The Blackout

About the blackout.

  Accidentally on Tuesday 21 September 2011, our University was the blackout after we discussed the blackout. KEPCO say the blackout of 15 September 2011 occurred because of consumer's excessive electricity consumption. Also, they say electric rates in Korea are lower than that in other countries and electric rates should increase in order to avoid the blackout. Do you think the consumer should be responsible for the blackout? I don't think so.

  The blackout on 15 September 2011 in South Korea is because not only the consumers used excessive electricity consumption but also Korea Power Exchange expected wrong electricity consumption(Article -> http://www.dt.co.kr/contents.html?article_no=2011092702010232614001). The consumers used similar electricity consumption of the previous day. But KEPCO insist that the use of electricity should be restricted and they want to raise electric rates by 10~15 percentage(Ariticle -> http://sbscnbc.sbs.co.kr/read.jsp?pmArticleId=10000325869). KEPCO and Korea Power Exchange charge off their mistake to the consumers' that. The consumers can't control of the use of electricity very well. Because they just use the electronic equipments made by large companies. The consumers have a right to use electronic equipments. If the consumers have a responsibility for the use of electronic equipments, there are large companies' mistakes. Because the electronic equipments are made by large companies. Therefore, They should control of power consumption of the electronic equipments.

  In presentation about the blackout, I learned that factories of large companies have private power stations. Before I learn it, I thought large companies was huge damaged during the blackout. But they can reduce their damage because of private power stations. On the other hand, the consumers receive huge damages related to life such as accidents in amusement park and in elevator during the blackout.

  KEPCO and Korea Power Exchange only want to earn much money and want to avoid the responsibility. But they exist for nation's the comfortable use of electricity. So, they need to think about their reasons for the existence and attitude to be responsibility for this matter.

Hosting Olympic Games.

What is your top criterion to host Olympics in your country? I wonder whether your opinion would be changed or not after knowing that the hosting country actually can suffer from hosting Olympics.

Did you want Pyeongchang to be selected as the venue for the Winter Olympic games? So, Why did you want Pyeongchang to be selected as the location for the Winter Olympic games? As you know, it is good to host the Olympics in our country to us. If we host the Olympics in our country, we will have Indirect benefits as well as direct benefits. So, everyone wants to host the Olympics in their country. However, If the hosting Olympics accompany the loss, are you still going to host the Olympics in your country? We should think carefully about hosting the Olympics.

Governments want to host the Olympics because they expect many profits from the Olympics. But, the problem is that it is just expectation, nobody knows how it is going in the real future.

To host the Olympic games, Governments of the venue for the Olympics should spend heavy money to make stadiums and to develop transportation and facilities. Because they expect that the hosting Olympics will make a huge profit, they are willing to loan while they spend money. But if heavy money spent by government aren't collected after hosting year, the country of venue for the Olympic games would receive great damage. So, governments which wanted to host the Olympic games must exactly expect profits for the Olympics.

Governments couldn't host the Olympics without any preparations.

Before venue for the Olympic games is selected by IOC, IOC examine the proposed sites. But proposed sites can turn in wrong data about their real situation. For example, Nagano in Japan and Vancouver in Canada changed prearranged skiing course to other skiing course because of environmental problem during Olympic period. therefore, to be selected as the site for host Olympics, governments have to prepare and show them to IOC in the real world, not just plan. So, governments should make a real action to prepare and heavy money must be needed.

My opinion about the criteria for a successful Olympics is that the Olympics is not for money or profit but for people through the sports. So, before the Olympics is hosted, everyone who wanted to host the Olympics should think carefully about whether to fit a venue for the Olympic games.

Early-childhood English education

About early-childhood English education.

  Nowadays, We can see foreigners easily in korea. Have you ever received questions from them? Which did you speak english or korean to them? Have you ever been to overseas? Did you speak english in overseas? As you know, we need to speak english and know english grammar. Because English has been essential in korea. I guess that you think that English is essential in korea. I think about early-childhood English education problem suggested in this presentation. So, I think we need early-childhood English education.

  First, English is a language used all over the world. So, Korean should use English to survive in the world. English is essential in the world at the moment. English is no longer an option.

  Second, We have no natural resources in korea. As you know, Korea is not a big country and have no natural resources. We just have human resources. We need to have good human resources. Korean who have good ability should be able to communicate with people of other countries. So, we should have good english skills.

  Third, English is a language. We can't learn to English skills easily in a short period of time because English is a language. We need to have a long period time to learn English. If we study English in a long period time, we will be able to use English exactly.

  Fourth, When we are a child, We should study English. Because linguistic skills of people are lively when people are young. So, Early-childhood English education is important to linguistic skills.

  Many people worry that early-childhood English education has no effect to children' English skills. But, Children need many opportunity to learn to English. English should not be a major obstacle of their life. So, I think we need early-childhood English education.