About physical punishment in Korea

Nowadays students are easily exposed to bad things because of developing of various media like movie, TV, and Internet. So we can see news relating teenagers’ problems almost every day. Sometimes teenagers act as if they had no common sense like hitting teachers or parents and doing sexual violence so that I am surprised every when I see this kind of news.

But kwak, Seoul’s superintendent of education have taken effects ‘forbidding physical punishment in school’. After that we can see another kind of news that students abuse this regulation for making fun of teachers sometimes. I think it makes students more thoughtless and mess.

But sometimes we can also hear students are hurt seriously by teacher’s hitting or linguistic violence. It is problem of absolutely wrong teacher’s discipline. It's matter of teacher's personality that they hit student seriously. I think it is emotional violence, not discipline. Students may make a mistake since they don’t know what is wrong and right.

It is awkward to hitting blindly but sometimes students don’t pay any attention to teacher’s advice. In this situation what is that teachers can do? I think physical punishment is necessary sometimes, if they make a mistake, teachers should lead them to right way with proper physical punishment and advice.

So rather than forbid physical punishment, the Ministry of Education should make guideline about physical punishment to prevent seriously violence that happens sometimes to students.

About CCTV in Korea

Today we can see CCTV anywhere we go. They are located in public places like school or building to narrow alleys, sea or mountain even in restaurant where we eat. And sometimes I feel frightening when I find CCTV right after going out in my house in the morning. It is always located nearby me like in elevator, APT estates, on the road, subway station, corridor of school and lecture room. I think too many CCTV is unnecessary. It just intrudes into private life.

The reasons that set up CCTV would be various, but main reason may be for prevention of crimes like robberies or incidents in advance. Every when I see countless CCTV, I use to think ‘Does somebody monitor videos in real time?’ Absolutely every time supervisor would not monitor videos in real time and CCTV would be used just recording not using for prevention of crimes. It also could do role of announcement effect. But if a certain event had already occurred like sexual violence, I would like to ask what is using of CCTV for whom? Of course it is important that monitor video after happening events but it had already happened. Still many crimes occur in a day even though many CCTV in here and there.

In fact people say Korea is well- public safety nation compared with other nations. I think so, too. But I don’t think it is because of countless CCTV. If it does, part of it would be small. It is good to set up a CCTV in dangerous, dark places or important places but I would like that government or other private enterprises manage CCTV more effective not increasing in number.

About Korea house price

Sometimes I think Korea house price are abnormally high. Probably since people buy houses more  to earn money with increasing house price it would be. Consequently people who indeed need a house can’t buy a house because it already increases too much. It is a serious vicious circle. House is just a house to live, eat, and sleep. I want awareness of Korean people concerning house would change.

In the midst of special election campaign I heard that even Park, Won Soon, who was chosen as a new mayor of Seoul for common people live in very expensive apartment in Bang Bae area. After that I felt strange why Won Soon who promise decreasing house price as one of pledge live in such a expensive apartment. I though he is also self-contradictory and not easy to change Seoul as a nice city for common people.

Someday when I have to get a house I don’t want to be creditor to buy a house with pouring whole money. I want good politians and new policy come as soon as possible so that house price will decrease for people who live earnestly to get their own house.

About leak of personal information

When I take a spam mails or text messages, it is tiresome things for me to take the calls or message and delete it. I would like to delete every ID including my social security number, address and phone number when I take this kind of spam. And also I am curious how, where my personal information are used.

In South Korea most websites demand for concrete personal information even though they don’t need them surely. The one reason that I heard why they collect our personal information like social security number or phone number is they use these things for marketing, to compiling statistics or analyze members who join their websites. The matter is bigger that information would leak to others that use these with the purpose of making money with fraud. I think Korean famous major websites should lead to discard personal information and also basically they should not demand for these to protect these cases.

Long time ago I read a article that Korean government would make another security number per one person for using only online. (I think it is digital certification) It is good method to reduce personal information spill. And these things should be more active so that major websites would use this method like bank websites. In my case I drop out websites that I don’t need to anymore like online shop or other community club like naver, daum’s cafe. I think there are not perfect way to protect personal information spill but the best way to protect is to monitor own personal information and not to join uncertificated websites.