International Marriage

Koreans, especially our grandparents and parents, might feel proud that Koreans are pure blood. And that is one reason why they don't want foreigners as a member of family although they welcome foreigners to be a guest. However the younger generation may think a little different way. the more people have a chance to visit other countries for studying or business, the more changes we can see in our society. Some people don't care other's nationality and race. Other people even prefer foreigner to Koreans. It is proved by increased rate of international marriage.

I'm also in favor of international marriage. But we need to change and improve our society for international marriage couple. One of my friend met a Filipina and got married with her. They have two children and seem to live well in Korea. But he always wants to go to the Philippines again. Because he is worried about discrimination to his children. He says that although many people are in favor of international marriage, it is only for between Korean and Western people. To South East Asia people, We still have discriminations and prejudice and he doesn't want his children to be hurted. It is very shameful but true. We look down on South East Asia people because they are from poor countries. Actually I studied in the Philippines last year and I met many Koreans who were studying as well me. Some students backbite teachers despite they were taught.

The rate of international marriage is getting increase but we are still immature. We should change our idea and greet foreigner no matter what nationality he has.

Aid to north Korea

Aid to north Korea

Every people who live in Korea have a question that should we help the North Korea or just ignore the famine of North Korea in order to be destroyed by themselves. It has been one of issues for a long time. And after two conflicts happened (Chun-an worship and Yeon-Pyung island), some people say there is no worth to aid North Korea. And it is said that many North Korea people are starving and dying, but paradoxically the leadership of North Korea has saved wealth. We have heard they spent money with a military parade for Kim Jung Il’s birthday.

 However, we shouldn’t stop helping North Korea, even though they use some of aids to the force and they distribute it to the leadership class first. We need to make our country peaceful with two reasons. Firstly as far as I know, the arms race cost a lot more than aiding North Korea. Although helping North Korea doesn’t work well, we can have hope that it leads North Korea to the table for peace. Secondly anyway we need to help them at least we want to be reunion. for the reasons, we must not lead North Korea make extremely radical decision.

 A defector from North Korea said before “If we aid North Korea, our sons and daughters will live for a while. But our grandchildren will experience the same one” It sounds sad and we know he might be right. Our aid never sloves the famine in North Korea and North Korea people in the future could be in the same difficult until reunification. But I'm worried that they would choose the war, if we didn't help them anymore and just let them die. If the war happens in Korea, it will destroy everything in Korea. We can’t ruin our country and what we have achieved. Because we have too many things to give up.    

The impacts of The Middle East revolutions

Should we intervene The Middle East revolutions?

We know there are campaigns and fights for democracy in The Middle East. It seems to be a war between the government and people who want a revolution. And the war causes not just many people’s blood and death but also side effects to other countries. So some countries as well The UN think it is too serious to look over. However do we have a right to intervene in the conflict?
I support the intervention of multinational force to The Middle East with two reasons. First, we should be against all kinds of violence. Although each country can choose their ideology, if there are some violent actions, we need to say how bad violent action is. If it doesn’t work, we need to take more positive and active actions to stop the violent actions.
Second, because of globalization, a problem happening in one country isn’t limited only the country. In other words, The Middle East revolutions already have had side effect to other countries economically. The Middle East is well known as the biggest oil producing area. Many countries are depending on their oil import from The Middle East. However since they have been in political and ideological trouble, many countries also have been in trouble about oil import. So far, it doesn’t work well that the efforts of each government to minimize the side effect from The Middle East crisis. That’s another reason why we need to intervene The Middle East
The sovereignty is very important and we should respect each country’s sovereignty but, sometimes we need to do some actions to other countries even though we know that some people might say it would violate their sovereignty. Thus, intervention of multinational force is needed humanistically and economically.