Thursday, January 11, 2007

머리 아포

오늘은 아지 줍다. 는데, 사무실에 가요. 추말에, 상하이에 가요. 현아시의 섕일 있어.
뭣 생일 선물 사곘어요? -.-' *sigh* 한극어 힘들다.....

笑死人了!

下个周末我又要去上海。我开始对飞机有一点恐惧感。这里的天气好冷,去到那就不得了了!最近忙了一点。我的老板要走了。下几个月要借他的客户。其事, 这也不错,能跟我的长线上的童施多沟通。

目前,我在联系我的话语,希望在六月份能去考 HSK (汉文水准 test)。所以,如现在有写错字,请多多原谅。

Friday, January 05, 2007

the poor men in korea....

From The Korea Times:

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The number of husbands beaten by their wives is increasing as domestic violence increases in general.
The men's counseling service Men Hotline Kwanju branch says the number of cases of men being beaten by their spouses is increasing, but men are reluctant to show their scars.

The hotline said it had counseled more than 820 men suffering from family violence last year. The number was 793 in 2004, and 783 in 2005.

One of the callers said his wife had beaten him several times. He confessed the only reason he is putting up with her violence is not to hurt his children's feelings, and added that he is waiting for the children to go to university and stand on their own before suing for divorce.

Another said that he was beaten for three years, but he couldn't do anything. He said he didn't want to break up the family and he thought that if his suffering was the only way to keep the couple together, he would take it.

Husband beating took place more often, and also became more vicious. The Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations surveyed 296 married men in 2005 and found that 59 suffered from verbal violence. Thirty-three experienced physical violence. Of those, five were threatened with weapons, four were strangled, and another four were sexually abused.

The reason for the violence used to be that men were unable to make sufficient money and women were not able to handle it. However, these days the reasons are more varied. As women become wage earners, their status in a family goes up and they begin expressing their complaints more aggressively.

According to the hotline, some women threw chairs, vacuum cleaners or even knives. In some cases, men were beaten with golf clubs.

However, many male victims are reluctant to report their injuries because they do not want to show their weakness. Also, the belief that men are the wrongdoers and women are the victims of domestic violence is widespread. The police estimated that a mere 3 percent of all cases are reported.

Lee Ok-yi, the director of the Korean Men hotline, said that though men might be stronger than women, they tend to endure the violence just as beaten women do.

She said that these men stand the pain for their children and to keep the family together. ``In most cases, the violence happens because there isn't much conversation between the two,'' she said, adding that the first thing a couple with a violence problem should do is to try talking to each other.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

2007 : Must be to do

Goals :

Bring Chinese up to a read/write level
Bring Korean up to a conversational level
Keep marketing ideas wild
Write one good article each week
Keep in contact with friends more often, especially overseas ones
Know more people

Considerations :
Be on the look out to shift to a more civillized country.

Books : To read at least :
- xx books on marketing
- xx fictional articles
- Start each morning with BBC News

Business
- Generate at least USD1000 each month on the side.

Deserts:
- Visit 3 new cities
- Trip to Europe in July