities. Moreover, those who run away from home once are more likely to run away again after being sent home, she said.
``Experts say it is very difficult to get a girl who has sold sex to more than 100 men to go back to ordinary schoolgirl life. The government should pay attention to returning teenagers who have just ran away from home through counseling and therapy,'' she said.
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6. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/01/117_38655.html
1. Joonkoo Chung
ReplyDelete2. Haiti’s children being smuggled and exploited
3. It's really sad that still this kind of incidents are ongoing around the world. There should be some efforts to figure out this tragedy.
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The heartbreaking stories of abandoned and exploited young Haitians in the Dominican Republic shock the conscience. The traffic in children and adolescents is conducted openly and shamelessly along the Haitian-Dominican border, condemning thousands of young lives to years of pain, destitution and unrelieved misery. It must be stopped.
The complicity of governments willing to turn a blind eye to the abuse of the most vulnerable members of society compounds the outrage. Theirs is not only a failure to act, but a failure to give a damn.
As reported in detail by Jacqueline Charles of The Miami Herald and Gerardo Reyes of El Nuevo Herald, the action takes place right under the noses of police and guards along the border and in the tourist towns where young Haitian prostitutes ply their trade to make a living.
These guardians of law and order are too busy taking bribes or looking the other way while smugglers transport children across the border unhindered and turn them over to be exploited for sex or servitude.
Meanwhile, governments and institutions with the power to take effective action are unwilling to take responsibility.
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive acknowledged there’s a lack of political will to do anything about it. Dominican President Leonel Fernandez did not respond directly, but his office said in an e-mail that the government has intensified border security, prosecutions and sanctions against smugglers.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/opinion/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101103000861
1. kim min ah
ReplyDelete2. As youth unemployment climbs, administration announces first measures
3. Young people's unemployment problem has been very serious, and looks like nothing better. According to this situation, president announces first measures. Hopely this time, get better about this. So many people having a big problem with umemployment. I also worry about to get a job after few years. Our administration should concentrate on solve this serious problem.
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Observers say the program’s 71,000 jobs and internships fall short of the 1.24 million jobs needed by next year.
By Jeon Jong-hwi
The Lee Myung-bak administration announced youth employment measures Thursday that are to create 71 thousand new jobs by 2012, mainly in the public sector. On the same day, it held a joint citizens’ economy countermeasures and national employment strategy meeting, presided over by President Lee Myung-bak, and announced its first project, “Young People: Making a Job for Me.”
According to the announcement, public corporations involved with areas such as energy, research, and development will reportedly take on 7,200 new employees, and the government is to reflect this performance during corporation management assessment. Also, an additional 1,350 public servants are to be newly hired in areas that are viewed as having an insufficient work force relative to demand, including firefighting, public order, and trademark application review. Approximately 5,800 new positions are to be created in disaster prevention and lifestyle-integrated public jobs. Additionally, the youth employment internship system for smaller enterprises is to be extended to medium-sized companies, with more than 37 thousand people to be formally employed at the companies in question by 2012 after completion of their internships.
Also, in order to induce the private sector to take active steps in youth employment, the administration will support the establishment of partnerships between large corporations and contracting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for jointly discovering and training young workers, and pursue the self-sustained spread of the “Sharing Jobs Between Generations Model.”
However, a number of observers have expressed doubts about the efficacy of these measures. One problem that is being mentioned is that the scale of newly created youth jobs is too small. According to official government statistics, the number of youth unemployed stands at around 295 thousand. After factoring in the roughly 626 thousand graduating university seniors looking for employment and the 322 thousand people who have given up the job search completely, the total number of people actually in need of jobs amounts to around 1.24 million. Observers say that the 71 thousand jobs created through the government measures only scratches the surface.
“If you exclude internships and social enterprises, the actual number of jobs in public institutions and the lifestyle-integrated public service sector is just 13,000 or so per year,” said the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) in a statement Thursday. “In an employment crisis like the present, the government needs to create jobs first, guiding and stimulating job creation in other sectors.”
The unpalatability of realistic means for inducing job creation is also casting doubts on the efficacy of the measures. Ideas such as introducing a “youth employment quota system,” requiring large corporations and medium-sized companies to hire young people, were excluded from the measures for “running counter to the market economy.”
At a press conference Thursday afternoon at the Gwacheon Government Complex, Minister of Employment and Labor Park Jae-wan said, “For this first round of measures, we only announced the things that have been set in stone. There will be a second and third announcement in their turn.”
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http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/444002.html
1. Kim Dana
ReplyDelete2. texting before going to bed will interrupt your sleep
3. i know that texting before going to bed is DEFINATELY interrupt my sleep. i can tell, maybe im not the only one. i cant say this article's insistence is totally right(about pain in the legs). but i think texting is making people to wait somebody else's answer and that makes people to having trouble to go to bed.
and they said not just cell phone but also electronic equipments are interrupting too. which i can TOTALLY AGREE with. cause i went bed at 12am, but because of incoded movies in my ipod i usually go to bed at 2am. i always wathing those movies IN MY BED!
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http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/08/2010110800950.html
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America's ABC broadcasting informed that kids which usually texting before going to bed are mostly struggling with human understanding, during the daytime.
Newjersey, Dr. Peter forlos (JFK Medical center) said he got the result of using electronic equipments before going to bed are having not just insomnia, but also pain of the legs. from 8~22 years old students survey. and they (people who using electronic equipment late.) also have ADHD((an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), nervous, hypochondria, learning difficulty and obstruction of feeling.
those result of study insisted that electronic medias are offering stimulus which make people to oppose to sleeping. those electronic media's graphic and fast reactions are more interacted than watching TV.
"using those equipment less, before going to bed will be more rational." researchers advised.
and they also said parents should consider a counterplan about set up a time for texting or using electronic equipments. and also get rid of their computer from bed room.
America's Society of chest (CHEST), David gerturman said "insomnia and the other obstruction of sleeping are influential to kids in school." "doctors should ask patient about USING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT cause this is so important to ask than it used to be."
this research were about 40 patients from JFK clinique of sleeping. their average age is 14.5 . they mostly sent mail for 3.7people and sent text about 33.5. usually 10minutes ~ 4hours before going to bed.
boys are like to play internet game or internet surfing, girls are prefer to texting or talking on the phone. those students are nearly wakeful night at least once, more than 77% of them were having trouble with sleeping.
this research will announced in conference of CHEST, 10th.
Computer age makes so much gap between the parents and the child, it rips the good relationship of a parent-child connection. help for parents of teenagers
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