The Citizens’ Participation in Criminal Trials Act which was made to ensure the public’s involvement was recently finalized. However, there still remains a debate about it.proIn January, there was a trial about a stabbing in Yeouido last August. The jury gave a guilty verdict and unanimously decided to sentence the defendant to a heavy penalty. Therefore, the judge sentenced the defendant to 14 years’ imprisonment. As we can see from this trial, the jury participated in the trial and decided guilt and the sentence. The jury participated in the trial because of the Civil Participation in Crimin
Nowadays, energy drinks have rapidly increased in sales. Also, there are many advertisements that emphasize the effects of energy drinks and they catch people’s eyes. Energy drinks seem to give us some good effects. However, many news and media announced that energy drinks are not safe anymore and they give us many side effects.First of all, an energy drink is a beverage to supply energy when people feel fatigue. Energy drinks’ major ingredient is caffeine. The daily recommended amount of caffeine is 400mg for adults, 300mg for pregnant women, and 125mg for teenagers, which means three cups of
A for-profit hospital is an investor-owned hospital, and the investor wants to earn revenue from the hospital. Recently, the government tried to establish for-profit hospitals in Songdo. However, many people are opposed to building it, while other people agree. pro Recently, medical technology and machines have improved and the number of hospitals has been increasing. Existing hospitals are mostly non-profit hospitals. That is to say, revenue should be invested back into the hospital. Current hospitals have to treat patients who are not helpful for earning money. However, this situation has ma
There are many sports events that people can call world festivals. Korea hoped to host the Winter Olympics for a long time, and finally we got a chance to host it in 2018. We are looking forward to watching this worldwide sports festival in Korea. This winter, before the Olympics, we can enjoy winter sports in Pyeongchang. In 2013, the Pyeongchang Special Olympics World Winter Games will be held in Korea. The games will start on January 29. Many people wonder what the Special Olympics World Games are and mix up the Paralympics and the Special Olympics World Games. The Special Olympics World Ga
This year, there were two Korean movies which had over ten million filmgoers. The Thieves(13.02million) and Gwanghae(11.5million) are these movies. However, if we look attentively, a poison called “big movie companies monopoly” exists. Big movie companies monopolize production and distribution in the movie market. There are 3 big movie companies, CJ, Lotte, and Showbox, and numerous small movie companies in Korea. These big movie companies possess over 90% of Korea’s movie market. Big movie companies show their movies at their own multiplex theaters. In addition, the screen quota system forces
Recently, in our society many sexual assaults have occurred. According to SBS News, sexual assault occurs 35 times a day on average, so sexual assault has become a big problem. Many assaults are done by neighbors, so people worry. The targets of sexual assault are from elementary school students to pregnant women. Furthermore, child sexual assault is serious. Our society is not a safe society. Compared with other countries, the punishment in Korea for sexual assault is too light. For example, in 2010, Jo Du-sun, who is a sexual assault criminal and raped an elementary student, was sentenced to
For a long time, education has been most important and every country has tried hard to teach their children to be fit for society. Also, students can learn about society and citizenship in their school days. While they get education in school, they grow up to be members of their country. However, schools aren’t educational centers anymore. School has become more violent and students can’t study with an easy mind. Lots of accidents occur because of increasing school violence. Many people think that fights between children are a necessary evil that makes children stronger. However, these are not
On April 11, 300 assemblymen were elected members of the Korean National Assembly. This event was important in that we chose our leaders. Even though it was the most significant event in recent months, there were regrettable things.First, the election turnout was low like many previous elections. Although there were lots of events which encouraged people to vote, lots of citizens didn’t vote. Because most people didn’t change their thought that assembly members will continue to work for themselves not citizens, they didn’t want to join the voting. As a result, the election turnout didn’t grow