The April 9 National Assembly Elections

I live in Inchon Namdong. There are 7members running for Korea National Assembly. Here is the list of members running for election.

   1. Kim Seokwoo (Liberty Forward Party)  

   2. Bae Jingyo (Democratic Labor Party)   

   3. An Gabdong (Peaceful Family Party)   

   4. Lee Wonbok (Pro-Park Geun-hye Alliance)   

   5. Lee Howoong (Pro-Park Geun-hye Alliance)  

   6. Jo Geejong (Creative Korea Party)   

   7. Jo Jeonhyuk (Grand National Party)

The Grand National Party is clearly in the lead in many polls across the nation. In Namdong, Jo Jeonhyuk won the election as expected. Although GNP members have won by 30% of the votes in my district, but other minor parties, including Pro-Park United, the Liberal Forward Party and the Democratic Labor Party, focused on the regions where they are traditionally strong. Each of them came up with diffrent agendas for the election. Sometimes members of parties criticized each other to win more votes for their parties. But as a result, the GNP has taken over an overall majority. (153seats)

Going back to the last National Assemby elections in 2004, the Uri Party (On August 18, 2007, the delegates of Uri party decided to merge with the newly-created liberal party called the UNDP (United New Democratic Party) had won an overall majority due to a support from former President Roh. During that time, other minor parties had taken over little seats except for the GNP (121 votes). It was a even more unbalanced result compared to this year.

This year, I didn’t vote. Why? I don’t have any excuse but I felt too lazy to go my hometown. I am neither ‘political’ nor ’socially conscious’. I just don’t want to get involved in politics because sometimes it makes me sick of seeing invisible fights between them. I’d rather stand in the middle no matter why they’re fighting. Why do they exist? For their own interests? Or for the good of the people of the nation? The most important thing is the reason why they are elected. They are chosen by millions of people. It means the people gave their power to take care of more people in need. So each members chosen should have some particular responsibilities for that. If they go for another direction, they would have no reason being on those positions. For now, I think I’m pretty pessimistic about current political issues so none of the parties ever make me interested in unless some new party unexpectedly comes out and implements better policies that satisfy me. I’m looking forward a society that roots out corruption and fights for their interest.

I think it’s a better idea to give one day off for voting. Otherwise it can cause a lot of traffic jam because most people who work have to vote at similar time. If they have time off, they can choose convinient time to vote. Unfortunately the voter turnout recorded lowest rates(46%) ever though. I think elections are important. It might sound like ironic because I’m the one of the persons who didn’t participated in votes. But anyway, we need someones to decide the way for good of nation on behalf of nation people. It’s obvious that not all of us could take part in each policy. Why was voter turnout so low? Maybe there were a lot of people like me out there. some people just feel lazy to vote especially for younger generation. It might also have been the bad weather conditions. As the voter turnout came out, I feel a little bit guilty as a Korean.

              

 

 

What is My perfect day?

Perfect day means the day as good as it could possibly be – literally. But I think it’s hard to define because every person has their own diffrent meaning of a perfect day. For instance, most students are likely to define a perfect day as the day they get good grades on the test. However, for women who is in a relationship, a sweet word from her boy friend would probably make her day perfect.

         

In my case, the perfect day is a busy day. Whenever I do something productive, I feel so satisfied and happy. Now, I’m preparing for my job under pressure. When I’m doing what I need to do even without taking a breathe, it makes me feel tough and tired. But at the end of the day, when I look back on what I’ve done, I’m always proud of myself, and I am recharged by my accomplishments. Eventually it makes my day perfect.

I don’t care much about the weather or season. As long as I fully enjoy my all day, that will be perfect enough. Getting up earlier, doing homework, listening to the radio (Chinese, English), eating meals on time. Everything has to be on the track with consistency. But sometimes there are obstacles that make it hard to accomplish my goals. For example, there are always appoinments, drinking, girl friends and so on.

                  

Anyway, I’m trying to be devoted to every moment in order to make each day perfect. In the end, I believe it could bring me a lot of achievements and a perfect life.    

 

 

My Six Word Autobiography

Don’t fear challenge, follow your dream

My Favorite Blog

My favorite blog is Myspace. It’s a kind of communication blog. This is the only way for me  to keep in touch with a few my foreign friends. 

                                               

Basically, we barely have a chance to meet each other, so we usually use this blog as communication tool. By using Myspace, We’re able to share anything we want either pictures or messages here. It’s also very convenient to post something I want to show just like videos or pictures. Most of things are shown to public, but if I don’t want to reveal some personal information in public, it can also be kept secret.

The reason I like Myspace is convenience. Although I have never used other English blogs, so I don’t know much about them, but I think it’s so easy for me to use. Also, I can see so many messages other people left. It’s helpful to improve English skills. And I can choose or change the music or presentation for free anytime. 

Even though reading Myspace is a lot of fun to me, but I don’t have much time to read recently.  I read 2 or 3 times a week at most.

Except for Myspace, I also enjoying checking Cyworld. It’s very similar to Myspace. It’s one of the most commonly used blogs in korea. Most of my friends enrolled one another into friends list and contact anytime anywhere.

I like both of blog. Because these lovely blogs help connect me and my friends together, no matter how far we are away each other. I strongly believe other people might agree with my opinion, in such a hectic society like today , those kind of blogs are so indispensible for human-being. Otherwise society will be getting more and more indiffrent each other, end up with terrible environment lack of humanity….

 

         

My Dream Vacation

If someone asks me where I want to go on my dream vacation, I would say Dubai. Dubai is unique, and one of the most well-known places in the world. I’ve been dreaming of the day I get a chance to go there since I read an article regarding Dubai about six years ago. I was so impressed about this place that I still remember the story clearly.

Dubai is located on the Persian Gulf coast of the United Arab Emirates. It is renowned for its beautiful sightseeing, soft sand and clear water.

Most of Dubai is desert and it is only natural that such activities as desert Safaris and Camel racing are featured among the top attractions. Here are the picture of Safaris and Camel activities.

                         

Dubai has attracted world-wide attention through innovative real estate projects and sports events.

Dubai has a lot of activities visitors can enjoy such as skating, indoor snowboarding, boating, riding, extreme sports, golf, tennis. It offers vacationers much in the way of holiday and tourist activities. It must feel fantastic to play exotic activities in such beautiful scenery. Among the activities, one I can’t wait to do is the desert safaris. I’ve been curious about how it may feel to drive in the middle of endless desert and camp overnight.

Also, I really want to particapate in many sea activities. In Korea, I don’t have a chance to do watersports. Sometimes I imagine myself swimming with a beautiful lady on the beautiful beach.

                 

I want to go Dubai on my honeymoon by air. Where to go on your honeymoon is one of the most important decisions for married people to make . Most people only get one chance to have a perfect honeymoon. I think that Dubai is a perfect honeymoon destination. It will be unforgettable. Of course, I want to stay as much time as possible. I want to take at least two weeks.

If I stay in Dubai for two weeks, according to the normal standard, budget, it would cost about four million Won for the two of us.(Or, around $4000USD.) In order to spend a pleasant time without money troubles, I may need about five or six million Won. Here is a price list you can check out if you’re interested.

Also, there is a luxury hotelthat was appointed as seven star. It’s called Burj Al Arab . It’s the only hotel where you have to pay money when just looking around, The cost of staying in a suite begins at $1,000 per night and increases to over $15,000 per night; the Royal Suite is the most expensive, at $50,000 per night. Even though the price is an astronomical number for me now, I believe there will be a day I can afford to stay there.

                 

The best time of the year to visit Dubai is between November and April, when the weather is coolest. Deciding when to go is very important issue to be satisfied with one’s trip,  especially for Dubai such an expensive place.

If you are interested in Dubai, you can try to check out all information I gave. I bet going to Dubai will give you amazing experiences, which will last for the rest of your life.  

 

      

Photos of People, Places and Things

     

   

      

                 

                

                   

Viral Video

My Favorite TV Show

                                      

  

I’m not someone who watches a TV show over and over if I have watched it before. But only one TV show has made me watch the entire series almost three times. It is my favorite TV show ‘Friends’. It was the most popular sitcom in the world since 1994, and it still continues to hook viewers of all kinds. I think it’s amazing that it still has an unflagging popularity now even though it has not been broadcas for more than 10years . A couple of days ago, when I watched a rerun and it glued to the TV set until it was finished. When I watched ‘Friends’ for the first time, I was really addicted to it. I can still remember clearly that one day I watched all of one season. It was probably 22 episodes. Each of them took about 30. Also, I watched it everyday, Isn’t it surprising?On ‘Friends’, there were a lot of famous actors and actresses who appear throughout the series’ run. Needless to say, they gained much more popularity with each season. ‘Friends’ has 6 main characters.* Character name → Real name

1) Ross Geller → (David Schwimmer)

2) Rachel Green → (Jennifer Aniston)

3) Phoebe Buffay → (Lisa Kudrow)

4) Joey Tribbiani → (Matt LeBlanc)

5) Chandler Muriel Bing → (Matthew Perry)

6) Monica Geller → (Courteney Cox)

Each of them has their own character, and they made a great combination on the stories. Then, why am I so crazy about this TV show? I have two reasons for that.

First, their sense of humor never makes me stop laughing and sometimes brings me energy to keep me going through difficult times. When I feel down, I usually watch a couple of episodes. After that, I can feel better and it takes my stress away.

Second, it also gives me valuable lessons. Especially, in friendship. They always hold on to one another and cling on the powers of true friendship whenever they’ve gone through hard time. This way they love one another not only warms my heart, but it also makes me feel inspired and appreciate the real value of friendship.

These are why I love this TV show. If you didn’t watch yet, Why don’t you try? It will be helpful for your English skills as well. here are the subtitles of each seasons in case you need. 

Internet Vocabulary Review

1. Blog / Blogosphere
2. Podcast
3. Bit Torrent (seed,torrent,users etc…)
4. .pdf file
5. compression
6. rss feed
7. hyperlink / hypertext
8. Cookie
9. Case Sensitive (uppercase/lowercase)
10. Upload/download/install/reinstall
11. Browser - tabs, favorites, bookmarks
12. GUI
13. Tab
14. Ebook
15. Site Map
16. Pop ups
17. Virus
18.  Application(s)
19. P2P  
20. Avatar

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