About korea as a donor

After there was a big battle in 1953 in korea, korea was one of the poorest countries. To rebuild the nation korea government ask the fund to alliance at that time. Providing a loan and supplies certainly contributed to rebuild economy like present day. From 1963 we started to provide something for other countries as a donor. At first we invited people who came from other nations to teach various skills. After about 20 years, korea made funds self-supported to help them. It was an important year for starting donation country truly. After that, though there was many economic crisis in korea during about 20 years, ODA volume reached one thousands billion won in 2010. KOICA which manage the project regarding donations to other countries has 27 branches at other countries and OECD report analyze that increase rate of ODA is one of the highest among other countries.

However, Providing ODA can have an adverse effect on the people naturally. Firstly, many recipient countries have suffered strong corruption, so money and supplies don’t reach to normal people. Corruption is able to cut the flow of supplies to people who really want to receive help. Thus, many people living in korea state that it is meaningless until developing country change their distribution system. Secondly, providing something steadily can make people to be getting more and more dependant. One Africa country is living to depend upon another for help about 70%. It can break their self-surviving capacity like a plant in the glass house. Of course, present amount of ODA is not enough for them to keep living their life. However, above two reasons, it can make hard to think providing donation easily. For example, present administration has tough stance toward north-korea because there are some political reasons, but above this most people in korea don’t believe that supplies which are made by us flow to normal people. It might be the main reason why we were able to agree to provide something to north sides easily.

Hence, it is difficult to supply ODA to other countries simply, but we were one of recipient country in the world. That fund such as ODA is certainly part of contribution to rebuild korea as much as present. We can make solutions whenever as long as we try to find solutions. Helping other people is duty as a human. Therefore, korea don’t stop to make the fund for other countries. We mustn’t forget what they did.

Can NEAT be a national test?

 When I was in high school, I was able to get a good grade from English test, so I thought that I was good at English. However I was shocked after I had gone abroad to study English in foreign country. Many people who I talked didn’t understand what I say because my pronunciation was really bad. After I realized that, I had to study English pronunciation again. These problems are caused by korea’s system of English education. It’s difficult for the system to help students to improve their English skills. SAT is present system which requires reading skills from students, but NEAT is a new test system. It might be a national test soon.

 There are some reasons why we should change from SAT to NEAT. First, present system is not enough for students to improve their real English skills. I think that a language is not academic thing. It is conversation skills. To learn English as a language, we have to do writing, listening, reading as well as speaking. Although most students in korea have been studying English for a long time, they can’t try to talk with people from other country when they meet them. Neat is included writing and speaking section. It goes without saying that it can help student’s English skills. Secondly, problems of private academy are serious problem in korea. Government said NEAT can solve this problems and it can change student’s parents mind which don't believe public education. Also they say It will be main English test instead of TOEIC test. To get a high grade in TOEIC test, many people have to spend lots of money and this money flow to other country. It can decrease cost problems in private academy market.

 Finally, Korea government decide to change present english test. I think many people already agree with these changes because they aren't satisfied with present english test system. Most students have been studying for a long time, we have studied english until now On the other hands, If we changed from SAT to NEAT, it would happen other problems certainly. However, i can insist that NEAT is better than SAT for english.

Is working holiday good opportunity or not?

 Last year i took the airplane to go to austrailia because i had gotten an opportunity of visiting there. I had already received an working holiday visa before i got there. As soon as i arrived in sydney, I had to start working immediately. I started to work as an painter for about 4 months. While i was working there, i felt that my owner gave me lower wage than other labors like that i bacame an exploit labor. However,during staying there, i could meet many foreign freinds and experience other culture easily and study english as much as i expected. Also many people said that there are lots of reason why we should get an opportunity of going abroad through the system of working holiday. The system has both sides positive and negative.

 Positive side is largely divided into 3 points. First we can get an opportunity of studying language easily. If you want to meet foreigner to study language skills in korea, it's certainly hard to meet them. To improve our language skills, meeting foreiners is very important, so if you're in other nations you could get a chance of living and working with them easily. It goes without saying that it's the best method of improving your skills. Secondly, we can make lots of money compared with korea. In austrailia, they normally give 15 dollars per hour. It is 3 times higher than korea. Although it's not easy for people who just come to austraila to get a legal wage, many people are just satisfied with earning money more than korea. The third reason is that working holiday visa is the easiest method of going abroad to work, study and experience. If you want to go abroad to study or live there, it's so difficult more than your thought. However, you can go abroad easily through working holiday visa. Also spending money to get the visa is low.
On the other hands, these systems have problems. First people who come from other nations are always exposured dangerous situation regarding to crime such as fraud and tax. For example, Some articles show that Some owner is trying to deceive to earn lilegal money in Hen house. Secondly, like that It's not easy to get  legal wage during working like an exploit workers and it's even normal situation on the present day.

 At the last class, we dicussed about solutions of this problem, so we thought that korea government have to ask to other government which are proceeding working holiday that they make their regilations more strong to imrove their right of people. Also korea government have to give guide line, before people leave from our nation. However, we totally agree with this opnion. It's up to person. If they have clear objective, they are able to overcome the situation and get the success which they want.