President Lee meets with Bolivian President Morales

President Lee Myung-bak, the President of South Korea, was presented with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Award by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, the Executive Secretary of the (CBD) ,and received CBD award at Cheong Wa Dae on August 24, 2010. CBD Award represents to personages who have significantly contributed to achieving a goal of the Convention on Biological Diversity as a major instrument for achieving a green economy and sustainable development.

The Convention of Biological Diversity said "President Lee showed the international leadership by leading ‘low carbon green growth’ policy and greatly contributed to enhancing international cooperation through inducing the agreement on the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) at the 3rd intergovernmental meeting, which was held from June 7 to 11 in Busan, Korea." Moreover, CBD highly appreciated the fact that President Lee made efforts to change Seoul into an environmentally-friendly city

In my opinion, this news would bring a pleasure not only for Mr.Lee ,but also all the Korean people as Mr.Lee was awarded by CBD. I think Mr.Lee is one of the good President that the other Presidents should follow his policy because his policy is to develope country with friendly to the environment.


http://www.korea.net/news.do?mode=detail&thiscode=eng030001&guid=49368

Kim Dae Jung passes away

This is another tragic news about the former South Korean president and Nobel Peace Prize receipient, Kim Dae Jung had passed away at the age of 85. He had been under treatment for pneumonia since July 13, died of “heart failure caused by internal organ dysfunctions

Kim Dae Jung was the president from 1998 till 2003. He had done many things for South Korea especially the "Sunshine Policy" which was connectede the two Koreas' borders by roads and railways. He became a symbol of the South Korean struggle for democracy and the dream of reconciliation, and eventual reunification, with North Korea. Moreover, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Peace Prize in 2000, it was in recognition of his struggle as a pro-democracy campaigner as well as his vision in overcoming five decades of mistrust and hostility to engineer the Korean summit meeting. In addition, he was often praised by his Western supporters as the “Nelson Mandela" of Asia,” although Mr. Kim had a more checkered reputation among his own people.

I feel sad after I finished read this news. In my opinion, I think Mr. Kim is one of the greatest South Korea president because he brought peace to his country. So ,I hope that Thailand would have one president like Mr. Kim who would bring peace and happiness back to Thailand like we used to have in the past. Since Thailand today is so discordant with many shirt groups such as Red shirt, Yellow shirt and Colourful shirt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/world/asia/19kim.html?_r=1&hp

South Korea's worst oil spill blackens west coast

South Korea hired more than 100 ships and thousands of troops to clean up the worst oil spill in its history, which has blackened beaches, coated birds in tar and cast a foul smell over a nature reserve. It is involve the area from 17km of the west coast to about 100km southwest of Seoul. This is threatening to become a major environmental disaster. Moreover, the oil is about 10cm deep , we cannot even see the sand underneath. And now the volunteers and government personnel have been cleaning up oil with buckets and absorbing cloth, treating birds covered in oil and scrubbing blackened rocks.The clean-up alone from that disaster cost around $2.5 billion while the total costs, including fines and settlement of claims, were an estimated $9.5 billion.

After I read this news, I wish it would not be happened in Thailand. First of all, it will definitely destroy the environment ,and also give the air pollution. Furthermore, Thai's government has to spend a lot of money to clean it and for the fines as well.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/south-koreas-worst-oil-spill-blackens-west-coast/2007/12/09/1197135270365.html

South Korea sets emissions target

South Korea said " it plans a 30 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020" By doing this the government decided to reduce the business projection from 813 million tons of emissions to approximately 569 million tons. The plan came during the Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in Copenhagen; as they are concerning about global warming.

South Korea was the 16th-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world according to the International Energy Agency. And if there are no actions are taken to reduce the greenhouse gas, it will increase by 37% in 2020.

I think not only South Korea is concerning about global warming ,but also other countries as well. So I think if every countries help to reduce the greenhouse gas , it will give a big benefit to everybody because they will not have to suffer from global warming effect anymore.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2009/11/17/South-Korea-sets-emissions-target/UPI-87801258504331/

Income growth hits record in Q2

When I read this news I wonder why nowadays South Korean has been develope better and better. Their economic grew up very fast ; it expanded 7.6 percent more than expect , and because the job market improving, and the effect of the economic recovery. Hence, it is affect Korean households's income rose very high in the second quarter. They earned 3.55 million won ($2,990) a month on average approximate 7.7 percent more. Disposable income also jumped 6.8 percent to 2.89 million won. Income increased for both the rich and the poor , and it is seemed to continue to grow up. The income is grew , and thehousehold spending also grew, the data showed, in reflection of improving consumer sentiment. As the result , it will reducing the income gap between the rich and the poor.

I hope that Thailand's economic would grow up very fast like South Korea so all the Thai people will have the better lives.



http://www.koreaherald.com/business/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100813000577

Stocks rebound on eased growth concerns

The stock and shares in most of the countries in Asia have been risen up including South Korea. The stocks in South Korea rose the most in a month on speculation recent declines were excessive given the outlook for the economy. It measure had the largest gain among the 93 global indexes tracked by Bloomberg. There is also a jump in exports spurred economic growth to a 7.2 percent annual pace last quarter.

This is the good news for South Korea as well as other countries that the stocks rose up because it shown their economic were getting better.

http://www.koreaherald.com/business/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100813000617

SGR-1 robots

The unmanned SGR-1 robots were unleashed in South Korea. It has reportedly deployed new high-tech robots equipped with machine guns and grenade launchers along its border with North Korea ; but it is part of trail program. It also has the capacity to target and kill intruders with built-in 5.5mm machine guns or 40mm grenade launchers;however,it cannot fire without permission from a remote human operator. Nevertheless South Korea is making an decision about whether to adopt the robots permanently.

Everything has two sides the SGR-1 as well , it has both advantage and disadvantage.It might safe many soilders'lives but at the same time it might killed many of the enemies ,so I think South Korea should not adopt it.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/7929727/south-korea-deploys-deadly-robot-in-dmz

South Korea Fighting Internet Addiction

Today the number of people addict to the Internet is gradually increasing ; South Korea is searching for ways to deal with the growing problem of Internet addiction.

Eo Gee-jun , president of the Korea Computer Life Institute, says that 26-percent of teenagers and 30-percent of adults are addicted to online video games. He estimated about two millions people that are considered as "Internet addicts" . Now the government with the game developers are blocking anyone under 18 years old from playing Internet games between the hours of 12am and 8am in order to decrease the number of internet addicition.

In my opinion,I think it is good that the South Korea government are considering about Internet addiction because it is one of the major problems that heppened in our society today ,and the number of Internet addiction are more and more. I think people should spend time doing other things apart from Internet such as exercise,chat with friends and etc.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1854477/south_korea_fighting_internet_addiction/

Plastic Surgery

Today the world has improved very fast,a plastic surgery is getting more and more accept from people. Many people think the plastic surgery is the normal thing to do unlike five to ten years ago, the plastic surgery sounds so scary,painful and dangerous.

Korea is one of the leading country for plastic surgery. From the research, Jang Dong-gun and Song Hye-kyo,the actors are the most popular models for plastic surgery in Korea. I think the plastic surgery become popular because everybody want to be good-looking to boost confidence and self-satisfaction. Some people do it in sake of get the better job or promotion to the higher rank. The most people would like to do are their eyes, follow by nose ,facial contours or jaw , skin and wrinkle , liposuction and dental braces respectively.

This Korea trend has been introduced to Thailand and made the great affect in Thai's people. Since nowadays more and more Thai's people especially teenager want to do the plastic surgery. In addition, there are the big number of increasing for people who do the plastic surgery.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/08/05/2010080500997.html

Park Yong-ha commits suicide

This is the tragic news about Park Yong-ha, the Korea singer who had commits suicide. There are many question why he killed himself since he was quite successful in his career and he did not left any massege as a clue for his motive.

However, his close friends said "Two to three days before Park Yong-ha obviously stress with his work and told them that his work and life were too difficult" ,so the police think this is the motive of his suicide.

After I finished read this news I felt very sad because I think nowadays the world is too compettitive which make people so stress and commit suicides more and more especially the countries like Japan and Korea. Further infomation is , Korea is the world’s highest suicide rate. For every 100,000 Koreans, 21.5 commit suicide which is very high rate.


http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news/asian-entertainment/korean-entertainment-news/fans-all-over-asia-mourn-the-death-of-actorsinger-park-yong-ha/