“Tougher than entering University"…Kindergarten Entrance 'the eye of needle'

Due to the lack of facilities in Gyeonggi-do, competition rate of some public kindergarten is '6:1'. Parents are in stiff competition for their children's kindergarten entrance which is like getting blood from stone .

Gyeonggi-do don't have enough kindergarten to fill the demand. Moreover, from next year, the new way of selecting kindergartener, a lottery system will replace the old ways, recommendation and order of arrival system.

Now, kindergarten in the province accommodates 166,000 children in 1,046 of the Kindergarten attached to Public Primary School, and 988 of private kindergarten

 

Provincial Education office is planning to found more public kindergarten next year to accommodate about 5,000 children, and private kindergarten will hold about 11,000 children by foundation. If the foundation of public and private kindergarten go as planned, whole kindergartener in the province will increase by 182,000. Each kindergarten is now accepting applications or has already finished.

 

However, even this size is less than half of 380thousand children the age about 3~5(Last year's standard population statistics in Gyeonggi-do). Even after considering many children go to nursery or institute, the size of kindergarten is absurdly insufficient.

 

For these reasons, parents are busy worrying to send their kids to kindergarten.

Especially, by the expansion in educational expenses support from next year, the competition for public kindergarten admission is notorious stiff because of its free education.

 

Private kindergarten can cost maximum of 14 times than public kindergarten which means most house need to burden no small money even though the government support the 220 thousand-won monthly for education fee. Even the number of persons to be admitted in public kindergarten increases, 38500 is the maximum, and that is only a quater of the private's next year enrollment.

 

Sampyeong Public Kindergarten in Bundang-si has recently closed registration and the competition rate was 5.6:1. Also, Saegyo Kindergarten in Osan-si rated 5.5:1, and Kindergarten attached to Sanui Public Primary School in Suwon-si rated 16:9. Most of other public kindergarten had same results.

 

One parent from the internet site of Gyeongi Provincion Education office said that she thought her child surely can enter public kindergarten but recently the number admitted in public kindergarten nearby has rapidly decreased. Moreover, private kindergarten already closed registrations, so if draws a losing number child cannot enter any kindergarten.

Other netizen also said, "It is practically impossible to enter public kindergarten. The competition rate is already 6:1, even it has 3 days left until the application deadline. It is so shocking."

A press officer from Provincial Education office said, "We know that public kindergarten is absurdly insufficient but it is the reality that we cannot just found kindergarten due to our budget."

 

 

Original Article :

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/11/26/2012112601733.html

 

Related Article "Tuition support for age of 3~4 children" :

http://inside.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/15/2011121500765.html

 

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Education

201110601

Hyeon-jeong Yoon

 

A 17-year-old girl who was in vegetative state for 42 years passed away.

" A promise is a promise."

Edwarda Obara, a main character in the book called  " A promise is a promise" ,which is about 17-year-old girl lived as a vegetable and her devoted family, passed away on the 21st of this month.
It has been over 42 years since she fell into a coma. Miami Herald reported that "Obara died in her house with a big smile on her face." quoting her sister Colleen's word.

A 17-year-old girl, who dreamed of being a pediatrician, unexpectedly lapsed into unconciousness in 1970 caused by diabetes. Going into a coma, she grasped her mother Kay's hand and said "Promise you won't leave me, will you, mommy?" "Of course not. I would never leave you, Darling. I promise. And a promise is a promise." her mother replied.

The promise was kept. Obara  never opened her eyes since then, but her mother didn't left her side. She fed her through tube and repositioned her frequently to prevent bedsores. She also read her books and talked her constantly. As years passed by, and Obara's hair became grey. But Kay braided her hair on both sides as she was in 17 years' old.














In 2008, an 80-year-old Kay passed away in her sleep by her daugher. She used to say that caring Obara is not a burden, but a pleasure. Following her mother, sister Colleen has cared her "the most wonderful sister."

The news of her death was reported through a website(edwardaobara.com). The funeral will be held on 27th in Sudden Memorial Park, Miami, Florida.

http://joongang.joinsmsn.com/article/867/9985867.html?ctg=1300&cloc=joongang|home|newslist1

Smile of Saenuri, “Public Opinion Favorable to Park Geun-hye”

Smile of Saenuri, “Public Opinion Favorable to Park Geun-hye”

Park Geun-hye’s strategy of presidential election is

The Saenuri Party, while reassured over “favorable public opinion,”

expects that the election race will be narrow by about 1% difference

It approaches floating voters with over-all differentiation of policies

The strategy to solidify conservative voters of Party Park Geun-hye, presidential candidate of the Saenuri Party, has become more prominent than ever. Immediately after registering as presidential candidate on 25^th, candidate Park resigned from the non-constituency member of the National Assembly. She proclaimed that she would retire from politics if she is defeated in the coming presidential election, saying that “I will close my political journey unless I am trusted by the people in this presidential election.” The reason why she decided to fight with her back to the wall, risking her political career, seems to be derived from her tactics to make all conservatives gather together.

The Saenuri party is in the mood of being relieved over various results of opinion surveys after the single ticket movement of the opposition groups between Moon Jae-in, candidate of the Democratic United Party, and Ahn Cheol-soo, independent candidate ended with Ahn’s unilateral resignation from the candidacy. A key member of the party said, “We expected that, if the single ticket movement, the biggest scoring point to the opposition groups, were to realized, we would be behind the opposition candidate by over 5%. But, since the process of the single ticket being realized was not very beautiful, the effect does not looks very great. The situation is favorable to candidate Park.” To him, the current situation is comparable to the situation in the 2002 presidential election times when the Lee hwe-chang, candidate of the ruling party, who had been ahead of other candidates by 5%, became to fall behind the single opposition candidate by 7% immediately after the two candidate 一 Roh Moo-hyun and Jeong Mong-joon 一 realized the single ticket.    

However, strategists of the Saenuri Party do not loosen their wariness. “Considering the desire of the people to change the government, the situation is still unfavorable to candidate Park,” diagnosed a personage known as a strategist in the party election headquarters. “Opinion surveys performed at the time when the number of independents has increased by the disappointment of resignation of candidate Ahn Cheol-soo, and the antipathy to candidate Moon jae-in among supporters of candidate Ahn is at the highest are not very meaningful. (Over time) the voters favoring opposition parties gather together, and the race will be very close by about 1%,” a core assistant to candidate Park predicted.

The Saenuri Party, seeing that public opinion for about 5 days after candidates register decides the election trend, brands candidate Moon Jae-in as ‘old-style politician’, and devotes itself to maximize conflicts among opposition supporters. “Candidate Moon is the cowardly candidate who has survived alone defeating his competitor through unsportsmanlike conduct,” attacked Park Seon-gyu, the party spokesman. It seems to be the party’s effort to prevent supporters of candidate Ahn from changing into Moon’s supporters.

However, both camps see that, in the Park Geun-hye vs Moon Jae-in confrontation, the final victory or defeat depends on the consolidation of supporters and absorption of swinging voters, take pains over the means to achieve it. The Park camp plans to publicize actively that their policies are superb. “We will make full-scale differentiation between candidate Park and candidate Moon with the contrasts of custom-made welfare vs general welfare; simultaneous promotion of growth and reform vs chaebol reform-style economic democratization; principled policy toward North Korea vs unconditional and soft policy toward North Korea,” said a core assistant to candidate Park.

The party will put more efforts to win floating voters whose number has increased by the resignation of candidate Ahn. A high-ranking official in the Park’s election headquarters said, “The floating voters have increased by over 10% after the resignation of candidate Ahn. It is most urgent for the party to win them over.” Some members in the Saenuri Party are reviewing strategies such as strengthening the political reform message of candidate Park, designating candidate Moon as ‘rebirth of the failed Roh Moo-hyun government’, and stimulating the ‘anti-Roh Moo-hyeon sentiment among the people in the middle. But, a key person in the election headquarters mentioned that, “I don’t know how the party, while inviting an old politician like lee hwe-chang, former representative of the Liberty Forward Party, can embrace twenties and thirties and the people in the middle aspiring political reform.”

The Original Article : http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/politics_general/562245.html

Reference :
An interview of Chul-su Ahn http://liruda.blogspot.kr/2012/02/i-can-accept-failure-everyone-fails-at.html
An article on businessweek http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-06/south-korea-s-ahn-moon-to-merge-presidential-campaigns

PSY is crowned "Youtube King"

Gangnam Style MV break through 810 million

Record the greatest number of the world

 

 

 

PSY is crowned an emperor of Youtube. PSY's Gangnam Style beat Baby of Justin Bieber who is Pop Star from Canada in 24 November, and got the highest hits ever. It passed over 810 milion in 25 November which is a record in four months since it released on Last 15 July.

 

Baby which is released on 2 2010 beat Rady Gaga's Bad Romance which took first place, and it was number one for 2years, and it has record which is 804 milion. Youtube said that record of Gangnam Style is a phenomenon which we have never seen a huge hit with the global standard.

 

Popularity of Gangnam Style is spreaded in early in August, and has risen from September in earnest. It took 52 days to broke through 100 million hits, but it took 15 days to fill additional 100 million. Since that, it passed over 800 million with increasing 100 million per 10-13 days, and still recorded 7million ~ 10million hits per day. Gangnam Style music video got recorded in Guinness World Records and set the greatest number ever by receiving "like" from users who use Youtube in two months. The number of users who press the "like" is 5,390,000 people.

 

Country which check Gangnam Style amounts to 223 countries. Inn country by country hits, American is the first place which reaches 154 million, Thailand is the second place which reaches 45 million, Republic of Korea, Turkey and Brazil follow them. It record 11 miilion (18th) in Japan. The gender ratio of them is 60 percent male and 40 percent female, the proportion of teeangers is overwhelmingliy high.

 

The video related Gangnam Style is popular. Brother is Just My Style which is revealed as next song recored 160 million hits until now. Making Film of Gangnam Style passed over 25million. Gangnam Style became the talk of the town because of many parody videos such as Gandalf, The Lord of The Rings, Romney, the U.S. presidential candidate, and Jung-il Kim, a leader of North Korea.

 

Youtube said that PSY's success factor is opening of the copyright. John Hirai who handles music area in Korea and Japan said that Youtube has content verification(CID) technology which blocks content of other people, or tracks it, or gives original author advertising revenue, and PSY can achieve greater successa by adopting third one in special lecture of MU:CON Seoul 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

The original article:

http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/201211/h2012112521255286330.htm

 

Intermediate writing class #3
French Education
200710634 Jiho Kim

Children exposured by Hukushima radiation are 9 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than non-exposured.

 

WHO predicted the risk of cancer increased.

 

WHO reported that potential cancer patient will be one year old girls who lives in near the nuclear power plant in Hukushima. In last novemver, there was an accident of radiation exposure to people in Hukushima, Japan.

WHO says that they made a report by estimating the level of radioactiviy in residents body,
predicting the people who are exposured by radiaion have more possibilities of breast cancer, thyroid cancer, colorectal cancer and leukemia. Accoring to the report, The worst affected class is one year old girl who lives in Namiemachi, near the nuclear power plant. If there was no accident, the risk of having thyroid is only 0.004%, because of the contaminations by radioactive, they are 9 times more likely to deveop thyroid cancer.

For grown ups, women in her twenties are 10% more likely to develop thyroid cancer, the risk of other cancer also increased.

Accoring to UN's report, after the accident of Chernobyl in 1986, more than 6,000 children got thyroid cancer. People who were exposed by radiaions in Chernobyl, their exposure dose was about 490mSv, according to WHO's report, the exposure dose of people who were exposed to radiations in Hukushima was much lower. (one year old children has 122mSv)
 
Even WHO made a report based on exposure dose, other experts are still suggesting the riskness of low exposure dose, whether it can affect to people or not.






The original article : http://news.hankooki.com/ArticleView/ArticleView.php?url=world/201211/h2012112510162422450.htm&ver=v002
Reference article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert,
                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO

Clss #2
Jihye Kim

Transportation strike worsen

After bus field's strike on last thursday, Taxi industry also said that they estimated 2.5million taxies  are going to gather in front of National Assembly on December 7th to begin indefinite walk out unless pass a bill which taxi will be recognized as mass transportation  in a regular session.

Many verbal battle occured in internet among netizen about subjects such as "Are mass transportation's behaviors in return for civil inconvenience legitimate?"
Some said that these situation must be responsible for government ,another said that

But most people agree with  "Taxie's strike don't necessarily make uncomfortable because it helps traffic jam to clear"

Some taxi drivers posted on blog "it will bring confusion because there might be considerable demands for taxi with the year-end holidays approaching, and then, most citizen become feel that taxi as well as bus are important for our life."

Whatever argument pro and con about mass transportation's strike, it is needed compromise between bus and taxi, also asked speedy measure from government.

*original article: http://news.kukinews.com/article/view.asp?page=1&gCode=soc&arcid=0006659496&cp=nv

*reference article: http://www.newspim.com/view.jsp?newsId=20121120000271

Bus companies to launch strike Thursday over taxi bill

Taxi drivers call for the passage of a bill to designate taxis as public transportation like buses and subway, which would provide more financial benefits to taxi drivers.  The controversial bill, which would recognize taxis as a mode of mass transit, unanimously passed throuh Transport and Maritime Affairs Committee last Thursday and now waits for approval in the parliamentary plenary session.  This bill will put the taxi companies and drivers under management, which means the government determines taxi driver’s salaries and other operational details.  The drivers will be guaranteed a stable income and the companies will be eligible for government compensation for losses, all of which would come from state coffers.

Video : http://imnews.imbc.com/replay/nwdesk/article/3185628_5780.html

On the contrary to this, Bus drivers don’t want taxi to be a public transportation.  They believe that they have to share subsidies with taxis, receive less funding and allow them to use bus lanes, so the bus association would go on a nationwide strike by expressing strong opposition to this move if the bill passes.



*The original article
   http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/11/20/2012112000284.html


*The reference article
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2962680

*The reference images
http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=421&aid=0000062479
http://blog.naver.com/kjd_iht?Redirect=Log&logNo=20171713247

The Fans are Mad at a Tardy Student, I-phone 5

Fed up with waiting for a long time...

Although it has been more than 2 months after Apple revealed I-phone 5, it never showed up in Korea, The old fans of Apple, who have loved Apple from I-phone 3GS, are changing their choices to other smart phones.

It is said that the people who waited I-phone 5 are moving to Galaxy Note 2 or Optimus G. I-phone 5 was expected to be released in the Korean market in the end of October or early in November. However, it is said that I-phone 5 might not be seen in Korea utill the next year, and the people are choosing other alternatives.

There are many 'good-bye posts' of I-phone users on the internet. A person said (s)he has bought a Galaxy Note 2. (S)he said, "there are many convenient functions and the battery is more durable." Another person said, " I wish I could have a chance to use the new I-phone but I could not wait any longer. So, I bought a Galaxy Note 2."

Optimus G has been chosen as the alternative as well as Galaxy Note 2. A person who bought an Optimus G recently said, "I bought an Optimus G after I had waited I-phone 5 for a long time. The transition of screen and the soft feeling of touch are very pleasant. The fine colour is exclusive!" Also (S)he mentioned, "I do not understand why I-phone 5 has not been released in Korea, a powerful IT country.'

It has been witnessed at many off-line dealer agencies that people changed their minds. A mobile phone dealer said, "As the release day of  I-phone 5 is getting late, the number of customers who are interested in Galaxy Note 2 are incleasing. Some of them purchased it right away on the spot because of its excellent grip and the ability of muli-tasking."

According to an related communication company, the openings of Galaxy Note 2 have incleased by 30% from the last month, and the maket share of LG Electronics has incleased to more than 20% because of the recent success of Optimus G.

Harald Economy

Tai-il Jung / killpass@heraldcorp.com

Original article:  http://news.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20121123000053&md=20121124094624_AM

Reference: I-phone 5 vs Optimus G

 

 

by 함현진 from the Intermediate Conposition #3  

North Korea without warning… an atmosphere is uncommon.



 U.S. captured North Korea’s movement of launching, notified to South Korea and Japan.

  

This is a launching sight of  North Korea's 'Eun-ha 2ho rocket' in last April 2009.



 U.S. government captured North Korea’s movement of launching a long range ballistic missile and be founded that they notified to South Korea and Japan.

 Depended on Asahi newspaper, U.S. captured the freight which looked like components of missile located in San-um dong, Pyoung-yang si carried to the missile firing base located in Dong-chang ri, Pyoung-an buk-do by satellite in the beginning of this month.

 The freight which captured by satellite is revealed that conformed to a long range ballistic missile launched by North Korea in last April. Last April, the firing was performed 20 days after the time of the freight conveyance, so technically seems that the launching will be possible in the end of this month. At that time, one month before the launching, North Korea gave advance notice “We will launch the rocket with satellite” and also informed to IMO in advance.

 Depended on Jo-sun joong-ang news agency, last 15^th, North Korea announced ‘We will launch the utility satellite continuously’ in the United Nations General Assembly but now 22^nd of November, we have a situation which doesn’t have previous notice of launching concretely.

 There is a skeptical view that North Korea really launching the satellite in this stage because South Korea will have a presidential election in next month and there will be important conference between North Korea and Japan. It also has external fluent that secondary Administration of Barack Obama will be launch in U.S on January of the coming year.

 Three presidential candidates who will lead the next Administration of South Korea spoke that they will try to have the South-North dialogue so it is uncertain that North Korea will go through with launching missile put up with resist of international society.

 Some say, this action of North Korea is ‘Brinkmanship’ because they will ask for economic support which is cost of the relieve tension on the Korean Peninsula.

 Asahi newspaper reported that there is an opinion which is technically impossible to launch the missile on the seven months because it will take one to two year to finding the cause of failure and improve the airframe of missile of April which exploded in the air.

 But the newspaper also analyzed that it still has a possibility of military authorities of North Korea launch the missile to show off their existence.

Original article:

http://economy.hankooki.com/lpage/politics/201211/e2012112311133993140.htm     

The source of video:

http://www.tving.com/vod/player/S001712276

Granddaughter stabbed a grandmother 90 times ··· She was sentenced 20 years

 Granddaughter and her boyfriend that brutally killed her grandmother were sentenced to a severe punishment. On November 23, Defendant Park(21·Female) and boyfriend Kim(25) were sentenced to 20 years, 17 years by chief prosecuting attorney.

 According to the sentencing, on this year Ms. Park who worked at adult entertainment establishment in Dongducheon–si, Gyeonggi-do had a relationship with Kim and started to live together. Since July, they has been living in a separate building of Ms. Park’s grandmother Ms. Wu(72·Female).

 

 Ms. Park and Mr. Kim drunk alcohol and fought. Ms. Park asked grandmother for help and showed assaulted bruises, but Ms. Wu who had a disapproval with them said “Take a medical treatment and leave the my house.” Ms. Park was furious with her grandmother because she criticized Ms. Park and her mother, so she gave boyfriend a knife, a awl and asked to killed Grandmother. Boyfriend Kim immediately stabbed neck, face and whole body of grandmother Wu 90 times. Ms. Park stabbed dead grandmother to make sure her death.

 Since then, they stole grandmother’s 140,000 won and cell phone and ran away but they were arrested in 3 days.

 Justice department said “Their crime was cruel and against humanity  because they stabbed another weapon to make sure grandmother’s death and while she was dying, they sang a song”

 

 It came out into the open that granddaughter Park sang loudly and disregarded when grandmother screamed and asked for help.

article: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/11/24/2012112400149.html

 

MBA Graduates says, “Wall Street? I won’t go!”

 

 

 

 

 There are increasing number of   MBA graduates who reconsider finding employment at Wall Street as most Wall Street financial firms decided to cutting down of personnel.

 

 According to a number of leading graduate school of management in the United States, such as Harvard and Stanford, the ratio of graduates who have a job at a financial service has been decreased compared to last year. a university of management which increases compared to last year has recorded a figures far lower than before the financial crisis occurred.

 

 So far, these graduate school of management has been play a seedbed role of major financial firms such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase. As regulations applied to financial sector are being stricter, Many of financial companies are heavily rely on a young competent people to survive in a condition that a profit rate gradually being reduced.

 

 Olin Graduate School of Business at the University of Washington, Marc brochorph said, "because of decline of the opportunity for promotion and salary rising and unstable occupational circumstance, an attraction of Wall Street is fell down. there are Increasing percent from 15% to 21% which the percentage of graduates who enter financial business, but many graduates decided to go Midwest regional finance companies and finance boutique rather than Wall Street.

 

 One of the reasons why MBA students don't prefer Wall Street compared than past is that new employee has to charge the work of fired mid-level employees. but salaries have not risen even though working hours has been longer.

 

 In the face of uncertainty to new complex regulations and the future of large size of banks, Many financing companies are confronted with reduction of influxing competent people. Large banks such as the Bank of America are now educate a brillient young staffs and fire a senior staffs who have expensive salary in order to reduce labor costs.

 

 Investment sector which is selected by most of MBA graduates who find their way in financing business is also showing signs of weakness.

Julie Morton, a dean of Chicago University, says, "student's interest and taste become much more diverse than previously." Also, Going Sillicon Valley startups or a large enterprise like corporation which produces consumer goods are current trend.







article: http://kr.wsj.com/posts/2012/10/31/mba%ec%a1%b8%ec%97%85%ec%83%9d%eb%93%a4-%ec%9b%94%ec%8a%a4%ed%8a%b8%eb%a6%ac%ed%8a%b8-%ec%95%88-%ea%b0%80/

 

Analysis of family names in DNA, follows the scent

The family names of criminals can be traced by a small modification in DNA testing, the mainstay of the modern scientific investigation methods, according to a TV program named 'Unsolved Cases' to be aired on 17th by SBS.


The episode, "DNA Tells the Truth"


At the scene of a recent homicide in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul, the police found a jacket and a piece of toilet tissue stained with blood. They sent these evidences to the National Forensic Service (NFS), but the case seemed to fall into a mystery as no suspects have been sorted out in DNA profiling. Because, at that time, the only one thing left was an eye drop prescribed from an ophthalmologist, but there were thousands of people who prescribed the medicine.

Police, however, started investigating the case upon being informed by the NFS that the suspect might be a man who has a family name, Oh, and found him as the suspect. Experts of the NFS analyzed family names using DNA, the service said. This case is the first case that police have ever picked out a criminal in an analysis of family names using DNA.

The NFS says that they are able to trace the criminal through analysis of family names in DNA as Korea has traditionally maintained a patriarchal society, but it is still in the beginning stages.

In the episode, the producer also looked at DNA testing methods in Korean investigations of crimes, checking how much information he can get from a strand of hair in collaboration with the forensic experts from the service.


The source of the article:
http://artsnews.mk.co.kr/news/233157

Related article:
Catch a Criminal through DNA Testing

References:

1. Image : SBS

Why Not Change The University Festival?

This is a time of university campus festival. On university campuses, a lot of drinking parties are held and screaming and singing of drunken students are easily heard for the period of time. This drinking orgies are usually held until dawn.

 

On October 11, the smell of liquor filled the square of A university at 3:00 a.m. About thirty cart bars formed a “village” in the square. In the bars, students were drinking Soju and beer, and empty bottles were stacked up in the corner of the tents. Dozens of students were dancing to music, and some were doing deep petting.

 

Mr. Lee, a senior student of the school, said,

“Drinking parties finished early today because it is the first day of the feast. However, on the last day of the feast, we will drink till the morning, because we are not allowed to leave alcohol in the feast.“

      

B university was no exception. Drinking parties started at 5:00 p.m. We could see the students who were sleeping in the benches. Twenty civil complaints were filed by the residents during the feast because of the screaming and singing of drunken students.

 

                   ▲ Soju bottles emptied by the students
                             during a university's festival

                  were stacked up in the corner of the campus

 

 

In contrast to this atmophere, Dae-Kyung University, which is located in the Gyeongsan-si, held the university festival without alcohol at the very first.

 

Professor Jung, who managed the feast, said,

“We didn't prepare not only Soju and beer but also bar snacks such as whelk. Thanks to saving money paid for drinks, we could prepare a lot of different foods.

 

On the first day of the festival, there was no alcohol all over the campus. Small groups of students were enjoying beverage such as coke instead of Soju, eating chicken and Tteokbokki instead of bar snacks.

 

Up to last year, it was not like this. Until last year, there had been several cart bars were on display on campus, and cantests such as ‘The fastest beer drinker”, “Tossing off Soju.” had been main events. There had been full of drunken students all over the campus. Screaming and singing of druken had filled the campus. Futhermore, some had been rushed to the emergency room.

      

                                ▲ Changes of Dae-Kyung University

 

 

“The festival without alcohol” was planned by professors. And students responded positively to their suggestion. Last June, Mr. Kim, head of the planning office, and professor Park suggested the removal of alcohol in the festival. And the idea went through in a faculty conference. After that, professors introduced the idea to students in the class. They also got a forth students’ signature for the idea.

 

The university prepared many cultural events such as animal show, body painting program, musicals, dances for the festival. On the last day of the festival, there were students who major ballets, performing the plays.

 

Mr. Kim, a freshman of the school, said,

“I think there is no necessity for us to drink during the university festival. We can enjoy the performances with our schoolmates.“

 

 

The revised Law for the Promotion of Nation’s Health, which do not allow students to drink and sell alcohols on campus, will officially come into effect in April next year. Much has been said for and against about it. Some think that it is the great chance to change the university’s cacoethes, but the others are opposed to the law because drinking on campus is a romance for them.

 

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The Original Article:

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/10/27/2012102700059.html

 

 

 

 

Apple’s iPhone map to give Dokdo three names

"Apple has decided to label Liancourt Rocks when iPhone users outside of Korea or Japan search for Dokdo."

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade yesterday, Apple has informed the Korean government that it will use all three names to describe Dokdo in markets other than Korea and Japan, where it will be described as Dokdo and Takeshima depending on the country of service.

“Apple recently notified us that its new English map service under the new iOS 6 mobile operating system will simultaneously use the Korean, Japanese and Franco-English name 'Liancourt Rocks' to describe Dokdo,” the official told reporters yesterday. “We protested to Apple’s Korean unit that using all three names isn’t right because Dokdo is clearly indigenous territory of Korea and the new reference is unacceptable.”

In response to the Korean government’s protest, Apple Korea said, “We didn’t have a choice because to Apple, the Japanese market is a couple of times bigger than the Korean market."



Source  of Article
http://news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?year=2012&no=713900
Relative Article involving video
http://news.sbs.co.kr/section_news/news_read.jsp?news_id=N1001461197

Obama's reelection and Korean-American relations

With the reelection of US president Barack Obama, favorable Korean-American relations are expected to be maintained in the big framework. Despite forecasts of a super tight race, President Obama received considerable support and he was finally reelected.

The development of bilateral relations and North Korea were the two main issues. In his first four years in office, President Obama has acknowledged South Korea's leading role in Korean Peninsula affairs and paid attention to alliance concerns. With Obama's reelection, some experts believe cooperative relations will expand and grow deeper. However, there is the variable of Korea's presidential election.

 

Presidential candidates have expressed more flexible policies on North Korea than those of the Lee Myung-bak's administration. On the other hand, with the election over, President Obama can now be more assertive against North Korea's nuclear threats. However, many experts said that because the relationship between the two countries is based on mutual trust and cooperation, Both South Korea and United States will pursue a common goal of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.

 

Besides, today's China has emerged as the other global superpower along with the US. To Washington, appropriately setting its relationship with Beijing has become a principal task. The Obama administration's increased emphasis on Asia will not be practicable without help from its key allies in the region, South Korea.

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Lee Seung-chuel "'Super Star K' It's time to be changed"

Lee Seung-chuel who is singer commented audition program 'Super Star K' should be switched.

Lee Seung-chuel mentioned "I think now is the turning point of 'Super Star K'. Many people know the mechanism of 'Super Star K' now. It should be turned for the vitality of program." in peace hall of Kyeong-hi university in 16th. Lee Seung-chuel was the judge until season 1. He suggested that "Current method is not multilateral. We may have league of top 10 for 4 weeks, and four people will be fail in the 4th live broadcast. Then It will be a tournament until top 6. Viewers can watch singer's abilities in all sorts of fields." in twitter.

He explained "We want to watch top 10 for a long time. The multilateral part will be reinforced for viewers, so we can show more interesting broadcast. We will introduce the league or new way."

He also entertained hopeful views of 'Super Star K'. He expected "Teenagers grow and appear, so qualitative contents will not be dropped. Performers prepared a lot these days, so the quality will be higher than now."

He said the thought of 'Great Birth 3', the competition program of MBC, too. He commented "Their screening standard is different from ours. Not only 'Great Birth 3' but also each audition programs of 3 broadcasters is different. It is the characteristics of programs eventually." and he emphasized "The important thing is the success or failure of the album of the performers. Our goal is the selection of the talented person."

He mentioned the performers of 'Super Star K' have high rate of success for making album because of their producing talent. He also anticipated "The fandom is the greatest scale ever we have. performers of this season have great powers already, so they will spread their music easily."

Today's 'Super Star K 4' is the semifinal for top 3(Dick Pucks, Roy Kim, Jung Jun-young.)

The final will be held in Jam-sil indoor stadium.

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