Korean students usually attend the university for about six years, due to going abroad for English studying. When they submit the application for getting a job to companies, Toeic results have to be included in it.
Poor students when graduating from the university are indebted to banks because of loans for school expense.
Except graduates obtaining regular jobs, considerable ones go to work usually for four years in a certain company, each two years as a dispatched worker and contract one, and then dismissed from the company permanently. Because if a company employs a worker as the same type of work for over two years, it must continue to employ the worker as a permanent one according to the labor law. So the company employs a worker for example as a dispatched type, just before completing two years, fires and then employs the person as a contract one nominally.
A sociologist who studied and obtained doctorate in France wrote a book titled “The 880,000 won’s Generation”, which described unemployed graduates or temporary young people in a very realistic tone. The book was paind much attention to by many people, because it bore the gloomy sketches of the young graduate workers and the grotesque foreboding of the market capitalism, together with the obvious message expressing the number ‘880,000 won (about $780 of a monthly salary)’ title. The sociologist's prospect seems unfortunately not wrong so far.
Korea’s economy caught in a state of national default was helped from IMF on December 1997, after that Korea’s economy has been kept in the low-rates of growth compared with the previous period of the high-rates of over 8-9 percent per year like today’s China. As a result, in spite of compartively sound economy, several graduates did not obtain regular jobs, even worse the unstable graduate ones have accumulated continually since that times. The local companies which had experienced the cruel recession avoided employing the middle-abled graduates as a regular worker in consideration with labor cost and a strong union. They employ excellent and necessary graduates as a regular basis.
The unemployment is nowadays a worldly prblem regardless of the developing level of the country’s economy. The unique recipe is to boost entrepreneurship in order to make jobs. But the entrepreneurship is related to human will and creativity rather than the solid economic policy. We should analyze the real world objectively, but what is more important is we should encourage the young people to change their attitudes positively. Any countries have their own economic problems, and historically we could see that the presnt economic problems are smaller than the previous times. (The end)
2010년 3월 25일 목요일
2010년 3월 14일 일요일
A Non-possessive Life
A wide-known Korean monk, Beob Jung, died in March 11 at the age of 78. He entered into the Buddhist way at the earlier 20s of his age of 1955. Especially, after he had went through Buddhism learning, undergoing Zen meditating discipline, editting of Buddhism dictionary, and editor in chief of the Buddhism Newspaper, since 1975 he has lived alone in small temples, only writing books and zen-meditating.
He gave valued messages to people by books. His most famous book is ‘Non-possession’, which was printed 180 editions.
Just before his death, he said, “Now, I am going to desert my time and space. Do not arrange my funeral rites which should be worthless and annoying others. Do not prepare a coffin and shroud for me, quickly burn my body worn in usual monk’s robes at a nearby and convenient place. Do not try to pick up small crystals in my ashes, and do not set up a pagoda for me.”
There was a long line of many condolers in the ground of Kilsang Temple, where his body is placed. President Lee Myong-Bak also visited the temple, reminisced about his teachings. (The end)
He gave valued messages to people by books. His most famous book is ‘Non-possession’, which was printed 180 editions.
Just before his death, he said, “Now, I am going to desert my time and space. Do not arrange my funeral rites which should be worthless and annoying others. Do not prepare a coffin and shroud for me, quickly burn my body worn in usual monk’s robes at a nearby and convenient place. Do not try to pick up small crystals in my ashes, and do not set up a pagoda for me.”
There was a long line of many condolers in the ground of Kilsang Temple, where his body is placed. President Lee Myong-Bak also visited the temple, reminisced about his teachings. (The end)
2010년 3월 8일 월요일
The Regulation of Marketing Spending
The Korea Communications Commission and the leading telecom operators agreed to curb their marketing spending in March 6, 2010.
The agreement is to cap their marketing spending at 20 percent of their annual sales from next year, and this year to limit 22 percent in consideration of the vitalization of smartphones just recently shown in local market. If this agreement not observed, the Commission is to take strong disciplinary measures such as fine-imposing and suspension of business etc.
Choi Si-Joong, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, heads of the telecom operators and other Internet companies had a meeting at Press Center for a purpose of the vitalization of mobile Internet, compromised the guidelines of marketing spending observance.
In general, the marketing spending mainly consists of mobile subsidies and giveway of cash or commodities. The three telecom operators have been increasing the marketing spending to 25 percent of their annual sales, which plays a virtually last promotional resort in a circumstance that consumers can hardly sense the differences of moblie phones qualities. According to the guidelines, the marketing spending statement should be publicized every quarter.
The telecom operators said the saved money from the marketing spending would be used on R&D of mobile technologies development and content creation. The three competitors also agreed to integrate each application store and immediately to operate a task force team for working out its integrating procedure.
But critics indicate whether the governmental rule of the marketing spending has validity, or not, moreover, whether the guidelines could be well observed remains questionable. Nevertheless, it is still strongly grounded that the function of government as an adjustor and regulator needs such a situation that the excessive competition of the three operators exhausts themselves and encroach their potential. (The end)
The agreement is to cap their marketing spending at 20 percent of their annual sales from next year, and this year to limit 22 percent in consideration of the vitalization of smartphones just recently shown in local market. If this agreement not observed, the Commission is to take strong disciplinary measures such as fine-imposing and suspension of business etc.
Choi Si-Joong, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, heads of the telecom operators and other Internet companies had a meeting at Press Center for a purpose of the vitalization of mobile Internet, compromised the guidelines of marketing spending observance.
In general, the marketing spending mainly consists of mobile subsidies and giveway of cash or commodities. The three telecom operators have been increasing the marketing spending to 25 percent of their annual sales, which plays a virtually last promotional resort in a circumstance that consumers can hardly sense the differences of moblie phones qualities. According to the guidelines, the marketing spending statement should be publicized every quarter.
The telecom operators said the saved money from the marketing spending would be used on R&D of mobile technologies development and content creation. The three competitors also agreed to integrate each application store and immediately to operate a task force team for working out its integrating procedure.
But critics indicate whether the governmental rule of the marketing spending has validity, or not, moreover, whether the guidelines could be well observed remains questionable. Nevertheless, it is still strongly grounded that the function of government as an adjustor and regulator needs such a situation that the excessive competition of the three operators exhausts themselves and encroach their potential. (The end)
2010년 3월 6일 토요일
The Separation of Korean Unions
Lee Seok-Che(president of KT) and Kim Gu-Heon (its union leader) adopted the ‘Joint Declaration for Creative New Culture between the Labor and Management’ in March 5, 2010 at Olleh Campus located in Seo-cho dong Seo-cho gu Seoul.
The joint declaration contains ▲ the initiative of corporate value creation & permanent continued peace between the labor and management ▲ efforts of employment stability & exertion of the win-win program for both parties ▲ action of social responsibility ▲ job-creating.
The KT’s labor and management additionally agreed to set up scholarship funds of 400million won for poor students of secondary and high schools. The funds are formed by union dues and company’s donation.
KT union which is one of the largest unions last July withdrew from the Korean Confederation of Trade that has been blamed for the radical movement. There is another moderate unions organization, the Federation of Korea Trade in Korea.
Before this, ‘New Hope Coalition’, the third unions organization, held its inauguration in March 4, 2010 at the Civil Servant Training Center of Seoul City Government, where 120 leaders and executives of 40-odd unions participated. This newly organized confederation includes KT, Hyndai Heavy Industries, Seoul Metro, National Federation of Region Public Corporations Unions, National Federation of Civil Servants Unions, National Federation of Civil Servants Unions of the Local Offices of Education, etc. They adopted the establishing purposes that they would promise a clean labor movement, serve laborers and the people. Especially, they stressed a labor movement trusted by the people, through policies and cooperation rather than physical activities. They stated clearly that they would seek not political purposes and solutions, but practical benefits for themselves.
The conservative is welcoming this separation as an reasonable choice. We cannot know now that the separation leads to sudden nominal loose unions, in fact, similar to a collapse of labor movement in Korea. But it seems certain that the split would accelearte weakening the unions’ solidarity. (The end)
The joint declaration contains ▲ the initiative of corporate value creation & permanent continued peace between the labor and management ▲ efforts of employment stability & exertion of the win-win program for both parties ▲ action of social responsibility ▲ job-creating.
The KT’s labor and management additionally agreed to set up scholarship funds of 400million won for poor students of secondary and high schools. The funds are formed by union dues and company’s donation.
KT union which is one of the largest unions last July withdrew from the Korean Confederation of Trade that has been blamed for the radical movement. There is another moderate unions organization, the Federation of Korea Trade in Korea.
Before this, ‘New Hope Coalition’, the third unions organization, held its inauguration in March 4, 2010 at the Civil Servant Training Center of Seoul City Government, where 120 leaders and executives of 40-odd unions participated. This newly organized confederation includes KT, Hyndai Heavy Industries, Seoul Metro, National Federation of Region Public Corporations Unions, National Federation of Civil Servants Unions, National Federation of Civil Servants Unions of the Local Offices of Education, etc. They adopted the establishing purposes that they would promise a clean labor movement, serve laborers and the people. Especially, they stressed a labor movement trusted by the people, through policies and cooperation rather than physical activities. They stated clearly that they would seek not political purposes and solutions, but practical benefits for themselves.
The conservative is welcoming this separation as an reasonable choice. We cannot know now that the separation leads to sudden nominal loose unions, in fact, similar to a collapse of labor movement in Korea. But it seems certain that the split would accelearte weakening the unions’ solidarity. (The end)
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