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Go on your way asking “Why?”

To make various electronic goods, cars and high-tech IT goods complete, a numerous parts and materials are needed. This means the No.1 product in the world can never be produced without its strong power in core parts. Though the power in the core parts would be strong, if its parts and materials are dependent on the import, it would be ‘a losing business’. That’s why the technical power in the parts and material industry not only influences the competitive power of the whole industry but is the measuring rule for the competitiveness of the industry and economy of a country.


To me, being alone is being content to just be with myself?!

One of the changes in food service industry is something that the individual menu items have appeared remarkably well in recent days.
In general restaurants including confectioneries and coffee specialty stores, the individual menu items have been appeared continuously for those who want to eat out alone.
In all sorts of cultural performances including a play and a film, the performance booking for individuals have been increasing differently than in the past.
Nowadays, travel agencies are creating marketing plan for individual tourists increased as well as group tourists.


The policy for developing the women resource and its future problems

Human resource development refers to promoting the creation, utilization, and spread of the knowledge by developing the human capital and social capital and by managing it effectively. There is some sexual discrimination in opportunities of this human resource development, in the accessibility to the resource, and in the benefit from the policy in a great number of countries including Korea. Accordingly, the women resource development policy refers to the policy established to make it only for women, not to exclude the women in the human resource development policy or make the policy effect equivalent to both sexes considering women’s features different from men’s.


Women, The Peace Nourisher

Peace has been nourished by womankind ever since. We can note several campaign cases for peace where women played the leading role as followings. In April 1915, immediately after the outbreak of World War I, some 1,300 women gathered in Hague, Netherlands from the world, and issued a proclamation against the war, which became the parent of WILPF or Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Since 1925, jointly with women’s movement, WILPF has been active in the positive campaign on peace and reduction of armaments, by dispatching delegation and a mediation committee to the conflict region if the area was occupied or invaded by a major power, and participating in U.N. security council as an observer group.


The Power of Rest, The Glorification of Rest

One of the major matters of concerns that composers should put their best to write a beautiful piece of music is to employ the appropriate pause in it. Music without pause cannot touch our heart, however perfect harmony it may carry. As is the case with painting, what they call ‘the margin of comfortable space’ should be relevantly adopted not only especially in the oriental painting but also in the oil painting full of color. Some adequate pause or rest can make an efficient outcome in sports, and likewise it can arrest the attention of audience in the great speech and conversation.


Father, the Present Address of the Name

Modern society requires fathers to change as the new paradigm emerges. About fathers’ new appearances reformed by the change of the times, fathers expressed their feelings like this; “We also understand that fathers should change….but don’t blame all on us and don’t drive us into a corner.” Let’s listen to the confession that our fathers make in the midst of the wind of the change. And let’s find out the reason and who’s to blame for this crisis that our fathers have faced.


Negroponte, professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA, foresaw that the most serious social conflict wouldn’t be an interclass or interracial one, but an intergenerational one in the future. In fact, we are already experiencing that kind of thing, speaking without hesitation as follows: “Kids today know nothing” or “Grownups don’t understand us at all.” A survey by the Korea Development Institute (KDI) found that one in 4 Korean feel uncomfortable about talking with someone who is in a different age or income group. Then, what is the problem caused by the age gap in Korea?


A Women-friendly City? City for Everyone's Well-being!

"A women-friendly city?" "A city where all men are slaves?" - These are two most common reactions when people hear the word "women-friendly city". Some people just can't get the word's meaning, and others are cynical that there can be no such things like women-friendly cities or men-friendly cities. Maybe those people have never put themselves in women's shoes. Or maybe they're just allergic to the word 'women-friendly' or 'feminist'.


The lie that 'the enemy of a woman is a woman herself', then can we say that 'the enemy of a man is a man himself'?

To make sure that the proposition is true, the fact should be first set forth as a premise logically that it's not the enemy of each other both among women and men and among men and men. Not to mention the proposition that the enemy of a man is a man himself', we can easily see some scrambles of men take place to get the power around us. So the propositions are just fiction that emphasize the conflict relationship only just as the propositions of 'women are the incarnation of jealousy' and 'women are not faithful'.


Why do we need to be rich in creativity in the modern society?

The survey conducted by Korea Development Institute reported that the survival rate of enterprises was only 25% for the past 10 years; there has been a decrease in number from 56,472 (1994) to 14,315 (the end of 2003). Many enterprises couldn’t survive more than 10 years even though they had been once successful with high quality. The average life expectancy of small and medium-sized enterprises was 11.2 years at the very most. Why did they become extinct in the market? The report pointed out their lack of competitiveness and preparedness for the future brought about such a result.


The lighthearted new phase, what and how?

As a new year begins, most of people make new plans. Housewives do as their own way, and so do the working women, they are all devoted to weave new plans of their own. But there are some things that we should not overlook. What are they? And what can make this new planning be enthusiastic or lighthearted? In addition, let’s take a look at the pictures of new phase in women’s area in 2007.

Starting from the things only for me and from my own things!
At the beginning of the year, even a man who is lack of a consistent plan pledge oneself and plan a new phase for the year 2007. But the first thing you should do is to abandon the idea that ‘As others do this, I will do this.’ It would be great when hearing others saying, but it would not always be fit for me. And you had better exclude the plans like exercising at least 3 times a week, reading a book related to self-enlightening and especially quitting smoking from a priority. These can make you give up while putting them into practice and you would probably be dissatisfied with yourself. Saying happy words like ‘I love you’ or ‘Be happy’ once a day at work or at home can be abstract but interesting. You can put this kind of plans into a priority over other practical plans.