3. This article shows us discovery of some people who is the happiest man in America. How can we select the happiest person? Each person has different standard to define how happy they are. For this reason, this article makes us interesting.
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4. For the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected American adults each day and asked them about their emotional status, work satisfaction, eating habits, illnesses, stress levels and other indicators of their quality of life. It’s part of an effort to measure the components of “the good life.” The responses are plugged into a formula, called the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, and then sorted by geographic area and other demographic criteria. The accompanying maps show where well-being is highest and lowest around the country.
The New York Times asked Gallup to come up with a statistical composite for the happiest person in America, based on the characteristics that most closely correlated with happiness in 2010. Men, for example, tend to be happier than women, older people are happier than middle-aged people, and so on.
Gallup’s answer: he’s a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, lives in Hawaii, runs his own business and has a household income of more than $120,000 a year. A few phone calls later and ...
Meet Alvin Wong. He is a 5-foot-10, 69-year-old, Chinese-American, Kosher-observing Jew, who’s married with children and lives in Honolulu. He runs his own health care management business and earns more than $120,000 a year.
Reached by phone at his home on Friday (and referred to The Times by a local synagogue), Mr. Wong said that he was indeed a very happy person. He said that perhaps he manages to be the happiest man in America because “my life philosophy is, if you can’t laugh at yourself, life is going to be pretty terrible for you.”
3. In an article last February 28 said the government is reportedly considering raising the average retirement age to 60 from the current average of 57 (http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110228000804). In this way we are handling an aging society not only use the elderly employment but also support family having more two children. In spite of these effort, we will be world's most aged country in 2050. I think this will change the structure of industry in Korea and we preparing for economic problem. --------------------------- 4. Seniors to make up 38% of population
Research forecast Monday that Korea will become the world’s most aged society by 2050, raising an urgent need to prepare a safety net for the elderly and cope with a shrinking labor force.
People aged 65 or older are predicted to make up 38.2 percent of Korea’s total population in 2050, according to the report by the Korea Institute of Finance, more than tripled compared with 11 percent last year.
Based on the United Nations’ standard, the country will become an aged society in 2018 and a super-aged society in 2026, in which people aged 65 or older account for more than 14 percent and 20 percent of the total population, respectively.
That means it would take Korea eight years to change from aged to super-aged, far faster than other advanced countries such as France with 39 years, the U.S. with 21 years and Japan with 12 years.
The state-run think tank estimated the average life expectancy of Koreans at 83.5, compared with 82.6 of Japan, 81.5 of France and 78.4 of the U.S., as seen in World Bank data.
The speedy demographic transformation could hurt the country’s future economy and already fragile safety net for elderly provisions, the report noted.
“The changes in social structure accompanied by rapid aging could dwindle Korea’s growth potential,” it said.
“There is also a strong possibility that it may weigh on the country’s fiscal health,” the report said.
The Korea Development Institute forecast the nation’s potential growth rate to fall to 0.74 percent in the 2040s, down from 4.56 percent from 2003-2013, due to a reduction in workforce and capital flows.
The government’s total expenditure is expected to go up 37 percent in 2020 from 2008 because of increased social security spending, but tax revenue would grow only about 15 percent for the same period, the National Assembly Budget Office reported earlier.
But Korea would see service sectors arise as the graying population creates new demand for asset management, health care, travel, security and other products, KIF said.
By Shin Hyon-hee (heeshin@heraldm.com) ------------------------------- http://www.koreaherald.com/business/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110328000884
3.From a long time ago, there's one problem which can't be solved easily. That is a unemployment. This problem have been getting a serious problem. Solving this problem isn't easy for government, I think. ------------------ 4.South Korea has emerged as one of the world's fastest recovering economies from the worldwide economic crisis over the past year. But its job market still remains in a deep slump, keeping low- and middle-income households here from enjoying the ongoing rebound. University graduates, women, temporary workers and small-business owners have been hit particularly hard by sluggish corporate investment and private consumption. The government estimates about 1.2 million Koreans are out of work, but in reality, more than three million individuals are "practically" jobless as they have given up looking for work, or are studying or undergoing vocational training for employment. This means that the official jobless number is much lower than the actual number of Koreans seeking jobs. Analysts here say that the real labor market is in worse shape than official statistics suggest. A growing number of individuals who abandoned their job search are going back to school or taking temporary positions. They say it will take more time for the job market to recover to the pre-crisis level as companies will begin hiring new workers only after witnessing a visible economic rebound. According to Statistics Korea, the number of jobless in the nation stood at 1.21 million in January, up from 848,000 a year earlier, with the rate soaring to 5 percent from 3.6 percent. The figure was the largest since February 2000 when 1.22 million Koreans were unemployed. But if the "practically" jobless - individuals giving up their job search, undergoing vocational training or working fewer than 17 hours a week - are included in the statistics, the jobless rate reached 10.36 percent, the highest since January 2000 when it was 10.75 percent, following the bursting of the information technology (IT) bubble. The January figure was even higher than the 7.86 percent of December 2008 when the nation was grappling with the international financial market meltdown. Additionally, Korea's seasonally adjusted jobless rate reached 4.8 percent in January, up from 3.6 percent in December 2009, marking the highest increase among the 22 OECD member economies. Ireland came in second with its month-on-month unemployed rate jumping by 0.5 percentage point, followed by Hungary and the Czech Republic. But in the United States, the jobless rate fell to 9.7 percent in January from 10 percent the previous month. "The official jobless number is rather meaningless here because many physically capable Koreans have become economically inactive against their will amid the tight job market. "The gap between the official jobless figure and the real job market conditions in Korea is much wider than those of other major economies," LG Economic Research Institute economist Lee Geun-tae said. The statistical office calculates the number out of work by subtracting the nation's entire workforce from the economically active population. The jobless are tallied as part of the economically active population, along with the employed. Lee advised the government to map out a range of support measures in accordance with a change in the number of the employed and other data that reflect the actual job market conditions. He stressed that the government should do more than it has pledged in recent months, as the nation's labor market continues to remain in a deep slump, in contrast to other sectors of the economy that have recovered rapidly from the economic downturn. ------ http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/03/123_62389.html
3. Some technologies will make campuses change in 5years or less. A university in U.S.A provides students with iPads to lighten the load of text-book. I hope Kookmin university provides us as well.
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Electronic books will replace textbooks while medical students will practice surgical operations in an augmented reality, according to an international report that predicted the future campus in the next five years or less.
The 2011 Horizon Report, published by the New Media Consortium, a non-profit group dedicated to exploring new technologies in learning, introduced six technologies likely to enter mainstream use over the next five years.
Electronic books and mobiles that appeared on the “mid-term horizon” last year will be adopted for mainstream use in education institutions within 12 months, the annual report said.
“Modern electronic readers support note-taking and research activities, and are beginning to augment these basic functions with new capabilities ― from immersive experiences to support for social interaction ― that are changing our perception of what it means to read,” the report said.
“Mobiles are capable computing devices in their own right ― and they are increasingly a user’s first choice for Internet access.”
The report cited the case of the Stanford University School of Medicine, which provides students with iPads as a way to lighten the load of text-book toting students.
Some Korean universities have participated in pilot programs such as an e-book lending service for libraries.
Augmented reality and game-based learning were also considered to gain widespread usage within two to three years.
“Augmented reality brings a significant potential to supplement information delivered via computers, mobile devices, video, and even printed books,” the report said.
Game-based learning has grown in recent years as research continues to demonstrate its effectiveness for learning for students of all ages, the report said.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has recently developed a curated game called “Mass Extinction” to educate young students on climate change. The players solve puzzles, collect data, do Web searches, and engage in online debate, all in the process of unraveling a mystery that blends a science-fiction scenario with the issue of climate change.
In the longer term of four to five years from now, the report said, gesture-based computing will be in widespread usage on campuses.
Gesture-based computing moves the control of computers from a mouse and keyboard to the motions of the body via new input devices “like in some science fiction movies for years.”
The technology can be applied to various learning processes. Students can determine or change the DNA of a fruit fly by piercing it together by hand, page through a fragile text from the Middle Ages, or practice surgical operations using the same movements a surgeon would.
The last concept of “Learning analytics” is still new for many. The technology identifies at-risk students and collects information and course grade books, then helps improve course management systems.
By offering information in real time, learning analytics can support immediate alterations, suggesting a model of curriculum online more fluid and open to change, the report explained.
“Our research indicates that all six of these technologies, taken together, will have a significant impact on learning-focused organizations within the next five years,” the report said.
1. Jaewoo Sung
ReplyDelete2. Discovered: The Happiest Man in America
3. This article shows us discovery of some people who is the happiest man in America. How can we select the happiest person? Each person has different standard to define how happy they are. For this reason, this article makes us interesting.
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4. For the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected American adults each day and asked them about their emotional status, work satisfaction, eating habits, illnesses, stress levels and other indicators of their quality of life.
It’s part of an effort to measure the components of “the good life.” The responses are plugged into a formula, called the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, and then sorted by geographic area and other demographic criteria. The accompanying maps show where well-being is highest and lowest around the country.
The New York Times asked Gallup to come up with a statistical composite for the happiest person in America, based on the characteristics that most closely correlated with happiness in 2010. Men, for example, tend to be happier than women, older people are happier than middle-aged people, and so on.
Gallup’s answer: he’s a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, lives in Hawaii, runs his own business and has a household income of more than $120,000 a year. A few phone calls later and ...
Meet Alvin Wong. He is a 5-foot-10, 69-year-old, Chinese-American, Kosher-observing Jew, who’s married with children and lives in Honolulu. He runs his own health care management business and earns more than $120,000 a year.
Reached by phone at his home on Friday (and referred to The Times by a local synagogue), Mr. Wong said that he was indeed a very happy person. He said that perhaps he manages to be the happiest man in America because “my life philosophy is, if you can’t laugh at yourself, life is going to be pretty terrible for you.”
He continued: “This is a practical joke, right?”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/weekinreview/06happy.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=quality%20of%20life&st=cse
1. Yeo min sook
ReplyDelete2. most aged nation in 2050
3. In an article last February 28 said the government is reportedly considering raising the average retirement age to 60 from the current average of 57 (http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110228000804). In this way we are handling an aging society not only use the elderly employment but also support family having more two children. In spite of these effort, we will be world's most aged country in 2050. I think this will change the structure of industry in Korea and we preparing for economic problem.
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Seniors to make up 38% of population
Research forecast Monday that Korea will become the world’s most aged society by 2050, raising an urgent need to prepare a safety net for the elderly and cope with a shrinking labor force.
People aged 65 or older are predicted to make up 38.2 percent of Korea’s total population in 2050, according to the report by the Korea Institute of Finance, more than tripled compared with 11 percent last year.
Based on the United Nations’ standard, the country will become an aged society in 2018 and a super-aged society in 2026, in which people aged 65 or older account for more than 14 percent and 20 percent of the total population, respectively.
That means it would take Korea eight years to change from aged to super-aged, far faster than other advanced countries such as France with 39 years, the U.S. with 21 years and Japan with 12 years.
The state-run think tank estimated the average life expectancy of Koreans at 83.5, compared with 82.6 of Japan, 81.5 of France and 78.4 of the U.S., as seen in World Bank data.
The speedy demographic transformation could hurt the country’s future economy and already fragile safety net for elderly provisions, the report noted.
“The changes in social structure accompanied by rapid aging could dwindle Korea’s growth potential,” it said.
“There is also a strong possibility that it may weigh on the country’s fiscal health,” the report said.
The Korea Development Institute forecast the nation’s potential growth rate to fall to 0.74 percent in the 2040s, down from 4.56 percent from 2003-2013, due to a reduction in workforce and capital flows.
The government’s total expenditure is expected to go up 37 percent in 2020 from 2008 because of increased social security spending, but tax revenue would grow only about 15 percent for the same period, the National Assembly Budget Office reported earlier.
But Korea would see service sectors arise as the graying population creates new demand for asset management, health care, travel, security and other products, KIF said.
By Shin Hyon-hee (heeshin@heraldm.com)
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http://www.koreaherald.com/business/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110328000884
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.a Serious unemployment
3.From a long time ago, there's one problem which can't be solved easily. That is a unemployment. This problem have been getting a serious problem. Solving this problem isn't easy for government, I think.
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4.South Korea has emerged as one of the world's fastest recovering economies from the worldwide economic crisis over the past year. But its job market still remains in a deep slump, keeping low- and middle-income households here from enjoying the ongoing rebound.
University graduates, women, temporary workers and small-business owners have been hit particularly hard by sluggish corporate investment and private consumption.
The government estimates about 1.2 million Koreans are out of work, but in reality, more than three million individuals are "practically" jobless as they have given up looking for work, or are studying or undergoing vocational training for employment.
This means that the official jobless number is much lower than the actual number of Koreans seeking jobs.
Analysts here say that the real labor market is in worse shape than official statistics suggest. A growing number of individuals who abandoned their job search are going back to school or taking temporary positions. They say it will take more time for the job market to recover to the pre-crisis level as companies will begin hiring new workers only after witnessing a visible economic rebound.
According to Statistics Korea, the number of jobless in the nation stood at 1.21 million in January, up from 848,000 a year earlier, with the rate soaring to 5 percent from 3.6 percent. The figure was the largest since February 2000 when 1.22 million Koreans were unemployed.
But if the "practically" jobless - individuals giving up their job search, undergoing vocational training or working fewer than 17 hours a week - are included in the statistics, the jobless rate reached 10.36 percent, the highest since January 2000 when it was 10.75 percent, following the bursting of the information technology (IT) bubble.
The January figure was even higher than the 7.86 percent of December 2008 when the nation was grappling with the international financial market meltdown.
Additionally, Korea's seasonally adjusted jobless rate reached 4.8 percent in January, up from 3.6 percent in December 2009, marking the highest increase among the 22 OECD member economies.
Ireland came in second with its month-on-month unemployed rate jumping by 0.5 percentage point, followed by Hungary and the Czech Republic. But in the United States, the jobless rate fell to 9.7 percent in January from 10 percent the previous month.
"The official jobless number is rather meaningless here because many physically capable Koreans have become economically inactive against their will amid the tight job market.
"The gap between the official jobless figure and the real job market conditions in Korea is much wider than those of other major economies," LG Economic Research Institute economist Lee Geun-tae said.
The statistical office calculates the number out of work by subtracting the nation's entire workforce from the economically active population. The jobless are tallied as part of the economically active population, along with the employed.
Lee advised the government to map out a range of support measures in accordance with a change in the number of the employed and other data that reflect the actual job market conditions. He stressed that the government should do more than it has pledged in recent months, as the nation's labor market continues to remain in a deep slump, in contrast to other sectors of the economy that have recovered rapidly from the economic downturn.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/03/123_62389.html
1. Seri Yeo
ReplyDelete2. Six technologies set to change campuses
3. Some technologies will make campuses change in 5years or less. A university in U.S.A provides students with iPads to lighten the load of text-book. I hope Kookmin university provides us as well.
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Electronic books will replace textbooks while medical students will practice surgical operations in an augmented reality, according to an international report that predicted the future campus in the next five years or less.
The 2011 Horizon Report, published by the New Media Consortium, a non-profit group dedicated to exploring new technologies in learning, introduced six technologies likely to enter mainstream use over the next five years.
Electronic books and mobiles that appeared on the “mid-term horizon” last year will be adopted for mainstream use in education institutions within 12 months, the annual report said.
“Modern electronic readers support note-taking and research activities, and are beginning to augment these basic functions with new capabilities ― from immersive experiences to support for social interaction ― that are changing our perception of what it means to read,” the report said.
“Mobiles are capable computing devices in their own right ― and they are increasingly a user’s first choice for Internet access.”
The report cited the case of the Stanford University School of Medicine, which provides students with iPads as a way to lighten the load of text-book toting students.
Some Korean universities have participated in pilot programs such as an e-book lending service for libraries.
Augmented reality and game-based learning were also considered to gain widespread usage within two to three years.
“Augmented reality brings a significant potential to supplement information delivered via computers, mobile devices, video, and even printed books,” the report said.
Game-based learning has grown in recent years as research continues to demonstrate its effectiveness for learning for students of all ages, the report said.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has recently developed a curated game called “Mass Extinction” to educate young students on climate change. The players solve puzzles, collect data, do Web searches, and engage in online debate, all in the process of unraveling a mystery that blends a science-fiction scenario with the issue of climate change.
In the longer term of four to five years from now, the report said, gesture-based computing will be in widespread usage on campuses.
Gesture-based computing moves the control of computers from a mouse and keyboard to the motions of the body via new input devices “like in some science fiction movies for years.”
The technology can be applied to various learning processes. Students can determine or change the DNA of a fruit fly by piercing it together by hand, page through a fragile text from the Middle Ages, or practice surgical operations using the same movements a surgeon would.
The last concept of “Learning analytics” is still new for many. The technology identifies at-risk students and collects information and course grade books, then helps improve course management systems.
By offering information in real time, learning analytics can support immediate alterations, suggesting a model of curriculum online more fluid and open to change, the report explained.
“Our research indicates that all six of these technologies, taken together, will have a significant impact on learning-focused organizations within the next five years,” the report said.
By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldm.com)
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