1. Kim min ah 2. Internet curfew 3. Well, I heard about new solution for young student's internet addiction. It could be a way to decrease internet addiction for youth. But a lot of student complain with this. Anyway I hope many youth are using the internet efficiently. So, I wish that it is one of solution for solve internet addiction problems. ---------------------------------------- Seoul is considering an Internet curfew on youngsters to prevent gaming addiction in the online world. Under the proposed bill, those aged less than 16, would be unable to have online gaming access from midnight to 6.a.m. The bill has many loopholes, however.
The so-called Cinderella law will go into effect one year after National Assembly approval. The one-year grace period is necessary to help online gaming companies prepare for the change.
The bill is to try and cope with the growing number of Internet addicts, currently as many as 2 million. As one of the world’s most wired countries Korea has seen the death of a man in his 30s after a five-day nonstop online gaming marathon in an Internet cafe. A 15-year-old boy killed himself after killing his mother for scolding him for not shutting off the computer. A couple neglected their baby and eventually starved him to death while they were raising a virtual child online.
The bill also contains an option for parents to set the maximum number of hours youngsters can use online gaming daily. The government stresses the necessity of the law for the health of adolescents and so they get the right amount of sleep.
Many high-school students are complaining about the shutdown as they stay at school until midnight. They claim adults are exaggerating the online addiction. Even without the Internet, people find outlets for mental illnesses.
The law has loopholes. The young students could access the online gaming sites during the curfew hours by using the accounts of adults. Online gaming companies might enforce the rules loosely so as not to see their businesses contract.
Parental guidance and persuasion are more influential than the law itself. Parents should persuade children that online addiction is a dangerous distraction. -------------- http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/12/202_77423.html
3. According to this article, Korean teenagers are not interested in Korean history. Actually I have heard about this from the news and many articles for some years. Because Korean teenagers focus on only english and entrance exam for university, they don't spend their time for studying Korean history. I'd also not interested in Korean history when I was in high school. But it is not simple problem. It is really important that know about our history. Without knowing our history we can't have good nationality. I think government need to have a policy to improve history class in middle and high school. Focusing only English and private education is not good study. Knowing about our history is first before study other subjects.
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5. This year marked the 100th anniversary of Japan’s annexation of Korea, not to mention the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War and the 30th anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement.
But despite the spectacles behind commemorating these watershed events, Korean history is becoming less important for Korean students to the growing alarm of the public.
“Since none of the materials covered in Korean history class can be applied to my college admission, I do not see the necessity of learning it.” said Park, a high school senior at Ewha Girls’ Foreign Language High School who wished to remain anonymous.
It’s a widespread attitude among many Korean students, creating worry that a generation of Koreans will grow up ignorant of their own history.
2. After SAT, female high school girl increased to consult for plastic surgery
3. I Think, Girls think appearance best. So do I. Almost people like beauty in their cultural side. In Korea, Appearance is the first priority. Other country maybe or maybe not. My point is that Lookism is not bad. Girls, Young Girls damaged by lookism in social prejudices.
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11월은 대학 수능 및 입학 시험과 맞물려 입시한파가 몰아 닥치는 달이다. 입시제도는 새로운 입시풍속을 끊임없이 만들어왔다.
입시의 뜨거운 트렌드는 역시 철썩 붙으란 의미의 찹쌀떡과 엿 그리고 달콤함으로 긴장해소에 좋은 초콜릿 등이 입시철 소비시장을 사로잡았다. 그만큼 우리나라에서 대학 수능시험은 가장 많은 관심을 끄는 연례행사의 하나임에 틀림없다.
지난 16일 시험이 끝나면서 수험생과 관련된 수험생을 위한 이벤트도 다양하게 쏟아지고 있다. 시험이 끝남과 동시에 주요 문화공간, 레스토랑, 백화점, 미용실 등이 마련한 것이다. 아직 논술이나 면접 등 남아있는 일들이 있지만 오랜 기간 수고에서 벗어난 해방감을 느끼고 다양한 경험들을 하고 싶은 수험생들의 심정에 맞춘 내용이 주를 이룬다.
서울의 모 여고 3학년 권수현(가명)양은 가장 하고 싶은 소망 사항으로 “살을 빼고 싶다.”라고 말하고 재수생 윤정은(가명) 양은 또 “미뤘던 쌍꺼풀 수술을 하고 싶다.”라고 말한다.
위의 대답처럼 여자 수험생 대부분은 부족한 시간 탓으로 돌보지 못한 자신의 외모가 보상받기를 원한다. ‘못 생긴건 죄’라는 10대들의 명제는 고3수험생에게도 공감 대목인 셈이다. ‘못생겨서 죄송합니다.’라는 과거의 유머 또한 현재와 다를 바 없는 외모지상주의를 그대로 반영하고 있는 듯 여겨진다.
아름다워지고 싶지만 공부 때문에 뒤로 미룰 수밖에 없었던 수험생들이 성형외과의 문을 두드리고 있다. 우리 병원에도 실제 상담사례가 늘어나고 있다. 특히 쌍꺼풀과 같은 눈성형과 코성형을 문의하는 전화가 많다.
앳되고 순수한 10대의 얼굴에 성형이 웬말이냐고 반박할 수도 있지만 코 성형의 경우 코끝에는 보형물을 사용하지 않고 콧날개연골을 이동시켜 고정하여 원하는 높이와 모양을 만든다. 그리고 필요한 경우에는 귓바퀴 등에서 연골을 얻어 이식 후 코끝을 더 높이거나 길게 연장하기도 한다. 자신의 연골로만 구성되어 있기 때문에 원래의 해부학적인 특성과 같아서 아무런 부작용 없이 오래가는 예쁜 코를 가질 수 있다.
쌍꺼풀의 경우 매몰법과 절개법이 있다. 매몰법은 간단하고 부기도 적으며 자연스러운 모양이 나오는 장점이 있지만 시간이 지나면서 쌍꺼풀이 조금씩 얇아지기 쉽고 정해진 해부학적인 조건 내에서는 나올 수 있는 모양이 제한되어 있어 맞춤 성형을 하기에는 한계가 있다. 반면 절개법은 여러 가지 조직들을 자유롭게 할 수 있어서 각 개인이 원하는 대로 맞춤 성형을 할 수 있고 일주일 정도면 부기가 거의 사라져 일상생활에 지장을 주지 않는 장점이 있다.
수험생의 스트레스 해소 차원의 성형이 아닌 여성으로서의 준비 과정으로 자신의 콤플렉스를 줄이고 자신감을 높이는 데 초점을 둔 이유있는 성형이야말로 수험생을 위한 내외적인 아름다움의 첫걸음이 아닐까. '도움말' 키스유성형외과 이주혁 원장
1.Yun Yeon Jung 2.Teens struggle with island life 3.In island, We usually think they have hard time to study like other big city's teenager. But, When I read this article, my thoughts was changed. They have lots of fun activities. Teenager who live in City, They are struggle to go just 'hakwon'. And they cant enjoy growing their "real" ability. But here, after school, they enjoy their full time in school. I was really impressed. And, Furthermore, I feel jealous. They have also stress, but They enjoy their teenager life freely. It is really need things to big city's teenager.
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Teens struggle with island life
‘What else is there to do here?’ Lee Kyung-hee asked. ‘It is good to see that the kids on the island now have hobbies.’ December 02, 2010
CHEONGSAN ISLAND, South Jeolla - Once a dreadfully boring island for its 37 middle school students, Cheongsan Island has been injected with some life thanks to a few extracurricular activities.
Just a few years ago, the students of Cheongsan Middle School on the island in South Jeolla only had one dream: get out as soon as possible. The only one on the island, their middle school is one of the smallest in the country. After graduating, most go to the mainland for high school. Those that don’t make it to the mainland go to Wan Island - a bigger, less boring island about 50 minutes by boat from Cheongsan.
Mainlanders flock to Cheongsan Island for its picturesque sunsets and quaint island charm. It was the set of the movie “Seopyeonje” and is part of the Italy-based Cittaslow (slow city) campaign.
But for Kim Eun-young, 14, and her 36 schoolmates, the island had been a place of isolation and dullness. After all, the island had almost nothing to offer young teenagers: no piano schools and no shopping centers. She - like just about everyone else here under the age of 20 - wanted out.
But largely thanks to the efforts of Jeong Yeon-guk, Cheongsan Middle School’s principal, things around here are slowly changing.
The band Syndrome performs in Cheongsan Middle School’s talent show.
Jeong introduced extracurricular programs and convinced talented teachers to lead them. “When I first arrived at the school, everything was old. We didn’t even have a proper library or science lab,” he said. “When the environment is poor, teachers avoid coming here. The students ultimately bear the biggest burden of that.”
His first step was to secure funding from the school board to repair aging infrastructure. Jeong sent requests to the South Jeolla Office of Education, asking for new residences for teachers. He also wanted upgraded educational facilities.
His efforts paid off. The South Jeolla Office of Education and the Samsung Equal Opportunity Scholarship Foundation both stepped up to provide funding.
Now once-uninspired students are in a band, in photography clubs, art groups, play sports and make pottery.
For Kim Eun-young, the island is not the boring place it once was.
Since April, Kim has been participating in an after-school photography club. For her, once boring beaches and hills are now the subjects of photographs.
Kim even says she is not in as much of a rush to leave Cheongsan. The island’s charm has inspired her to become a travel writer, she said.
3. students have rights. schools infringed on the students’ rights, stressing that they should ban on-campus relationships. education authorities and schools interfere in teens' dating too much. school should esteem teens' right. I don't understand school punishes students for dating. naturally students should study. but student have rights to date. the important thing is that school should provide teens with practical sex education.
----------------------------------------------- 5. Eight out of 10 middle and high schools nationwide were found to have been maintaining rules disciplining students for engaging in relationships or physical contact with the opposite sex, a rights advocacy group for teenagers said Tuesday.
According to a report issued by “Asunaro” (http://cafe.naver.com/asunaro), 286 secondary schools out of 354 across the country, or 81 percent, have internal regulations preventing students from dating or having physical contact with those of the opposite gender.
In Yangpyong County, Gyeonggi Province, all middle and high schools are found to have rules against dating among students, with 119 out of 142 schools in Busan maintaining similar guidelines that specifically reprimand those engaging in relationships with fellow students.
“All that the schools care about is creating overly strict rules and punishing students for dating. Teenagers should be allowed to exercise their rights over their own sexuality both inside and outside schools,” an Asunaro official said.
The group also said that some schools even prohibited students from exchanging gifts on birthdays and other special occasions.
“Students with a boyfriend or a girlfriend are forced to write a report about their relationship and schools break up social clubs if members are caught dating. Just like adults, teens are human beings and should be given the right to choose what they want to do.” -------------------------- 7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/117_76530.html
1. woo ji yeon 2.Sexual exploitation of teen entertainers will be stopped
3.the entertainers abuse the teen entertainers. the government take reasonavle steps for teenager. now we have to stop entertaniner exploition. Current entertainer has been the industry Decadent. the teenagers are protected in this situation, we limited entertainer Business the side of teenager employment.
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5.The government said Tuesday that it will introduce a range of measures aimed at stopping teen entertainers from being exploited by adults in the industry for money. Education requirements and labor rights for minors will also be strengthened. it will revise the “Teenager Protection Act” to protect under aged entertainers from sexual exploitation and other abuses in the entertainment industry. The ministry also plans to force entertainment agencies to grant minors educational opportunities and fair labor rights.
3. There are many orphan in Korea society, because of economy problems, unfulfill sex education, and divorce. So in schools, there are many orphans, but if person or student know their friends are orphan, they avoid and discriminate them. It is very serious problem. Because Orphan doesn't want they become orphan. It's not their choice. I think we must not discriminate and tease thing that they can't choice. So we should respect their personal right.
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5. In a perfect world, there would be no orphans. Every single one of the world's 2.2 billion children would be doted upon by their parents. And every day would be like May 5 in South Korea when nearly 8 million kids are sure to be spoiled on the national holiday set aside as Children's Day.
But obviously we do not live in a perfect world. There are currently 143-210 million displaced children worldwide, and nearly 15 million who will ``age out" of the adoption system and consequently lose their chances of finding a home. And the excruciating reality is that these kids are innocent victims of social ills induced by adults, which is why we have a communal responsibility to care about it.
In Korea alone, there are nearly 10,000 new-born babies every year who are abandoned for various reasons, and only 3,900 of them are adopted into new homes. One may naively assume there would be very few neglected children in the prosperous modern Korea, or at least none being sent abroad. Inarguably, there has been a declining rate in overseas adoptions in the recent years, but this is only due to a precipitous drop in the Korean birth rate. Still, roughly one of 250 Korean children is adopted into an American family.
1. Jeong Sora 2. Young S.Koreans face midnight ban for online games 3. I was attracted this because the name of law presented in this news is 'cinderella law'. it is curious. Korea is one of countries that computer network is formed well. But, Recently, Doing too much internet game have caused many negative things. For example, Addiced by internet game, certain parents made their baby die. And a young boy killed his mother because she had scolded him for doing internet game. And then, he killed himself too. Internet game can also affects schoolwork. So regulating internet game is nice in order to prevent young people. But It is faced to the matter of freedom to choose pleasure of people. I think this law may be exerted in system, but supplement for this law must be supplied. 4.-------------------------------------------------- 5. SEOUL — South Korea's government is close to adopting a "Cinderella" law to ban youngsters from playing online games past midnight amid growing concerns about Internet addiction, officials said Thursday.
A bill to be submitted to parliament as early as this month will require South Korean online game companies to cut off services at midnight for users registered as younger than 16, the culture and family ministries said.
(MCT)
"The thing about online games is, once you are in it, it is extremely hard to get out of it, especially if you are a young kid," Jo Rin, a ministry official in charge of the law, told AFP.
"A lot of kids play games all night long and have trouble studying at school and going about their normal lives during daytime. We believe the law is necessary to ensure their health and a right to sleep."
The online services would resume at six the following morning, he said, adding there would be a year-long waiting period until the law takes effect so that companies can prepare for it.
The government is also considering requiring companies to limit young users' access to online games to a maximum number of hours a week or a day if parents request this, said Jo.
South Korea is one of the world's most wired societies, but there have been sporadic reports of deaths related to Internet game addiction.
Last month a 15-year-old South Korean boy committed suicide after killing his mother for scolding him over playing computer games too much.
In February a 32-year-old man died after reportedly playing for five days with few breaks.
A month later police arrested a couple accused of leaving their baby daughter to starve to death while they raised a "virtual" child on the Internet. The baby had long been malnourished, an autopsy showed.
The government, which estimates that South Korea has about two million web addicts, is already launching one campaign to combat the affliction.
From next year, it will offer free software to people at risk, to limit the time they spend on the web. (AFP)
1. Joonkoo Chung 2. Some 6,500 caught in Internet fraud cases 3. I think this is another side effect of the Internet. Especially half of the suspects are young people including teenagers. I guess the number of young criminal will be increasing more and more. So there should be a kind of education for them.
------------------------------------------- Police have investigated some 6,500 suspects in around 5,400 Internet fraud cases during a three-month crackdown, but only arrested 149, police officials said Monday.
During the crackdown, which began in August, the Cyber Terrorism Response Center, the National Policy Agency’s Internet crime unit, has caught a total of 6,542 people in 5,430 cases.
The cases involving those who sold false items through the Internet accounted for the highest number with 2,511 cases. A total of 112 people have been arrested for such cases.
The number of the cases involving those who defrauded people by using false-name bank accounts was 1,960, which is the second highest figure. For those cases, three people have been arrested.
A total of 554 cases involve those who defrauded people by selling false Internet game items. Eight people have been arrested for these offences. Police have found some 176 cases of Internet financial fraud, known as “messenger phishing.” For the cases, 11 people have been arrested.
By age, those in their 20s, who were suspected of Internet fraud, accounted for 34 percent while those in their teens accounted for 23 percent.
Police said that those in their teens were mostly involved in the Internet fraud cases to make money for buying Internet game items or for their entertainment.
1. Kim min ah
ReplyDelete2. Internet curfew
3. Well, I heard about new solution for young student's internet addiction. It could be a way to decrease internet addiction for youth. But a lot of student complain with this. Anyway I hope many youth are using the internet efficiently. So, I wish that it is one of solution for solve internet addiction problems.
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Seoul is considering an Internet curfew on youngsters to prevent gaming addiction in the online world. Under the proposed bill, those aged less than 16, would be unable to have online gaming access from midnight to 6.a.m. The bill has many loopholes, however.
The so-called Cinderella law will go into effect one year after National Assembly approval. The one-year grace period is necessary to help online gaming companies prepare for the change.
The bill is to try and cope with the growing number of Internet addicts, currently as many as 2 million. As one of the world’s most wired countries Korea has seen the death of a man in his 30s after a five-day nonstop online gaming marathon in an Internet cafe. A 15-year-old boy killed himself after killing his mother for scolding him for not shutting off the computer. A couple neglected their baby and eventually starved him to death while they were raising a virtual child online.
The bill also contains an option for parents to set the maximum number of hours youngsters can use online gaming daily. The government stresses the necessity of the law for the health of adolescents and so they get the right amount of sleep.
Many high-school students are complaining about the shutdown as they stay at school until midnight. They claim adults are exaggerating the online addiction. Even without the Internet, people find outlets for mental illnesses.
The law has loopholes. The young students could access the online gaming sites during the curfew hours by using the accounts of adults. Online gaming companies might enforce the rules loosely so as not to see their businesses contract.
Parental guidance and persuasion are more influential than the law itself. Parents should persuade children that online addiction is a dangerous distraction.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/12/202_77423.html
1. Jeong Kwang Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Korean teens don’t know much about history
3. According to this article, Korean teenagers are not interested in Korean history. Actually I have heard about this from the news and many articles for some years. Because Korean teenagers focus on only english and entrance exam for university, they don't spend their time for studying Korean history. I'd also not interested in Korean history when I was in high school. But it is not simple problem. It is really important that know about our history. Without knowing our history we can't have good nationality. I think government need to have a policy to improve history class in middle and high school. Focusing only English and private education is not good study. Knowing about our history is first before study other subjects.
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5. This year marked the 100th anniversary of Japan’s annexation of Korea, not to mention the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War and the 30th anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement.
But despite the spectacles behind commemorating these watershed events, Korean history is becoming less important for Korean students to the growing alarm of the public.
“Since none of the materials covered in Korean history class can be applied to my college admission, I do not see the necessity of learning it.” said Park, a high school senior at Ewha Girls’ Foreign Language High School who wished to remain anonymous.
It’s a widespread attitude among many Korean students, creating worry that a generation of Koreans will grow up ignorant of their own history.
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7. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2925332
1. Il-ho. Jang
ReplyDelete2. After SAT, female high school girl increased to consult for plastic surgery
3. I Think, Girls think appearance best. So do I. Almost people like beauty in their cultural side. In Korea, Appearance is the first priority. Other country maybe or maybe not. My point is that Lookism is not bad. Girls, Young Girls damaged by lookism in social prejudices.
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11월은 대학 수능 및 입학 시험과 맞물려 입시한파가 몰아 닥치는 달이다. 입시제도는 새로운 입시풍속을 끊임없이 만들어왔다.
입시의 뜨거운 트렌드는 역시 철썩 붙으란 의미의 찹쌀떡과 엿 그리고 달콤함으로 긴장해소에 좋은 초콜릿 등이 입시철 소비시장을 사로잡았다. 그만큼 우리나라에서 대학 수능시험은 가장 많은 관심을 끄는 연례행사의 하나임에 틀림없다.
지난 16일 시험이 끝나면서 수험생과 관련된 수험생을 위한 이벤트도 다양하게 쏟아지고 있다. 시험이 끝남과 동시에 주요 문화공간, 레스토랑, 백화점, 미용실 등이 마련한 것이다. 아직 논술이나 면접 등 남아있는 일들이 있지만 오랜 기간 수고에서 벗어난 해방감을 느끼고 다양한 경험들을 하고 싶은 수험생들의 심정에 맞춘 내용이 주를 이룬다.
서울의 모 여고 3학년 권수현(가명)양은 가장 하고 싶은 소망 사항으로 “살을 빼고 싶다.”라고 말하고 재수생 윤정은(가명) 양은 또 “미뤘던 쌍꺼풀 수술을 하고 싶다.”라고 말한다.
위의 대답처럼 여자 수험생 대부분은 부족한 시간 탓으로 돌보지 못한 자신의 외모가 보상받기를 원한다. ‘못 생긴건 죄’라는 10대들의 명제는 고3수험생에게도 공감 대목인 셈이다. ‘못생겨서 죄송합니다.’라는 과거의 유머 또한 현재와 다를 바 없는 외모지상주의를 그대로 반영하고 있는 듯 여겨진다.
아름다워지고 싶지만 공부 때문에 뒤로 미룰 수밖에 없었던 수험생들이 성형외과의 문을 두드리고 있다. 우리 병원에도 실제 상담사례가 늘어나고 있다. 특히 쌍꺼풀과 같은 눈성형과 코성형을 문의하는 전화가 많다.
앳되고 순수한 10대의 얼굴에 성형이 웬말이냐고 반박할 수도 있지만 코 성형의 경우 코끝에는 보형물을 사용하지 않고 콧날개연골을 이동시켜 고정하여 원하는 높이와 모양을 만든다. 그리고 필요한 경우에는 귓바퀴 등에서 연골을 얻어 이식 후 코끝을 더 높이거나 길게 연장하기도 한다. 자신의 연골로만 구성되어 있기 때문에 원래의 해부학적인 특성과 같아서 아무런 부작용 없이 오래가는 예쁜 코를 가질 수 있다.
쌍꺼풀의 경우 매몰법과 절개법이 있다. 매몰법은 간단하고 부기도 적으며 자연스러운 모양이 나오는 장점이 있지만 시간이 지나면서 쌍꺼풀이 조금씩 얇아지기 쉽고 정해진 해부학적인 조건 내에서는 나올 수 있는 모양이 제한되어 있어 맞춤 성형을 하기에는 한계가 있다. 반면 절개법은 여러 가지 조직들을 자유롭게 할 수 있어서 각 개인이 원하는 대로 맞춤 성형을 할 수 있고 일주일 정도면 부기가 거의 사라져 일상생활에 지장을 주지 않는 장점이 있다.
수험생의 스트레스 해소 차원의 성형이 아닌 여성으로서의 준비 과정으로 자신의 콤플렉스를 줄이고 자신감을 높이는 데 초점을 둔 이유있는 성형이야말로 수험생을 위한 내외적인 아름다움의 첫걸음이 아닐까. '도움말' 키스유성형외과 이주혁 원장
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1.Yun Yeon Jung
ReplyDelete2.Teens struggle with island life
3.In island, We usually think they have hard time to study like other big city's teenager.
But, When I read this article, my thoughts was changed. They have lots of fun activities. Teenager who live in City, They are struggle to go just 'hakwon'. And they cant enjoy growing their "real" ability. But here, after school, they enjoy their full time in school. I was really impressed. And, Furthermore, I feel jealous. They have also stress, but They enjoy their teenager life freely. It is really need things to big city's teenager.
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Teens struggle with island life
‘What else is there to do here?’ Lee Kyung-hee asked. ‘It is good to see that the kids on the island now have hobbies.’
December 02, 2010
CHEONGSAN ISLAND, South Jeolla - Once a dreadfully boring island for its 37 middle school students, Cheongsan Island has been injected with some life thanks to a few extracurricular activities.
Just a few years ago, the students of Cheongsan Middle School on the island in South Jeolla only had one dream: get out as soon as possible. The only one on the island, their middle school is one of the smallest in the country. After graduating, most go to the mainland for high school. Those that don’t make it to the mainland go to Wan Island - a bigger, less boring island about 50 minutes by boat from Cheongsan.
Mainlanders flock to Cheongsan Island for its picturesque sunsets and quaint island charm. It was the set of the movie “Seopyeonje” and is part of the Italy-based Cittaslow (slow city) campaign.
But for Kim Eun-young, 14, and her 36 schoolmates, the island had been a place of isolation and dullness. After all, the island had almost nothing to offer young teenagers: no piano schools and no shopping centers. She - like just about everyone else here under the age of 20 - wanted out.
But largely thanks to the efforts of Jeong Yeon-guk, Cheongsan Middle School’s principal, things around here are slowly changing.
The band Syndrome performs in Cheongsan Middle School’s talent show.
Jeong introduced extracurricular programs and convinced talented teachers to lead them. “When I first arrived at the school, everything was old. We didn’t even have a proper library or science lab,” he said. “When the environment is poor, teachers avoid coming here. The students ultimately bear the biggest burden of that.”
His first step was to secure funding from the school board to repair aging infrastructure. Jeong sent requests to the South Jeolla Office of Education, asking for new residences for teachers. He also wanted upgraded educational facilities.
His efforts paid off. The South Jeolla Office of Education and the Samsung Equal Opportunity Scholarship Foundation both stepped up to provide funding.
Now once-uninspired students are in a band, in photography clubs, art groups, play sports and make pottery.
For Kim Eun-young, the island is not the boring place it once was.
Since April, Kim has been participating in an after-school photography club. For her, once boring beaches and hills are now the subjects of photographs.
Kim even says she is not in as much of a rush to leave Cheongsan. The island’s charm has inspired her to become a travel writer, she said.
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1. Kwak Bo Ram
ReplyDelete2. Is dating taboo at school?
3. students have rights. schools infringed on the students’ rights, stressing that they should ban on-campus relationships. education authorities and schools interfere in teens' dating too much. school should esteem teens' right.
I don't understand school punishes students for dating. naturally students should study. but student have rights to date. the important thing is that school should provide teens with practical sex education.
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5. Eight out of 10 middle and high schools nationwide were found to have been maintaining rules disciplining students for engaging in relationships or physical contact with the opposite sex, a rights advocacy group for teenagers said Tuesday.
According to a report issued by “Asunaro” (http://cafe.naver.com/asunaro), 286 secondary schools out of 354 across the country, or 81 percent, have internal regulations preventing students from dating or having physical contact with those of the opposite gender.
In Yangpyong County, Gyeonggi Province, all middle and high schools are found to have rules against dating among students, with 119 out of 142 schools in Busan maintaining similar guidelines that specifically reprimand those engaging in relationships with fellow students.
“All that the schools care about is creating overly strict rules and punishing students for dating. Teenagers should be allowed to exercise their rights over their own sexuality both inside and outside schools,” an Asunaro official said.
The group also said that some schools even prohibited students from exchanging gifts on birthdays and other special occasions.
“Students with a boyfriend or a girlfriend are forced to write a report about their relationship and schools break up social clubs if members are caught dating. Just like adults, teens are human beings and should be given the right to choose what they want to do.”
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/117_76530.html
1. woo ji yeon
ReplyDelete2.Sexual exploitation of teen entertainers will be stopped
3.the entertainers abuse the teen entertainers.
the government take reasonavle steps for teenager. now we have to stop entertaniner exploition.
Current entertainer has been the industry Decadent.
the teenagers are protected in this situation, we limited entertainer Business the side of teenager employment.
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5.The government said Tuesday that it will introduce a range of measures aimed at stopping teen entertainers from being exploited by adults in the industry for money. Education requirements and labor rights for minors will also be strengthened.
it will revise the “Teenager Protection Act” to protect under aged entertainers from sexual exploitation and other abuses in the entertainment industry. The ministry also plans to force entertainment agencies to grant minors educational opportunities and fair labor rights.
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7.http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/117_76021.html
1. Lim Jung Kwan.
ReplyDelete2. orphan
3. There are many orphan in Korea society, because of economy problems, unfulfill sex education, and divorce. So in schools, there are many orphans, but if person or student know their friends are orphan, they avoid and discriminate them. It is very serious problem. Because Orphan doesn't want they become orphan. It's not their choice. I think we must not discriminate and tease thing that they can't choice. So we should respect their personal right.
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5. In a perfect world, there would be no orphans. Every single one of the world's 2.2 billion children would be doted upon by their parents. And every day would be like May 5 in South Korea when nearly 8 million kids are sure to be spoiled on the national holiday set aside as Children's Day.
But obviously we do not live in a perfect world. There are currently 143-210 million displaced children worldwide, and nearly 15 million who will ``age out" of the adoption system and consequently lose their chances of finding a home. And the excruciating reality is that these kids are innocent victims of social ills induced by adults, which is why we have a communal responsibility to care about it.
In Korea alone, there are nearly 10,000 new-born babies every year who are abandoned for various reasons, and only 3,900 of them are adopted into new homes. One may naively assume there would be very few neglected children in the prosperous modern Korea, or at least none being sent abroad. Inarguably, there has been a declining rate in overseas adoptions in the recent years, but this is only due to a precipitous drop in the Korean birth rate. Still, roughly one of 250 Korean children is adopted into an American family.
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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/12/168_65267.html
1. Jeong Sora
ReplyDelete2. Young S.Koreans face midnight ban for online games
3. I was attracted this because the name of law presented in this news is 'cinderella law'. it is curious.
Korea is one of countries that computer network is formed well. But, Recently, Doing too much internet game have caused many negative things. For example, Addiced by internet game, certain parents made their baby die. And a young boy killed his mother because she had scolded him for doing internet game. And then, he killed himself too.
Internet game can also affects schoolwork.
So regulating internet game is nice in order to prevent young people. But It is faced to the matter of freedom to choose pleasure of people.
I think this law may be exerted in system, but supplement for this law must be supplied.
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5. SEOUL — South Korea's government is close to adopting a "Cinderella" law to ban youngsters from playing online games past midnight amid growing concerns about Internet addiction, officials said Thursday.
A bill to be submitted to parliament as early as this month will require South Korean online game companies to cut off services at midnight for users registered as younger than 16, the culture and family ministries said.
(MCT)
"The thing about online games is, once you are in it, it is extremely hard to get out of it, especially if you are a young kid," Jo Rin, a ministry official in charge of the law, told AFP.
"A lot of kids play games all night long and have trouble studying at school and going about their normal lives during daytime. We believe the law is necessary to ensure their health and a right to sleep."
The online services would resume at six the following morning, he said, adding there would be a year-long waiting period until the law takes effect so that companies can prepare for it.
The government is also considering requiring companies to limit young users' access to online games to a maximum number of hours a week or a day if parents request this, said Jo.
South Korea is one of the world's most wired societies, but there have been sporadic reports of deaths related to Internet game addiction.
Last month a 15-year-old South Korean boy committed suicide after killing his mother for scolding him over playing computer games too much.
In February a 32-year-old man died after reportedly playing for five days with few breaks.
A month later police arrested a couple accused of leaving their baby daughter to starve to death while they raised a "virtual" child on the Internet. The baby had long been malnourished, an autopsy showed.
The government, which estimates that South Korea has about two million web addicts, is already launching one campaign to combat the affliction.
From next year, it will offer free software to people at risk, to limit the time they spend on the web. (AFP)
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7.http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101203000840
1. Joonkoo Chung
ReplyDelete2. Some 6,500 caught in Internet fraud cases
3. I think this is another side effect of the Internet.
Especially half of the suspects are young people including teenagers. I guess the number of young criminal will be increasing more and more. So there should be a kind of education for them.
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Police have investigated some 6,500 suspects in around 5,400 Internet fraud cases during a three-month crackdown, but only arrested 149, police officials said Monday.
During the crackdown, which began in August, the Cyber Terrorism Response Center, the National Policy Agency’s Internet crime unit, has caught a total of 6,542 people in 5,430 cases.
The cases involving those who sold false items through the Internet accounted for the highest number with 2,511 cases. A total of 112 people have been arrested for such cases.
The number of the cases involving those who defrauded people by using false-name bank accounts was 1,960, which is the second highest figure. For those cases, three people have been arrested.
A total of 554 cases involve those who defrauded people by selling false Internet game items. Eight people have been arrested for these offences. Police have found some 176 cases of Internet financial fraud, known as “messenger phishing.” For the cases, 11 people have been arrested.
By age, those in their 20s, who were suspected of Internet fraud, accounted for 34 percent while those in their teens accounted for 23 percent.
Police said that those in their teens were mostly involved in the Internet fraud cases to make money for buying Internet game items or for their entertainment.
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