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3.A few days ago, there's been a earthquake which is very tragic. Ever since then, side effects are coming out. For instance, a girl who was exposed by radiation has her skin peeled. I think the consequences of radiation are going to be bigger and bigger and we have to be careful for those. ----------------------- An image of a victim from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union has been circulating Internet blogs and communities.
The picture of peeling skin has hit the Internet amid the growing fear over radiation exposure.
It was made public by the website Corbis
It shows the skin of the victim’s hand clearly peeling off. The victim died as a new layer of skin never regenerated.
A netizen said, “That’s terrible. It’s worse than instant death. Such a shock.”
He said, “Radiation is really scary. Thinking about my own skin peeling off like that makes me shudder.”
Another netizen said, “Is Korea really safe from exposure? I’m so scared.” -------- http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/04/116_84796.html
3. Generally we think high educated person will be more happier than those who low educated. Because they are easy to get into a major company and earn more money. However, KAIST that the best science university of Korea filled up university with sadness and every student does not feel happy. ----------------------- “KAIST is facing the biggest crisis since its opening,” the president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said on Thursday, after another KAIST student suicide earlier in the day ― the fourth this year.
The latest death was a 19-year-old male student who killed himself a day after he had applied for a temporary leave of absence citing depression.
The death came just a week after a 25-year-old senior took his own life. A 20-year-old and 19-year-old student were also found dead in separate cases in January and February, respectively.
As the students were said to have suffered from extreme stress over school work, criticism has turned to president Suh Nam-pyo, who has carried out school reforms vigorously emphasizing fierce academic competition on the campus.
On Friday, some KAIST students started a signature-collecting campaign calling for Suh’s immediate departure.
Suh, 74, a former MIT professor, took office as the school chief in 2006, succeeding the former president Robert Laughlin, a 1998 Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Suh revised the tenure system which used to guarantee the faculty members’ right to stay permanently at the school. He then ordered all lectures at the school to be delivered in English.
The state-funded elite school, which was established in 1971 to nurture talented scientists and engineers, had not originally received any tuition from students.
However, under the new tuition system, students are required to pay different levels of fees up to 6 million won ($5,538) a year when their grade point averages are less than 3.0 out of 4.3.
Of the total 7,805 students enrolled last year, 1,600 students, or 12.9 percent, paid an average of 2.45 million won. And the figure has been on the rise recently, with 4.9 percent in 2008 and 8 percent in 2009.
After the third death in March, a KAIST student put up a hand-written poster in college titled “The real owner of KAIST is 4,000 fellow students.”
“The school promotes its creative education publicly but in reality it enforces us to line up on a conveyor belt and to fit ourselves into a fixed mold.”
Despite such resistance from within and outside the school, Suh seemed to have no intention of shifting his emphasis on competition until earlier this week.
“Nothing is gained for free. Without efforts and pains, you achieve nothing.”
However, after the fourth report of suicide on Thursday, Suh and other school officials held an urgent news conference and announced that the school has decided to scrap the punitive tuition system.
“All KAIST members, including me, are deeply shocked and feel indescribable sorrow and grief,” Suh said.
“As president, I want to turn back time using any possible means.”
Later in the day, the minor opposition New Progress Party also filed a petition against the KAIST president to the National Human Rights Commission, accusing him of violating the human rights of students.
3. I think that the jobs, employment have great, essential results for the psychology aspects of the people. However, jobs might correlate with happiness, but that does not mean people with jobs are happy.
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4. Roger Cohen writes about David Cameron’s new campaign calling for a focus on “emotional prosperity” rather than just financial prosperity. As he notes, it’s easy to be cynical about Cameron’s motives — and I am.
There’s also the question of what difference it makes. How would policy change if we agreed that happiness, not GDP, is the goal? After all, it’s not as if governments really try to maximize GDP, so why does it matter if we change the thing that they aren’t really targeting anyway?
And yet, there are cases in which the distinction between financial and emotional prosperity makes a big difference — namely, periods of high unemployment.
One overwhelming result of happiness research is that having a job matters a lot, much more than you might have expected just from the income involved. Well, duh, you may say — and it’s true that anyone who has ever spent time unemployed, or knows anyone who has been unemployed, knows that the blow to self-esteem is far greater than the mere financial loss.
Think about the fact that real income per capita right now is considerably higher than it was at the peak of the Clinton-era boom:
So are Americans happier? Of course not — in 1999 or 2000 everyone could easily find a job, right now everyone — even the highly educated — faces the prospect of very long-term unemployment if anything goes wrong.
So what does this say about policy? It says that job creation is urgent, even if it isn’t very productive in terms of GDP. A WPA-type program when you’re in a severe slump is more productive than most people imagine, but even if it isn’t very productive, it can do a lot to help the nation’s overall welfare, simply by putting people to work. And if the debt run up to pay for the program means higher taxes later, so? The monetary cost will have much less negative impact on public welfare than the unemployment that would have happened without that program.
The irony, of course, is that Cameron is pushing happiness economics even as he pursues an austerity program that will lead to a great deal of misery, above and beyond the lost GDP.
Because of radiation problem It is not just japans problem in the globalized society Also we have some effects like radiactive rain
(Reuters) - China will ban the import of farm produce, including food, edible agricultural products and feedstuff, from 12 areas in Japan, the country's quarantine authorities said, as concerns about radiation contamination mount.
The areas are Tokyo as well as the Japanese prefectures of Fukujima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama, Yamagata, Yamanashi, Chiba and Tochigi, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement published on its website, www.aqsiq.gov.cn, late on Friday.
The latest measure was an expansion of a ban China announced on the import of some Japanese food and agricultural products late last month, state media said on Saturday.
The Xinhua news agency said the government widened its ban to the 12 areas from five in late March.
Several countries have banned agricultural and animal imports from the areas near Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant because of fear of radioactive contamination.
1.Seri Yeo 2.Fourth KAIST student commits suicide 3.As you can see the title, total 4 students have commited suicide in this year. KAIST university is the top university in Korea. Because of their competitive policy of tuition, we lost 4 great students. It is so big tragedy. ------------------------------------------------- Another student at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, one of the nation’s most distinguished academic institutions, committed suicide, the police said on Thursday.
The student identified by his surname Park was the fourth at the school to take his own life this year.
The police said the 18-year-old was found by a passer-by in front of an apartment building in Incheon at around 1:20 in the afternoon.
The police recovered the 18-year old student’s belongings on the roof of the apartment, and that they also found short circuit TV footage showing Park getting off the elevator in the building.
Just two days before his suicide, Park had applied for a temporary leave of absence after supplying his school with a diagnosis confirming that he was suffering from depression.
A KAIST professor who Park had consulted on his leave of absence said that Park seemed to be suffering because his grades were not meeting his expectations.
Park joined the growing line of students who were taking their own lives at KAIST, reportedly because they were breaking under the pressure of intense competition.
Adding to the pressure is the unique system under which students pay different amounts of tuition based on their grades.
Some of the KAIST students said “this mad system,” along with KAIST president Suh Nam-pyo’s “refusal to tolerate failure” was the cause of the suicides and an overall sense of despair at the school,
Immediately after Park’s suicide was reported, Suh held a press conference where he said KAIST would be scrapping the tuition system. ------------------------------------------------- http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110407001084
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.side effects created by radiation
3.A few days ago, there's been a earthquake which is very tragic. Ever since then, side effects are coming out. For instance, a girl who was exposed by radiation has her skin peeled. I think the consequences of radiation are going to be bigger and bigger and we have to be careful for those.
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An image of a victim from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union has been circulating Internet blogs and communities.
The picture of peeling skin has hit the Internet amid the growing fear over radiation exposure.
It was made public by the website Corbis
It shows the skin of the victim’s hand clearly peeling off. The victim died as a new layer of skin never regenerated.
A netizen said, “That’s terrible. It’s worse than instant death. Such a shock.”
He said, “Radiation is really scary. Thinking about my own skin peeling off like that makes me shudder.”
Another netizen said, “Is Korea really safe from exposure? I’m so scared.”
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/04/116_84796.html
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ReplyDelete1. Yeo Min Sook
ReplyDelete2. excessive study is not happy.
3. Generally we think high educated person will be more happier than those who low educated. Because they are easy to get into a major company and earn more money. However, KAIST that the best science university of Korea filled up university with sadness and every student does not feel happy.
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“KAIST is facing the biggest crisis since its opening,” the president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said on Thursday, after another KAIST student suicide earlier in the day ― the fourth this year.
The latest death was a 19-year-old male student who killed himself a day after he had applied for a temporary leave of absence citing depression.
The death came just a week after a 25-year-old senior took his own life. A 20-year-old and 19-year-old student were also found dead in separate cases in January and February, respectively.
As the students were said to have suffered from extreme stress over school work, criticism has turned to president Suh Nam-pyo, who has carried out school reforms vigorously emphasizing fierce academic competition on the campus.
On Friday, some KAIST students started a signature-collecting campaign calling for Suh’s immediate departure.
Suh, 74, a former MIT professor, took office as the school chief in 2006, succeeding the former president Robert Laughlin, a 1998 Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Suh revised the tenure system which used to guarantee the faculty members’ right to stay permanently at the school. He then ordered all lectures at the school to be delivered in English.
The state-funded elite school, which was established in 1971 to nurture talented scientists and engineers, had not originally received any tuition from students.
However, under the new tuition system, students are required to pay different levels of fees up to 6 million won ($5,538) a year when their grade point averages are less than 3.0 out of 4.3.
Of the total 7,805 students enrolled last year, 1,600 students, or 12.9 percent, paid an average of 2.45 million won. And the figure has been on the rise recently, with 4.9 percent in 2008 and 8 percent in 2009.
After the third death in March, a KAIST student put up a hand-written poster in college titled “The real owner of KAIST is 4,000 fellow students.”
“The school promotes its creative education publicly but in reality it enforces us to line up on a conveyor belt and to fit ourselves into a fixed mold.”
Despite such resistance from within and outside the school, Suh seemed to have no intention of shifting his emphasis on competition until earlier this week.
“Nothing is gained for free. Without efforts and pains, you achieve nothing.”
However, after the fourth report of suicide on Thursday, Suh and other school officials held an urgent news conference and announced that the school has decided to scrap the punitive tuition system.
“All KAIST members, including me, are deeply shocked and feel indescribable sorrow and grief,” Suh said.
“As president, I want to turn back time using any possible means.”
Later in the day, the minor opposition New Progress Party also filed a petition against the KAIST president to the National Human Rights Commission, accusing him of violating the human rights of students.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110408000829
1. Jaewoo Sung
ReplyDelete2. Stimulating Happiness
3. I think that the jobs, employment have great, essential results for the psychology aspects of the people. However, jobs might correlate with happiness, but that does not mean people with jobs are happy.
-------------------------
4. Roger Cohen writes about David Cameron’s new campaign calling for a focus on “emotional prosperity” rather than just financial prosperity. As he notes, it’s easy to be cynical about Cameron’s motives — and I am.
There’s also the question of what difference it makes. How would policy change if we agreed that happiness, not GDP, is the goal? After all, it’s not as if governments really try to maximize GDP, so why does it matter if we change the thing that they aren’t really targeting anyway?
And yet, there are cases in which the distinction between financial and emotional prosperity makes a big difference — namely, periods of high unemployment.
One overwhelming result of happiness research is that having a job matters a lot, much more than you might have expected just from the income involved. Well, duh, you may say — and it’s true that anyone who has ever spent time unemployed, or knows anyone who has been unemployed, knows that the blow to self-esteem is far greater than the mere financial loss.
Think about the fact that real income per capita right now is considerably higher than it was at the peak of the Clinton-era boom:
So are Americans happier? Of course not — in 1999 or 2000 everyone could easily find a job, right now everyone — even the highly educated — faces the prospect of very long-term unemployment if anything goes wrong.
So what does this say about policy? It says that job creation is urgent, even if it isn’t very productive in terms of GDP. A WPA-type program when you’re in a severe slump is more productive than most people imagine, but even if it isn’t very productive, it can do a lot to help the nation’s overall welfare, simply by putting people to work. And if the debt run up to pay for the program means higher taxes later, so? The monetary cost will have much less negative impact on public welfare than the unemployment that would have happened without that program.
The irony, of course, is that Cameron is pushing happiness economics even as he pursues an austerity program that will lead to a great deal of misery, above and beyond the lost GDP.
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/stimulating-happiness/?scp=1&sq=happiness&st=cse
Kim Chung Gyeom
ReplyDeleteChina to ban imports of farm products from Japan
Because of radiation problem
It is not just japans problem in the globalized society
Also we have some effects like radiactive rain
(Reuters) - China will ban the import of farm produce, including food, edible agricultural products and feedstuff, from 12 areas in Japan, the country's quarantine authorities said, as concerns about radiation contamination mount.
The areas are Tokyo as well as the Japanese prefectures of Fukujima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama, Yamagata, Yamanashi, Chiba and Tochigi, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement published on its website, www.aqsiq.gov.cn, late on Friday.
The latest measure was an expansion of a ban China announced on the import of some Japanese food and agricultural products late last month, state media said on Saturday.
The Xinhua news agency said the government widened its ban to the 12 areas from five in late March.
Several countries have banned agricultural and animal imports from the areas near Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant because of fear of radioactive contamination.
1.Seri Yeo
ReplyDelete2.Fourth KAIST student commits suicide
3.As you can see the title, total 4 students have commited suicide in this year. KAIST university is the top university in Korea. Because of their competitive policy of tuition, we lost 4 great students. It is so big tragedy.
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Another student at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, one of the nation’s most distinguished academic institutions, committed suicide, the police said on Thursday.
The student identified by his surname Park was the fourth at the school to take his own life this year.
The police said the 18-year-old was found by a passer-by in front of an apartment building in Incheon at around 1:20 in the afternoon.
The police recovered the 18-year old student’s belongings on the roof of the apartment, and that they also found short circuit TV footage showing Park getting off the elevator in the building.
Just two days before his suicide, Park had applied for a temporary leave of absence after supplying his school with a diagnosis confirming that he was suffering from depression.
A KAIST professor who Park had consulted on his leave of absence said that Park seemed to be suffering because his grades were not meeting his expectations.
Park joined the growing line of students who were taking their own lives at KAIST, reportedly because they were breaking under the pressure of intense competition.
Adding to the pressure is the unique system under which students pay different amounts of tuition based on their grades.
Some of the KAIST students said “this mad system,” along with KAIST president Suh Nam-pyo’s “refusal to tolerate failure” was the cause of the suicides and an overall sense of despair at the school,
Immediately after Park’s suicide was reported, Suh held a press conference where he said KAIST would be scrapping the tuition system.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110407001084