week 14

1. Lim Jung Kwan.

2. orphan

3. There are many orphan in Korea society, because of economy problems, unfulfill sex education, and divorce. So in schools, there are many orphans, but if person or student know their friends are orphan, they avoid and discriminate them. It is very serious problem. Because Orphan doesn't want they become orphan. It's not their choice. I think we must not discriminate and tease thing that they can't choice. So we should respect their personal right.

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5. In a perfect world, there would be no orphans. Every single one of the world's 2.2 billion children would be doted upon by their parents. And every day would be like May 5 in South Korea when nearly 8 million kids are sure to be spoiled on the national holiday set aside as Children's Day.

But obviously we do not live in a perfect world. There are currently 143-210 million displaced children worldwide, and nearly 15 million who will ``age out" of the adoption system and consequently lose their chances of finding a home. And the excruciating reality is that these kids are innocent victims of social ills induced by adults, which is why we have a communal responsibility to care about it.

In Korea alone, there are nearly 10,000 new-born babies every year who are abandoned for various reasons, and only 3,900 of them are adopted into new homes. One may naively assume there would be very few neglected children in the prosperous modern Korea, or at least none being sent abroad. Inarguably, there has been a declining rate in overseas adoptions in the recent years, but this is only due to a precipitous drop in the Korean birth rate. Still, roughly one of 250 Korean children is adopted into an American family.

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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/12/168_65267.html

week 13

1. Jung-Kwan Lim

2. game addict

3. On these days, there are many computer games and many of them are very interesting. So if people who play computer games do not control themselves in playing games, they can be addict. But the important thing is when they are addicted then they cannot recognize what is reality and what is game. The addicted think that if people are dead, it's not serious problem because they revive after few second like a game. So there are many case of murders that youth did. It is serious problem. So government made addict clinics cure addict. But number of clinic are insufficient. So we must make many clinic and cure the addicted.

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5. A middle-school teen strangled his mother to death for forbidding him to play computer games and then committed suicide. A while ago, a game addict in his 20s killed his mother with a knife. Another compulsive game player in his 30s died after playing games nonstop for five days without a decent meal.

A runaway couple was arrested five months after they allowed their three-month-old infant to starve to death while they played online games. The couple sometimes went on with game-playing for 12 hours and ignored their crying baby. When they finally pulled themselves away from playing, they fed her spoiled milk. The couple had met on the Internet. All these monstrous crimes took place this year.

Internet or game addiction is not just a misguided indulgence or amusement. It can lead to grave social illnesses and problems. Recent medical studies discovered that Internet addiction can led to mental disorders and a lack of constraint, numbing physical senses as much as overdosing on drugs and alcohol. Teenagers are particularly vulnerable to external arousal and excited feelings resulting from violent Internet games.

Addictions developed at a young age can lead to serious repercussions. Obsessive computer use can take a toll on the body and the mind, robbing it of valuable experiences and opportunities in social and character building and education. The development of a mature and confident member of society can be at risk.

A recent survey showed about 1 million, or 14.3 percent of the country’s teen population, had symptoms of Internet addiction, more than double the 6.3 percent addiction rate among those in their 20s and 30s. What’s more worrisome is that those at risk are growing and becoming younger every year.

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7. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2928614

week 12

1. Jung-Kwan Lim

2. learning English method

3. How long have you been learning English? Most of university students have been learning English at least 10years. But they do not speak and listen English well.

Why this situation continues? I think that there are 2 reasons. One is too much academic tendency and the other is teaching method. Firstly too much academic tendency can be obstacle to learning English. Because students think English is difficult and feel afraid about English. So teachers should make students feel comfortable about English when teaching it. Secondly teaching method can be obstacle. Because in Korea, Most of school force students to learn vocabulary by rote. But because of this compelling method, student's lose their interest. We must make new teaching method ,so that students enjoy learning English.

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5. At one school in Korea, learning English isn’t just about memorizing vocabulary and practicing test questions. Here, the play’s the thing.

Teachers, students and around 400 audience members gathered in the auditorium of Taegu Foreign Language High School, a public boarding school in Daegu, for the second annual TFLHS English Play Festival July 6-7. In the festival, 18 plays - nine productions each for first- and second-year students - competed for trophies and prizes that were awarded by the school principal, Choi Sung-hwan.

First-year student Che Da-jeong remarked that the crowd made the performers nervous, especially because it was larger than expected.

“Even though I was prepared, I was very nervous,” she said. “The crowd was so big.”

Despite her nerves, Che delivered an excellent performance, which earned her the Best Actress award for her grade. She says that she has learned a lot from the experience.

“I learned some idioms and could practice my pronunciation,” Che said. “I also enjoyed the chance to improve my teamwork.”

The theater festival was started in 2009 by this writer and William Chiang, both English teachers, as a project and performance test for their English conversation classes. First-year students were given 10-minute scripts to perform, while second-year students, who participated in the festival last year, wrote and produced their own 10-minute plays. Chiang and this writer selected the top one or two productions from each class to compete in the festival. The students have been working on this project for the last three months.

Chiang, an American who has been teaching in Daegu for nearly four years, says that the two teachers conceived the festival as a way for students to develop their language, time management and cooperative skills in a group project, while also improving their confidence in English speaking.

Second-year students also “learned how to write dialogue and learned the flow of a play-the structure,” Chiang says.

Second-year student Hwang Su-in, who won the Best Actress award for her grade, noted the difference between acting in a play and writing her own play for performance.

“Last year we just got the scripts and followed along, but this year we could write what we want,” she explained. “It was our own play, so we could enjoy it more.”

First-year student Hong Jun-hyeok, who won Best Actor for his grade, said that the greatest reward an actor can receive is to communicate with an audience.

“Thinking about the crowd having fun because of me and my acting made me really proud of myself,” he says. “It made all the preparation meaningful.”

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7. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2923238

week 11

1. Jung-Kwan Lim

2. Why students do not accept minority?

3.Almost schools have similar policies. It means almost students have similar thinking. For example they don't want students who have bisexuality in their school. If such a person is, they disregard, exclude and humiliate him. Is it right to disregard person because he has different thinking or sexuality? So what is right and where it comes from? I think biased thinking is the result by being educated by persons who think right thing is a majority opinion not minority. But what if they are wrong? Is it desirable to think a majority opinion is always right? No, everyone could have different thinking and that thinking must not be ignored. Few weeks ago there was a students who kill himself, because his homosexuality is revealed on internet. When his homosexuality had been revealed, everyone have criticized and jeered him. This thinking must be changed. To do that school's educational policies must be improved.

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5. Homophobia was rampant. Bullies were “pretty relentless,” he says, recalling that on his first day there, a girl walked up to him and asked, “Are you a faggot? No offense.” Eventually his parents pulled him out of the school.

Looking directly at the camera, Mr. Stowell, now 22, then says three words that he wants isolated gay, lesbian and transgender teenagers to hear: “It got better.”

Thousands of people like Mr. Stowell have posted personal testimonies to YouTube in an online campaign titled “It Gets Better” that has, in Internet parlance, “gone viral” in the four weeks since it started. The campaign is intended to help gay teenagers who feel isolated and who may be contemplating suicide, and it coincides with a rash of recent news stories about bullying and the suicides of gay teenagers and young adults.

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7.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/19video.html?_r=1&scp=11&sq=youth&st=cse

week 10

1. Jung-Kwan Lim

2. turnout of voters

3. There were many demonstration in korea. Especially in 1980 university students are against president. In this time, university students very concerned about politics and social atmosphere. They voluntarily participated demonstration and also held. It means that students are interested in society. But nowadays almost students doesn't care about society. They just take interest in their concern such as entertainer, games, their friends and etc. So people who have power don't care about students, when they make a policy. This problem are made by ourselves. But there is a easy way to solve this problem. Just vote! If you vote with your thought, voting for whomever is of little important. A country belongs to the people. So if you want to be the people, you must exercise your right.

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5. President Obama will continue his attempts to engage younger voters this week, holding a rally with a musical guest, the Roots, in Philadelphia on Sunday and a town-hall-style meeting on MTV on Thursday. Younger voters were among the Democrats’ strongest supporters in 2008, and they have the highest approval ratings of the president. But in the last two midterm elections, only one in four people under age 30 voted, about half the rate for recent presidential elections. And, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center in September, young Democrats are currently even less engaged than they were in 2006.

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7.http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/the-elusive-youth-vote/?scp=4&sq=youth&st=cse

week 9

1. Jung-Kwan Lim

2. sex eduaction.

3. Nowadays before 20years old, students are having sex relationship with other students. Because of this an irresponsible conduct, there are many bad results such as unwanted pregnancy, dropout. We cannot prohibit all youth sex relationship. But I think these bad result could be prevented. For example school have to teach the right sex and contraception.

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5. Debate regarding the teaching of sex education in school has been ongoing, with the recent comment from the teacher`s union saying that teachers are not trained to teach sex education.

I agree with both the need for sex education in school and also the reservation of teaching sex education. I disagree, however, that sex education will lead to more premarital sex. But poor handling of the subject can lead to students being exposed to half-truths that can be detrimental.

How can we approach sex education in schools? First, we can introduce a half-weekly counselling office in all secondary schools staffed by a qualified nurse trained in counselling adolescents.

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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100305000030

week 6

1. Jung-Kwan Lim

2. Cyberbullying

3. Nowadays young people are easily exposed to harmful media. Indiscriminately harmful material on the Internet that appears to threaten the safety of children are. But it was not strongly sanctioned so many damages occur. Previously many warnings that threaten emotion of youth are reported but we neglect them. Now that we know seriousness of the situation, we should make the policy to protect youth.

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5. Cyberbullying is an imprecise label for online activities ranging from barrages of teasing texts to sexually harassing group sites. The extent of the phenomenon is hard to quantify. But one 2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, an organization founded by two criminologists who defined bullying as "willful and repeated harm” inflicted through phones and computers, said one in five middle-school students had been affected.

Its amorphous nature and the rapidly changing technological landscape have made it difficult for schools and even the courts to address the cyberbullying. Few families in Long Island, for instance, were aware of Formspring, a site where users invite anonymous questions or comments, until after the March 2010 suicide of a 17-year-old West Islip soccer player who had received many nasty messages.

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7.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cyberbullying/index.html?scp=6&sq=teenage%20suicide&st=cse