3.Few days ago, a student was assaulted by the teacher in a sexual way. That's why the case began. And there was a story that some students mocked the teacher in a uncomfortable way. I don't know what's going to happen in a few years. I think there's have to be limit between the student and teacher. And they have respect for each other. ------------------------- English teacher accused of sexual assault
By Park Si-soo Staff reporter
A native English teacher was detained on suspicion of raping a barmaid, police said Sunday.
According to police, an America citizen, a native English teacher at a private language institute, is accused of sexually assaulting a Korean barmaid in a public restroom of a building in Dunsan-dong, Daejeon, at 3 a.m. Saturday.
Police said the victim didn’t want the investigation to go further in exchange for compensation from the American.
Under the law, police investigations into a rape case can only continue with the victim’s approval, meaning that the probe must be halted.
But police will inform the American’s workplace of the case to hold the offender accountable for his crime.
Earlier, a British man working in Seoul as a native English teacher was caught using his camcorder-functioned cell phone to record images of women’s underwear at Gangnam subway station, southern Seoul.
The 28-year-old was confirmed to have worked as an English teacher at an elementary school in Mapo, Seoul, police said. Police found nearly 100 photos and two other video clips showing unidentified women’s underwear on his phone. --------- http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/117_70602.html
2. Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars
3. There are lots of homeless people in the world these days for losing their jobs or other personal reasons. And also, the number of this kind of person is increasing more and more. They are living without anything as human being. We can save them to raise them up again.
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4. The Bloomberg administration said Friday that the number of people living on New York’s streets and subways soared 34 percent in a year, signaling a setback in one of the city’s most intractable problems.
Appearing both startled and dismayed by the sharp increase, a year after a significant drop, administration officials attributed it to the recession, noting that city shelters for families and single adults had been inundated.
Robert V. Hess, the commissioner of homeless services, said in a subdued news conference that the city began feeling the increase in its vast shelter system more than two years ago. “And now we’re seeing the devastating effect of this unprecedented poor economy on our streets as well,” Mr. Hess said.
The city’s annual tally indicated an additional 783 homeless people on the streets and in the subway system, for a total of 3,111, up from 2,328 last year. That is in addition to almost 38,000 people living in shelters, which is near the city’s high.
The count came from an annual census of homeless people that is typically conducted on a cold January night, when more than 2,500 volunteers walk the streets and subway system between midnight and 4 a.m. to search for and identify the homeless. It took place this year on Jan. 25.
There were more homeless people found on the streets in every borough. The largest increase was in Brooklyn, where an additional 228 people were counted, more than double the total in January 2009. Manhattan had a 47 percent increase, or 368 more homeless people. In Staten Island, there was an increase of 45 percent, or 54 people; in Queens, a 14 percent increase, or 14 people; and in the Bronx, 6 percent, or 10 people.
Volunteers found 109 additional people — an increase of 11 percent — on subway trains and in stations.
Some of the homeless were found in out-of-the way corners in Queens and Staten Island.
New York officials said the city still had a relatively small population of homeless people on the streets when compared with other large American cities.
There is one homeless person for every 2,688 people in the general New York population, compared with 1 in 154 for Los Angeles, 1 in 1,810 for Chicago and 1 in 1,844 for Washington. Among other cities conducting homeless counts this year, only Seattle, which showed a slight decrease, has so far announced results.
Mr. Hess promised that there would be new measures to encourage more of the homeless to get off the streets and into shelters. In the next month, the city will open two new housing facilities with 105 beds. And street-outreach workers will survey people to help understand why they are homeless.
Mr. Hess said he wanted to allow more people to go directly from the street to a shelter bed without an intake process and to cut out some of the bureaucracy that deterred them from entering shelters.
3. As technology development is growing up, we can measure our life by new indicators. I think that one of those is smart phone. The number of smartphone users in Korea is about 10 million. It is about 1/5000 of total population. Although the over 60% percentage of users are accounted for 2-30 years old people, this is a important change of Korean society to understand their situation, especially young person. -------------------- The state media regulator said Thursday that the number of smartphone owners here exceeded 10 million people earlier this week, surging more than twelvefold from 800,000 in 2009.
The Korea Communications Commission said that a total of 10.02 million people used smartphones as of Wednesday, showing a sharp increase since the launch of Apple’s iPhone in Korea in November 2009.
From 800,000 in December 2009, the number of users rose to 2.47 million in June 2010 and to 7.22 million in December. It further increased to 9.26 million last month, topping the 10 million mark this week.
The KCC estimated that the number of smartphone owners will top 20 million by the year end.
Since the introduction of the iPhone here, local major handset makers such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have raced to join the competition.
The number of Korean smartphone users surpassed the 10-million mark this week.
Samsung rolled out its flagship smartphone Galaxy S, running on Google’s Android mobile operating system, in the second half of last year, while LG was slower to release its flagship smartphone, Optimus.
In 2010, Samsung and LG garnered a market share of 8.6 percent and 1.9 percent in the global smartphone market, respectively. A total of 45 different smart mobiles were released in the local market in the same year, the regulator said.
“Due to the wide use of smartphones, the functions of mobile phones have moved beyond only offering voice calls, which was their main function in the past, to making their position as a comprehensive service platform that enables the search of information involving transportation, games, finance and education,” said a KCC official.
According to a government survey, more than six out of every 10 people who owned smartphones were in their 20s and 30s, whereas 30 percent were in that age bracket for general phone users.
It was also found that over half of smartphone subscribers were under unlimited data usage plans, where a basic fee of 55,000 won applies every month, which contributed to the sharp rise in mobile data traffic.
Mobile data traffic was up more than 11 times to 5,463 terabytes last January, from 449 terabytes in January 2010, said the KCC.
The KCC said it will make further improvements to the smartphone payment plans and expand the number of affordable smartphones as well as make joint efforts with telecom firms and software developers for better mobile content in a bid to improve service for smartphone users.
By Cho Ji-hyun (sharon@heraldm.com) --------- http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110324000777
Committee Fails to Conclude on Extension of Retirement
As society becomes more aged and life expectency increases we have to consider how to take care of it and problems because of it especially some become jobless even though they can work more
A committee that's dedicated to create jobs for those from the baby-boomer generation has wrapped up its one-year operation without reaching a conclusion on legislating the official retirement age at 60 for workers.
Currently, each company sets its own age limit through agreements between management and unions.
The Committee on Employment Measures for Baby Boomers under the Economic and Social Development Commission on Wednesday wrapped up one year of research on the matter.
The tripartite committee, comprised of officials from the government, management and unions, agreed in general on the need to extend the retirement age in the face of aging society and low-birth rates, but failed to narrow differences on the schedules and methods for the legislation.
Labor groups insist the nation pass a law to extend the retirement age by 2013 to proactively address poverty and income gaps among senior citizens in the aging society.
However, the management wants a gradual extension of retirement age by improving the sonority-based wage system and easing the inflexibility in the labor market.
2. Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars
3. The number of homeless people in the world is increasing more and more as times goes by. They don't have any food, cloths and shelter to live as a human being. Even though we may not know who they are at all, we should help them to raise them up again to the world.
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4. The Bloomberg administration said Friday that the number of people living on New York’s streets and subways soared 34 percent in a year, signaling a setback in one of the city’s most intractable problems.
Appearing both startled and dismayed by the sharp increase, a year after a significant drop, administration officials attributed it to the recession, noting that city shelters for families and single adults had been inundated.
Robert V. Hess, the commissioner of homeless services, said in a subdued news conference that the city began feeling the increase in its vast shelter system more than two years ago. “And now we’re seeing the devastating effect of this unprecedented poor economy on our streets as well,” Mr. Hess said.
The city’s annual tally indicated an additional 783 homeless people on the streets and in the subway system, for a total of 3,111, up from 2,328 last year. That is in addition to almost 38,000 people living in shelters, which is near the city’s high.
The count came from an annual census of homeless people that is typically conducted on a cold January night, when more than 2,500 volunteers walk the streets and subway system between midnight and 4 a.m. to search for and identify the homeless. It took place this year on Jan. 25.
There were more homeless people found on the streets in every borough. The largest increase was in Brooklyn, where an additional 228 people were counted, more than double the total in January 2009. Manhattan had a 47 percent increase, or 368 more homeless people. In Staten Island, there was an increase of 45 percent, or 54 people; in Queens, a 14 percent increase, or 14 people; and in the Bronx, 6 percent, or 10 people.
Volunteers found 109 additional people — an increase of 11 percent — on subway trains and in stations.
Some of the homeless were found in out-of-the way corners in Queens and Staten Island.
A higher-than-usual concentration of homeless people have been recently seen in Pennsylvania Station. And a pocket of homeless men in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, appears to be new immigrants from Poland, trying to find work as day laborers.
The homeless population on the streets this year was down 29 percent from 2005, the first year of the count. The numbers had been steadily declining each year until the latest tally.
New York officials said the city still had a relatively small population of homeless people on the streets when compared with other large American cities.
There is one homeless person for every 2,688 people in the general New York population, compared with 1 in 154 for Los Angeles, 1 in 1,810 for Chicago and 1 in 1,844 for Washington. Among other cities conducting homeless counts this year, only Seattle, which showed a slight decrease, has so far announced results.
Mr. Hess promised that there would be new measures to encourage more of the homeless to get off the streets and into shelters. In the next month, the city will open two new housing facilities with 105 beds. And street-outreach workers will survey people to help understand why they are homeless.
Mr. Hess said he wanted to allow more people to go directly from the street to a shelter bed without an intake process and to cut out some of the bureaucracy that deterred them from entering shelters. ----------------------
3. Jungil Kim knows North Korean people don't like him. I think it's the reason that there is serious starving for a long time, but he doesn't care much. Why doesn't he change his political style?
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SEOUL, (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told a visiting businessman he had nightmares of being stoned by angry members of the public in his isolated nation, a Seoul lawmaker said in an interview aired Sunday.
Kim told the late founder of the Hyundai group, Chung Ju-Yung, of having a dream that he was being stoned "first by Americans, second by South Koreans and finally by North Koreans," said Chung's son, Grand National Party lawmaker Chung Mong-Joon.
"I think Kim wanted to express that he was well aware of the desperate reality of North Korea," the younger Chung said in the interview with MBC TV. He said he had heard the story from his father, who died in 2001.
The late South Korean business tycoon, who spearheaded major inter-Korea economic cooperation projects, visited Pyongyang several times from 1998 to 2000 to meet Kim.
In one of the meetings, Kim told Chung he was "well aware" that most people in the communist state disliked him, despite pervasive propaganda campaigns that idolise the ruling Kim family, according to Chung's son.
The Kim dynasty has ruled the North with an iron fist since its founding in 1948, sending political dissidents to prison camps where they reportedly face torture and forced labour that can last a lifetime.
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.What do the teachers do for students?
3.Few days ago, a student was assaulted by the teacher in a sexual way. That's why the case began. And there was a story that some students mocked the teacher in a uncomfortable way. I don't know what's going to happen in a few years. I think there's have to be limit between the student and teacher. And they have respect for each other.
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English teacher accused of sexual assault
By Park Si-soo
Staff reporter
A native English teacher was detained on suspicion of raping a barmaid, police said Sunday.
According to police, an America citizen, a native English teacher at a private language institute, is accused of sexually assaulting a Korean barmaid in a public restroom of a building in Dunsan-dong, Daejeon, at 3 a.m. Saturday.
Police said the victim didn’t want the investigation to go further in exchange for compensation from the American.
Under the law, police investigations into a rape case can only continue with the victim’s approval, meaning that the probe must be halted.
But police will inform the American’s workplace of the case to hold the offender accountable for his crime.
Earlier, a British man working in Seoul as a native English teacher was caught using his camcorder-functioned cell phone to record images of women’s underwear at Gangnam subway station, southern Seoul.
The 28-year-old was confirmed to have worked as an English teacher at an elementary school in Mapo, Seoul, police said. Police found nearly 100 photos and two other video clips showing unidentified women’s underwear on his phone.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/117_70602.html
1. Jaewoo Sung
ReplyDelete2. Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars
3. There are lots of homeless people in the world these days for losing their jobs or other personal reasons. And also, the number of this kind of person is increasing more and more. They are living without anything as human being. We can save them to raise them up again.
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4. The Bloomberg administration said Friday that the number of people living on New York’s streets and subways soared 34 percent in a year, signaling a setback in one of the city’s most intractable problems.
Appearing both startled and dismayed by the sharp increase, a year after a significant drop, administration officials attributed it to the recession, noting that city shelters for families and single adults had been inundated.
Robert V. Hess, the commissioner of homeless services, said in a subdued news conference that the city began feeling the increase in its vast shelter system more than two years ago. “And now we’re seeing the devastating effect of this unprecedented poor economy on our streets as well,” Mr. Hess said.
The city’s annual tally indicated an additional 783 homeless people on the streets and in the subway system, for a total of 3,111, up from 2,328 last year. That is in addition to almost 38,000 people living in shelters, which is near the city’s high.
The count came from an annual census of homeless people that is typically conducted on a cold January night, when more than 2,500 volunteers walk the streets and subway system between midnight and 4 a.m. to search for and identify the homeless. It took place this year on Jan. 25.
There were more homeless people found on the streets in every borough. The largest increase was in Brooklyn, where an additional 228 people were counted, more than double the total in January 2009. Manhattan had a 47 percent increase, or 368 more homeless people. In Staten Island, there was an increase of 45 percent, or 54 people; in Queens, a 14 percent increase, or 14 people; and in the Bronx, 6 percent, or 10 people.
Volunteers found 109 additional people — an increase of 11 percent — on subway trains and in stations.
Some of the homeless were found in out-of-the way corners in Queens and Staten Island.
New York officials said the city still had a relatively small population of homeless people on the streets when compared with other large American cities.
There is one homeless person for every 2,688 people in the general New York population, compared with 1 in 154 for Los Angeles, 1 in 1,810 for Chicago and 1 in 1,844 for Washington. Among other cities conducting homeless counts this year, only Seattle, which showed a slight decrease, has so far announced results.
Mr. Hess promised that there would be new measures to encourage more of the homeless to get off the streets and into shelters. In the next month, the city will open two new housing facilities with 105 beds. And street-outreach workers will survey people to help understand why they are homeless.
Mr. Hess said he wanted to allow more people to go directly from the street to a shelter bed without an intake process and to cut out some of the bureaucracy that deterred them from entering shelters.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/nyregion/20homeless.html?_r=1&ref=homelesspersons
1. Yeo Min Sook
ReplyDelete2. Popularization of smartphone
3. As technology development is growing up, we can measure our life by new indicators. I think that one of those is smart phone. The number of smartphone users in Korea is about 10 million. It is about 1/5000 of total population. Although the over 60% percentage of users are accounted for 2-30 years old people, this is a important change of Korean society to understand their situation, especially young person.
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The state media regulator said Thursday that the number of smartphone owners here exceeded 10 million people earlier this week, surging more than twelvefold from 800,000 in 2009.
The Korea Communications Commission said that a total of 10.02 million people used smartphones as of Wednesday, showing a sharp increase since the launch of Apple’s iPhone in Korea in November 2009.
From 800,000 in December 2009, the number of users rose to 2.47 million in June 2010 and to 7.22 million in December. It further increased to 9.26 million last month, topping the 10 million mark this week.
The KCC estimated that the number of smartphone owners will top 20 million by the year end.
Since the introduction of the iPhone here, local major handset makers such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have raced to join the competition.
The number of Korean smartphone users surpassed the 10-million mark this week.
Samsung rolled out its flagship smartphone Galaxy S, running on Google’s Android mobile operating system, in the second half of last year, while LG was slower to release its flagship smartphone, Optimus.
In 2010, Samsung and LG garnered a market share of 8.6 percent and 1.9 percent in the global smartphone market, respectively. A total of 45 different smart mobiles were released in the local market in the same year, the regulator said.
“Due to the wide use of smartphones, the functions of mobile phones have moved beyond only offering voice calls, which was their main function in the past, to making their position as a comprehensive service platform that enables the search of information involving transportation, games, finance and education,” said a KCC official.
According to a government survey, more than six out of every 10 people who owned smartphones were in their 20s and 30s, whereas 30 percent were in that age bracket for general phone users.
It was also found that over half of smartphone subscribers were under unlimited data usage plans, where a basic fee of 55,000 won applies every month, which contributed to the sharp rise in mobile data traffic.
Mobile data traffic was up more than 11 times to 5,463 terabytes last January, from 449 terabytes in January 2010, said the KCC.
The KCC said it will make further improvements to the smartphone payment plans and expand the number of affordable smartphones as well as make joint efforts with telecom firms and software developers for better mobile content in a bid to improve service for smartphone users.
By Cho Ji-hyun (sharon@heraldm.com)
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ReplyDeleteCommittee Fails to Conclude on Extension of Retirement
As society becomes more aged and life expectency increases we have to consider how to take care of it and problems because of it especially some become jobless even though they can work more
A committee that's dedicated to create jobs for those from the baby-boomer generation has wrapped up its one-year operation without reaching a conclusion on legislating the official retirement age at 60 for workers.
Currently, each company sets its own age limit through agreements between management and unions.
The Committee on Employment Measures for Baby Boomers under the Economic and Social Development Commission on Wednesday wrapped up one year of research on the matter.
The tripartite committee, comprised of officials from the government, management and unions, agreed in general on the need to extend the retirement age in the face of aging society and low-birth rates, but failed to narrow differences on the schedules and methods for the legislation.
Labor groups insist the nation pass a law to extend the retirement age by 2013 to proactively address poverty and income gaps among senior citizens in the aging society.
However, the management wants a gradual extension of retirement age by improving the sonority-based wage system and easing the inflexibility in the labor market.
Write 2011-03-27 12:46:39
1. Jaewoo Sung
ReplyDelete2. Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars
3. The number of homeless people in the world is increasing more and more as times goes by. They don't have any food, cloths and shelter to live as a human being. Even though we may not know who they are at all, we should help them to raise them up again to the world.
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4. The Bloomberg administration said Friday that the number of people living on New York’s streets and subways soared 34 percent in a year, signaling a setback in one of the city’s most intractable problems.
Appearing both startled and dismayed by the sharp increase, a year after a significant drop, administration officials attributed it to the recession, noting that city shelters for families and single adults had been inundated.
Robert V. Hess, the commissioner of homeless services, said in a subdued news conference that the city began feeling the increase in its vast shelter system more than two years ago. “And now we’re seeing the devastating effect of this unprecedented poor economy on our streets as well,” Mr. Hess said.
The city’s annual tally indicated an additional 783 homeless people on the streets and in the subway system, for a total of 3,111, up from 2,328 last year. That is in addition to almost 38,000 people living in shelters, which is near the city’s high.
The count came from an annual census of homeless people that is typically conducted on a cold January night, when more than 2,500 volunteers walk the streets and subway system between midnight and 4 a.m. to search for and identify the homeless. It took place this year on Jan. 25.
There were more homeless people found on the streets in every borough. The largest increase was in Brooklyn, where an additional 228 people were counted, more than double the total in January 2009. Manhattan had a 47 percent increase, or 368 more homeless people. In Staten Island, there was an increase of 45 percent, or 54 people; in Queens, a 14 percent increase, or 14 people; and in the Bronx, 6 percent, or 10 people.
Volunteers found 109 additional people — an increase of 11 percent — on subway trains and in stations.
Some of the homeless were found in out-of-the way corners in Queens and Staten Island.
A higher-than-usual concentration of homeless people have been recently seen in Pennsylvania Station. And a pocket of homeless men in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, appears to be new immigrants from Poland, trying to find work as day laborers.
The homeless population on the streets this year was down 29 percent from 2005, the first year of the count. The numbers had been steadily declining each year until the latest tally.
New York officials said the city still had a relatively small population of homeless people on the streets when compared with other large American cities.
There is one homeless person for every 2,688 people in the general New York population, compared with 1 in 154 for Los Angeles, 1 in 1,810 for Chicago and 1 in 1,844 for Washington. Among other cities conducting homeless counts this year, only Seattle, which showed a slight decrease, has so far announced results.
Mr. Hess promised that there would be new measures to encourage more of the homeless to get off the streets and into shelters. In the next month, the city will open two new housing facilities with 105 beds. And street-outreach workers will survey people to help understand why they are homeless.
Mr. Hess said he wanted to allow more people to go directly from the street to a shelter bed without an intake process and to cut out some of the bureaucracy that deterred them from entering shelters.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/nyregion/20homeless.html?_r=1&ref=homelesspersons
1. Seri Yeo
ReplyDelete2. N. Korea's Kim Jong-Il 'dreamed of stoning'
3. Jungil Kim knows North Korean people don't like him. I think it's the reason that there is serious starving for a long time, but he doesn't care much. Why doesn't he change his political style?
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SEOUL, (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told a visiting businessman he had nightmares of being stoned by angry members of the public in his isolated nation, a Seoul lawmaker said in an interview aired Sunday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (Yonhap News)
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Kim told the late founder of the Hyundai group, Chung Ju-Yung, of having a dream that he was being stoned "first by Americans, second by South Koreans and finally by North Koreans," said Chung's son, Grand National Party lawmaker Chung Mong-Joon.
"I think Kim wanted to express that he was well aware of the desperate reality of North Korea," the younger Chung said in the interview with MBC TV. He said he had heard the story from his father, who died in 2001.
The late South Korean business tycoon, who spearheaded major inter-Korea economic cooperation projects, visited Pyongyang several times from 1998 to
2000 to meet Kim.
In one of the meetings, Kim told Chung he was "well aware" that most people in the communist state disliked him, despite pervasive propaganda campaigns that idolise the ruling Kim family, according to Chung's son.
The Kim dynasty has ruled the North with an iron fist since its founding in 1948, sending political dissidents to prison camps where they reportedly face torture and forced labour that can last a lifetime.