Essay 4 by Lianne

  My name is Kim Choon Seung (김중성) , 36 years old. I'm a North Korean missionary. Well, some of you may say that there are no christians in North Korea. However as you see, I'm the evidence. Also, there are more Christians including me and most of the Christians in North Korea are usually called the underground Christians. The reason is because they usually have church underground.
 
  To introduce shotly about me, I am a radio DJ in the program "This is Seoul, South Korea"(여기는 대한민국 서울입니다.) at the Far East Broadcasting Company (극동방송). My program is on air at 1am in FM 106.9 MHz. Also, there's an easy way to check out the smart phone application. So, some of you who are interested in my program please don't hesitate. These days I am also working as a actor in a small musical too. From the experience of the singer in North Korea, I'm trying to use my talent in many ways.
 
  My radio program is a program which  tells about the gospel to North Korea. I have a faith that God will let christians in my country listens to this and know more about God. As a North Korean escaper, leading this program means very dangerous to me. Through this program I get to show where I am to the people in my country. Also the program shows me that I escaped from North Korea and that I don't even devote to Kim Jung Eun. So usually I get a call that is threatening me about my family in North Korea and wants me to come back. However, I'm not afraid. Not at all. I trust my God.
 
  North Korea is a scary country. It  ruled by only one person. The country is seriously the worst country I can say. It has a huge difference between people who work for the country and who don't. When poor people are barely surviving starvation, the rich people are having nice dinner in the restautant eating steak and playing with iphone.

  I hated this. I hated that this was happening in the same land. I escaped from North Korea. I  I ran away through China alone having my family behind in North Korea. I was afraid that I could get caught and have to go back to Nort Korea again. The most thing that I was scared was the torture that I had to get if I get caught.


Camp 12



Camp 22





Camp 14

These are the camps in North Korea. It is aimed about five camps are here. These are made to torture the people who escaped or who did something wrong.  The camp itself looks terrible. However, the torture hanged in the camp is much more horrible.





  These are the only part of the tortures people get. They make threaten people to step on the pregnant woman's stomach and make the baby die. You can see the person crying because he doesn't want to. However it is no choice because when he refuse the soldier's order he will die even his family will die too.

  The second picture shows that a soldier ties a pregnant woman on a tree. That tree is a place where many people got killed. You can see the skulls on the ground. I can't believe that this kind of thing is still happening in this world. Killing people isn't a problem or hard thing for the torturing soldiers. It's a routine. Probably some North Korean is getting killed by the soldier right now too.

  In the last picture a man is tied to a tree and got nail on his feet. Also he is threaded steel on his nose just like a cow. The politicians are throwing rocks to him. The man who works for the country doesn't even care. He is just laughing at him. He is the same person in the second picture who killed the pregnant woman.

 In a torturing camp like this, so many tortures are going around and this isn't a place where one human can live. North Korea must be destroyed. The only way is to pray for the North Korea. Since Satan is having a charge in this country, the only way is the growing of the church in South Korea. We should think about their humanity. These people have right to live happy.

 I have a plan to tell more about gospel to the people in my country. I will let them know how great God is.  I will let them know the people who they are beliving is not right. I feel sorrow when I think about my family and friends in North Korea. It is totally true that the only way is praying. Please pray for the North Koreans. 

Essay 4 by Lizzie

Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Sarah
6:00 AM
  The alarm woke me up from my nightmare. I didn't remember anything, but it wasn't pleasant. I found myself sweating. I took a shower and got dressed. It was another day of endless work. At least the weather was nice.
8:30 AM
  I sat on the bench inside Central Station. The subway had arrived, but for some reason I didn't want to get on it. I watched hundreds of people breezing in and out.
8:40 AM
  I was at my desk in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. I opened my laptop and checked for e-mails. I made a few replies, and just as I was debating on whether I should get some coffee or not, my phone beeped in my jacket. It was my boss. I was heading out of my office when I heard a tremendous explosion. I covered my ears and got down on the floor.
  'What just happened?' Almost everyone was down on the floor. Some of the windows were broken. I looked around, dazed, and saw someone pointing towards the window. I couldn't believe this. Thick, black smoke and a huge cloud of fire was coming out from the upper side of the North Tower, and it looked like something had crashed into it. I saw a wing sticking out... an airplane?
  It took a while for me to take this in. Shattered glass and heavy metal pieces were falling down, hitting the sidewalk I had been on less than twenty minutes ago. A lot of the employees on my floor were heading outside quickly. I was on the 72nd floor of the South Tower, and waiting for the elevator seemed too risky. I headed down the stairway with hundreds of other people, running for their lives.
9:03 AM
  What everyone had quietly feared just became reality. A second plane hit the South Tower. What had been the largest and most complicated incident in city history instantly doubled in magnitude. The whole building shook violently, throwing me off my feet. The floor crumbled as I struggled to stand without success. I was dizzy and disoriented. The explosion made my ears ring. Luckily, the crash was above me.  I scrambled down the rest of the stairs, and all I could think was that I needed to get out of this building, now.
  9:15 AM
  Black smoke clouded my vision. I took off my jacket and covered them over my nose and mouth. It was almost impossible to see now, and I had no idea where I was.  Fire fighters and rescue teams were here now, helping old people and the wounded. After what seemed like forever, I finally reached the lobby of the World Trade Center. I staggered outside with all my remaining strength. With my first breath of fresh air, I looked up at the sky and lost consciousness.

Peter
8:45 AM
  I am a journalist; I am always on the lookout for exclusive news. Today, it wasn't far. As soon I heard the distant explosion, I knew something was up. I took off instinctively, camera in hand. I didn't know what I was looking for, until I saw the Twin Towers. Black smoke and flames were coming out of one of the towers; I could easily see that a plane had crashed into it.
  My mind instantly traveled back to February, 1993. There had been a massive bomb terror in the same building, killing six and injuring more than a thousand people. However, this was different. This was terrorism aimed straight at America. Just twenty minutes ago I was at my office, drinking Starbucks and surfing the Internet. Probably a lot of people at the WTC were too. At the same time, terrorists were making their kamikaze flight towards the Twin Towers.
9:00 AM
  As I got towards the scene of the catastrophe, the place was in total chaos. People were running in every direction.  Even the cops were panicking. Someone shouted something unintelligible, pointing up. Just then, another plane crashed into the other tower.
  My ears thudded, and I was thrown several feet off the ground. Peopled yelled to get away. I managed to stumble into a small shop. All the windows were broken. Glass and pieces of metal started to fall down. They made a thunderous sound as the hit the pavement. After a few minutes when they settled down, people started to emerge from the doors of the Twin Towers. Police and rescue teams rushed to help them evacuate.  A woman fell unconscious, exhausted. I ran out, slung my arm over her shoulders and helped her to a safe place. She mumbled a short prayer of thanks and fainted.

Wednesday, September 12, 2001

  Yesterday was probably one of the most tragic events in U.S. history. Four planes had been hijacked that morning; two crashed into the North/South Towers of the World Trade Center, another crashed into the Pentagon, and the last one was headed towards White House or Camp David, but crashed into a field because of a passenger revolt. Altogether, the four planes carried 266 people, including the terrorists. There is no word on any survivors. The terror took the lives of 2,800~3,000 people from 90 different countries.

Sources - <The 9/11 Commision Report >

Linda Kim: Essay 4

Research paper- The Rwanda genocide 

     Hello, I am a reporter Ree. Today, we are going to deal with the sad history of Rwanda, "the Rwanda genocide". I just came to Rwanda to know more about this pandemonium. Here, I am in a school that was just kept without any handling after the genocide. Here's about at least 50 corpse and it just look like a picture. So why did this happen? Why did the people must have died? I met one woman Amanda and she helped me by joining interview.

 

     She said that the story begins from a long ago. There was the Hutu and the Tutsi. They interacted each other by marriage. The thing that one is Hutu or Tutsi just mattered in showing the relationships between two of the government power. As time goes by, this classification actually made self identity and sights looking at the others. Finally, the thing that should never happen happened. The Hutu and the Tutsi became wholly different society.

 

     At this time, Rwanda became a colony of Germany with Brundi. As Germany was defeated at the World War I, the colony Rwanda-Brundi became a colony of Belgium. And here, Belgium introduced a caste system. Belgium seperarted Hutu and Tutsi completely. They just treated the Tutsi who were the minority well, and bullied the Hutu. So the Tutsi became the upper class and the Hutu started to think that Tutsi is one of the invaders like Europeans.

 

     Amanda told me that she was even kicked by the school. Even more, when she went back to home, her sister's husband told her that he can not let her in since she is a cockroach. Tutsi treated Hutu as the way just like how they treated coakroach.

 

     Habiarimana, who dictated twenty one years, said that the Hutu is superior of Tutsi to make them to be one. Amanda reenacted Habiarimana's word. "Since Hthe Hutu is much more superior than Tutsi, all of the ruling class must be full of the Hutu. The Hutu should not marry the Tutsi or employ Tutsi or even have sympathetic feeling.

 

     She told me that Habiarimana finally died. And this one death made a lot of death of people. People started to kill the Tutsi whenever they face them. She describes that the society was really gross. People just killed each other.

 

     Today, this big genocide has caught a breath. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has been made, and about 90,000 people were arrested. But still, the people who leaded this genocide are not admitting their fault. The Hutu who went to Tanzania, Burundi, or Uganda to be safe were afraid of the Tutsi. With helps of UN, the Hutu and the Tutsi now live together in a town.

 

     The country where the injurer and the victim co-exists is this place, Rwanda! People in Rwanda is trying to overcome sad history by remembering this incident. They still have lots of works to solve, but since there are many people who are trying to cut off the resentment of the cruel history, Amanda believed that one day she and her country would overcome the hurt.

 

     It might be hard, but me, reporter Ree will also keep praying for the country Rwanda. I hope we can smile a big smile all together when I come back to Rwanda again later.

james essay 4

james essay4

 

I am adam. I live in the garden of eden. I have good friends. lion, turtle, mosquito, sheep is all my friends. I named them all. Also God is my friend, too. I was alone human in this village since God gave me sara last month. God is close with me. I talk with him every day. I'm living so happily.

 

I can eat every thing in this village But just not only one fruit in the middle of village. I don't know why but God told me to not eat that one. He said that I will die if I eat that one. that is very scary so I don't give an eye on that fruit.

 

3 days later...

 

A snake was talking with sara, but I didn't mind because snake was not bad. Sara is coming to me with snake. sara seems to be little exciting. sara took me to the middle of the village where the fruit was.

 

she said to me "adam! lets eat this friut! snake told me the secret of this fruit! it makes our eyes open and know what is right and wrong! snake said that we can be like God!" when she finished her talk she grabed the fruit and ate it. And she gave the fruit to me. I was frustrating but ate it because sara ate that.

 

after we ate the fruit. we saw that we were naked all the time!! It was very embarrassing. So we covered our body with some plants and hide in to some cave. I am very scary because of what God have said.

 

As I thought, God was finding me out of the cave. I could't go out.. he founded me in a minute. he roared to me "why are you hiding from me!!". and he said "i know that you have eaten the fruit. i'm very disappointed to you. get out of here." he threw me out of the garden of eden.

 

source from bible.

Ben's 4th Essay : Last survival in the Japan's big earthquake and tsunami

2011.03.11. Fri

My name is Kori Tsuyu (코오리 츠유) . I am 25 years old man who lives in Fukushima.

My hand is shaking... I am in fair now. I am starting to write this in English for everybody in the world. So please understand some mistakes in grammar and vocabulary. Today, There was big earthquake here.. I was hiking MT.Fukushima. so I could avoid tsunami.

But my familiy and friends were not... I can't find them now. I can't live with out them..

Have earthquake and tsunami accured only here..? or all in Japan? Now I don't know it.

I have not experienced any big earthquakes like this one.

I am very tired now .. I am going to sleep now. Let's find any survival tomorrow.

2011.03.12. Sat

Today, I was trying to find any survivals. um...The result was pessimistic. I went inside at destroyed building to find people and then the building was totally destroyed so I am confined at this XXXX building I regret bitterly. Also there is very little foods and water. I am very afraid now, If i die at here , Can anybody find me?

I have to think positively. I am sure that people are trying to find me. so i will be rescued as soon as possible. I have to live until that time. I am hungry now..but I think i have to save this foods. There are only foods for 2days......but I have to held out at least 6 or 7 days... Wow I am going to diet now.. Hahaha ... I want to see my family. I really miss them

I am going to sleep now I don't know what time it is .. My brain is so messy. I want to get out of here


2011.03.13.Sun

I can find the radio signal in my phone. I think situation is really bad in outside.  A nuclear power plant in Fukushima. So Police are evacuating people. There is radioactive matter in this city. wow.. Percentage of surviving has downed . If i survive from here it is a miracle from God. Now, I have only choice to pray to God. Bur I feel better to hear news. Rescue workers are trying to find me. I have hope. I won't give up my life.

2011.03.14 Mon

 

Now I am very tired to write this one.. because I am so hungry.. I have no power. Today, there were small earthquakes. I think this building is not sturdy. It has shaken a lot. I think this building will be destroy if there are earthquake one more time. Am i going to die at here..? `I want to get answer from God...

Is there are any rescue workers? I haven't heard any sound from them.

Now., I have very small food.. I am not sure that I can survive..

2011.03.15. Wed

 

opps... There is no more water anymore.... I can't find water at this building.

I tried to find exit.. I couldn't find any exit. Minor shock of earthquake has stopped. Maybe rescue workers are trying to find me.. oh that's my last hope.

I don't have any power to move around. If I die, please burn my body, and give it to my family if they are live. I want to sleep forever.... I really miss my family. I am so sorry mother that I said mean to you. I really love you guys. I miss that I have played with you. If I survive let's go to eat sushi.

2011.03.16 Thu

Food has been ran out.. How long can I endure from here. Situation is very bad.. I think i am contaminated by radioactivity. Now.. I reach at my limit. I can't see well... I am very dizzy. I want to live and see my family again. I really love you , mom and dad

 

2011.03.18. Sat

 

I am in Tokyo National Hospital. I have survived yesterday and I have slept until now. I was blacked out after writing last diary. I was almost die. I really thank to God for save me. It was very worth experience. I have almost given up my life. I feel like I am living the second life. I will publish a book. Many news paper company asked my story. They want to tell my stories to people. I will be kind to everyone. I want to do missionary work for all over the world. I will live my second life for God.  I get a big problem. It caused by radioactivity
It doesn't come out to surface. But it is killing me little by little. I will work for God until I die

 

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Essay4 : Annie (After the nuclear bomb)

I'm Jannet, 14 years old girl. I'm American, but I live in Nagasaki, Japan. I was going trip to my grandparent's house with my family, mom, dad, older sister and younger brother. We were happy and the weather was so good. But suddenly, a light had shown up over the hill. My older sister, Charlotte was shocked by the light and fell down on my knee. Dad shouted, "Close the window!" But the wind was so strong so I couldn't close the window. My younger brother Danny was keeping crying. My family was in chaos. After few minutes, the wind was stopped. My mom said "What was it? Was it..." Dad stopped her. Maybe they already expected that the light was nuclear bomb. We unloaded and walked to our grandparent's house, Miyoshi. But there was nobody in their house. I asked to neighbor. "Where is my grandparent?" She said "They went to Hiroshima to buy some food and presents for you." I passed the word on to my mom. She said nothing but she seems to be shocked. After few days, I went to the hospital secretly. I couldn't say anything. It was horrible. There were numerous people. Some was laid on their blood, some was laid on their rubbish filth. All people were shouting. "Water! Water!" But there was nobody who listen them. I went to the house and bring some water. When I came in to the hospital, they rushed to me and struggled to drink water. I sat down and looked my right side. There was the woman, but she was just sitting down. So I asked to a man next to me. "Why is this woman just sitting down?" He said that she died. Soon, three men came and dragged the woman out.  The people who were attacked by the nuclear bomb had the same symptom. Their hair was fallen out, they wanted to drink water, their body was covered with injury and they died. Since that day, I went to the hospital steadily. So I couldn't take care of my family. One night, Charlotte came to me. She was pretty and her hair was most beautiful. She was holding comb on her hand then; she brushed her hair in front of me. A bunch of her hair fell out. I couldn't say anything. I tried to say something to her, but I didn't know what I have to say. She said that it is secret and went out. I hold my pillow and cried. After few days, there was infectious disease.  My family was no exception, except Charlotte. When I came around, I got 2 news’s -Danny was died and mom was pregnant. I couldn't believe my younger brother’s death. And when I saw Charlotte, she seems to be almost dying. My family worked at the hospital. My dad and I helped patients and my mom and Charlotte helped the children who lost their parents. Days had been awful and every day was seems like a year. My mom said that she want to give birth to her baby in Nagasaki. I couldn't understand her. Nagasaki was attacked by the nuclear bomb few days ago. Mom already knew that but maybe she didn't want to admit it. Her face seems to be fixed so we walked to Nagasaki. It was cold weather. We were fatigued. And few days later, Charlotte died. Her death was a big shock to my parents. She was a source of pride to my parents. We buried her near forest and keep walking. We climbed the hill and my dad rubbed the ground and said. “Here is Nagasaki.” There was nothing. There was no house, no people and no school. Nothing. Mom said “Let’s go back.” I was angry at her but I couldn't say anything because she seems to be shocked. After a week, She gave birth to her baby in empty house. I covered a baby in a shawl. I carefully opened the shawl to see the baby’s face. Then, I threw the baby. The baby cried. But I couldn't move. The baby has no eyes. There was skin instead of eyes. I called my dad. “Dad, look at this.” He said. “I know, she spilled blood so much. She kept worrying you until she died.” Then I realized what happened. My mom died. I couldn't believe it. My dad buried her and the baby. He judged that the baby couldn't live without her eyes. So he buried them and came back home and said. “Jannet, this is not an end. You should be strong and brave. Can you do it?” I nodded. My dad smiled and hugged me. The sun set over the hill.

Jaehyoung Kim: Essay 4

iPhone's Launch


Hello, my name is Kelvin, and I’m working as a freelance IT journalist. I’m here with you to share my experiences with my first iPhone, which greatly influenced me, and the world.

iPhone was first unveiled at the Macworld 2007 convention, which took place January 9, 2007. (It was later discovered that they were developing it since 2004) Since I was using a MacBook and having a great interest on what Apple’s doing, I joined the convention right away, in which I became one of the 50,000 people to hear the greatest Keynote of Stevie Jobs ever.

In his Keynote, Jobs first introduced that he’s going to unveil three greatest electronic gadgets in history: the widescreen iPod with touch controls, the breakthrough internet communicator, and the revolutionary mobile phone. And soon, he added, “These are not three separated devices. This is one device. And we are calling it, the iPhone!”

At first, since I had been using some cellphones of Nokia that they call ‘smartphone’, I never thought that smartphones can take the role of the computers. For me, smartphone was never more than a toy that I can play with, before I met iPhone. At that time, traditional ‘smartphones’ were so fixed and crippled to be taking role of computer; it was more like a phone with e-mail feature.

However, iPhone dropped me a fresh shock. Even though there were a lots of features lacking if we compare it to today’s iPhone, iPhone was a blazing cutting-edge device over all at that time. By introducing its multi-touching screen with revolutionary user interface that no one had experience before, iPhone has gained the top hardware to run its application. Moreover, with App Store, the first unified software market solution, Apple announced to supply their phones with uncountable applications, by which users can enjoy almost every features that they want for their phone.

Since Apple announced the launch of iPhone, which was placed on June 2007, I was not able to sleep. After counting more than hundreds day awaiting for iPhone, I finally heard the news that iPhone is going to sale on June 29, 2007, at 6:00 pm, in New York.
I couldn’t wait more. Immediately, I packed my tent and went to New York. Though I thought that I’m going to be the first one to buy iPhone since I pitched my tent in front of the 5th Avenue store two days before the launch, there were already more than hundreds of people awaiting for iPhone.

Finally, the day of iPhone’s launch came. After my long waiting, I could see iPhone officially launched in front of me at 6 o’clock. The line, stretched to more than a thousand, began to move slowly, and I could see people who just bought an iPhone overjoying with their iPhones.

About 10 minutes later, a rumor was spread that there’s only 400 iPhones in 5th Avenue store and therefore, not everyone in this line will be getting an iPhone. Though I didn’t care about the rumor since I was at position #100-#150 in line, I could hear a babel of voices behind me. But since the line was still moving forward continually, they seemed to be just waiting for their turn.

After few minutes of waiting, I was able to get into the store, and buy my iPhone. I bought the 8GB model, which costed me US$ 599. (There were two models available: a 4GB model priced at US$ 499 and an 8GB model at US$ 599.)

Even after I bought my iPhone, they kept letting people in. Since I could see people at position #500-#550 getting into the store and coming out with their iPhones, I thought the rumor, that there’s only 400 iPhones, is bunk. Anyway, at 7 o’clock, the line was largely over and people who didn’t wait so long was able to come into the store.

When I got back to home, I was not able to wait more. Immediately, I unboxed my iPhone. Though there was only iPhone and charger in the box (not even a manual!), I can’t tell you how I was excited to see my iPhone performing its amazing features. On my fingertip, I could do almost everything that I did on my MacBook!

Apple did not satisfy with its first-generation iPhone. On July 11, 2008, Apple released the iPhone 3G which added 3G functionality to iPhone, by which you could freely surf the internet without Wi-Fi. iPhone 3G was followed by iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5 in turn and countless features were added to it. I’m using iPhone 4S currently, which is commonly known as the last iPhone of Steve Jobs.

Never forget that iPhone is the first phone to open today’s smartphone world. If Mac and iPod changed computing technology and music market, iPhone didn’t just change phone technology. It completely redesigned internet, business and even our daily habit. Though there are some side-effects of smartphones, I have no doubt that iPhone is one of the greatest invention throughout our history.


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John Kim's essay 4

World War II

John Kim

  I am an U.S. army. We didn't have much to do since America was peaceful, but some other countries are at war. We did not wanted to be part of the war, and stay neutral.

  One day, me and the other soldiers heard the news about the Pearl Harbor, and how Japanese has attacked it. I realized that there is no possibility for us to avoid the fight now. As I thought, we were going to be sent to war. The commander told us that we are going to fight in the Battle of the Coral Sea. This was probably the first time that aircraft carriers were used in battle. I was carried in a fleet. Then suddenly, I heard loud noises. It was the Japanese fleet. Then we started to fire back. We had a big problem. We had no idea where the Japanese fleets were, so we couldn't aim properly, but had to guess where the Japanese fleets are. Then we figured out that the Japanese couldn't really see us either, and none of us got hit by their bombs. This was one of our first encounter with the Japanese, so we learned some tactics for this war.

  I heard some news from my wife, who is back in America. She sent me a letter. She wrote that she has been working in a aircraft factory, and so has most of her friends back there has been. Since all the men are fighting in war, there were only women left to take care of the supplies. She also told me that the workers' pay is pretty good, and the economy has gotten better than how it used to be before the war. That was very surprising, that a war could actually help a country economically, by giving a lot of people jobs.

  This war has been going on forever. I thought this war would never end. But today I heard that our army is going to bomb Japan with an atomic bomb. I've never heard of that before, but I heard that it is a very powerfull bomb and Japan will have no choice but to surrender.

  The next day, I heard that Japan has surrendered. The  Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has lead us to victory. I was thrilled to hear that. I felt so happy that the war ended without having to have big injuries.

  When me and the troops returned back to America, we honored by all people, for what we have done for this country.

Essay 4: A Singular National Party Movement

Essay 4: A Singular National Party Movement

 

July 3rd, 1926

 

Everything seems meaningless. Although I was not a skeptic, but I’m quite not sure about my self now. It has been 5 years since 3·1 movement exuded it's high-minded voice, and The Republic of Korea's Temporary Government has established. However, I was unable to let my self being saturated in sentimentalism, because I knew that Japanese would not stay calm. After the movement, they have changed their way of govern. The rate of police department, units and budgets increased more than 3 times. A fake local autonomy system was used to deceive people and to sustain the pro-japanese group’s benefits. The major media was almost thoroughly distorted by a censorship system. A torture and violence was still prevailing, but only thing that changed was an international sentiment. Japan succeeded to suppress all the cruel facts.

 

Even worse, outside of the country where I’m staying now; Shang-Hai faced more frustrating problem. Division of Korea’s Temporary Government occurred. This is due to leaders’ three different ideology to achieve independence. Sung Man Lee has cut the Soviet’s financial aid and published a national bond in America, to lead Temporary Government as a pro-America party. However, because it failed, Dong Hwee Lee, the one of the leader questioned against Seung Man Lee’s presidential position. Seung Man Lee ignored it, so Dong Hwee Lee broke away from the government, and so do Chang Ho Ahn.

 

Though I came here to evade Japan’s hard inspection and dedicate all my life for effective resistant, but I’m now just worried about family in home Korea. Leaders forgot what we should fight for. We should fight for our nation’s earliest possible independent, not the specific political belief or theory. I’m done with this thoughtless activists. I’m going to move into my country tommorow.

 

July 5th, 1926

 

Like a proverb “The night is darkest before the dawn”, today I found mere hope in the deepest despair. I was participating at 3·1 party’s address, to say good-bye to my admiring fellows. I thought counting on abroad movement is waste of time. Suddenly, Chang Ho Ahn appeared and gave a speech. He said,

“Now, we people are arguing each one’s own opinion saying, Let’s do our revolution as a communism! or anarchism! or monarchism! However, we should not struggle with each other but take an agreed movement after establishing ‘The Great Revolutionary Organization’ with the determination to achieve national revolution. In other words, we should not follow our own benefits but fight for the big revolution party to save our people!”

Applause bursted after he finished his words, and the crowd was completely absorbed by the passion and sense of unity. After the conference, every participants who have diversity of political color gathered together and have discussion for all day.

I was able to find my comrades who share the same idea with mine. I can not acknowledge the activists who cannot gather their power because of the ideological difference. The way how should independence accomplished is important, but not much important as independence it self. I agreed with his idea that in this circumstance, the most consequential thing is to establish an united organization that can replace powerless Temporary Government.

My body is exhausted now, but my mind is clear than ever. I might have a dream about my family tonight.

 

September 6th, 1926

 

After I received a telegraph saying that my wife is very sick, I instantly went back to Korea. It was so sudden, so I could not write a diary at the moment. I was roughly close to see the unification of this area’s resistance organization. Despite of the fact that I was not at the event, but I’m encouraged by effectively reinforced national movement through the integration.

 

February 15th, 1927

 

It has been almost 8 month since I came back to Korea. My wife is completely cured, and my personal affair became stable. I eventually met some people in the pub who are talking about the three department unification movement. They expressed their excitement about combination between Communists and Nationalists. I joined their conversation carefully and said that I was involved in that movement in Shang-Hai. After a minute, they asked me few questions and told me to come here again at march 6th, and leaved the pub.

For I can not go abroad because Japan’s inspection was reinforced, thus I felt a need to establish an integration movement inside of the country too. I guess this might be the chance to strengthen domestic activist’s network system.

 

February 13th, 1928

 

Now a days, New Root Assembly’s scale became enormous. We are structured with nearly 40,000 members who are from Chosun Youth Total Alliance, Chosun Farmer Total Alliance, Chosun Laborer Total Alliance and so on. Our general principle is,
First, We deny all kinds of opportunism.

Second, We stimulate political economical awakening.

Third, We intense the solidarity.

We are exhibiting a public lecture in every area in this country, to enlighten people to fight against Japan, and to inspire patriotism. We also fight for a tenant right and support the alliance absence from school.

I hope that this organization yield both social psychological and independence and political awakening to our nation’s people. Whatever the form is, we should not make any kinds of compromise with Japan, especially like joining to self-government movement. We should be prudent on this kind of objects to not be deceived. We will never surrender until the day when our people hold their own sovereignty and govern themselves by democratic spirit come.

 

 

My Interview with Teacher Anna

   Anna Kim, whom we met this year, is a sociology teacher in Saemmul. She teaches economics, cultural sociology, and political science in Saemmul High School. Also, she teaches Social Studies in middle school students. She is in responsible for the Saemmul hymn team and sings hymn every thursday when we have worship. 

 
  Q. Many students have no idea what they have to do in future, They are looking for them through deep thinking, praying and struggling. I'm sure you had this kind of experience too. How come did you choose this job of being a teacher? Can you tell us briefly about your school days?


   A. "Since I was a elementary school kid, I dreamed of being a teacher. However when I was at your age, I thought that media's affect will be stronger than now and the power will be huge. So I wanted to be a PD. Anyway my vision was telling about God to people, so which job I get wasn't important. Though when I went to university, it was so different from what I was thinking. So I double majored economics. Then I worked as a PD very short and went to education college. I also worked in a 교육과학기술원 and went to other high schools as a teacher to investigate. After, preparing for the teacher certification exmination I saw the information about Saemmul School and I became the teacher here."


  Q. So then, why did you especially choose to be a Social Science teacher?

  
   A. "I love social science so much! It's such a important subject. What I think about Christian education is 'teaching the proper value'. Social Science is the perfect subject for it. It makes you to see the world politely in God's view. My job is to help them think right living in the world as Christians."

   Q. You have the experience of being a teacher in both public high school and Saemmul. Which are the differences? How do you feel when you are here?

A. In public high school,since there are so m''any students, it's hard to control all the students. Many of the students are careless. However, in Saemmul there are more less students than the public. I can keep in touch with students one by one. Through this, I feel so happy and satisfied. I strongly can feel that this is where God called me. Also, I feel that I am part of His plan.

   Q. This is the question about YOU not the teacher of you. From when did you believe God?

   A. " My dad is a pastor. So even before I realized I was in His boundary. When I met Him for real as a person was in university.  Media's power is so strong that I thought being a famous PD was the way to glorify God. Although I found out that I was truly wrong. I was selfish and greedy that from my higher position God will be higher too.  Then I realized that when I die and He's alive inside of me , that is the real way glorifying Lord.

Q. For the last question. What do you want to say to the students in Saemmul?
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   A. One day, me and my friend was watching the lecture "What is Justice" by Michael Sandal. My friend asked the professor "Why is there no professor like Michal Sandal?" and he said "There is no students like the students in Harvard. "  I want to tell the students that students and teacher both make the class together.
     
 Most importantly, I want to say that understanding God's time is a real faith.

Interview with Sammuel High School students

I had interviews with Sammuel high school students. To make sure the privacy of students who I interviewed, I will write them with anonymity. I asked them about the advantages and disadvantages with the school system. Also, I asked about what things are needed for this school and what is the most different point with other normal public schools. The students had responded really well with my interview.

My first question was about the advantages of our school. One student said the most powerful advantage is that we can have really good relationships with teachers and friends. She said that the relationships between students and teachers can not be compared with any other schools. We are loved by every single teachers. Also, she said it is same  between friends.

The other advantage what students said was that there is no feelings of competitions between students at all. As it was the first advantage, students love each others. So they are not feeling like they have to beat them up in scores. They teach them each other if they spend hard time on some subjects. Especially, they help hard each others in math and english.

The second question was about disadvantages. The most opinions about disadvantage was that we don't really have realistic data for entering universities. 11th graders are the highest graders. So we are the first generation to go to universities in Sammuel high school. But we are not like other public schools and we don't have much data. Also, after taking tests in our school, we can't know our places in every subjects. We don't know how much we are good at or bad at.

As a consequence, students need more data and specific systems for universities. But most students are satisfying with relationships. And some students pointed out our attitudes. Even we are in christian school, we still use lots of cuss words or act badly. We have to be different with people in the world. I think like this, either. And I hope our school to be better.

my interview essay 3 Ben

 

I interviewed Mr Ahn. I just wrote exactly what he said.

 

Q: Hello Mr. Ahn, can you introduce yourself simply?

A: Hi Mr. Kim, nice to meet you. I am a pester of middle and high school students in Pangyo Saemmul Church. I am 34 years old. I am married and have a beautiful wife and a son, He is 6 months years old, he is very cute.

Q: Your muscle is very strong and beautiful! Why did you make that muscle?

A: Because I like it. I started to work out since 2001. I was in Canada at that time, I was reading a book which was written by pester 김남준. That book was book for whom want to be a pester. That book said if you wanna be a pester you have to be healthy. After reading book, I only remembered that message. so I started to work out. Bodybuilding is very interesting. you can not make you tall, but you can make your body bigger and bigger.

Q: I think you are very goood at english, where did you learn English?

A: I don't think I am not good at english. I went to canada at 2000 and came back at 2004. I went canada to study theology

Q: why did you decide to be a pester? Do you have any episode?

A: I don't know. cause since I was very young. I think just God gave it ti me. when I was 8th grades. I went to big conference at church. I thought that what kind of life is gonna be the most valuable. I sang a hymn '주 예수보다 더 귀한 것은 업네‘. The message of lylics touched my heart. I realized it being a pester is most valuable. so I decided to make a commitment to God. and then i said " I wanna be a pester to glorify you" to God.

Q: Do you have any role model??

A: yeah, I have two role models. First, pester 박은조, I learned a vision as a pester to him. Second role model is pester 이찬형, He was a my pester when I was in 4th grades. I learned how to care of people to him.

Q: I know that you have a cute baby, how did you feel when you saw him first?

A: when I met my son first time, I was in no idea at all. he was very huge burden to me in good way. I was overwhelmed. He is always my joy , When I see him I don't know how lovely he is , how precious he is. Some times I worried what if he is sick or something happen to him. So when my baby is safe I thank to all grace of god.

Q; Do you have anything to say to middle and high school students In Pangyo sammul church ?

A: I love you guys, I want you to know that you are my first love in my ministry life. you guys will be in my memory forever. Any time come to me and ask me for food or ask me any question about bible.

 

 

Essay 3

 

About interview.

 

Topic about belief

 

I interviewed a professor in han yang university. I do not remember his name but he was a physicist. I interviewed him for the science project. The topic was about how the earth and human exist.(the origin of nature.)  I think this problem is about belief.

 

Professor believed evolution theory. Which tells us about monkey is humans ancestor. He told me some idea’s that can prove the evolution. “small kind of evolution is continuing in present.”

“ the fossils such as archaeopteryx comes out.” “about the big bang” Etc.

 

Even though I was learned by Christian worldview ;which is a biblical view. I couldn’t say any word to him. I was confusing. I thought that maybe he can be right. I learned from that interview that human lives by belief it doesn’t matter if is scientific or logical. Human believes what they want to believe.

 

I couldn’t find out what is actual right thing. Nobody can know that. But I believe in Jesus. so I believe what bible says. Bible is the actual right thing to me.

Essay 3: Interview with Saemmul High School's media study teacher

How much do we really know about the media?

 

< Police said… Mr. Park was found that he played blade quarreling game “Blaeblue” in last night before the crime occurred. “It seems like he went outside with the knife picked up I the kitchen in purpose of killing someone he first meet in the street.” Said police officer.

Jamwondong hate crime suspect convicted… Game addicted America elite university dropout, Korean Economy, 10/12/17, http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2010121764347&intype=1

 

We still do encounter with such horrible articles recently. The game addicted parents who made their young baby starve to death, people who made someone suicide by vicious replies while misusing anonymity, and so on. On the other hand, we find people who are uploading their private life without the concept of time like an exhibitionist although they weren't publicized much. We call people someone who use TV and Internet without control ‘Media Addicted’ However, I was called into question ‘What if ourselves are addicted to the media but not just being recognized?’ Are we really free from the media?

 

In fact, the term ‘Media’ we have been using is a common usage of the ‘Mass Media’ by the public as a narrow aspect of it’s original meaning.

 

“A word ‘Media’ is originated from Latin ‘Medium’. It has a meaning ‘in the middle of’. While Media’s essential meaning is a way of communication, it also means something that modifies or varies the society on the other hand.”

, said media teacher Park Myung Ho.

 

So then, why do we understand media so narrow? Formal media education was remaining at the stage of criticizing and decoding. Because it was the most urgent business to keep ourselves from rapidly wide spread TV’s sexuality and violence.

 

“From about 40 years ago, kind of protectionism perspective that was led by Catholic was the start of our nation’s media education. This affected on the church, and media as a disturbance against the God’s Word became dominant as a result. “

 

After 10~20years later, a new point of view was introduced that the consumer is not just affecting by the media one-sidedly, but having relationship with it very actively. This change of concept made consumers to analyze media critically and to produce it by their own, rather than just left behind the media by either neglecting it or refusing it.

 

Back to the main argument, the question is still not answered. Are we free from the media? Actually, we are not. The reason for this answer is that the media has a bias if self; rather than being neutral, and it’s not just a tool; It’s also an environment. People who extended this kind of horizon of recognition are scholars like Marshall McLuhan or Neil Postman.

 

“Media has the bias as itself. This means that media leads human’s life into certain way. It is the gateway of perceiving and experiencing world as the environment. There are a myriad of examples but some of them is like these ones. Internet both allowed people to obtain significant amount of information in sudden moment, and two-way communication available. For such traits, Internet plays a vital role in dissemination of democracy. the government of Ally in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt and etc are collapsed by the Internet’s power. Smart phone handled a computer in our hands, even though they created the starvation of daily communication by increasing the rate of re-mediated communication. Pressing media influenced numerous alteration in the society such as reinforcing a linear ·cause and fact·logical thinking and spreading the Bible in everyone’s hand. TV opened the generation of show-business making public prefer sensual·amusing contents instead of thoughtful·solemn contents.”

 

The advent of new technology and media make a significant breakthrough in human society. It presents a brand new way of life, while regulating and affecting on our lives quietly. Thus, we are asked for two figures. First, we should be able to criticize and analyze the media’s contents. Second, We should be able to do humanistic insight analyzing media itself’s bias and environmental character. I will conclude this essay with teacher Park Myung Ho’s claim.

 

“ Media education is divided to bipolar position. One is de-media, which is an escape from the media; the opposite side is learning how to manage with new media. Both are important and certainly needed, but the most consequential thing is having a perspective that allows you to stare at the media strange. We must keep throw the question such as:”Does not an image media degrades humanity?“, ”What kind of idea is this book is assuming silent?“, not just experiencing book or movie without thinking. Someone who is well trained to this extent became healthy user of the media compared to the slave of it. This is the goal that we should head to.”

 

Reference

Park Myung Ho, Study of Media Ecology’s Media educational undertone: with McLuhan and Postman’s idea, Internet Blog, http://blog.naver.com/trueman372?Redirect=Log&logNo=120184316488