김다빈(Da Bin Kim), 201331642 - Topic 6, The United Air incident was this, United airliner was injured in the face of a passenger on a seat armrest when he was forcibly pulled out by security personnel. This caused by the overbooking of airline ticket sales by airlines. At first, the airline explained the situation to the passengers on board and asked them to make concessions for compensation, but no one volunteered for this. Eventually, the airline randomly picked up four passengers through a computer lottery and denied that one of them could not. In this situation, two security officers boarded him and forced him down. The American news reported the same as what was told by Korean news. However, Korean news said there were some rumors about three out of four people were Asian who were kicked off from the United airline. The American news didn’t clearly report about this matter. Personally, when the rumor is the real fact, then I believe that this can be the act of racism by United Air. In the case, the word racism means the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. The reason why I support this perspective is, even though there were more American people than Asian people on the plane, three Asian were selected out of four people. This happens hard in the statistics. And this was not the only the cases that United Air discriminated people. There was the incident that one of the United Air passenger who was disabled, required a wheelchair support but rejected. So, he had to crawl through the exit. Like these, The United Air showed lots of senseless brutalities.
United Airline's overbooking caused this incident. currently the CEO of united airline apologized and compensated to the passengers on the plane by giving back air fees or mileage. the victim Dabid Dao is preparing accusation for the United Airlines. I Think UA's action was suitable for criticism. by this affair other major companies must turn in to a state of tension.
Yeah I saw the news reports that the CEO of United Airline apologized and compensate for those people who were under that condition. I hope that other companies please turn in to a state of tension and do not make same mistakes what UA made.
I first knew that disabled passenger story. I agree that if three out of four people were Asian, it tells the obvious racism. and whether it was racism or not(but it dose important that clarifying the fact), United Air showed cruelty and nonsense during problem-solving processes. so they deserve punishment.
I agree with your point that the term “racist” has to be used with caution. Just because the victim of an accident is Asian does not necessarily mean that it is racism. However, this incident seems to be caused by racism. If the passenger was an white man, I think the cabin crew would not have acted so rude and drag him out such like that. I hope the United Airline regret their mistake so that such incident never happens again in the future.
이성학(Lee, Sunghak), 201333864 South Korea's new president, Moon Jae-in promised to cut down on nuclear power. As everyone knows, nuclear power is economical but it's dangerous. And these days, a lot of people are worried about recent earthquake in Gyeong-ju because it reminds them of the Fukushima nuclear accident. So, many people oppose nuclear power and that's why president Moon decided to cut down on nuclear power and increase the use of renewable energy. But I'm not sure if this is feasible. South Korea gets 30 percent of its electricity from nuclear but only 4 percent from renewable energy. It seems difficult for renewable energy to replace nuclear energy. Moreover, the Korean Peninsula is not suitable for solar power and wind power generation. Then what other options are there? Actually thermal power is the only way because it's hard to increase hydroelectric power. However, there is another problem. President Moon already announced that coal should be replaced by gas because of fine dust. And the problem is that gas is more expensive than coal for generating(LNG:100\/KWh, Coal: 49\/KWh). As a result, electricity bills will be expensive anyway and people will be burdened with expensive charges. Of course, nuclear power plants aren't 100% safe and it will be better if they can be replaced by other power plants. However, we still need time to prepare to prevent confusion such as an electricity rate hike and power supply problem.
I don't agree with the point that you mentioned that a lot of people are worried about the recent earthquake. They already forgot about it unless they live in the Gyeong-ju city. Also, even though the president promised to cut down the nuclear power for electricity, it is not easy to cut down as he promised to do so.
I agree with the point that you said that we still need time to prepare confusion. I think finding other power plants is not an easy task and also it will take a long time. And people will have financial burdens due to the increased cost of nuclear energy. Therefore, I think president Moon have to give us more specific plan to replaced renewable energy.
김진표(Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832 I think there must be a well-established policy first to reduce nuclear energy. Because there are nuclear power plants that are actually under construction, and there are several places in preparation for construction. If we stop constructing it to reduce nuclear energy, it will damage the company that is in charge of construction, and unemployed people will also happen. Therefore, the government thinks that it should start from concrete policy.
One thing our new president didn't tell us is, Korean government is planning to build additional coal-fired plants to replace nuclear powered plants. The number of these plants will reach 70 till 2022. Our own coal plants are the main reason of fine dust, not China's and its literally and silently killing us right now.From my opinion, coal plants are dangerous as nuclear power plants are. The only difference is it's hard to recognize.
This is good information that I couldn't face. I think there is nothing that can give us such energy without any danger. These can be air pollution, earthquake and direct naturally ecology destruction. We all deserve such destruction to generate and use energies. It is really important to invent renewable energy and commercialize it. I hope our President Moon will wisely get through this issue.
President Moon promised that he would stop construction of new nuclear power plants and immediately shut down nuclear power plants that have reached the end of their desinged life. and it was the most supported pledge on the presidential pledge hompage, '문재인1번가'. I agree that our country is not yet ready to replace nuclear energy wiht other renewable energy. but it is true that nuclear power plant give us worries when reminding earthquake you said. so I think it is at least good try to make an attempt to change policy about nuclear energy for safety.
I agree that we should actualize a certain plan for replacing nuclear energy with renewable one. our national nuclear power accounts for over 40%. Nuclear power is just as important because it is used as a fuel to produce electricity. but after Fukushima case, many people raise a question about the future of nuclear power. As 유영's saying, the policy for safety measure to prevent nuclear accident is needed.
I think it is not possible to shut down all of nuclear power plants right away. There are not really other alternative energy sources that can replace the nuclear power plants. However, we must decrease the reliance on nuclear power plants and we should make use of alternative energy sources such as solar energy, and new renewable energy. In the end, I hope that there are no more radioactive contamination caused by nuclear power plant accidents.
윤다찬(Dachan Daniel Yoon), 201331396 2017. 05. 29 Monday. North Korea fired one short-range ballistic missile from Wonsan to the East Sea. North Korea consistently tests their ballistic missile capability and use it as political measure over the regime’s nuclear program. This launch was the third missile test since president Moon was elected. It seems that the test is intended to put pressure on President Moon against the former governments’ hawkish stance against North Korea. After the launch “The Blue House”(청와대) convened a National Security Council meeting to discuss the North’s launch. The JCS warned about North Korea’s consistent provocation would deepen their international isolation. Other foreign and defense ministries have delivered their condemnation and considering inter-Korean talks important Meanwhile The Pentagon will conduct a missile defense drill to shoot down an ICBM heading for the US mainland. Monetary funds to the North from the South Korea since 1995 to 2016 is over 3trillion won. Whether South Korea give funds to the North or not. North Korean consistently required more funds and provoked frequently. When N.K. talks about making war. South Korea’s stock share heavily collapsed. In my perspective, South Korea should discontinue the supports to the North and start the strong foreign policy.
It is a good point that we should stop funding the nK. I took the class, 'Korean Economics' in the last semester. In the class, the professor told us that the nK is mostly leening on PRC. Over 90% of the nK's international trade is from PRC. Since they are all the communism countries, PRC had been helping the nK. The ROK gov't considers the citizen of the nK. They ain't guilty and didn't want to be born in the nK. They starve to death. Somehow the ROK needs to aid the nK and let them know the reality of Kim Jeong Eun and the ROK. I hope one day we could unify as one country under democracy. By having more population, we could build up the inner market so the ROK's international trade dependancy would decrease.
I agree with your opinion that start foreign policy. Of course we have the same ethnic belief called'한민족' as North Korea. But we are still at war with North Korea. I think a more resolute attitude is needed in foreign policy to north korea than aid the north korea without reason.
김진표(Jinpyo Jayden Kim) I agree with you. Indeed, North Korea is constantly experimenting with nuclear tests and missiles. I think the money we gave for diplomacy is used by North Korea for its nuclear test. When we give money, North Korea stops the provocation right away, but every time the money is needed again, North Korea is making provocations again. I think that the benevolent attitude to North Korea only repeats this vicious cycle. Now, Korea should show a hard attitude.
Your point is good. Of course we need to support poor country but North Korea is an exception. Even if we give money for poor people in N.K, they might use the money for military project. And they will make provocations someday again. I hope our president doesn't forget that North Korea is still enemy.
I'm with you but in a different context. I thougt It was against the constitution to support terrorist group, or to a country that supports terrorists wasn't it?
I agree with you we had been supporting north korea for long time but our relationship didn't got better they used our money to develope their weapons so i think it is no need to support NK
I think this is quite sensitive political issue, but i also agree with your point. Even though we had been supporting North for a long time, it was to aid feeding only for Kim Jung Eun and his family. The aid didn't get through poor North and North used the supports to invent and make nuclear missiles and nuclear bomb. We, the world have to notice and alert North's behavior. It is good point to stop supporting North and start strong foreign policy.
I agree that we should start strong foreign policy involving toguh stance against the North Korea. Norht Korea is showing off their military provocation through several missile launching. and honestly I am afraid that NK's missile technology is indeed developing.
I think treatment of nuclear in North Korea is always wrong. Even if supporting poor people in North Korea is right, but give rice and money to them doesn't go to help people. It makes North Korea make more weapons. We have to be more strong to them before they finally get real nuclear weapon system.
최병호 (Kevin 201332662) I am with your idea that we should stop supporting. Otherwise Kim jung-eun will keep launching missiles or threatening us. I am tired of him doing this every day. We should stop him and be prepared to the things like war in advance. Can't believe such a horrible dictator lives in 21c.
I will answer for the question number seven. The mission of google is to orgainze the world’s issues and make it universally accessible and useful.. The founders are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google started as a research product on Jan. 19th, 1996 when attending to Standford Univ. Google’s first name was ‘BackRub. Google.com domain name was registered on Sep. 19th, 1997. The company, google was established on Sep 4th, 1998. The motto of google is “Don’t be evil” The search engine doesn’t say about ‘for whom Larry Page and Sergey Brin supported and voted’. However, as typing the names ‘Hillary and Trump’, I can speculate it because if you type ‘Hillary Clinton“ you mostly see her smiling faces. On the other hand, for the image of Trump, most of the images are wrinkled but charismatic. Therefore, I can say, the owner of the search engine has not much relationship of whom the founders support and vote for.
People may doubt neutrality of huge search engines such as Google, but all huge media always tries to protect its neutrality. Even if a leader of Google is corrupted and biased, rest of people in Google will not just let Google loose its neutrality. Just like workers in MBC protested against MBC director who was on the side of the ruling party.
김진표(Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832 I think so too. Google does not do much editing on Google itself. In fact, if you search the same word on Naver and search on Google, you will know. Whether good or bad, Google offers information without editing, so I do not think it reflects the personal opinion that supports it.
I agree with your opinion that the owner of google has no relationship of whom the founders support and vote for. World's biggest search engine is google. Google would also know that it has such a big influence. So google will try to be more neutral. And i think it should be.
it's the era of "Big Data". people use Search engine sites as almost compulsory. reporters or journalists has a mind of writing plainly and deliver the facts as it is. so i say, internet search engines should have honest neutral spirit. sharing, posting people's thoughts without filtering or instigating.
Its quite hard to accept your premise. Of course Google Image engine has nothing to do with owner's political opinion. I mean it's hard to find a picture with Vladimir Putin's smiling face and that doesn't mean all owners of search engine are against him. Trump made his image as you described on purpose to make him look strong that's why most of his images on the internet looks that way.
To reply the idea of Jungwoo Hwang, it is a good point that you mentioned. It's true the image engine does not reflect the owner's political opinion. Also, that's right that Trump built up his image, aggressive and charismatic not smiling. However, what I'm saying is since Trump is one of the billionaire in the US, his feats should be rewarded before he is the president of the US. Therefore, there should be some gentle image which I cannot find from google lol.
honestly, it's hard to maintain a neutral stance. nevertheless , google should try to be more neutral. Because Google is easy to influence with biased information.
We have to think Trump's image is strong and charismatic, and Hillary's image is soft and warm firstly. As 황정우 said, it is their image ,not Google's way to support specific candidate. Some people may think strong president fit to them and some people think warm president fit to them. Strong or soft, and charismatic or warm doesn't mean right or bad.
I agree with your opinion. google have never advertised in their main screen. and their search engine show me just exactly related to keywords that I entered. Therefore, the search engine has not much related to whom the founder's support and vote for
최병호,Kevin 201332662 Hmm, I can't say for sure that there is impact or not. But at least I have not been influenced by google while I was searching for anything. Articles or Images are what WE upload, not what google do. And I've never heard about something is gone for no reason or there is any censorship until now.
I think it's not the search engines problem. But the people who post the pictures of clinton and trump. Becasue it's hard to see trump smiling and his always sarcastic. It's not google's fault to post trump's picstures with angry face.
I agree your point that the owner of the search engine has not much relationship of whom the founders support and vote for.I usually use Google searching and i can say Google tries to take a neutral position. I think givng users open space without any censorhip or filtering is the important duty of them.
I can see the difference between the photos of Hilary and Trump as you said. Google shows the smiling images of Hilary and charismatic images of Trump. But I think the difference comes from their own image-making. Also, the pictures which were posted in Google are published by internet users. So I can't find the relationship between their pictures and Google's intention.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told soldiers to " By three to rape is ok" on 31 and chelsea clinton (the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton) denounced Duterte. And also Duterte has denounced the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton after she criticized a comment he made about rapes committed by soldiers. In an expletive-laden speech Wednesday, Duterte asked Chelsea Clinton if she also criticized her father when he had an affair with Monika Lewinsky in the White House when he was president of the United States. He said he was being sarcastic when he told troops last week that he would take responsibility for any abuses they commit while implementing martial law he declared in the southern third of the country, even if they rape three women. Duterete claim that comments jusk a jokr but i think it is not to say the president. Because this comment possible to encourage rape anyway. So i think Duterte must be deserved criticism.
I believe that president Rodrigo Duterte's statement was the worst among all the presidents over the world. even though the conversation with Chelsea Clinton was a joke. it wasn't a appropriate comment. presidential should stay with neutrality and stamp out sex discrimination. Rodrigo should show his sincere apology and think about self-reflection.
It is becoming really big issue that lots of Korean tourists in Philippine are being killed and disappeared. At the point of what Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said, Korean government has to prevent people from traveling Philippine. I agree with your point that Duterte deserved criticism. It is President's priority to settle down his/her country and show great leadership with their appropriate comment
I lived in Philipine for one year, so I know how this country can be dangerous. But I think Rodrigo Duterte's statement is much dangerous than any other danger in Philipine. He is top of country, and people in this position must think people's safe first, even if people have some problems. I think he must apologize to people about his think-less statement.
In may 24, National Police Agency in Korea found some of illegal immigrants registered in community which support terrorist group named 'Tauhid Walzihad', and send their money to them. Also they found these immigrants share promotional pictures and videos through chatting applications. In Korea, there's a lot of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. In fact, government doesn't know real number of how many illegal immigrants in Korea, So it's hard to check all of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. To protect our country, government must increase number of polices to find any signs of terror and check this kind of applications. Also, they find way to restrict this anonymous chatting applications, because they can be used in crimes like this incident.
최병호 Kevin 201332662 He should treat people like what he wants them to treat himself. Punishing criminal is good thing, But I hope he has the least of idea. He said it was joke or sarcasm but It's not funny at all.
김진표(Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832 President Moon decided to raise the minimum wage to 10,000 won by 2020. There are many pros and cons. I’m in favor of raising the minimum wage. Opponents argue that the minimum wage increases the burden on the self-employed, thereby reducing the number of part-time workers. But is it the problem of the minimum wage increase? I think structural problems in an unstable labor market are a fundamental reason for the burden on the self-employed. One of the issues that is emerging as a social issue is the Gentrification. Gentrification is a phenomenon in which self - employed people try to move into a good commercial area in order to survive in excessive competition. In fact, self-employed people pay a lot of money to pay for a good location monthly rent. So what about the minimum wage increase? Of course, if the minimum wage is raised, it is true that self-employed companies are under pressure from rising labor costs. However, 74% of self-employed do not have full-time workers. So I think that the minimum wage increase does not put a heavy burden on the self-employed. In the end, it is the main cause of the suffering of the self-employed rather than the minimum wage increase: 1) a depression caused by slowing consumption, 2) excessive internal competition, 3) continuous rent increase, and 4) unfair practices of the franchise headquarters. In fact,The claim that the minimum wage increase raises the purchasing power of the workers, so that it invigorates the self-employment market has gained a lot of persuasiveness in recent years. Also In other developed countries, the minimum wage increase is taking place. Therefore, I think that the minimum wage increase is a long-term effective way for self-employment survival.
I have a different opinion about 74% of self-empolyed do not have full-time workers. I think that is because employers are not capable of hiring full time workers. If minimum wage is raised, percentage of it will increase because self-employed will have two choices, fire employees or raise price of what they are selling. And then, unemployment and inflation will shrink the consumption.
김진표 (Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832 But I think a higher rent cost is a bigger problem. In addition, we can expect to see an increase in consumption due to the wage increase. I think increasing minimum wages is the way to go to developed countries.
I agree with a point that raising minimum wage would be a huge burden for self-employed people. These days they are not working to make a big fortune. Most of them are retired person and they have no other options to provide their family.(I guess that's why we have so many chicken stores) But still I think our minimum wage is too low for our economic scale and prices. And also, it's hard to find a part time job where they pays more than a minimum wage and their excuse is always same. "It's not against the law". Offering MINIMUM wage means we have MINIMUM work obligation and they should pay them minimum wage just for the time they are spending at their workplace. Sorry for them, but I think its time to raise the wage to 10,000 per hour.
I think when minimum wage increased lot of self employer could be damaged most of store hire part time job because they can't work all day alone so i think when minimum wage increased all of price will increase. So it would be same as now
I think increase of minimum wage doesn't mean decrease of part time job workers. If minimum wage increased, self employer's burden would be increased. Then their income become lower and economy would be unstable. To fill their loses, self employers would decrease their workers. It becomes decrease of employers, also part time job workers.
I agree with President Moon on minimum wage increase. Right now self-employeed owners may suffer high expense because of increased minimum wage. However, in the long-term, I think we are going in the right direction for increasing the minimum wage. If the wage increases, workers will earn more money and this means that employees will more likely to spend more which in turn helps those self-employed owners.
I agree with it. The minimum wage increase is just an superficial solution. I hope we can find the scheme which meets the needs of self-employed people and part time job workers well.
박상우(Tommy Park) 201331381 Topic.8 Current CEO of Facebook is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg who is also one of the founders of Facebook. He seems to vote for Hillary Clinton. He did not mention about whom he voted for, but I can tell from his opinions against Trump’s polices. After he had a child, he even posted his worry about his daughter living in a country which has a misogynist president on his Facebook page. However, his thought is just thought. He personally may not like Trump, but not as the CEO of the largest SNS in the world. Facebook will implement filtering device which is run by human resources. I believe they will be trained to sort out real news, not to be biased. Therefore, Facebook will do fine and I will continue to use it. How about you?
I agree with your thought. there is a worry about SNS that Facebook filters people's opinions and made a system which is "like". posts that got most likes come up to the upper page more frequently than the others. this 'algorithm' have a possibility to brainwash users believes. however I will still use Facebook. because there is more functions in SNS not only political posts. through the SNS i can store my events and memories. sharing with other poeple
I don't think Facebook would do any biased action. I think that personal politics should not intervene in running a company, and I think Mark Zuckberg will not. He said this at tech conference : "The real goal of Facebook is to reflect what our community wants. We thought that that kind of content would make people uncomfortable, but Trump was elected president of the United States. This is a mainstream political discourse, and that it is not unreasonable to say that it is irrational." As he said, I think Facebook will continue to be a neutral platform.
김진표 ( Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832 I think so. I think Facebook prevents us from being prejudiced. Because on Facebook, anyone can freely say their opinions, and if we agree with them, we will give consent, and if we disagree, we will refuse to comment. I do not think anyone can steer this, I think the CEO's idea can not have any effect.
SNS is space for every people. People can express their ideas by posting something or putting like. So facebook can reflect what our community wants. But I think there should be filter to block fake news. If there are so many fake news, SNS won't be able to reflect what people think.
As Dachan already said, Facebook shows the page which our friends gave thumbs. This is how I get to know my friends' political view, and Im sick of it. Back in highschool, Facebook was a place for social interaction with my close friends just like Cyworld and now there's too much annoying political people who only believe gossips and rumors rather than a major news. Well I don't post things at Facebook anymore but still I check newsfeed sometimes when I'm bored cause it's funny to watch people fighting with pointless issues :)
I would say that Facebook would be fine but people using the plaform make up fake news and problems since it is easy to upload someone's opinion which could be populism or whatever. What I'm saying is Facebook must enhance the security. Also, having an account on Facebook must be selective. By being selective, no reasonable news would be less uploaded
Sns is a free sapce for people can express their opinion. Most of people spend their time. So when famous person express their opinionand many people agrees we can lose our own opinion because afraid of diffrent opion with many people so i think famous people have to be always becareful to express their own opnion at big sns.
Even though Facebook as one of the greatest SNS showed up its biased filtering and its perspective, i will still use this SNS. I have never started using this SNS to see how the political goes. I wanted to share and communicate with others and also to record my memories so that i can find and see whenever i want.
I think so and i like Facebook. But there are many fake news in Facebook. And sometimes ridiculous news irritates me. Of course, i think upload the fake news is also freedom of expression. But , i don't want see the fake news. So, i want fackebook make the more clear filtering system.
I agree with your opinion. Facebook just post that people like. our News Feed based on your own behavior, you inadvertently become victim of your own biases. And you can customize the News Feed by hiding certain types of posts, unfollowing a friend's posts while staying friends, or hiding posts from a page.
I also have the same thought. For me, I will still use Facebook as it is a good way to connect with people that you haven't see in years. I just enjoy to sroll the newsfeed, check out what's trending and whenever I find something fake I just ignore the news . For political purpose, I don't think Facebook is a good medium to explore the truth and I hope Facebook will enhance the security by blocking the fake ones.
But still there is lots of fake news going around in facebook. There are too much news with provocative headlines. There should be more filters to give people real facts.
I agree that Facebook has many advantages,but Facebook causes some problems. Especailly exaggerated advertisements and fake news are distributed indiscriminately. even some rumor was generated from an unknown source. wrong information misleads people and society. I'm concerned that children or teenager could accept a false information. So, filtering system is needed in a certain levels, so that unreliable or false information should not be spread indiscreetly.
201334392// I agree with the post writer. Since Facebook is the space where everyone can express their opinion and it shows posts only as time flow, Facebook can't be biased. Also I my opinion, that Facebook recruited some people for filtering fake news means they want to give us real news not fake or biased news. But the important thing is realizing that Facebook is the space where we hear other's voice and idea not the space where look for news. Everyone who has their own view would express their opinion on Facebook and we are able to read all the posts which have different view if we want, so it can't be biased. In addition, we need to know not all posts are fact but opinions.
for me, it is impossible if Facebook implement a filtering device which is run by human resources. I mean, look at that huge number of user. It has more than 1.94 billion monthly active users around the world. How come all those Facebook employees have to know whether the news are true or not since they busy filtering all the fake news? Alternatively, Facebook is improving this filtering system by give it up all to our hands to do the work. Fake news or not, it is our decision to give a feedback. We can share if it’s true and report it to Facebook to do the job. Base on that activity, Facebook will get improving their system. So I would say it is our job to know what truly happen in the world and decided which news are true.
황정우(Jungwoo Hwang), 201131530 - Topic 6 Here’s what happened, Dao was an ASIAN doctor who had darn patient to tend to the next morning. United asked others to get off and they refused, then they get to this guy and he refused as they did, and of all other choices that could have been made, crew chose to forcefully drag him off when he was all bloodied up. Yes it was such a terrible incident happened just few months ago. But why do people say that this whole United Airline incident happened based on his race? I’m sure that his race is completely irrelevant in this situation. Moreover there was no single report saying that all of three other passengers who had been asked to leave first were asians. I’m not saying United are totally innocent of racist act since their crew already got themselves into trouble few times before for making fun of victims in Asiana aircraft accident. But in this case there’s no obvious proof that David Dao was treated inappropriately due to his skin colour. People these days easily use the comment “THAT’S RACIST”, which actually has to be used with more cautions. Making other person racist in an argument makes us so easy to make our side or to attract people’s attention, just like this case because race is a sensitive and emotional issue. When someone is called racist, people might assume that it’s about hatred, even though some sort of incident happened to be with minor race. If some groups of people have to be limited to speak or do what they have right to just because someone might feel ‘uncomfortable’, that’s not even close to ‘equality’(which they always insist) at all.
I personally view this arguement as racism because what if the doc was an old gentle white man? Does the United Airline still drag him out all bloodied? I 100% think that would not happen. Okay let's say that happened. Then, this issue wouldn't end up as racism. The issue and the problem must be bigger than this time. Therefore, no matter the personnel was a racist or not, dragging someone out all bloodied happens by underestimating the race.
@Bigfoot Exactly. I'm also sure that if he was a typical caucasian gentleman as you said, the security guy wouldn't be able to touch him. And I do have a firm belief they acted based on Dao's skin colour, but still we cant call them racist unless they said something about his race. Think I didn't clarified my point but this was what I really wanted to say :)
I think it was racism accident. It's almost same as my main posting, Because if African-American or whites were chosen, they would not have forced them out! And also United airline had a lot of problems before that.They did not serve coke to Muslims, the reason why they did not serve is 'It can be a weapon for the Muslims'.
in my opinion, this incident is caused by racial discrimination. some people say that United airline is notorious for bad service at usual and this time, it is an insignificant matter, unrelated to racism. But I have a doubt, if the victim was white man, did they commit violence to him in the same way as that Asian man? I don’t think they do so. according to witness, the man insisted he had to stay there, because he had to see his patients in the next morning. it is obvious that he was treated inhumanly and I hope nothing like this incident happens again.
Sadly, it's not just an issue for United Airline. This issue shows the tip of an iceburg. Racial discrimination has been occurred constantly. Even in Asia, some people inflict reverse discrimination to foreigners who have diffrent skin colour.
강호신(Kang Hoshin 201331118) In this case, the problem arose because United decided at the last minute to fly four members of staff to a connection point and needed to bump four passengers to make way for them. When there's an overbooking issue the first step is to offer an inducement to the passengers to take a later flight. On Sunday passengers were offered $400, a hotel room for the night, and a flight the following afternoon. When no-one took the offer, the amount was upped to $800. Still no-one bit, so a manager boarded the flight and informed passengers that four people would be selected to leave the flight. That selection is based on several factors, but frequent fliers and higher fare-paying passengers are given priority to stay aboard, a spokeswoman for United confirmed. The man, who said he was a doctor and had to see patients in the morning, refused. United airline dragged him off. Many America media don’t deal with racism accident. But I think it was racism accident. Because several factors that they use for select some people may be relatively hard for Asians to stay. And if African-American or whites were chosen, they would not have forced them out.
As the incident took place, the United 's behavior, which had previously been controversial, was on everyone's lips. Among the controversies taken place before, there was an incident that United did not offer unopened can coke to Islamic priest saying "Unopened can coke can be a weapon". But United offered unopened can beer to other passenger. Although this case is not racist as United's claim, I think that there will be a bigger wave because it's already an airline that has acted racially. I think customers will also turn their minds.
I think that's definitely racism. Some media said it was not racism and random passengers were selected but it was not perfectly random as you said. I wonder what most US people think about that. They say racism is bullshit but sometimes I'm not sure if they really think so.
최병호201332662 By the way how they treated the man like dragging by force, I can guess how they chose the people to leave. They thought that the man has no power to do something later not like other people. I am not sure it is racism or not. But there was discrimination for sure. I hope they get punished and look back themselves especially the person who made a decision.
5. Watch CNN news and FOX news on President Trump. Are there any differences? If so, what are they?
-> No, I think there is no difference that much. They handled with the facts and both of the two sites are quite negative to the Trump. I attached the articles below.
Is there a running theme you can notice from either of these broadcasting agencies about President Trump? For example, are they all negative or positive and are the reasons justified with evidence?
-> Yes,There is. I found the article for each site dealing with Trump's response on Twitter to the mayor of the London. In short, After the terror in London, The may of the London, Sadiq Khan posted on the Twitter "Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. There's no reason to be alarmed. One of the things the police and all of us need to do is ensure that we're as safe as we possibly can be." and Trump has taken just the comment "there's no reason to be alarmed." out of context. and he also posted this "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!" and reporters on the both of the sites are criticizing Trump. I, also, think he is justifying the Travel ban while people all around the world are sad and worrying about the tragedy.
Is the news you see in Korea about President Trump reflective of the CNN or FOX news? Why do you think so?
-> When you search with "Trump" and "CNN" in Naver or other sites, you can find a lot more latest information with Trump, So I think most of the news that we hear about Trump are reflective of the CNN
이하린(Harin Lee), 201434640 – Topic 6 Last month, I watched the News about the Chinese passenger who is Doctor, was beaten and forcibly dragged off flight because he was Asian. He was left with blood pouring from his mouth after being forced out of his seat. Korean News reported United Airlines had a history of treating its passengers poorly, including Chinese Doctor dgragged from flight due to overbooking. This incident had brought a spotlight to how aviation companies treat their customers when the companies overbooked and many companies revised their policies immediately after the incident. Also, United CEO Oscar Munoz was denied the promised promotion to the board Chairman position. But the American News just reported about this event, but they didn’t point out the problem which is RACISM. Through this happen, I don’t think everyone reports same news, because of the media effect, where both sides feel that a neutral story is biased against them, has been replicated so many times, in so many different cultural settings, with so many types of media and stories. The same story can make everyone on all sides think the media is attacking them. Back to this incident, I think it was racism. Because even though they used computer for random pick, they selected Asian out of four people, and there was more American passengers than Asian people. Racism creates a society where people don’t trust and respect each other. And alo it cause a lot of damage to both individuals and communities. For these reasons I think Racism should not be tolerated.
Google is the worldwide famous search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Google. On October 2, 2015, Google announced a new company to unify all of its subsidiaries, including Google. The alphabet company has changed its motto to 'Do the right thing.' by changing the 'Do not be evil.' which was Google's motto. It seems like the same thing, I feel more positive and enterprising spirit from 'Do not do' to 'Let's do'. The founders and chairman were supporters of Hillary Clinton. However after Trump was elected, Google is trying to get a positive relationship with the new Repuplicans, such as opening an event to invite Republicans. I think all these political thoughts of Google CEOs doesn't affect on the Googles' research results. because there seems no difference about political information. and it seems that Googles' CEOs are just continuing their own beliefs, apart from Google itself, through participating opposition demonstration against Trump's anti-immigration policy.
In may 24, National Police Agency in Korea found some of illegal immigrants registered in community which support terrorist group named 'Tauhid Walzihad', and send their money to them. Also they found these immigrants share promotional pictures and videos through chatting applications. In Korea, there's a lot of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. In fact, government doesn't know real number of how many illegal immigrants in Korea, So it's hard to check all of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. To protect our country, government must increase number of polices to find any signs of terror and check this kind of applications. Also, they find way to restrict this anonymous chatting applications, because they can be used in crimes like this incident.
Increasing the number of police can be one way, but to eliminate the root cause, there should be the way to prevent the illegal immigrants. The number of foreigners staying in Korea is 2 million. 10% of them are illegal immigrants. Compared to a decade ago, the number has remained almost unchanged, and there are still 200,000. Most of them are E-9 visas. Korea has been responding passively to illegal immigrants for the last 10 years. If the government establishes innovative measures against illegal immigrants, the number of illegal immigrants will decrease and the incidents caused by them will also decrease.
In europe threat of terror is increasing. We can also be the target for the terrorism. Our government tend to make solution after the incidents happen. So we can't blame all illegal immigrants as the threat, but we also should be prepared.
I know it's better decrease illegal immigrants, but I know it's very hard too. Government already strengthened law about illegal immigrants in 2016,and it didn't worked well. Illegal immigrants per all of foreign immigrants was 12% in 2015, and in 2016 number of illegal immigrants decreased to 10.5%. It has decreased 1.5%p. It shows it is very hard to decrease them. So to protect nation, I said increase police and educate people. Because those are easier than decrease illegal immigrants.
201334392// For government to restrict chatting applications would be big controversy, because I think to restrict chatting applications is just same as limiting discussion topics. Also letting people to use only approved chatting app seems like the government would inspect chatting which must be protected and private when users don't want. We are live in free country and even the government don't have a right to examine our talk and thinking. The government should look for other solution.
On June 1, member of the 'Bigbang' Choi Seung-hyun(TOP) was investigated on charges of smoking cannabis. It is known that TOP smoked cannabis with a YG agency practitioner at a house in Seoul in October, 2016, and twice smoked as cannabis twice in the form of electronic cigarettes. He initially denied allegations of smoking cannabis, but last month he was accused of smoking two times in a police investigation.
In Korea, cannabis is classified as a drug, and all activities such as possession, smoking, and trading are prohibited. Actually, the toxicity of cannabis is lower than caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. Then why cannabis is classified as drug and prohibited in Korea? The main argument is that cannabis can become a gateway drug and reach out to stronger drugs. However, such claim is contradictory to the fact that cannabis is less toxic than alcohol and tobacco, and the US National Institute on Drug Abuse has shown lower dependence on tobacco and alcohol. Over time, not only the negative aspects of cannabis, but also the positive aspects are rising on the surface. It is very symbolic to take a positive stance on cannabis in Korea, which is a drug-free region, so it will not change its position easily in the near future. But controversy about legalization of cannabis will continue, and I think it can be in someday.
I agree with your point. Actually cannabis contains active ingredients that can make smokers experience euphoria. In Malaysia, cannabis is classified as a drug by Government of Malaysia. It is the most popular drugs among teenagers who involved in drugs. More and more cases were reported that cannabis smokers struggling to quit their habit. This is due to the use of cannabis is fun.
I agree with your point. It is less toxic than alcohol and tobacco! But my friend who came from US said cannabis can be the beginning of another drug. So he thought It should be classified as a drug. And I don't know how much people get hallucination after use cannabis. So we should listen from people who used before.
I think it's easier for celebrities who perform outside Korea to be exposed to cannabis. Because in the US their are some states that it's legal to smoke cannabis and artist misconceive smoking cannabis can help their inspiration.
201334392// It is good post for me who have been curious about why cannabis is legal in some state and nations and illegal in some place. From the information and researches I sought, cannabis for leisure has lesser dependence and toxicity than alcohol and tobacco(cigarette). People said cannabis just makes people little bit happier, and I think alcohol and cigarette have same effect and even have worse result like cancer. I still can't understand why cannabis is illegal although ciga and alcohol are legal. Maybe the governments can't make ciga and alcohol illegal because already too many people are enjoying those. Yes, people may need some thing and some where like refuge where they can run away from all the stress, pressure and daily life easily. But I can't understand why ciga and alcohol which have higher dependence and toxicity are legal and cannabis which has lower dependence and toxicity is illegal.
This post helped me understand more what cannabis is. Before, I just thought that cannabis is toxic just as other drugs that are forbiddened. I did not know that cannabis is actually less toxic than caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol that almost every adult has experience with. However, cannabis is still classified as a drug and as mentioned in the post cannabis can be a gateway drug and may lead to drug abuse. As a result, I think all drugs has to be strictly managed and only those legal drugs should be used under doctors’ prescription.
Though the cannabis is legal in some country, in Korea, it is still illegal. Despite of prohibition of cannabis, there has been a constant problem. I think the problem constantly occurred because we've never responded strongly before. It is required strong confrontation. Aside from understanding their poor situation, something has to be done for this continuous situation.
In USA, The major news like CNN is in favor of Hilary and it seems that they are negative toward Trump, while Fox News is a conservative news agency and they mostly support Trump. In Korea, every thing he says is criticized and there are some exaggerated news about Trump. I think most of Korean news about Trump are reflective of CNN. Especially, they criticized his ways of talking and sexual remarks. it is obvious many times he made some remarks that makes a specific person feel insulted but the other problem is that when the news about Trump is reported in Korea, their main focus tend to be on his bad personaltiy. In my opinion, major news is quite biased. I think seperately from his personaltiy, it is needed to look other side of his work too.
201334392// I agree with this post. This is because even if negative news about Trump is real, I hardly or never heard negative news about Hilary during election time. I watched a TV program about Trump's life but it was kabel tv not ground radio wave. Even if USA is not our nation, USA is one of biggest nations which have strong power and therefore which would have big effect on our nation, Korea. As a result, we need to know all points and opinions about USA and it's politic flow, and Korea's major broadcasting stations as KBS, MBC, SBS, EBS need to refer from multiple USA broadcasting stations not only one broadcasting station, CNN.
The first nuclear power plant in Korea built in 1978, Kori Nuclear Power Plant No.1 in Busan, has been shut down after 40 years of power production. The Kori Nuclear Safety Commission (KCNR), the first nuclear power plant in Korea, and Korea's first permanent stationary nuclear power plant, The company said. As a result, KHNP will stop operation of Kori No.1 on the 19th from 19:00 and proceed with cooling of nuclear fuel. KHNP plans to start full-scale nuclear dismantling from 2022. Kori Unit 1 commenced commercial operation on April 29, 1978 and opened Korea's full-scale nuclear power generation era. The economic growth has supported the surging demand for electric power and has become a stepping stone to become an industrial country. Although the design life (30 years) has ended in June 2007, it has been extended for ten years after the maintenance and resident agreement. For the first time in Korea, there is a prospect that the government will be a sign of the government's policy of de-nuclearization with the outbreak of permanent suspension of nuclear power plants. President Moon pledged to shut down nuclear power plants that had reached the end of his life as candidates and cut nuclear power. However, if we shut down all nuclear power plants, we will develop and expand other power plants. I doubt it will be worth it.
Awarded as "Best Mobile App" a few years ago, Instagram has been stated one of the most influential social networks in the world. After its launch in 2010, Instagram rapidly gained popularity, with one million registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and ultimately 700 million as of April 2017. Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately. The name "Instagram" comes from the words "instant" and "telegram". It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010. The question is who owns the copyright of an Instagram image ? Actually, when users upload an image to Instagram, they do not forfeit their copyright. Instead, Instagram’s Terms of Use operate so as to give the social media platform a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free transferable, sub-licence to use the content. This means that Instagram can license images from the site to others. Hypothetically, Instagram’s Terms of Use enable the company to select images that users have posted on the site and sell them to a third-party marketing company. However, I will stil using Instagram to share moments with my friends and for safety, I do private the account and not easily approve request from other users unless I know them.
Donald Trumph, the President of the United States announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. I think this is an unwise decision and the reason that Trumph mentioned is also not very reasonable. Applying the “America First” ideology, Trumph said that the decision is in favor of the United States and to protect its people. It is true that the United States is paying the largest part of the compensation expenses for supporting developing countries. However, from the last few decades, the United States is the country with the highest carbon dioxide emissions. China may seem to be the one that is responsible for such high amount of carbon emission, the total amount of the US is much larger than that of China. Of course, it may seem that it is not fair for the United States to pay such large amount of money for the Accord. However, all countries including the US are responsible the carbon emission and fighting climate change is everyone’s responsibility. The withdrawal decision is being criticized not only by foreign countries but also by national citizens. Many global companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple are also opposing the decision. By withdrawing from the Agreement, the United States may decrease some expenses. However, in the long-term, the US may pay extra more money when climate change gets worse.
최영주(Sunny) 201334392// Topic6 - Because United Air needed to board their late employee and there were no volunteer with compensation, United Air selected 4 passengers and United Air forcibly removed one man from the plane with blooding caused by policemen. In CNN and BBC news,I could only read that other passengers recalled it as a terrible incident and one sentence that the man who was removed was Chinese and a statement of Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Air. I even couldn't have thought thinking whether it is racism or not. However, Korean news and news written by Chinese told that the Chinese man shout them "Am I removed because I'm Chinese", and it's impossible to think that white woman to be removed forcibly and wounded from police. In addition, the Korean and news written by Chinese transmitted that many Chinese were upset because of the news, and 75% of white said police are using proper violence but only 33% of black agree with that. Through the news, I can say that not everyone report same news. This is because each person and the broadcasting company have their view and opinion and these affect on editing and deciding what information would be contained. Writer choose how much of facts would be transmitted by news and what other information would be connected with news, so news can't be same. As a result, after reading the news from CNN to Korean, I want to say the act of United Air is racism. Racism means discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity(Wikipedia). With confidence I can say if the Chinese man was not asian and a white, the police never pulled him violently even though he would act aggressively, also employees wouldn't let him out if white man said he was doctor and he had a patient to see. And other Chinese celeb said many Chinese are discriminated in USA. This incident shouldn't be forgotten easily and should be a carrier for making all of us to think about racism and also nonsense rules of boarding airplane.
이은경 201431607 2017. 05. 07, new president of France who named Emmanuel MACRON was elected. In France, it was exceptional circumstance because he was the fist president who was almost independent. His party 'En Marche' is almost newly emerging political party. But all the existing political parties (PS, LR, FN, FI) were completely defeated, a candidate of 'En Marche' was elected president. It can be shown as the effort of French society to prevent the fever of the extreme right. After the election, a left-leaning newspaper, 'Le Figaro' carried an article <> in the press with his photo. However, the newspaper which has a strong tendency to favor the right wing, 'Liberation' just published an article <> with his photo. 'Le Monde', a middle-of-the-road newspaper, they wrote the headline with a quotation of Macron. For the moment, they've taken care of the most urgent problem, but that's just the beginning. I think that the French choose Macron as avoiding the worst. According to the 'Liberation' report, the younger shouted for "ni de droite, ni de gauche" (no right, no left). This new president and party can propose solution to the French society, European society further.
*'Le Figaro' carried an article 'Liberation' just published and article * Actually, I expect for his trace in the future. The result of the election shows me a revolutionary spirit of the French and it was amazing. Surely, there has been many terrorist attack and it was one of the reason why many people change their direction to the right. But they are still on the alert, not to give up 'tolerance'.
AKMAL 201799079 A longstanding war of words between Saudi Arabia and its oil and gas-rich neighbor Qatar has just exploded into open diplomatic warfare, threatening the US-led fight against ISIS and setting off a new wave of instability in the Gulf region. On Monday last week, Saudi Arabia and three of its biggest allies Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain all announced that they were severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, as well as suspending air, land, and sea travel to and from the country. The move came after Riyadh accused Qatar of backing radical Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS. Since then, Libya, Yemen, and the Maldives have also joined the diplomatic boycott. Qatar is one of the wealthiest countries on earth, but it’s going to feel the pain all the same because it relies heavily on its neighbors for trade and travel in and out of the region. The peninsular nation imports most of its food through its land border with Saudi, which is now closed. What should Qatar goverment to solve this problem? For me Qatar Government should fix the resumption of diplomatic relations so that the economy and the safety of people is ensured.
김다빈(Da Bin Kim), 201331642 - Topic 6, The United Air incident was this, United airliner was injured in the face of a passenger on a seat armrest when he was forcibly pulled out by security personnel. This caused by the overbooking of airline ticket sales by airlines. At first, the airline explained the situation to the passengers on board and asked them to make concessions for compensation, but no one volunteered for this. Eventually, the airline randomly picked up four passengers through a computer lottery and denied that one of them could not. In this situation, two security officers boarded him and forced him down. The American news reported the same as what was told by Korean news. However, Korean news said there were some rumors about three out of four people were Asian who were kicked off from the United airline. The American news didn’t clearly report about this matter. Personally, when the rumor is the real fact, then I believe that this can be the act of racism by United Air. In the case, the word racism means the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. The reason why I support this perspective is, even though there were more American people than Asian people on the plane, three Asian were selected out of four people. This happens hard in the statistics. And this was not the only the cases that United Air discriminated people. There was the incident that one of the United Air passenger who was disabled, required a wheelchair support but rejected. So, he had to crawl through the exit. Like these, The United Air showed lots of senseless brutalities.
ReplyDeleteUnited Airline's overbooking caused this incident. currently the CEO of united airline apologized and compensated to the passengers on the plane by giving back air fees or mileage. the victim Dabid Dao is preparing accusation for the United Airlines. I Think UA's action was suitable for criticism. by this affair other major companies must turn in to a state of tension.
DeleteYeah I saw the news reports that the CEO of United Airline apologized and compensate for those people who were under that condition. I hope that other companies please turn in to a state of tension and do not make same mistakes what UA made.
DeleteI first knew that disabled passenger story. I agree that if three out of four people were Asian, it tells the obvious racism. and whether it was racism or not(but it dose important that clarifying the fact), United Air showed cruelty and nonsense during problem-solving processes. so they deserve punishment.
DeleteI agree with your point that the term “racist” has to be used with caution. Just because the victim of an accident is Asian does not necessarily mean that it is racism. However, this incident seems to be caused by racism. If the passenger was an white man, I think the cabin crew would not have acted so rude and drag him out such like that. I hope the United Airline regret their mistake so that such incident never happens again in the future.
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ReplyDeleteSouth Korea's new president, Moon Jae-in promised to cut down on nuclear power. As everyone knows, nuclear power is economical but it's dangerous. And these days, a lot of people are worried about recent earthquake in Gyeong-ju because it reminds them of the Fukushima nuclear accident. So, many people oppose nuclear power and that's why president Moon decided to cut down on nuclear power and increase the use of renewable energy.
But I'm not sure if this is feasible. South Korea gets 30 percent of its electricity from nuclear but only 4 percent from renewable energy. It seems difficult for renewable energy to replace nuclear energy. Moreover, the Korean Peninsula is not suitable for solar power and wind power generation.
Then what other options are there? Actually thermal power is the only way because it's hard to increase hydroelectric power. However, there is another problem. President Moon already announced that coal should be replaced by gas because of fine dust. And the problem is that gas is more expensive than coal for generating(LNG:100\/KWh, Coal: 49\/KWh). As a result, electricity bills will be expensive anyway and people will be burdened with expensive charges.
Of course, nuclear power plants aren't 100% safe and it will be better if they can be replaced by other power plants. However, we still need time to prepare to prevent confusion such as an electricity rate hike and power supply problem.
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DeleteI don't agree with the point that you mentioned that a lot of people are worried about the recent earthquake. They already forgot about it unless they live in the Gyeong-ju city. Also, even though the president promised to cut down the nuclear power for electricity, it is not easy to cut down as he promised to do so.
DeleteI agree with the point that you said that we still need time to prepare confusion. I think finding other power plants is not an easy task and also it will take a long time. And people will have financial burdens due to the increased cost of nuclear energy. Therefore, I think president Moon have to give us more specific plan to replaced renewable energy.
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DeleteI think there must be a well-established policy first to reduce nuclear energy. Because there are nuclear power plants that are actually under construction, and there are several places in preparation for construction. If we stop constructing it to reduce nuclear energy, it will damage the company that is in charge of construction, and unemployed people will also happen. Therefore, the government thinks that it should start from concrete policy.
One thing our new president didn't tell us is, Korean government is planning to build additional coal-fired plants to replace nuclear powered plants. The number of these plants will reach 70 till 2022. Our own coal plants are the main reason of fine dust, not China's and its literally and silently killing us right now.From my opinion, coal plants are dangerous as nuclear power plants are. The only difference is it's hard to recognize.
DeleteThis is good information that I couldn't face. I think there is nothing that can give us such energy without any danger. These can be air pollution, earthquake and direct naturally ecology destruction. We all deserve such destruction to generate and use energies. It is really important to invent renewable energy and commercialize it. I hope our President Moon will wisely get through this issue.
DeletePresident Moon promised that he would stop construction of new nuclear power plants and immediately shut down nuclear power plants that have reached the end of their desinged life. and it was the most supported pledge on the presidential pledge hompage, '문재인1번가'. I agree that our country is not yet ready to replace nuclear energy wiht other renewable energy. but it is true that nuclear power plant give us worries when reminding earthquake you said. so I think it is at least good try to make an attempt to change policy about nuclear energy for safety.
DeleteI agree that we should actualize a certain plan for replacing nuclear energy with renewable one.
Deleteour national nuclear power accounts for over 40%. Nuclear power is just as important because it is used as a fuel to produce electricity. but after Fukushima case, many people raise a question about the future of nuclear power.
As 유영's saying, the policy for safety measure to prevent nuclear accident is needed.
I think it is not possible to shut down all of nuclear power plants right away. There are not really other alternative energy sources that can replace the nuclear power plants. However, we must decrease the reliance on nuclear power plants and we should make use of alternative energy sources such as solar energy, and new renewable energy. In the end, I hope that there are no more radioactive contamination caused by nuclear power plant accidents.
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ReplyDelete2017. 05. 29 Monday. North Korea fired one short-range ballistic missile from Wonsan to the East Sea. North Korea consistently tests their ballistic missile capability and use it as political measure over the regime’s nuclear program.
This launch was the third missile test since president Moon was elected. It seems that the test is intended to put pressure on President Moon against the former governments’ hawkish stance against North Korea.
After the launch “The Blue House”(청와대) convened a National Security Council meeting to discuss the North’s launch. The JCS warned about North Korea’s consistent provocation would deepen their international isolation.
Other foreign and defense ministries have delivered their condemnation and considering inter-Korean talks important
Meanwhile The Pentagon will conduct a missile defense drill to shoot down an ICBM heading for the US mainland.
Monetary funds to the North from the South Korea since 1995 to 2016 is over 3trillion won. Whether South Korea give funds to the North or not. North Korean consistently required more funds and provoked frequently. When N.K. talks about making war. South Korea’s stock share heavily collapsed. In my perspective, South Korea should discontinue the supports to the North and start the strong foreign policy.
It is a good point that we should stop funding the nK. I took the class, 'Korean Economics' in the last semester. In the class, the professor told us that the nK is mostly leening on PRC. Over 90% of the nK's international trade is from PRC. Since they are all the communism countries, PRC had been helping the nK. The ROK gov't considers the citizen of the nK. They ain't guilty and didn't want to be born in the nK. They starve to death. Somehow the ROK needs to aid the nK and let them know the reality of Kim Jeong Eun and the ROK. I hope one day we could unify as one country under democracy. By having more population, we could build up the inner market so the ROK's international trade dependancy would decrease.
DeleteI agree with your opinion that start foreign policy. Of course we have the same ethnic belief called'한민족' as North Korea. But we are still at war with North Korea. I think a more resolute attitude is needed in foreign policy to north korea than aid the north korea without reason.
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DeleteI agree with you. Indeed, North Korea is constantly experimenting with nuclear tests and missiles. I think the money we gave for diplomacy is used by North Korea for its nuclear test. When we give money, North Korea stops the provocation right away, but every time the money is needed again, North Korea is making provocations again. I think that the benevolent attitude to North Korea only repeats this vicious cycle. Now, Korea should show a hard attitude.
Your point is good. Of course we need to support poor country but North Korea is an exception. Even if we give money for poor people in N.K, they might use the money for military project. And they will make provocations someday again. I hope our president doesn't forget that North Korea is still enemy.
DeleteI'm with you but in a different context. I thougt It was against the constitution to support terrorist group, or to a country that supports terrorists wasn't it?
DeleteI agree with you we had been supporting north korea for long time but our relationship didn't got better they used our money to develope their weapons so i think it is no need to support NK
DeleteI think this is quite sensitive political issue, but i also agree with your point. Even though we had been supporting North for a long time, it was to aid feeding only for Kim Jung Eun and his family. The aid didn't get through poor North and North used the supports to invent and make nuclear missiles and nuclear bomb. We, the world have to notice and alert North's behavior. It is good point to stop supporting North and start strong foreign policy.
DeleteI agree that we should start strong foreign policy involving toguh stance against the North Korea. Norht Korea is showing off their military provocation through several missile launching. and honestly I am afraid that NK's missile technology is indeed developing.
DeleteI think treatment of nuclear in North Korea is always wrong. Even if supporting poor people in North Korea is right, but give rice and money to them doesn't go to help people. It makes North Korea make more weapons. We have to be more strong to them before they finally get real nuclear weapon system.
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DeleteI am with your idea that we should stop supporting. Otherwise Kim jung-eun will keep launching missiles or threatening us.
I am tired of him doing this every day. We should stop him and be prepared to the things like war in advance.
Can't believe such a horrible dictator lives in 21c.
I will answer for the question number seven. The mission of google is to orgainze the world’s issues and make it universally accessible and useful.. The founders are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google started as a research product on Jan. 19th, 1996 when attending to Standford Univ. Google’s first name was ‘BackRub. Google.com domain name was registered on Sep. 19th, 1997. The company, google was established on Sep 4th, 1998. The motto of google is “Don’t be evil” The search engine doesn’t say about ‘for whom Larry Page and Sergey Brin supported and voted’. However, as typing the names ‘Hillary and Trump’, I can speculate it because if you type ‘Hillary Clinton“ you mostly see her smiling faces. On the other hand, for the image of Trump, most of the images are wrinkled but charismatic. Therefore, I can say, the owner of the search engine has not much relationship of whom the founders support and vote for.
ReplyDeletePeople may doubt neutrality of huge search engines such as Google, but all huge media always tries to protect its neutrality. Even if a leader of Google is corrupted and biased, rest of people in Google will not just let Google loose its neutrality. Just like workers in MBC protested against MBC director who was on the side of the ruling party.
Delete김진표(Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832
DeleteI think so too. Google does not do much editing on Google itself. In fact, if you search the same word on Naver and search on Google, you will know. Whether good or bad, Google offers information without editing, so I do not think it reflects the personal opinion that supports it.
I agree with your opinion that the owner of google has no relationship of whom the founders support and vote for. World's biggest search engine is google. Google would also know that it has such a big influence. So google will try to be more neutral. And i think it should be.
Deleteit's the era of "Big Data". people use Search engine sites as almost compulsory. reporters or journalists has a mind of writing plainly and deliver the facts as it is. so i say, internet search engines should have honest neutral spirit. sharing, posting people's thoughts without filtering or instigating.
DeleteIts quite hard to accept your premise. Of course Google Image engine has nothing to do with owner's political opinion. I mean it's hard to find a picture with Vladimir Putin's smiling face and that doesn't mean all owners of search engine are against him. Trump made his image as you described on purpose to make him look strong that's why most of his images on the internet looks that way.
DeleteTo reply the idea of Jungwoo Hwang, it is a good point that you mentioned. It's true the image engine does not reflect the owner's political opinion. Also, that's right that Trump built up his image, aggressive and charismatic not smiling. However, what I'm saying is since Trump is one of the billionaire in the US, his feats should be rewarded before he is the president of the US. Therefore, there should be some gentle image which I cannot find from google lol.
Deletehonestly, it's hard to maintain a neutral stance. nevertheless , google should try to be more neutral. Because Google is easy to influence with biased information.
DeleteWe have to think Trump's image is strong and charismatic, and Hillary's image is soft and warm firstly. As 황정우 said, it is their image ,not Google's way to support specific candidate. Some people may think strong president fit to them and some people think warm president fit to them. Strong or soft, and charismatic or warm doesn't mean right or bad.
DeleteI agree with your opinion. google have never advertised in their main screen. and their search engine show me just exactly related to keywords that I entered. Therefore, the search engine has not much related to whom the founder's support and vote for
Delete최병호,Kevin 201332662
DeleteHmm, I can't say for sure that there is impact or not. But at least I have not been influenced by google while I was searching for anything. Articles or Images are what WE upload, not what google do. And I've never heard about something is gone for no reason or there is any censorship until now.
I think it's not the search engines problem. But the people who post the pictures of clinton and trump. Becasue it's hard to see trump smiling and his always sarcastic. It's not google's fault to post trump's picstures with angry face.
DeleteI agree your point that the owner of the search engine has not much relationship of whom the founders support and vote for.I usually use Google searching and i can say Google tries to take a neutral position.
DeleteI think givng users open space without any censorhip or filtering is the important duty of them.
I can see the difference between the photos of Hilary and Trump as you said. Google shows the smiling images of Hilary and charismatic images of Trump. But I think the difference comes from their own image-making. Also, the pictures which were posted in Google are published by internet users. So I can't find the relationship between their pictures and Google's intention.
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ReplyDelete김주찬(Juchan David Kim) 201331370
ReplyDeletePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte told soldiers to " By three to rape is ok" on 31 and chelsea clinton (the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton) denounced Duterte. And also Duterte has denounced the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton after she criticized a comment he made about rapes committed by soldiers.
In an expletive-laden speech Wednesday, Duterte asked Chelsea Clinton if she also criticized her father when he had an affair with Monika Lewinsky in the White House when he was president of the United States.
He said he was being sarcastic when he told troops last week that he would take responsibility for any abuses they commit while implementing martial law he declared in the southern third of the country, even if they rape three women.
Duterete claim that comments jusk a jokr but i think it is not to say the president. Because this comment possible to encourage rape anyway. So i think Duterte must be deserved criticism.
I believe that president Rodrigo Duterte's statement was the worst among all the presidents over the world. even though the conversation with Chelsea Clinton was a joke. it wasn't a appropriate comment. presidential should stay with neutrality and stamp out sex discrimination. Rodrigo should show his sincere apology and think about self-reflection.
DeleteI wonder if he's gonna say the same thing after he and his wife have three little princess
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DeleteIt is becoming really big issue that lots of Korean tourists in Philippine are being killed and disappeared. At the point of what Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said, Korean government has to prevent people from traveling Philippine. I agree with your point that Duterte deserved criticism. It is President's priority to settle down his/her country and show great leadership with their appropriate comment
DeleteI can't understand that he made a comment that rationalizing rpae even in joke. He should apolozie formally not to shift the blame on chelsea clinotn.
DeleteI lived in Philipine for one year, so I know how this country can be dangerous. But I think Rodrigo Duterte's statement is much dangerous than any other danger in Philipine. He is top of country, and people in this position must think people's safe first, even if people have some problems. I think he must apologize to people about his think-less statement.
DeleteIn may 24, National Police Agency in Korea found some of illegal immigrants registered in community which support terrorist group named 'Tauhid Walzihad', and send their money to them. Also they found these immigrants share promotional pictures and videos through chatting applications.
DeleteIn Korea, there's a lot of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. In fact, government doesn't know real number of how many illegal immigrants in Korea, So it's hard to check all of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. To protect our country, government must increase number of polices to find any signs of terror and check this kind of applications. Also, they find way to restrict this anonymous chatting applications, because they can be used in crimes like this incident.
최병호 Kevin 201332662
DeleteHe should treat people like what he wants them to treat himself.
Punishing criminal is good thing, But I hope he has the least of idea.
He said it was joke or sarcasm but It's not funny at all.
김진표(Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832
ReplyDeletePresident Moon decided to raise the minimum wage to 10,000 won by 2020. There are many pros and cons. I’m in favor of raising the minimum wage. Opponents argue that the minimum wage increases the burden on the self-employed, thereby reducing the number of part-time workers. But is it the problem of the minimum wage increase? I think structural problems in an unstable labor market are a fundamental reason for the burden on the self-employed. One of the issues that is emerging as a social issue is the Gentrification. Gentrification is a phenomenon in which self - employed people try to move into a good commercial area in order to survive in excessive competition. In fact, self-employed people pay a lot of money to pay for a good location monthly rent. So what about the minimum wage increase? Of course, if the minimum wage is raised, it is true that self-employed companies are under pressure from rising labor costs. However, 74% of self-employed do not have full-time workers. So I think that the minimum wage increase does not put a heavy burden on the self-employed. In the end, it is the main cause of the suffering of the self-employed rather than the minimum wage increase: 1) a depression caused by slowing consumption, 2) excessive internal competition, 3) continuous rent increase, and 4) unfair practices of the franchise headquarters. In fact,The claim that the minimum wage increase raises the purchasing power of the workers, so that it invigorates the self-employment market has gained a lot of persuasiveness in recent years. Also In other developed countries, the minimum wage increase is taking place. Therefore, I think that the minimum wage increase is a long-term effective way for self-employment survival.
I have a different opinion about 74% of self-empolyed do not have full-time workers. I think that is because employers are not capable of hiring full time workers. If minimum wage is raised, percentage of it will increase because self-employed will have two choices, fire employees or raise price of what they are selling. And then, unemployment and inflation will shrink the consumption.
Delete김진표 (Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832
DeleteBut I think a higher rent cost is a bigger problem. In addition, we can expect to see an increase in consumption due to the wage increase. I think increasing minimum wages is the way to go to developed countries.
I agree with you. If the minimum wage goes up, there will be more cash in market and it will stimulate the economy.
DeleteI agree with a point that raising minimum wage would be a huge burden for self-employed people. These days they are not working to make a big fortune. Most of them are retired person and they have no other options to provide their family.(I guess that's why we have so many chicken stores) But still I think our minimum wage is too low for our economic scale and prices. And also, it's hard to find a part time job where they pays more than a minimum wage and their excuse is always same. "It's not against the law". Offering MINIMUM wage means we have MINIMUM work obligation and they should pay them minimum wage just for the time they are spending at their workplace. Sorry for them, but I think its time to raise the wage to 10,000 per hour.
DeleteI think when minimum wage increased
Deletelot of self employer could be damaged most of store hire part time job because they can't work all day alone so i think when minimum wage increased all of price will increase. So it would be same as now
I think increase of minimum wage doesn't mean decrease of part time job workers. If minimum wage increased, self employer's burden would be increased. Then their income become lower and economy would be unstable. To fill their loses, self employers would decrease their workers. It becomes decrease of employers, also part time job workers.
DeleteI agree with President Moon on minimum wage increase. Right now self-employeed owners may suffer high expense because of increased minimum wage. However, in the long-term, I think we are going in the right direction for increasing the minimum wage. If the wage increases, workers will earn more money and this means that employees will more likely to spend more which in turn helps those self-employed owners.
DeleteI agree with it. The minimum wage increase is just an superficial solution. I hope we can find the scheme which meets the needs of self-employed people and part time job workers well.
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ReplyDeleteCurrent CEO of Facebook is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg who is also one of the founders of Facebook. He seems to vote for Hillary Clinton. He did not mention about whom he voted for, but I can tell from his opinions against Trump’s polices. After he had a child, he even posted his worry about his daughter living in a country which has a misogynist president on his Facebook page. However, his thought is just thought. He personally may not like Trump, but not as the CEO of the largest SNS in the world. Facebook will implement filtering device which is run by human resources. I believe they will be trained to sort out real news, not to be biased. Therefore, Facebook will do fine and I will continue to use it. How about you?
I agree with your thought. there is a worry about SNS that Facebook filters people's opinions and made a system which is "like". posts that got most likes come up to the upper page more frequently than the others. this 'algorithm' have a possibility to brainwash users believes. however I will still use Facebook. because there is more functions in SNS not only political posts. through the SNS i can store my events and memories. sharing with other poeple
DeleteI don't think Facebook would do any biased action. I think that personal politics should not intervene in running a company, and I think Mark Zuckberg will not. He said this at tech conference : "The real goal of Facebook is to reflect what our community wants. We thought that that kind of content would make people uncomfortable, but Trump was elected president of the United States. This is a mainstream political discourse, and that it is not unreasonable to say that it is irrational." As he said, I think Facebook will continue to be a neutral platform.
Delete김진표 ( Jinpyo Jayden Kim) 201331832
DeleteI think so. I think Facebook prevents us from being prejudiced. Because on Facebook, anyone can freely say their opinions, and if we agree with them, we will give consent, and if we disagree, we will refuse to comment. I do not think anyone can steer this, I think the CEO's idea can not have any effect.
SNS is space for every people. People can express their ideas by posting something or putting like. So facebook can reflect what our community wants. But I think there should be filter to block fake news. If there are so many fake news, SNS won't be able to reflect what people think.
DeleteAs Dachan already said, Facebook shows the page which our friends gave thumbs. This is how I get to know my friends' political view, and Im sick of it. Back in highschool, Facebook was a place for social interaction with my close friends just like Cyworld and now there's too much annoying political people who only believe gossips and rumors rather than a major news. Well I don't post things at Facebook anymore but still I check newsfeed sometimes when I'm bored cause it's funny to watch people fighting with pointless issues :)
DeleteI would say that Facebook would be fine but people using the plaform make up fake news and problems since it is easy to upload someone's opinion which could be populism or whatever. What I'm saying is Facebook must enhance the security. Also, having an account on Facebook must be selective. By being selective, no reasonable news would be less uploaded
DeleteSns is a free sapce for people can express their opinion. Most of people spend their time. So when famous person express their opinionand many people agrees we can lose our own opinion because afraid of diffrent opion with many people so i think famous people have to be always becareful to express their own opnion at big sns.
DeleteEven though Facebook as one of the greatest SNS showed up its biased filtering and its perspective, i will still use this SNS. I have never started using this SNS to see how the political goes. I wanted to share and communicate with others and also to record my memories so that i can find and see whenever i want.
DeleteI think so and i like Facebook. But there are many fake news in Facebook. And sometimes ridiculous news irritates me. Of course, i think upload the fake news is also freedom of expression. But , i don't want see the fake news. So, i want fackebook make the more clear filtering system.
DeleteI agree with your opinion. Facebook just post that people like. our News Feed based on your own behavior, you inadvertently become victim of your own biases. And you can customize the News Feed by hiding certain types of posts, unfollowing a friend's posts while staying friends, or hiding posts from a page.
DeleteI also have the same thought. For me, I will still use Facebook as it is a good way to connect with people that you haven't see in years. I just enjoy to sroll the newsfeed, check out what's trending and whenever I find something fake I just ignore the news . For political purpose, I don't think Facebook is a good medium to explore the truth and I hope Facebook will enhance the security by blocking the fake ones.
DeleteBut still there is lots of fake news going around in facebook. There are too much news with provocative headlines. There should be more filters to give people real facts.
DeleteI agree that Facebook has many advantages,but Facebook causes some problems.
DeleteEspecailly exaggerated advertisements and fake news are distributed indiscriminately.
even some rumor was generated from an unknown source.
wrong information misleads people and society.
I'm concerned that children or teenager could accept a false information.
So, filtering system is needed in a certain levels, so that unreliable or false information should not be spread indiscreetly.
201334392// I agree with the post writer. Since Facebook is the space where everyone can express their opinion and it shows posts only as time flow, Facebook can't be biased. Also I my opinion, that Facebook recruited some people for filtering fake news means they want to give us real news not fake or biased news. But the important thing is realizing that Facebook is the space where we hear other's voice and idea not the space where look for news. Everyone who has their own view would express their opinion on Facebook and we are able to read all the posts which have different view if we want, so it can't be biased. In addition, we need to know not all posts are fact but opinions.
Deletefor me, it is impossible if Facebook implement a filtering device which is run by human resources. I mean, look at that huge number of user. It has more than 1.94 billion monthly active users around the world. How come all those Facebook employees have to know whether the news are true or not since they busy filtering all the fake news? Alternatively, Facebook is improving this filtering system by give it up all to our hands to do the work. Fake news or not, it is our decision to give a feedback. We can share if it’s true and report it to Facebook to do the job. Base on that activity, Facebook will get improving their system. So I would say it is our job to know what truly happen in the world and decided which news are true.
Delete황정우(Jungwoo Hwang), 201131530 - Topic 6
ReplyDeleteHere’s what happened, Dao was an ASIAN doctor who had darn patient to tend to the next morning. United asked others to get off and they refused, then they get to this guy and he refused as they did, and of all other choices that could have been made, crew chose to forcefully drag him off when he was all bloodied up. Yes it was such a terrible incident happened just few months ago.
But why do people say that this whole United Airline incident happened based on his race? I’m sure that his race is completely irrelevant in this situation.
Moreover there was no single report saying that all of three other passengers who had been asked to leave first were asians. I’m not saying United are totally innocent of racist act since their crew already got themselves into trouble few times before for making fun of victims in Asiana aircraft accident. But in this case there’s no obvious proof that David Dao was treated inappropriately due to his skin colour. People these days easily use the comment “THAT’S RACIST”, which actually has to be used with more cautions. Making other person racist in an argument makes us so easy to make our side or to attract people’s attention, just like this case because race is a sensitive and emotional issue. When someone is called racist, people might assume that it’s about hatred, even though some sort of incident happened to be with minor race. If some groups of people have to be limited to speak or do what they have right to just because someone might feel ‘uncomfortable’, that’s not even close to ‘equality’(which they always insist) at all.
I personally view this arguement as racism because what if the doc was an old gentle white man? Does the United Airline still drag him out all bloodied? I 100% think that would not happen. Okay let's say that happened. Then, this issue wouldn't end up as racism. The issue and the problem must be bigger than this time. Therefore, no matter the personnel was a racist or not, dragging someone out all bloodied happens by underestimating the race.
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DeleteExactly. I'm also sure that if he was a typical caucasian gentleman as you said, the security guy wouldn't be able to touch him. And I do have a firm belief they acted based on Dao's skin colour, but still we cant call them racist unless they said something about his race. Think I didn't clarified my point but this was what I really wanted to say :)
I think it was racism accident. It's almost same as my main posting, Because if African-American or whites were chosen, they would not have forced them out! And also United airline had a lot of problems before that.They did not serve coke to Muslims, the reason why they did not serve is 'It can be a weapon for the Muslims'.
Deletein my opinion, this incident is caused by racial discrimination.
Deletesome people say that United airline is notorious for bad service at usual and this time, it is an insignificant matter, unrelated to racism.
But I have a doubt, if the victim was white man, did they commit violence to him in the same way as that Asian man?
I don’t think they do so.
according to witness, the man insisted he had to stay there, because he had to see his patients in the next morning.
it is obvious that he was treated inhumanly and I hope nothing like this incident happens again.
Sadly, it's not just an issue for United Airline. This issue shows the tip of an iceburg. Racial discrimination has been occurred constantly. Even in Asia, some people inflict reverse discrimination to foreigners who have diffrent skin colour.
Delete강호신(Kang Hoshin 201331118) In this case, the problem arose because United decided at the last minute to fly four members of staff to a connection point and needed to bump four passengers to make way for them. When there's an overbooking issue the first step is to offer an inducement to the passengers to take a later flight. On Sunday passengers were offered $400, a hotel room for the night, and a flight the following afternoon. When no-one took the offer, the amount was upped to $800. Still no-one bit, so a manager boarded the flight and informed passengers that four people would be selected to leave the flight. That selection is based on several factors, but frequent fliers and higher fare-paying passengers are given priority to stay aboard, a spokeswoman for United confirmed. The man, who said he was a doctor and had to see patients in the morning, refused. United airline dragged him off. Many America media don’t deal with racism accident. But I think it was racism accident. Because several factors that they use for select some people may be relatively hard for Asians to stay. And if African-American or whites were chosen, they would not have forced them out.
ReplyDeleteAs the incident took place, the United 's behavior, which had previously been controversial, was on everyone's lips. Among the controversies taken place before, there was an incident that United did not offer unopened can coke to Islamic priest saying "Unopened can coke can be a weapon". But United offered unopened can beer to other passenger. Although this case is not racist as United's claim, I think that there will be a bigger wave because it's already an airline that has acted racially. I think customers will also turn their minds.
DeleteI think that's definitely racism. Some media said it was not racism and random passengers were selected but it was not perfectly random as you said. I wonder what most US people think about that. They say racism is bullshit but sometimes I'm not sure if they really think so.
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DeleteBy the way how they treated the man like dragging by force, I can guess how they chose the people to leave.
They thought that the man has no power to do something later not like other people.
I am not sure it is racism or not. But there was discrimination for sure.
I hope they get punished and look back themselves especially the person who made a decision.
5. Watch CNN news and FOX news on President Trump. Are there any differences? If so, what are they?
ReplyDelete-> No, I think there is no difference that much.
They handled with the facts and both of the two sites are quite negative to the Trump.
I attached the articles below.
Is there a running theme you can notice from either of these broadcasting agencies about President Trump?
For example, are they all negative or positive and are the reasons justified with evidence?
-> Yes,There is. I found the article for each site dealing with Trump's
response on Twitter to the mayor of the London.
In short, After the terror in London, The may of the London, Sadiq Khan posted on the Twitter "Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. There's no reason to be alarmed. One of the things the police and all of us need to do is ensure that we're as safe as we possibly can be." and Trump has taken just the comment "there's no reason to be alarmed." out of context.
and he also posted this "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!"
and reporters on the both of the sites are criticizing Trump.
I, also, think he is justifying the Travel ban while people all around the world are sad and worrying about the tragedy.
Is the news you see in Korea about President Trump reflective
of the CNN or FOX news? Why do you think so?
-> When you search with "Trump" and "CNN" in Naver or other sites, you can find a lot more latest information
with Trump, So I think most of the news that we hear about Trump are reflective of the CNN
CNN : http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/04/politics/donald-trump-london-terror-tweets/index.html
FOX NEWS : http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/05/trump-renews-war-words-with-london-mayor.html
Donal Trump's Twitter : https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
* When you search with "Trump" and "CNN" in Naver or other sites, you can find a lot more latest information
Deletewith Trump than "Trump" and "Fox news"
이하린(Harin Lee), 201434640 – Topic 6
ReplyDeleteLast month, I watched the News about the Chinese passenger who is Doctor, was beaten and forcibly dragged off flight because he was Asian. He was left with blood pouring from his mouth after being forced out of his seat. Korean News reported United Airlines had a history of treating its passengers poorly, including Chinese Doctor dgragged from flight due to overbooking. This incident had brought a spotlight to how aviation companies treat their customers when the companies overbooked and many companies revised their policies immediately after the incident. Also, United CEO Oscar Munoz was denied the promised promotion to the board Chairman position. But the American News just reported about this event, but they didn’t point out the problem which is RACISM. Through this happen, I don’t think everyone reports same news, because of the media effect, where both sides feel that a neutral story is biased against them, has been replicated so many times, in so many different cultural settings, with so many types of media and stories. The same story can make everyone on all sides think the media is attacking them. Back to this incident, I think it was racism. Because even though they used computer for random pick, they selected Asian out of four people, and there was more American passengers than Asian people. Racism creates a society where people don’t trust and respect each other. And alo it cause a lot of damage to both individuals and communities. For these reasons I think Racism should not be tolerated.
Google is the worldwide famous search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Google. On October 2, 2015, Google announced a new company to unify all of its subsidiaries, including Google.
ReplyDeleteThe alphabet company has changed its motto to 'Do the right thing.' by changing the 'Do not be evil.' which was Google's motto. It seems like the same thing, I feel more positive and enterprising spirit from 'Do not do' to 'Let's do'.
The founders and chairman were supporters of Hillary Clinton. However after Trump was elected, Google is trying to get a positive relationship with the new Repuplicans, such as opening an event to invite Republicans.
I think all these political thoughts of Google CEOs doesn't affect on the Googles' research results. because there seems no difference about political information. and it seems that Googles' CEOs are just continuing their own beliefs, apart from Google itself, through participating opposition demonstration against Trump's anti-immigration policy.
In may 24, National Police Agency in Korea found some of illegal immigrants registered in community which support terrorist group named 'Tauhid Walzihad', and send their money to them. Also they found these immigrants share promotional pictures and videos through chatting applications.
ReplyDeleteIn Korea, there's a lot of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. In fact, government doesn't know real number of how many illegal immigrants in Korea, So it's hard to check all of illegal immigrants and chatting applications. To protect our country, government must increase number of polices to find any signs of terror and check this kind of applications. Also, they find way to restrict this anonymous chatting applications, because they can be used in crimes like this incident.
Increasing the number of police can be one way, but to eliminate the root cause, there should be the way to prevent the illegal immigrants. The number of foreigners staying in Korea is 2 million. 10% of them are illegal immigrants. Compared to a decade ago, the number has remained almost unchanged, and there are still 200,000. Most of them are E-9 visas. Korea has been responding passively to illegal immigrants for the last 10 years. If the government establishes innovative measures against illegal immigrants, the number of illegal immigrants will decrease and the incidents caused by them will also decrease.
DeleteIn europe threat of terror is increasing. We can also be the target for the terrorism. Our government tend to make solution after the incidents happen. So we can't blame all illegal immigrants as the threat, but we also should be prepared.
DeleteI know it's better decrease illegal immigrants, but I know it's very hard too. Government already strengthened law about illegal immigrants in 2016,and it didn't worked well. Illegal immigrants per all of foreign immigrants was 12% in 2015, and in 2016 number of illegal immigrants decreased to 10.5%. It has decreased 1.5%p. It shows it is very hard to decrease them. So to protect nation, I said increase police and educate people. Because those are easier than decrease illegal immigrants.
Delete201334392// For government to restrict chatting applications would be big controversy, because I think to restrict chatting applications is just same as limiting discussion topics. Also letting people to use only approved chatting app seems like the government would inspect chatting which must be protected and private when users don't want. We are live in free country and even the government don't have a right to examine our talk and thinking. The government should look for other solution.
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ReplyDeleteOn June 1, member of the 'Bigbang' Choi Seung-hyun(TOP) was investigated on charges of smoking cannabis. It is known that TOP smoked cannabis with a YG agency practitioner at a house in Seoul in October, 2016, and twice smoked as cannabis twice in the form of electronic cigarettes. He initially denied allegations of smoking cannabis, but last month he was accused of smoking two times in a police investigation.
In Korea, cannabis is classified as a drug, and all activities such as possession, smoking, and trading are prohibited. Actually, the toxicity of cannabis is lower than caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. Then why cannabis is classified as drug and prohibited in Korea? The main argument is that cannabis can become a gateway drug and reach out to stronger drugs. However, such claim is contradictory to the fact that cannabis is less toxic than alcohol and tobacco, and the US National Institute on Drug Abuse has shown lower dependence on tobacco and alcohol. Over time, not only the negative aspects of cannabis, but also the positive aspects are rising on the surface. It is very symbolic to take a positive stance on cannabis in Korea, which is a drug-free region, so it will not change its position easily in the near future. But controversy about legalization of cannabis will continue, and I think it can be in someday.
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DeleteI agree with your point. Actually cannabis contains active ingredients that can make smokers experience euphoria. In Malaysia, cannabis is classified as a drug by Government of Malaysia. It is the most popular drugs among teenagers who involved in drugs. More and more cases were reported that cannabis smokers struggling to quit their habit. This is due to the use of cannabis is fun.
DeleteI agree with your point. It is less toxic than alcohol and tobacco! But my friend who came from US said cannabis can be the beginning of another drug. So he thought It should be classified as a drug. And I don't know how much people get hallucination after use cannabis. So we should listen from people who used before.
DeleteI think it's easier for celebrities who perform outside Korea to be exposed to cannabis. Because in the US their are some states that it's legal to smoke cannabis and artist misconceive smoking cannabis can help their inspiration.
Delete201334392// It is good post for me who have been curious about why cannabis is legal in some state and nations and illegal in some place. From the information and researches I sought, cannabis for leisure has lesser dependence and toxicity than alcohol and tobacco(cigarette). People said cannabis just makes people little bit happier, and I think alcohol and cigarette have same effect and even have worse result like cancer. I still can't understand why cannabis is illegal although ciga and alcohol are legal. Maybe the governments can't make ciga and alcohol illegal because already too many people are enjoying those.
DeleteYes, people may need some thing and some where like refuge where they can run away from all the stress, pressure and daily life easily. But I can't understand why ciga and alcohol which have higher dependence and toxicity are legal and cannabis which has lower dependence and toxicity is illegal.
This post helped me understand more what cannabis is. Before, I just thought that cannabis is toxic just as other drugs that are forbiddened. I did not know that cannabis is actually less toxic than caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol that almost every adult has experience with. However, cannabis is still classified as a drug and as mentioned in the post cannabis can be a gateway drug and may lead to drug abuse. As a result, I think all drugs has to be strictly managed and only those legal drugs should be used under doctors’ prescription.
DeleteThough the cannabis is legal in some country, in Korea, it is still illegal. Despite of prohibition of cannabis, there has been a constant problem. I think the problem constantly occurred because we've never responded strongly before. It is required strong confrontation. Aside from understanding their poor situation, something has to be done for this continuous situation.
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ReplyDeleteIn USA, The major news like CNN is in favor of Hilary and it seems that they are negative toward Trump, while Fox News is a conservative news agency and they mostly support Trump.
ReplyDeleteIn Korea, every thing he says is criticized and there are some exaggerated news about Trump. I think most of Korean news about Trump are reflective of CNN. Especially, they criticized his ways of talking and sexual remarks.
it is obvious many times he made some remarks that makes a specific person feel insulted but the other problem is that when the news about Trump is reported in Korea, their main focus tend to be on his bad personaltiy. In my opinion, major news is quite biased. I think seperately from his personaltiy, it is needed to look other side of his work too.
201334392// I agree with this post. This is because even if negative news about Trump is real, I hardly or never heard negative news about Hilary during election time. I watched a TV program about Trump's life but it was kabel tv not ground radio wave. Even if USA is not our nation, USA is one of biggest nations which have strong power and therefore which would have big effect on our nation, Korea. As a result, we need to know all points and opinions about USA and it's politic flow, and Korea's major broadcasting stations as KBS, MBC, SBS, EBS need to refer from multiple USA broadcasting stations not only one broadcasting station, CNN.
DeleteThe first nuclear power plant in Korea built in 1978, Kori Nuclear Power Plant No.1 in Busan, has been shut down after 40 years of power production. The Kori Nuclear Safety Commission (KCNR), the first nuclear power plant in Korea, and Korea's first permanent stationary nuclear power plant, The company said. As a result, KHNP will stop operation of Kori No.1 on the 19th from 19:00 and proceed with cooling of nuclear fuel. KHNP plans to start full-scale nuclear dismantling from 2022. Kori Unit 1 commenced commercial operation on April 29, 1978 and opened Korea's full-scale nuclear power generation era. The economic growth has supported the surging demand for electric power and has become a stepping stone to become an industrial country. Although the design life (30 years) has ended in June 2007, it has been extended for ten years after the maintenance and resident agreement. For the first time in Korea, there is a prospect that the government will be a sign of the government's policy of de-nuclearization with the outbreak of permanent suspension of nuclear power plants. President Moon pledged to shut down nuclear power plants that had reached the end of his life as candidates and cut nuclear power. However, if we shut down all nuclear power plants, we will develop and expand other power plants. I doubt it will be worth it.
ReplyDeleteAwarded as "Best Mobile App" a few years ago, Instagram has been stated one of the most influential social networks in the world. After its launch in 2010, Instagram rapidly gained popularity, with one million registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and ultimately 700 million as of April 2017. Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately. The name "Instagram" comes from the words "instant" and "telegram". It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010. The question is who owns the copyright of an Instagram image ? Actually, when users upload an image to Instagram, they do not forfeit their copyright. Instead, Instagram’s Terms of Use operate so as to give the social media platform a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free transferable, sub-licence to use the content. This means that Instagram can license images from the site to others. Hypothetically, Instagram’s Terms of Use enable the company to select images that users have posted on the site and sell them to a third-party marketing company. However, I will stil using Instagram to share moments with my friends and for safety, I do private the account and not easily approve request from other users unless I know them.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trumph, the President of the United States announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. I think this is an unwise decision and the reason that Trumph mentioned is also not very reasonable. Applying the “America First” ideology, Trumph said that the decision is in favor of the United States and to protect its people. It is true that the United States is paying the largest part of the compensation expenses for supporting developing countries. However, from the last few decades, the United States is the country with the highest carbon dioxide emissions. China may seem to be the one that is responsible for such high amount of carbon emission, the total amount of the US is much larger than that of China. Of course, it may seem that it is not fair for the United States to pay such large amount of money for the Accord. However, all countries including the US are responsible the carbon emission and fighting climate change is everyone’s responsibility. The withdrawal decision is being criticized not only by foreign countries but also by national citizens. Many global companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple are also opposing the decision. By withdrawing from the Agreement, the United States may decrease some expenses. However, in the long-term, the US may pay extra more money when climate change gets worse.
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ReplyDeleteTopic6 - Because United Air needed to board their late employee and there were no volunteer with compensation, United Air selected 4 passengers and United Air forcibly removed one man from the plane with blooding caused by policemen. In CNN and BBC news,I could only read that other passengers recalled it as a terrible incident and one sentence that the man who was removed was Chinese and a statement of Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Air. I even couldn't have thought thinking whether it is racism or not. However, Korean news and news written by Chinese told that the Chinese man shout them "Am I removed because I'm Chinese", and it's impossible to think that white woman to be removed forcibly and wounded from police. In addition, the Korean and news written by Chinese transmitted that many Chinese were upset because of the news, and 75% of white said police are using proper violence but only 33% of black agree with that.
Through the news, I can say that not everyone report same news. This is because each person and the broadcasting company have their view and opinion and these affect on editing and deciding what information would be contained. Writer choose how much of facts would be transmitted by news and what other information would be connected with news, so news can't be same.
As a result, after reading the news from CNN to Korean, I want to say the act of United Air is racism. Racism means discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity(Wikipedia). With confidence I can say if the Chinese man was not asian and a white, the police never pulled him violently even though he would act aggressively, also employees wouldn't let him out if white man said he was doctor and he had a patient to see. And other Chinese celeb said many Chinese are discriminated in USA. This incident shouldn't be forgotten easily and should be a carrier for making all of us to think about racism and also nonsense rules of boarding airplane.
Reference:
Deletehttp://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/10/travel/passenger-removed-united-flight-trnd/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39556910
http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/international/america/790171.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.kr/2017/04/12/story_n_15955516.html
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2017/04/11/2017041102256.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
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ReplyDelete2017. 05. 07, new president of France who named Emmanuel MACRON was elected. In France, it was exceptional circumstance because he was the fist president who was almost independent. His party 'En Marche' is almost newly emerging political party. But all the existing political parties (PS, LR, FN, FI) were completely defeated, a candidate of 'En Marche' was elected president. It can be shown as the effort of French society to prevent the fever of the extreme right.
After the election, a left-leaning newspaper, 'Le Figaro' carried an article <> in the press with his photo. However, the newspaper which has a strong tendency to favor the right wing, 'Liberation' just published an article <> with his photo. 'Le Monde', a middle-of-the-road newspaper, they wrote the headline with a quotation of Macron.
For the moment, they've taken care of the most urgent problem, but that's just the beginning. I think that the French choose Macron as avoiding the worst. According to the 'Liberation' report, the younger shouted for "ni de droite, ni de gauche" (no right, no left). This new president and party can propose solution to the French society, European society further.
*'Le Figaro' carried an article
Delete'Liberation' just published and article
* Actually, I expect for his trace in the future. The result of the election shows me a revolutionary spirit of the French and it was amazing. Surely, there has been many terrorist attack and it was one of the reason why many people change their direction to the right. But they are still on the alert, not to give up 'tolerance'.
*'Le Figaro', 'Well Played'
Delete'Liberation', 'Victory of En Marche'
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ReplyDeleteA longstanding war of words between Saudi Arabia and its oil and gas-rich neighbor Qatar has just exploded into open diplomatic warfare, threatening the US-led fight against ISIS and setting off a new wave of instability in the Gulf region. On Monday last week, Saudi Arabia and three of its biggest allies Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain all announced that they were severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, as well as suspending air, land, and sea travel to and from the country. The move came after Riyadh accused Qatar of backing radical Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS. Since then, Libya, Yemen, and the Maldives have also joined the diplomatic boycott. Qatar is one of the wealthiest countries on earth, but it’s going to feel the pain all the same because it relies heavily on its neighbors for trade and travel in and out of the region. The peninsular nation imports most of its food through its land border with Saudi, which is now closed. What should Qatar goverment to solve this problem? For me Qatar Government should fix the resumption of diplomatic relations so that the economy and the safety of people is ensured.