Nowadays, an e-mail attached with music and pictures is more frequently used than plain letters, and TV programs can be watched not only by the cable but also by a cell phone or PDA. We can buy and sell stocks using the internet without going to a stock market, and handle banking without going to a bank. The internet is not the fruit of the civilization any more, but it's a daily life.

The advent of the information-oriented housewives

The connection of the internet and the technology have brought changes in a daily life. Alias Webssies! Webssies, a compound of two words; Web and Missy, refers to young housewives of late 20s through early 30s who acquire most of life information through the internet. They are the information-oriented housewife class who not only get the information related to child care, shopping, and leisure life from the internet but also actively join the online communities to be in action.

Internet, it leads the participation in society.

In the past, the politics was often sole possession of men's. With the spread of the internet, however, women can take part in politics in many various ways. The horizontal structure and an open space, the main characteristics of the internet, effectuate the electronic democracy.

Now is the time for qualitative growth of informationization teaching.

The internet has brought us many positive changes in our lives. At the same time, however, it has also brought us negative effects such as discontinuation between generations, differentiated informationization education, an invasion of a person's privacy, the increase of the cyber crimes and so on. With the rapid development of the internet and the information technology, the informationization education has come to the hover between quantitative and qualitative growth.

Absolutely, it's not good to be old. However, I should prepare for the new life if I can not deny the fact the that all the living things are the happy dispensation of Nature and heading for natural summons from the moment of birth. I should awake myself for my aging that depends on my own will to be kept more beautiful.

one out of two elders is 'totally not prepared'' for his/her old age

What else do I have personally to keep my aging more beautiful? NSO(National Statistical Office) research shows that 49.0% among householders above 60 years are not prepared for their old age, that is, one out of two elders is 'totally not prepared' for his/her old age.

Women in an absolute indigence under the minimum cost of living is three times more than men, it's reality.

It's so grim reality that women above 65 can not take part in economic activities even though the medical development can let them. In case of the public pension, men annuitants are more than women, so that's the reason for the larger number of women in indigence than that of men.

Our expectation for the beautiful old age

Aging depends on one's will. If the psychological preparation for the beautiful old age lies on one's heart, the realistic preparation lies on the person's ability and society.

Nowadays, the term 'human rights' is freely used, but there once was a time when people could not use this strange term. In Korean communities in the 21th century, however, it is becoming a main topic.

In some respect. all women's movements are the movements for human rights of women's

The concept of human rights is very inclusive. Human rights are the basic inalienable rights for human to enjoy and to be secured without any reason. When being violated, the responsibility for that lasts from past, through present and to the future. And my own rights can never violate others'.

Huizinga, a cultural historian, defined the human being as Homo Ludens, which refers to human being who plays. He tells us that human being without the culture of playing no longer has any reason for existence, and all the activities of human being heads for the one end, playing.

All work and no play makes a fool?

Why do people willingly play? And why is playing needed in our lives? We can find the exact and clear answer to these questions in an English saying 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'.

Playing culture changing as if it has its own will to live.

Playing changes. It has been changed over and over again following the subjects of playing and the environment around it as if it has its own will to live. Playing in modern times is to relieve the fatigue effectively in a short time unlike playing in the past. Its pattern has been changed from public playing to playing featured by a leader.

Free excitement and re-creating, the core of playing

There are more chances to play, and more kinds of playing or play grounds than ever. Nonetheless, people say that there is playing but there is not playing culture. This is because the playing culture is not determined by the kinds or chances of playing. Now we need to establish the new recognition on playing and playing culture.

The term 'Quotient' has been prevailed in our community from some time, and this term has been being focused on according to the environment of the times and the social backgrounds of which demands are changing.

NQ, pursuit of new happiness in the 21th century.

All sort of Qs previously mentioned refer to personal ability and capability in some respect. Our community is changing into the one where a person can never be happy on his/her own ability.

My happiness with your happiness

NQ(Network Quotient) was created by Prof. Kim Mu-kon(the dept. of Journalism and Broadcasting, Dongkuk Univ.). In short, NQ is the quotient that lays emphasis on the importance of human relationship. Namely, it is the quotient which measures how well a person manages the relationship among people living around himself/herself.

32 mins. vs 141 mins.

Men in Korea spare only 32 minutes a day on the average for housework, while French daddies spare more than 141 minutes a day for housework such as doing dishes, babysitting, cleaning and so on.

Dual-income housewives do 7 times more housework than their husbands do.

The National Statistical Office announced the result of "research on the time of daily living 2004" some time ago. From that result, It is true that we have been in great illusion thinking that husbands are taking active part in housework and child care.

A French Daddy, the most exemplary patriarchy in the world.

Are husbands in other countries also not cooperative in housework like those in Korea? A few years ago, French dads ranked the highest and won the grand prix in the weekly housework time on the average in Europe by INSEE.

Are you a super woman too?

As women's position in the modern society is getting higher comparing to that in the past, the logic that housework is only for the women should be resolutely abolished. Though the world has been changed, demanding a heavy burden from women still exists. A superwoman? Gee!
Then what if a man takes place of woman's as a Superman?

Dismantlement or change
In May, what we call ‘the Home Month’, we frequently hear words ‘family dismantlement phenomenon’. Of course, the words such as ‘the loss of family unity’ or ‘family dismantlement’ never have positive meanings. Instead, they represent concerns about Korean society in which we are seeing a skyrocketing divorce rate, more people not wanting to marry and low birth rate.

Home is the place where you can find peace and take refuge from the pain, fears, doubts and disruption that you feel in the world.
Parents should teach their children the values of marriage and family and show them that family spirit is alive and well. And let’s look at various family forms with our eyes wide open.

Now, a nuclear family era in which a husband makes money and a wife does housework, is gone.
With an increasing number of females having opportunities to work in the society, women have started to declare that they will not sacrifice themselves any longer for the family’s health, welfare, safety and taking care of kids and seniors without pay.
Most women said if men and women don’t share housework burden together, single women would continue to feel doubts about marriage. In addition, even married women hesitate to get a divorce or not for their own happiness. Meanwhile, men say that they want to marry but feel burdens. Most males want to marry for a stable life but reserve it due to economic burdens such as buying a house. Despite this, a lot of men said they want to marry, to be honest.

Society suffering from jealousy
We are not controlling our emotions as we are blinded by jealousy in a too fierce competition and the unstable structure of the society.

Jealousy, stand for good
We have to learn how to control our jealousy. It begins when we listen to ourselves and try to truly know about ourselves and our weakest points. Your jealousy would turn into a growth engine for self-development only when you find your weak points and try to change them instead of just feeling uneasy.