2. Iranian Youth Underground is American Rap--Faces a Crackdown
3. This is interesting. It will go clearly with what we talk about when we talk about Arabian youth culture information later in the course. Think about the challenges of mass media to the wider Iranian society when it facilitates an independent youth culture formation, in a society that demotes peer groups generally, and particularly male-female socialization in groups.
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Iran police crack down on 'underground rap scene'
Iranian police have made a string of arrests in raids targeting the capital's underground rap scene, the Tehran-Emrouz newspaper reported on Monday.
An unspecified number of "boys and girls were arrested, and Western musical instruments and alcohol seized" in Friday's raids, the paper quoted Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedi-nia as saying.
"These bands recorded underground clips and released unauthorised songs on satellite and cyber networks," Sajedi-nia said.
"These boys and girls used deserted and crumbling buildings, and camouflaged the place by hanging dirty curtains in order not to arouse suspicion."
The police chief said that officers had kept several venues under surveillance in their crackdown on the "morally deviant" scene.
He accused the rappers of "using obscenities, portraying a bleak picture of society and presenting unhealthy relationships between boys and girls as normal."
Iranian censors vet all art and music before its release [similar to South Korea well into the 1970s] and rappers are routinely denied authorisation despite their popularity among the Islamic republic's disproportionately youthful population.
The authorities regard an array of Western musical genres as decadent, including heavy metal as well as rap. Frequent raids on illegal concerts have resulted in scores of arrests.
But underground bands have still managed to get their music heard by using home computers to get it aired over the Internet or on Persian-language satellite channels broadcasting from abroad.
1. Kim min ah 2. Law aims to protect young entertainers 3. As I learn in our class, many youth are influenced by entertainers. They want to act or wear like entertainers especially young stars. Young entertainers are same as any other juveniles. They also deserve to protect as a someone's kids or studendts. But thesedays many young entertainers having a hard time with uncomfortable and dangerous facts. I hope many entertainers could be protected with this law.
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A 31-year-old chairman of a talent agency was caught in October for forcing to two aspiring entertainers into the sex trade.
The man signed a contract with the high school girls and introduced them to a 41-year-old businessman.
When the girls refused to follow his direction, he allegedly said, “In order to succeed, you should meet a sponsor and maintain a good relationship, having sex with him.”
The agency head pocketed 46 million won ($41,300) from the “sponsor” for brokering 10 sexual encounters. The girls also received cash and gifts worth 8 million won.
With the nation’s entertainment industry booming, recently fueled by its growing popularity in Asian countries, an estimated 48,000 youngsters knock on the doors of entertainment agencies every year.
Facing fierce competition, aspiring entertainers sometimes put up with unfair contracts and requirements from the agency. With no clear rules regulating the industry, minors are particularly vulnerable.
In order to better protect the sexual and educational rights of underage entertainers, the government has decided to revise related laws, officials said Tuesday.
According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, new rules for “underage people who appear in public media” would be included in the law on youth protection, which would regulate the exposure of flesh and sexual expression of underage entertainers.
Another law on the entertainment industry would also introduce regulations to secure good conditions for young entertainers such as physical and psychological wellbeing and education.
The current standardized contract form for entertainers, which is applied regardless of age, also would apply separate regulations for underage performers.
“In order to guarantee the effectiveness of protection measures, the ministry would include them in the pending national plan for youth protection and continue to review the details,” said Vice Minister Kim Kyo-shik.
The ministry will conduct a regular survey on the actual implementation of the new rules and revise them to improve, the vice minister added.
In July, the ministry conducted a survey of 103 underage entertainers and those who were in training the first of its kind in Korea.
Of them, 60 percent of the girls said they were forced to expose some parts of their body.
Of the respondents, 56.1 percent said they were advised to lose weight and 14.6 percent said they were told to get plastic surgery, with the rates higher for female entertainers.
Almost half of respondents said they had to skip more than six class hours per week and 36 percent said they had worked more than eight hours a day.
Mental health issues were also prevalent, with 64.3 percent complaining of sleep disorders, 14.3 percent taking antidepressants and 14.5 percent feeling doubts about their life.
3. It is their fault, if they have a baby without preparing for raising their baby. But teenager girls are too young to grow their child by themselves. So we need to help them. According to this article, almost teenager girls who have a baby quit their school. Even about 14% students are encouraged to drop out of school by their teacher. That is really severe problem. If they quit or are encouraged to quit, they can't have a normal job later and they can't raise their baby in good condition. Therefore they will live hard life. I think high schools in Korea need to make a new policy for them. Although having a baby in young age is their fault but we have obligation to lead them to right way.
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5. Single teenage mothers in Korea have little chance at continuing their educations once they get pregnant, according to a recent government survey.
According to the survey of single, underage mothers by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 85 percent of the girls are drop-outs.
"Education for teenage, single mothers has become an issue of increasing importance because of changing attitudes toward sex in the country and the increasing numbers of single mothers," said a ministry official, who explained the ministry was drawing up a policy for such mothers.
Out of a total of 73 single teenage mothers living in 35 single-mother support facilities, 35 are high school drop-outs while 13 quit during middle school. The remaining 13 dropouts are on hiatus from their studies on the recommendation of their schools or teachers. The average age of the mothers was 16.
2.Korea students who are trying to study hard but..
3.Korea students have always had obligation which they have to study harder than anyone. This situation can be resulted from many reasons such as parent's pressure. But, even if they are trying to be best, their grades are not always good.
----------------------- On the 29th 17-year old Lee, a female second-year student at a foreign language high school in Seoul, finished her school day, ate dinner, and went to a hagwon. When she finished at the hagwon she went to a study room until midnight until going home. A typical day for her has her spending 13 hours at her desks. She said, "there are a lot of times when I daydream about doing other things but if I don't sit in front of those desks I won't be succesful. Right now I'm near the top of my class but I don't know how much I'll feel like studying in college."
○ Studying Well But Getting Bad Grades
Korean middle and high school students study a lot but achieve low results for the number of hours they put in, a study has found.
On the 29th the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Research and Training (국직업능력개발원) announced, "a study has found that Korean 15-year olds rank 24th out of the 30 OECD nations for effectiveness of studying."
The study examined the studying habits of 15-year olds in the OECD member countries, and ranked them by their PISA scores and number of hours spent studying. The "PISA 2006" study found that Korean students ranked first in reading and second in mathematics. But their score of 65.4 in study effectiveness ranked them 24th in the OECD, below the average score of 72.1.
○ Instead of ‘Study Hard’, ‘Study Smart’
Experts pointed out that, "there are serious concerns that the excessive investment in elementary, middle, and high school education and study designed to achieve college admissions is weakening competitiveness and failing to produce creative abilities."
Kim Seung-gi, a Korean-American education scholar, found in her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University that from 1985 to 2007 56%, or 784 out of 1,400, Korean students at 14 top American universities including Harvard University dropped out.
Her research indicated that though Korean students do well on every exam they take before entering higher education, they are often unable to handle the active and creative forms of study required there.
Jin Mi-seok, a researcher with KRIVET, said, "for a long time our efforts have been focused on achieving the status of an advanced-nation economy, but now we must change to a focus on achieving an economy which can be a global leader."
To solve this problem requires education which emphasizes creativity. Hong Hu-jo, a professor of education at Korea University, said, "because our education only exploits the senses of sight and hearing at a time when it needs to build a foundation, it cannot go far," adding, "there must be an emphasis on studying smart over studying hard."
3. This is Ridiculous thinking. Students, in Korean, always Emphasizes studying. Just studying. Cultural activities? They need rest, at least on vacation. If you want to try something, You have to try during term. Not vacation. Don't bother them with such matters. Many students say they feel overwhelmed by pressure and responsibilities of studying. And Increase more P.E class in thier term, not on vacation.
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Students in elementary, middle and high schools who are about to advance to the next level of education enter an idle period during the last few weeks of December. They typically take their final tests - or college entrance exams in the case of high school seniors - weeks before the school year ends.
Yet they are forced to come to school until the semester officially ends. These students, and their teachers, don’t have the desire or the energy to continue studying after the exams. Nor is there a good reason to, as they have already gone over all the material for class. Students, therefore, squander away the last few weeks of the school year in the classroom by watching videos, poring over comic books and killing time in other ways. Teachers become glorified baby sitters, as they’re more or less tasked with simply watching over groups of students all day. Students then hit winter break before the new school year starts in March, meaning they have more than three months of idle time.
We must help these students put this valuable time to better use. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education came up with the clever idea of hooking up students about to graduate from elementary, middle and high school with various cultural and arts programs.
Under this plan, students will be invited to attend music and foreign language classes, and performances and workshops with artists. The education office is now attempting to team up with national and local arts institutions as well as private establishments such as the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Korea Arts and Culture Education Service and the Hope Institute. But these programs, no matter how good they are, won’t be beneficial unless schools actively encourage students to participate in them.
Schools must take a leading role in encouraging graduating students to use their time wisely as they prepare to take the next step in the world of education. To do this, they should develop educational enrichment programs for these students. This could, for instance, involve inviting alumni and popular figures from the area to speak on topics surrounding education and life planning. High schools can link up with universities to provide special classes for graduating seniors. As the saying goes, “Learn as much as you can while you are young because you will be too busy later in life.” The dwindling days at the end of the school year are just too valuable to fritter away. It’s up to the schools to help them find something more productive to do with their time.
3.Almost schools have similar policies. It means almost students have similar thinking. For example they don't want students who have bisexuality in their school. If such a person is, they disregard, exclude and humiliate him. Is it right to disregard person because he has different thinking or sexuality? So what is right and where it comes from? I think biased thinking is the result by being educated by persons who think right thing is a majority opinion not minority. But what if they are wrong? Is it desirable to think a majority opinion is always right? No, everyone could have different thinking and that thinking must not be ignored. Few weeks ago there was a students who kill himself, because his homosexuality is revealed on internet. When his homosexuality had been revealed, everyone have criticized and jeered him. This thinking must be changed. To do that school's educational policies must be improved.
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5. Homophobia was rampant. Bullies were “pretty relentless,” he says, recalling that on his first day there, a girl walked up to him and asked, “Are you a faggot? No offense.” Eventually his parents pulled him out of the school. Looking directly at the camera, Mr. Stowell, now 22, then says three words that he wants isolated gay, lesbian and transgender teenagers to hear: “It got better.” Thousands of people like Mr. Stowell have posted personal testimonies to YouTube in an online campaign titled “It Gets Better” that has, in Internet parlance, “gone viral” in the four weeks since it started. The campaign is intended to help gay teenagers who feel isolated and who may be contemplating suicide, and it coincides with a rash of recent news stories about bullying and the suicides of gay teenagers and young adults.
3. According to experts, teenagers should get a lot of sleep - at least eight hours each night. but our students is short of sleep. because of private tutoring. student should study for test. many students are tired. students and parents think that school's education is short for test. so, many teenagers go private tutoring institutes. students can not help sleeping. That is serious problem. education should be achieved. government should prevent from private tutoring through systemic and credible education.
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5. It's not a secret that many Korean students doze off during classes. But how serious is it? A survey by a Japanese institute says it's one in three.
The Tokyo-based Japanese youth research center, a unit of the country's education ministry, surveyed a total of 6,173 high school students in Korea, Japan, China and the United States between June and November, last year.
The survey found that 32.3 percent of Korean high schoolers nap during classes. Japan posted the highest ratio of 45.1 percent ― the figure was 20.8 percent in the U.S. and 4.7 percent for China.
Many Korean students study late at private tutoring institutes and tend to doze off at school.
Education officials and experts also cite the deteriorating physical strength of Korea's younger generation and tedious teaching styles for the problem as well.
``Our students need to undertake huge workloads to advance to prestigious universities. Even after school, they have to stay up at late,'' said Park Hee-keun, director in charge of student health and safety at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
He added that many youngsters are addicted to Internet and computer games, which is another reason behind the large number of students dozing off.
Korean and Japanese students are also less interested in lessons, according to the survey results. ----------------------
1.Yun Yeon Jung 2.New education initiative focuses on early childhood 3.I really didnt know that korea has this program. Well, This program just launched nowadays. I think this education system is quite good! Everybody cant raise their child(especially first child) perfectly. But through this program, They can raise their child more perfectly as receiving help. And also, Their children can receive stable education through this program. I think this new education systeam have to spread more. Especailly poor children who cant receive interests from family.
---------------------------- A new initiative called “Sesalmaul” was launched Monday by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Gacheon Gil Foundation to improve parenting education and combat the low birthrate.
Sesalmaul is a portmanteau of the word “sesal” (a three-year-old) and “maul” (village).
The word is based on a Korean proverb that says: “The habits acquired by a three-year-old last until she’s 80” and the widely accepted practice in traditional Korean folk villages in which residents look after their neighbors’ children and vice versa.
“Many Koreans study hard to gain admission to college and get a job, but when they first have children, they don’t always take the time to learn how to be good parents,” Health and Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee said in a speech at the ceremony. “With the Sesalmaul campaign, couples learn the skills they need to raise a child through age three and their neighbors learn skills to support the new parents.”
In another speech by Gyeonggi Governor Kim Moon-soo, the governor said the spirit of the campaign will sweep throughout the country as many of the problems facing young couples, including raising and educating a child, are solved through the new initiative.
There are two main education programs under the initiative. One program encourages people to give gifts of baby care products to new parents on their child’s 100th day celebration, which is a tradition in Korea. The other program teaches newlyweds about child care methods.
The initiative also supports research on education.
In one such program, Kyungwon University will work with Gacheon University of Medicine and Science’s center for brain research to develop new educational programs for infants.
1. woo ji yeon 2.Panel: School is vital for teen moms
3.In recent years, teenage single mother's are gradually rised. A single mother occur for the measures and solutions. For them ,the rights and equality in education shoud be backed up they are not different other student, the only one that different other studuent is they have baby. For this reason, their rights do not stop education. the state must make a educational system for single mom
4.A teenage single mother’s right to education should be backed up by strong guidelines that would guarantee those rights in order to break a vicious circle of poverty.
A survey conducted by NHRC in 2008 showed that 71.4 percent of 63 respondents dropped out of school while they were pregnant, and six respondents, who informed the school of their pregnancy, were advised to quit school or take a leave of absence. Meanwhile, 87.6 percent said they wanted to continue their studies.
The UN Convention on the Rights of a Child states that children and adolescents have a right to education, which is crucial in securing a good quality of life, and that equal opportunity should be provided for them to become respected members of society. Under any circumstances, the right to education should be guaranteed, and the obligation of securing this right falls on the shoulders of education authorities, the UN agency said.
The NHRC recommendations were sent yesterday to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Ministry of Health and Welfare as well as education superintendents
2. For migrant children, getting fair education is still elusive
3. Children should learn regular school. Recently, there are so many sad thing about this. they have not enough opportunity and want to get regluar school themselves like someone else. also, they need struggle for their own human rights. To want to solve anything without it is useless. I want to get back their human rights.
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5. The government has promised that migrant children, whether registered or not, will be offered equal opportunities in education. Most of them, however, are still being discriminated against systematically — they have difficulty getting admitted to and registered at schools leading many of them to quit for various reasons.
The students also lacked friendly interchanges — 59 percent of them attending alternative schools said they didn’t have a Korean friend who they could share secrets with and 42 percent had never visited a Korean friend’s house.
Other countries also make efforts not to let children of immigrants fall behind in the public education system.
In the United States, one out of nine U.S. residents is a migrant. The government there initiated the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 to provide additional study time and support for the English education of the children of immigrant families.
Unregistered migrant children have also been able to receive public education without restrictions after the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe.
1. Jeong So Ra 2. 6-year-old child living ‘wolf man’ life in mountain 3. The life of 6-year-old is too harsh. He don't have parent to give a lot of affection. He has not given appropriate treatment to cure AIDS. And He have never gotten schooling. I found why he can't live in circumstance surrounded by many people is social alienation. People don't want person to have something different from themselves whether they really attack them or not. (AIDS is now curable. if it is well managed, its potential of infection is also low.) It may hurt his mentality. He have lived in the world of lack. society should be interested in human not only macro perspective, but also micro perspective. socialization is important thing for human life. I think He was not given the opportunity to socialize. Because Socialization is formed by relation, that is to say, network. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. A child, reminding of a “wolf man” living a wild life with a wolf in the remote mountain, has become the talk of the town recently.
The child has been found living with a dog larger than him at a deep valley in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local news reports said. Arung has lived with a dog, cooking his meal and washing his clothes in person. Netizens feel sympathy for him who is reported to have even been suffering from AIDS.
He has yet to be wild enough to be called “wolf man” in his daily life. But What has surprised people is that he feeds himself, even repairing his house and farming vegetables.
Furthermore regrettably, the child has apparently inherited HIV from his parents who have been killed by AIDS, according to the residents living in a village at the foot of the mountain.
The six-year-old, who has grandmother as the only kin to him in the village, does not know what AIDS is. Psychiatrists judged that he is reluctant to make contact with other people as he had suffered from psychological bruise caused by the isolation from the society.
He was also rejected admission to the elementary school on grounds that he was a carrier of HIV. Arung is reported to have said that he would never go down to the village. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/182_76146.html
1. Joonkoo Chung 2. Korea’s overheated education system 3. The college entrance exam is on Thursday. It reminds me of many things I went through during my high school. I think it's pretty harsh and cruel that every student's 12 year school performance is evaluated within just one day. I don't want my child to go through this kind of things. I hope Ministry of Education would come up with good idea which can substitute current system.
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As a nation we are again approaching that time of year which comes around in November when high school seniors are given their college entrance exam and this year it is slated for Nov. 17. It is called the Korea Scholastic Aptitude Test when each high school senior’s previous 12 years are tested on one day, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock in the evening, with a lunch-break in between.
On this day the entire nation takes a deep intake of breath. The national subway network adds more trains to their services in order to assist with getting the examinees to the test centers on time. Even traffic policemen are on a heightened state of alert on this particular morning of November, to ensure traffic flows smoothly, and to spot a latecomer rushing to the test center, and whisking her or him along as quickly and safely as possible, by giving a lift in one of their patrol cars.
These are all yearly symptoms of a highly overheated pressure cooker. One only has to observe what those who adjudicate the test prepare, for students in the test centers, to see what kind of frenzy it has become: In the test centers is a room for students who pass out during the exam or throw up their morning breakfast, as well as a nurse on stand-by.
Their entire lives’ academic progress before university will be squeezed into seven hours of grueling multiple-choice questions (230 of them, plus there may one or two other non-multiple choice questions thrown in). Their whole future would depend on them performing in seven most important hours, on one day of their precious lives, among 12 years they have lived and studied in public or private schools. Imagine how your child would feel if you said to them when they were at kindergarten at the age of seven: “Right, my son, you have 12 years in which to prepare yourself for one-day’s test!”
To be fair, each student’s performance is also evaluated during their three years at high school but, because of that test, it is like a super-athlete having to perform all his disciplines in one day, after preparing for 12 years, or for three Olympics all rolled into one day. That would be the worst kind of test to design but it is exactly the kind of one designed by those who hold the keys to this nation’s children’s future.
3. I think advertisements of conception preventer should be more spreaded. Subject like this could be very embrasss at first but we should do it. Why? This is because thesedays financial and emotional problems of single mothers are becomeing more attention getting issues. More and more teens now have sex-relationships before marriage comparing to the past generations. However, without proper using conception preventer it could be really social problem. If babies are born, than who care about it?
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A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens By LISA BELKIN The age at which Europeans and Americans first have sex is the same — 17, on average, on both sides of the Atlantic. The percentage who use birth control from the start? In Holland it’s 64 percent and in the United States it’s 26 percent. The percentage who have regrets about their first time, wishing they had waited: 63 percent of boys and 69 percent of girls in the United States, and only 5 percent of boys and 12 percent of girls in the Netherlands. Teen pregnancy rates: three to six times higher here than in Western Europe. S.T.D. rates: 20 to 30 times higher here than Holland. H.I.V. rate? Theirs is six times lower.
1. KimDana 2. youth which texting alot are easy to involved in drugs, sex and drinking. 3. i think texting alot is also one of the reasons that youth to have curiousity about drugs, sex and drinking. i mean texting with friends can make them to make that atmosphere to do those things. texting, contacting set the meeting drinking, or flirting with other sex.. like that. but i think texting isnt the only reason for youth to have curiosity about. not just texting but also development of internet or way to communication are the reasons. i think
------------------------------------------------ research which is about youth that texting more than 120 aday are easy to involved in drugs, sex or drinking are attracted peoples attention.
according to Western Reserve University, about 20% of youth are using more than 120 texts a day, and they are easier to get involved in drugs, sex and drinking than other youth which doesnt text much.
research team, Doctor Scott Frank adviced that if youth is addicted to something, they can be addicted to others easily. so their parents should step into their personal private life (about texting or social network service. aka SNS)
this research was researched 420 students from 20 highschools in Cleveland. one student from 5, they are texting TOO MUCH , more than 120 a day, one student from 9 was obssed with facebook working more than 3 hours a day. and also 1 student from 25 was fallen into SNS.
this problem happend to students which parents never care, or having single parents.
Kaiser foundation of family's research said at least half of students 8~18 years old youth are using texting service from cellphone. they are sending texts about 118 a day. and 14% of their parents doesnt care.
Doctor Frank said if Parents wants to care their children, they have to check up kids SNS or texting working. ---------------------------------------------- http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/10/2010111001414.html
2. Identification mandatory for teens to buy cigarettes
3. Recently, it is easy for teens to get cigarettes. I often saw teens smoking at bus station while they were waiting for bus. Even though adult people realize that they were wearing school uniform, they didn't care about that. I think they can't control teens anymore. As time goes by, compared with what teens were, they have become rude, violent, and merciless. Perhaps, they affected by mass media that show up violent and sensational scenes. And society didn't pay enough attention to protect them. So strong rule works to control inappropriate selling cigarettes.
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5. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MGEF) announced a new juvenile policy Monday to more actively restrict teenage drinking and smoking. From the end of next year teenagers will have to present their identification cards to prove they are over the age of 19 if they want to buy alcohol and cigarettes.
Venders will face a “three-strike” provision and will lose their licenses if they are caught selling liquor or tobacco to minors three times.
Currently the Youth Protection Act bans the sale of liquor and cigarette to minors, but teenagers did not have to prove they were over 19 when buying those items.
The new plan was devised by nine ministries including the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Amendments will be voted on later this month and will go into effect in 2011 and 2012.
The Korean Association of Smoking and Health said they welcome the new regulations to prohibit teenage smoking though they took a long time to ratify.
“There should be more regulations banning young smokers. For instance, we suggest not displaying advertisements for cigarettes at convenience stores,” Kim Eun-ji of the association said.
A recent survey by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) showed that 80.5 percent of 80,000 students questioned had bought or attempted to buy cigarettes.
In 2009 nearly 16 percent of male high school students and 5.3 percent of female high school students replied they smoke daily.
1. Mark Whitaker
ReplyDelete2. Iranian Youth Underground is American Rap--Faces a Crackdown
3. This is interesting. It will go clearly with what we talk about when we talk about Arabian youth culture information later in the course. Think about the challenges of mass media to the wider Iranian society when it facilitates an independent youth culture formation, in a society that demotes peer groups generally, and particularly male-female socialization in groups.
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Iran police crack down on 'underground rap scene'
Iranian police have made a string of arrests in raids targeting the capital's underground rap scene, the Tehran-Emrouz newspaper reported on Monday.
An unspecified number of "boys and girls were arrested, and Western musical instruments and alcohol seized" in Friday's raids, the paper quoted Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedi-nia as saying.
"These bands recorded underground clips and released unauthorised songs on satellite and cyber networks," Sajedi-nia said.
"These boys and girls used deserted and crumbling buildings, and camouflaged the place by hanging dirty curtains in order not to arouse suspicion."
The police chief said that officers had kept several venues under surveillance in their crackdown on the "morally deviant" scene.
He accused the rappers of "using obscenities, portraying a bleak picture of society and presenting unhealthy relationships between boys and girls as normal."
Iranian censors vet all art and music before its release [similar to South Korea well into the 1970s] and rappers are routinely denied authorisation despite their popularity among the Islamic republic's disproportionately youthful population.
The authorities regard an array of Western musical genres as decadent, including heavy metal as well as rap. Frequent raids on illegal concerts have resulted in scores of arrests.
But underground bands have still managed to get their music heard by using home computers to get it aired over the Internet or on Persian-language satellite channels broadcasting from abroad.
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8ef888a34ad6b24189faad729bfc98ea.261&show_article=1
1. Kim min ah
ReplyDelete2. Law aims to protect young entertainers
3. As I learn in our class, many youth are influenced by entertainers. They want to act or wear like entertainers especially young stars. Young entertainers are same as any other juveniles. They also deserve to protect as a someone's kids or studendts. But thesedays many young entertainers having a hard time with uncomfortable and dangerous facts. I hope many entertainers could be protected with this law.
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A 31-year-old chairman of a talent agency was caught in October for forcing to two aspiring entertainers into the sex trade.
The man signed a contract with the high school girls and introduced them to a 41-year-old businessman.
When the girls refused to follow his direction, he allegedly said, “In order to succeed, you should meet a sponsor and maintain a good relationship, having sex with him.”
The agency head pocketed 46 million won ($41,300) from the “sponsor” for brokering 10 sexual encounters. The girls also received cash and gifts worth 8 million won.
With the nation’s entertainment industry booming, recently fueled by its growing popularity in Asian countries, an estimated 48,000 youngsters knock on the doors of entertainment agencies every year.
Facing fierce competition, aspiring entertainers sometimes put up with unfair contracts and requirements from the agency. With no clear rules regulating the industry, minors are particularly vulnerable.
In order to better protect the sexual and educational rights of underage entertainers, the government has decided to revise related laws, officials said Tuesday.
According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, new rules for “underage people who appear in public media” would be included in the law on youth protection, which would regulate the exposure of flesh and sexual expression of underage entertainers.
Another law on the entertainment industry would also introduce regulations to secure good conditions for young entertainers such as physical and psychological wellbeing and education.
The current standardized contract form for entertainers, which is applied regardless of age, also would apply separate regulations for underage performers.
“In order to guarantee the effectiveness of protection measures, the ministry would include them in the pending national plan for youth protection and continue to review the details,” said Vice Minister Kim Kyo-shik.
The ministry will conduct a regular survey on the actual implementation of the new rules and revise them to improve, the vice minister added.
In July, the ministry conducted a survey of 103 underage entertainers and those who were in training the first of its kind in Korea.
Of them, 60 percent of the girls said they were forced to expose some parts of their body.
Of the respondents, 56.1 percent said they were advised to lose weight and 14.6 percent said they were told to get plastic surgery, with the rates higher for female entertainers.
Almost half of respondents said they had to skip more than six class hours per week and 36 percent said they had worked more than eight hours a day.
Mental health issues were also prevalent, with 64.3 percent complaining of sleep disorders, 14.3 percent taking antidepressants and 14.5 percent feeling doubts about their life.
By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldm.com)
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101109000851
1. Jeong Kwang Hoon
ReplyDelete2. School’s hard work for underage moms
3. It is their fault, if they have a baby without preparing for raising their baby. But teenager girls are too young to grow their child by themselves. So we need to help them. According to this article, almost teenager girls who have a baby quit their school. Even about 14% students are encouraged to drop out of school by their teacher. That is really severe problem. If they quit or are encouraged to quit, they can't have a normal job later and they can't raise their baby in good condition. Therefore they will live hard life. I think high schools in Korea need to make a new policy for them. Although having a baby in young age is their fault but we have obligation to lead them to right way.
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5. Single teenage mothers in Korea have little chance at continuing their educations once they get pregnant, according to a recent government survey.
According to the survey of single, underage mothers by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 85 percent of the girls are drop-outs.
"Education for teenage, single mothers has become an issue of increasing importance because of changing attitudes toward sex in the country and the increasing numbers of single mothers," said a ministry official, who explained the ministry was drawing up a policy for such mothers.
Out of a total of 73 single teenage mothers living in 35 single-mother support facilities, 35 are high school drop-outs while 13 quit during middle school. The remaining 13 dropouts are on hiatus from their studies on the recommendation of their schools or teachers. The average age of the mothers was 16.
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7. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2924138
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ReplyDelete1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.Korea students who are trying to study hard but..
3.Korea students have always had obligation which they have to study harder than anyone. This situation can be resulted from many reasons such as parent's pressure. But, even if they are trying to be best, their grades are not always good.
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On the 29th 17-year old Lee, a female second-year student at a foreign language high school in Seoul, finished her school day, ate dinner, and went to a hagwon. When she finished at the hagwon she went to a study room until midnight until going home. A typical day for her has her spending 13 hours at her desks. She said, "there are a lot of times when I daydream about doing other things but if I don't sit in front of those desks I won't be succesful. Right now I'm near the top of my class but I don't know how much I'll feel like studying in college."
○ Studying Well But Getting Bad Grades
Korean middle and high school students study a lot but achieve low results for the number of hours they put in, a study has found.
On the 29th the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Research and Training (국직업능력개발원) announced, "a study has found that Korean 15-year olds rank 24th out of the 30 OECD nations for effectiveness of studying."
The study examined the studying habits of 15-year olds in the OECD member countries, and ranked them by their PISA scores and number of hours spent studying. The "PISA 2006" study found that Korean students ranked first in reading and second in mathematics. But their score of 65.4 in study effectiveness ranked them 24th in the OECD, below the average score of 72.1.
○ Instead of ‘Study Hard’, ‘Study Smart’
Experts pointed out that, "there are serious concerns that the excessive investment in elementary, middle, and high school education and study designed to achieve college admissions is weakening competitiveness and failing to produce creative abilities."
Kim Seung-gi, a Korean-American education scholar, found in her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University that from 1985 to 2007 56%, or 784 out of 1,400, Korean students at 14 top American universities including Harvard University dropped out.
Her research indicated that though Korean students do well on every exam they take before entering higher education, they are often unable to handle the active and creative forms of study required there.
Jin Mi-seok, a researcher with KRIVET, said, "for a long time our efforts have been focused on achieving the status of an advanced-nation economy, but now we must change to a focus on achieving an economy which can be a global leader."
To solve this problem requires education which emphasizes creativity. Hong Hu-jo, a professor of education at Korea University, said, "because our education only exploits the senses of sight and hearing at a time when it needs to build a foundation, it cannot go far," adding, "there must be an emphasis on studying smart over studying hard."
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http://asiancorrespondent.com/korea-beat/-p-2695
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ReplyDelete1. Il-ho. Jang
2. Too much time to kill
3. This is Ridiculous thinking. Students, in Korean, always Emphasizes studying. Just studying. Cultural activities? They need rest, at least on vacation. If you want to try something, You have to try during term. Not vacation. Don't bother them with such matters. Many students say they feel overwhelmed by pressure and responsibilities of studying. And Increase more P.E class in thier term, not on vacation.
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Students in elementary, middle and high schools who are about to advance to the next level of education enter an idle period during the last few weeks of December. They typically take their final tests - or college entrance exams in the case of high school seniors - weeks before the school year ends.
Yet they are forced to come to school until the semester officially ends. These students, and their teachers, don’t have the desire or the energy to continue studying after the exams. Nor is there a good reason to, as they have already gone over all the material for class. Students, therefore, squander away the last few weeks of the school year in the classroom by watching videos, poring over comic books and killing time in other ways. Teachers become glorified baby sitters, as they’re more or less tasked with simply watching over groups of students all day. Students then hit winter break before the new school year starts in March, meaning they have more than three months of idle time.
We must help these students put this valuable time to better use. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education came up with the clever idea of hooking up students about to graduate from elementary, middle and high school with various cultural and arts programs.
Under this plan, students will be invited to attend music and foreign language classes, and performances and workshops with artists. The education office is now attempting to team up with national and local arts institutions as well as private establishments such as the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Korea Arts and Culture Education Service and the Hope Institute. But these programs, no matter how good they are, won’t be beneficial unless schools actively encourage students to participate in them.
Schools must take a leading role in encouraging graduating students to use their time wisely as they prepare to take the next step in the world of education. To do this, they should develop educational enrichment programs for these students. This could, for instance, involve inviting alumni and popular figures from the area to speak on topics surrounding education and life planning. High schools can link up with universities to provide special classes for graduating seniors. As the saying goes, “Learn as much as you can while you are young because you will be too busy later in life.” The dwindling days at the end of the school year are just too valuable to fritter away. It’s up to the schools to help them find something more productive to do with their time.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2928285
1. Jung-Kwan Lim
ReplyDelete2. Why students do not accept minority?
3.Almost schools have similar policies. It means almost students have similar thinking. For example they don't want students who have bisexuality in their school. If such a person is, they disregard, exclude and humiliate him. Is it right to disregard person because he has different thinking or sexuality? So what is right and where it comes from? I think biased thinking is the result by being educated by persons who think right thing is a majority opinion not minority. But what if they are wrong? Is it desirable to think a majority opinion is always right? No, everyone could have different thinking and that thinking must not be ignored. Few weeks ago there was a students who kill himself, because his homosexuality is revealed on internet. When his homosexuality had been revealed, everyone have criticized and jeered him. This thinking must be changed. To do that school's educational policies must be improved.
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5. Homophobia was rampant. Bullies were “pretty relentless,” he says, recalling that on his first day there, a girl walked up to him and asked, “Are you a faggot? No offense.” Eventually his parents pulled him out of the school.
Looking directly at the camera, Mr. Stowell, now 22, then says three words that he wants isolated gay, lesbian and transgender teenagers to hear: “It got better.”
Thousands of people like Mr. Stowell have posted personal testimonies to YouTube in an online campaign titled “It Gets Better” that has, in Internet parlance, “gone viral” in the four weeks since it started. The campaign is intended to help gay teenagers who feel isolated and who may be contemplating suicide, and it coincides with a rash of recent news stories about bullying and the suicides of gay teenagers and young adults.
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7.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/19video.html?_r=1&scp=11&sq=youth&st=cse
1. Kwak Bo Ram
ReplyDelete2. One Third of Korean Students Sleep in Class
3. According to experts, teenagers should get a lot of sleep - at least eight hours each night. but our students is short of sleep. because of private tutoring.
student should study for test. many students are tired. students and parents think that school's education is short for test.
so, many teenagers go private tutoring institutes. students can not help sleeping. That is serious problem. education should be achieved.
government should prevent from private tutoring through systemic and credible education.
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5. It's not a secret that many Korean students doze off during classes. But how serious is it? A survey by a Japanese institute says it's one in three.
The Tokyo-based Japanese youth research center, a unit of the country's education ministry, surveyed a total of 6,173 high school students in Korea, Japan, China and the United States between June and November, last year.
The survey found that 32.3 percent of Korean high schoolers nap during classes. Japan posted the highest ratio of 45.1 percent ― the figure was 20.8 percent in the U.S. and 4.7 percent for China.
Many Korean students study late at private tutoring institutes and tend to doze off at school.
Education officials and experts also cite the deteriorating physical strength of Korea's younger generation and tedious teaching styles for the problem as well.
``Our students need to undertake huge workloads to advance to prestigious universities. Even after school, they have to stay up at late,'' said Park Hee-keun, director in charge of student health and safety at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
He added that many youngsters are addicted to Internet and computer games, which is another reason behind the large number of students dozing off.
Korean and Japanese students are also less interested in lessons, according to the survey results.
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/04/117_63892.html
1.Yun Yeon Jung
ReplyDelete2.New education initiative focuses on early childhood
3.I really didnt know that korea has this program. Well, This program just launched nowadays. I think this education system is quite good! Everybody cant raise their child(especially first child) perfectly. But through this program, They can raise their child more perfectly as receiving help. And also, Their children can receive stable education through this program. I think this new education systeam have to spread more. Especailly poor children who cant receive interests from family.
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A new initiative called “Sesalmaul” was launched Monday by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Gacheon Gil Foundation to improve parenting education and combat the low birthrate.
Sesalmaul is a portmanteau of the word “sesal” (a three-year-old) and “maul” (village).
The word is based on a Korean proverb that says: “The habits acquired by a three-year-old last until she’s 80” and the widely accepted practice in traditional Korean folk villages in which residents look after their neighbors’ children and vice versa.
“Many Koreans study hard to gain admission to college and get a job, but when they first have children, they don’t always take the time to learn how to be good parents,” Health and Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee said in a speech at the ceremony. “With the Sesalmaul campaign, couples learn the skills they need to raise a child through age three and their neighbors learn skills to support the new parents.”
In another speech by Gyeonggi Governor Kim Moon-soo, the governor said the spirit of the campaign will sweep throughout the country as many of the problems facing young couples, including raising and educating a child, are solved through the new initiative.
There are two main education programs under the initiative. One program encourages people to give gifts of baby care products to new parents on their child’s 100th day celebration, which is a tradition in Korea. The other program teaches newlyweds about child care methods.
The initiative also supports research on education.
In one such program, Kyungwon University will work with Gacheon University of Medicine and Science’s center for brain research to develop new educational programs for infants.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2922573
1. woo ji yeon
ReplyDelete2.Panel: School is vital for teen moms
3.In recent years, teenage single mother's are gradually rised.
A single mother occur for the measures and solutions.
For them ,the rights and equality in education shoud be backed up
they are not different other student, the only one that different other studuent is they have baby.
For this reason, their rights do not stop education.
the state must make a educational system for single mom
4.A teenage single mother’s right to education should be backed up by strong guidelines that would guarantee those rights in order to break a vicious circle of poverty.
A survey conducted by NHRC in 2008 showed that 71.4 percent of 63 respondents dropped out of school while they were pregnant, and six respondents, who informed the school of their pregnancy, were advised to quit school or take a leave of absence. Meanwhile, 87.6 percent said they wanted to continue their studies.
The UN Convention on the Rights of a Child states that children and adolescents have a right to education, which is crucial in securing a good quality of life, and that equal opportunity should be provided for them to become respected members of society. Under any circumstances, the right to education should be guaranteed, and the obligation of securing this right falls on the shoulders of education authorities, the UN agency said.
The NHRC recommendations were sent yesterday to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Ministry of Health and Welfare as well as education superintendents
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2925362
1. Choi Ji Hoon
ReplyDelete2. For migrant children, getting fair education is still elusive
3. Children should learn regular school. Recently, there are so many sad thing about this. they have not enough opportunity and want to get regluar school themselves like someone else. also, they need struggle for their own human rights.
To want to solve anything without it is useless. I want to get back their human rights.
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5. The government has promised that migrant children, whether registered or not, will be offered equal opportunities in education. Most of them, however, are still being discriminated against systematically — they have difficulty getting admitted to and registered at schools leading many of them to quit for various reasons.
The students also lacked friendly interchanges — 59 percent of them attending alternative schools said they didn’t have a Korean friend who they could share secrets with and 42 percent had never visited a Korean friend’s house.
Other countries also make efforts not to let children of immigrants fall behind in the public education system.
In the United States, one out of nine U.S. residents is a migrant. The government there initiated the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 to provide additional study time and support for the English education of the children of immigrant families.
Unregistered migrant children have also been able to receive public education without restrictions after the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe.
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/117_75671.html
1. Jeong So Ra
ReplyDelete2. 6-year-old child living ‘wolf man’ life in mountain
3. The life of 6-year-old is too harsh. He don't have parent to give a lot of affection. He has not given appropriate treatment to cure AIDS. And He have never gotten schooling. I found why he can't live in circumstance surrounded by many people is social alienation. People don't want person to have something different from themselves whether they really attack them or not. (AIDS is now curable. if it is well managed, its potential of infection is also low.) It may hurt his mentality. He have lived in the world of lack. society should be interested in human not only macro perspective, but also micro perspective. socialization is important thing for human life. I think He was not given the opportunity to socialize. Because Socialization is formed by relation, that is to say, network.
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5. A child, reminding of a “wolf man” living a wild life with a wolf in the remote mountain, has become the talk of the town recently.
The child has been found living with a dog larger than him at a deep valley in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local news reports said. Arung has lived with a dog, cooking his meal and washing his clothes in person. Netizens feel sympathy for him who is reported to have even been suffering from AIDS.
He has yet to be wild enough to be called “wolf man” in his daily life. But What has surprised people is that he feeds himself, even repairing his house and farming vegetables.
Furthermore regrettably, the child has apparently inherited HIV from his parents who have been killed by AIDS, according to the residents living in a village at the foot of the mountain.
The six-year-old, who has grandmother as the only kin to him in the village, does not know what AIDS is. Psychiatrists judged that he is reluctant to make contact with other people as he had suffered from psychological bruise caused by the isolation from the society.
He was also rejected admission to the elementary school on grounds that he was a carrier of HIV. Arung is reported to have said that he would never go down to the village.
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/182_76146.html
1. Joonkoo Chung
ReplyDelete2. Korea’s overheated education system
3. The college entrance exam is on Thursday. It reminds me of many things I went through during my high school. I think it's pretty harsh and cruel that every student's 12 year school performance is evaluated within just one day. I don't want my child to go through this kind of things. I hope Ministry of Education would come up with good idea which can substitute current system.
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As a nation we are again approaching that time of year which comes around in November when high school seniors are given their college entrance exam and this year it is slated for Nov. 17. It is called the Korea Scholastic Aptitude Test when each high school senior’s previous 12 years are tested on one day, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock in the evening, with a lunch-break in between.
On this day the entire nation takes a deep intake of breath. The national subway network adds more trains to their services in order to assist with getting the examinees to the test centers on time. Even traffic policemen are on a heightened state of alert on this particular morning of November, to ensure traffic flows smoothly, and to spot a latecomer rushing to the test center, and whisking her or him along as quickly and safely as possible, by giving a lift in one of their patrol cars.
These are all yearly symptoms of a highly overheated pressure cooker. One only has to observe what those who adjudicate the test prepare, for students in the test centers, to see what kind of frenzy it has become: In the test centers is a room for students who pass out during the exam or throw up their morning breakfast, as well as a nurse on stand-by.
Their entire lives’ academic progress before university will be squeezed into seven hours of grueling multiple-choice questions (230 of them, plus there may one or two other non-multiple choice questions thrown in). Their whole future would depend on them performing in seven most important hours, on one day of their precious lives, among 12 years they have lived and studied in public or private schools. Imagine how your child would feel if you said to them when they were at kindergarten at the age of seven: “Right, my son, you have 12 years in which to prepare yourself for one-day’s test!”
To be fair, each student’s performance is also evaluated during their three years at high school but, because of that test, it is like a super-athlete having to perform all his disciplines in one day, after preparing for 12 years, or for three Olympics all rolled into one day. That would be the worst kind of test to design but it is exactly the kind of one designed by those who hold the keys to this nation’s children’s future.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/opinion/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101028000945
1. Lee Woo Yong
ReplyDelete2. Teen's sex problems in the united states.
3. I think advertisements of conception preventer should be more spreaded. Subject like this could be very embrasss at first but we should do it. Why? This is because thesedays financial and emotional problems of single mothers are becomeing more attention getting issues. More and more teens now have sex-relationships before marriage comparing to the past generations. However, without proper using conception preventer it could be really social problem. If babies are born, than who care about it?
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A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens
By LISA BELKIN
The age at which Europeans and Americans first have sex is the same — 17, on average, on both sides of the Atlantic. The percentage who use birth control from the start? In Holland it’s 64 percent and in the United States it’s 26 percent. The percentage who have regrets about their first time, wishing they had waited: 63 percent of boys and 69 percent of girls in the United States, and only 5 percent of boys and 12 percent of girls in the Netherlands. Teen pregnancy rates: three to six times higher here than in Western Europe. S.T.D. rates: 20 to 30 times higher here than Holland. H.I.V. rate? Theirs is six times lower.
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http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/a-different-kind-of-sex-talk-with-teens/?scp=2&sq=teens&st=cse
1. KimDana
ReplyDelete2. youth which texting alot are easy to involved in drugs, sex and drinking.
3. i think texting alot is also one of the reasons that youth to have curiousity about drugs, sex and drinking. i mean texting with friends can make them to make that atmosphere to do those things. texting, contacting set the meeting drinking, or flirting with other sex.. like that. but i think texting isnt the only reason for youth to have curiosity about. not just texting but also development of internet or way to communication are the reasons. i think
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research which is about youth that texting more than 120 aday are easy to involved in drugs, sex or drinking are attracted peoples attention.
according to Western Reserve University, about 20% of youth are using more than 120 texts a day, and they are easier to get involved in drugs, sex and drinking than other youth which doesnt text much.
research team, Doctor Scott Frank adviced that if youth is addicted to something, they can be addicted to others easily. so their parents should step into their personal private life (about texting or social network service. aka SNS)
this research was researched 420 students from 20 highschools in Cleveland. one student from 5, they are texting TOO MUCH , more than 120 a day, one student from 9 was obssed with facebook working more than 3 hours a day. and also 1 student from 25 was fallen into SNS.
this problem happend to students which parents never care, or having single parents.
Kaiser foundation of family's research said at least half of students 8~18 years old youth are using texting service from cellphone. they are sending texts about 118 a day. and 14% of their parents doesnt care.
Doctor Frank said if Parents wants to care their children, they have to check up kids SNS or texting working.
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http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/10/2010111001414.html
1. Jo Young Joo
ReplyDelete2. Identification mandatory for teens to buy cigarettes
3. Recently, it is easy for teens to get cigarettes. I often saw teens smoking at bus station while they were waiting for bus. Even though adult people realize that they were wearing school uniform, they didn't care about that. I think they can't control teens anymore. As time goes by, compared with what teens were, they have become rude, violent, and merciless. Perhaps, they affected by mass media that show up violent and sensational scenes. And society didn't pay enough attention to protect them. So strong rule works to control inappropriate selling cigarettes.
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5. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MGEF) announced a new juvenile policy Monday to more actively restrict teenage drinking and smoking. From the end of next year teenagers will have to present their identification cards to prove they are over the age of 19 if they want to buy alcohol and cigarettes.
Venders will face a “three-strike” provision and will lose their licenses if they are caught selling liquor or tobacco to minors three times.
Currently the Youth Protection Act bans the sale of liquor and cigarette to minors, but teenagers did not have to prove they were over 19 when buying those items.
The new plan was devised by nine ministries including the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Amendments will be voted on later this month and will go into effect in 2011 and 2012.
The Korean Association of Smoking and Health said they welcome the new regulations to prohibit teenage smoking though they took a long time to ratify.
“There should be more regulations banning young smokers. For instance, we suggest not displaying advertisements for cigarettes at convenience stores,” Kim Eun-ji of the association said.
A recent survey by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) showed that 80.5 percent of 80,000 students questioned had bought or attempted to buy cigarettes.
In 2009 nearly 16 percent of male high school students and 5.3 percent of female high school students replied they smoke daily.
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/117_75963.html