#7 Languages

     Speaking many languages became important in today's age of globalization. Some people say Korea need to use another official language to have advantage over the other countries. However, Korea should not have any other official language because it is unnecessary, brings enormous expense, harms culture and history.

     Korea does not need another official language because they has own language and type generally used in Korea. While some people may say counrtys that have more than one official language got economic benefits, Korea should use only one official language. The dictionary definition of official language is the language or one of the languages that is accepted by a country's government, is taught in schools and used in the courts of law. In Korea, all of people use Korean for their communication, education and everywhere. A country which uses several different languages might need to use more than one of official language. But Korea does not need any more official language because they have their general used language.

     Another reason Korea should not have any other official language is choosing another official language causes enormous economic cost and time. While some people may think choosing another official language can improve people's ability at another language and it could connect to economic beneficial, it should cost more in the long run than economic development. For example, Japan tried to adopt another official language but they withdrawn that agenda after analysis about economic costs. Adopting another official language is not simple. We should keep one official language like now rather than choosing another language.

     Finally, Korea should have just one official language because a country's language contains own culture and history must not destroyed. Korea has own historical language, Hangeul. It does not mean only a language but also contains Korea's own history and spirit. Hangeul also contains many cultural elements. It can connects Koreans together just they uses Hangeul. Choosing another official language should harm this cultural and historical environment, thus Korea must not have any other official language.

     The fact that choosing another official language is needless, expensive and it hurts culture and history show that we do not have to consider about another official language. Korea does not need to choose any other official language thus other languages have well educated would suffice.

#6 Innovation

  What innovation do you think that has had biggest impact on you? Certainly one of them might be 'Smart Phone'. The first smart phone named Simon was invented by IBM in 1992. It had calendar, address books, calculator, notepad, fax features and had on-screen keyboard that can input text to make a phone instead of press the button. It also had touch screens for exploring. Since then smart phone not only had changed the meaning of phone, but also had has bring enormous changes in daily life of people all over the world.


  Smart phone is a great innovation because it removed boundary between cellular phone and computer. Could people imagine surfing internet by phone decades ago? But we can do it now. We search information, shop things, send e-mail by using internet in our smart phone. We can save our data in the smart phone like as computer too.


   Smart phone is an important invention because it has become an essential component in our daily life. Nowadays we will feel hard to imagine life without smart phone. Almost everything we need in our daily life is done by smart phone. We use smart phone to watch TV, take photos and listen music and even if for banking service. Everything can be done with this one device. Smart phone is like our secretary too. It manages our schedule, give us wake-up call, make a note and even analyze our sleep cycles such as a secretary.


  Smart phone has become an indispensable part of our lives. It is like a personal portable computer. New devices and remarkable functions released everyday. In future, the use of smart phone will become larger at the part that we cannot imagine now.

Essay #1- Rewrite

Bona Kim


Prof. Kyle Brebner


IERW(03)


11 November 2015

 

 Between Despair and Hope - Frida Kahlo

 

    Frida Kahlo was born with despair but sublimated the pain into art. Considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Frida Kahlo had suffered many privations through life. She had several serious injuries and they influenced not only to her life, but also to her world of art. Most of her paintings are self-portraits because she tried to observe and express the hurt inner side by paints. Even if Kahlo suffered she did not only despondent of her destiny but also had strong will to live. The Wounded Deer (1946) is one of Kahlo’s works that shows Kahlo’s inner side clearly. The paint expressed her severe pain through various descriptions. But inside there she included symbols of hope and will thus give us positive messages. The reason that the paint is impressive is it gives us both of sympathy of pain and consolation.


 

The Wounded Deer (1946)

 

 

    The Wounded Deer was created when Kahlo had intense deterioration of her health. There is a young deer with the head of Kahlo. The deer seems to mean herself. The deer is alone at the forest fatally wounded by arrows. The background is dead trees and broken branches. Far away is storm and thunder over the sea. All of conditions seem hopeless and pessimistic. Kahlo tried to describe conditions surrounded her by that paint. In 1946 Kahlo had on operation on her spine. She hoped her spine gets better with the surgery but it was unsuccessful. Kahlo suffered both the physical pain and emotional depression. Her suffered heart and fear revealed through that deer. Arrows that penetrated deer’s body and made it bleeding means Kahlo’s intense pain. She was certainly frightened and desperate as the deer. 

 

    Although the painting looks like of described sadness, there seem some hopeful and willed symbolic representations that looks like try to show us there still exists hope. First of all, Kahlo’s eyes are still sharp sighted even though she is bleeding. It seems like she tells she is terribly suffering but she will never give up her live and endure all hardships. Second thing is storm and thunder over the blue sea. It looks like another trouble is coming but at the same time can mean they brings some big positive change that she did not noticed yet.


    The reason ‘The Wounded Deer’ appealing is it makes us sympathize about the sadness but also makes feel hope inside that. Because of her physical and emotional suffering, Kahlo used to observe her own inner side mentality by mirror and express it through the paints. ‘The Wounded Deer’ appears just describe her pain and sadness but look in detail soon can find her strong will and hope. It teaches what is the real suffer means to people who are accustomed to feel like painful. Most people tend to give up everything when they are faced to insuperable problem. But in this paint, even though all of the hardships surrounded her, the deer keeps a stiff upper lip. Even she seems to can overcome conditions any minute. We can consoled by this paint as comparing our sadness with Kahlo’s. Are you oppressed with sadness? Are you under suffering now? See that deer and think you could overcome all the hard conditions surround you. It will surely heal and encourage you.

 

 

Reference

Photo : ‘The Wounded Deer’ from Google

Frida Kahlo : from Naver Encyclopedia

 

 

#5 Reducing Garbage: The Effective Solution for Ensuring a Sustainable Future

     Our various lives in affluent society leave huge amounts of trash. The abundance of everything leads to increase of waste. Too much waste has become a severe threat to our sustainable future. Dumping of wastes causes two serious problems to our environment: soil pollution and water pollution. But we can bring about significant change by our small daily habits. Reducing garbage can prevent these harmful results. Reducing garbage is one of the easiest and most effective things we can do for sustainable future.

 

     The first effect of reducing garbage is making less pollution of soil. Soil pollution may not sound serious, but it is one of most terrible pollution of modern society. We produced large amounts of trash every day. Most of this trash had been buried in landfill. Although soil has purification ability by itself, huge amounts of trash exceeded soil’s capacity thus it makes vicious circle of pollution. We just need little efforts in daily life to reducing garbage. Such as reducing use of disposable product, using less paper and separating the recyclables from the garbage can make soil pollution become less and less.

 

     Reducing garbage is beneficial to water environment too. About 70% of water pollution is caused by everyday wastes. The biggest cause of water pollution in our daily life is producing of food waste. The landfills in many cities are already full so we had been dumped our food waste at sea because it costs just 1/10 than disposal cost over the ground. But it caused serious harmful effect to water environment. Conditions look like so terrible but we just need to produce less food waste to save water environment. It is not hard to do but effective.


     Reducing garbage could be an effective solution for our sustainable future. It makes soil and water―part of our most important resource―safely. Additionally reducing garbage can bring enormous economic benefits. The cost of the refuse disposal of the world is astronomical day after day. If we try to reduce waste together we can get not only economic benefits but also our sustainable future. It is most useful and simple method to ensure sustainable future.