On April 11, the market value of United Airlines fell $250 million in a day because of videos showing the airport police being excessively physical when removing a passenger from a plane in order to emplane four crew members. In one clip, posted by passenger Audra Bridges to Facebook, guards can be seen aggressively grabbing and then dragging the passenger down the aisle of the plane. When he tried to get back to his seat, the airport police beat him harder. Other passengers can be heard screaming and shouting “Oh my God” and “Look at what you did to him.” After the videos were released, a lot
Air pollution from fine dust is getting worse every day. Seoul has recently had the second worst air quality in the world based on the Air Quality Index ( AQI ) from Airvisual. Usually Daegu has less fine dust than other cities, but it’s too early to feel relived because of factories and industrial complexes in the city. People are already experiencing skin and respiratory problems and high-tech army equipment is in danger of corrosion. So what is fine dust?Fine dust is invisible particles of soil and pollen wixed with dangerous substances floating in the air that are smaller than 10 micromete
The Ministry of Education announced that they would start writing national textbooks in November 2015, and schools would begin using them in March 2017. National textbooks are textbooks that are written by nations in order to control the content. It takes at least two years to compile national textbooks, but they spent only one year and four months. Even the writers of the textbooks were not chosen when it began. In this situation, we cannot expect a good history textbook to come out.Recently, these types of textbooks have caused a big controversy in Korea because they have many problems. Rece
On February 13, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) supreme leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia by two female DPRK agents. This seems to be an action to eliminate a threat to Kim Jong-un’s power. The autopsy on Kim Jong-nam showed VX nerve agent in his body. The discovery of VX nerve agent was unsettling for everyone around the world.Kim Jong-nam is Kim Jong-un’s elder half-brother and had a DPRK’s supreme leader lecture when he was young. However, through his experiences studying abroad, he felt t
In Korea, the flextime policy is causing controversy because of the benefits and risks.Some people agree with it because workers can manage their time more effectively. Other people disagree with it because the policy isn’t suitable for all jobs.ProMany workers are experiencing a lot of discomfort in balancing the actual working conditions between home and their work. In particular, employees in Korea can’t enjoy their lives because they have to work late into the evenings and on weekends. In addition, they must get approval from their workplace before taking a vacation. The balance of life is
On January 27, U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order limiting immigration. The executive order says that citizens from seven Islamic countries (Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya) are temporarily banned from receiving a visa or entering the U.S. Also, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has been suspended for 120 days. On January 28, after the order went into effect, people from the seven affected countries were detained in airports after they landed in the U.S., and then the protests began at airports. Worse still, some people were deported back to their countr
Currently, controversy about installation of nuclear power plants is being continued because some people agree with this, but some don’t.ProNuclear power is one of the major energy resources. In Korea, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has 24 nuclear reactors and nuclear power accounts for 30% of total power generation and 91.7% of the electricity. Some people oppose the installation of nuclear power plants because of the risk of nuclear accidents, but nuclear power is a safe and efficient way to produce electricity. For those reasons, I believe there should be more nuclear power plants.First, nucle
Since November 2016, a catastrophic avian influenza (AI) has plagued South Korea. Due to the AI, many chickens had to be destroyed causing the price of chicken and eggs to soar. When communicable diseases like AI occur, it is very important for the government and related agencies to react as quickly as they can. When this outbreak of AI started, however, the Korean government showed their inability to respond to it. Of course, when it began, most of the government was paralyzed because of Choi Soon-sil and Park Geun-hye scandal, but it shouldn’t have been. The relevant agency failed to stop th