Anachronistic.

  Economy. Many countries of the world is in recession. Korea is not so good, either. But, there is a particular aspect if you are in business in Korea. The polarization of income. The middle class is disappearing fast. Not exactly 'middle class'. I would rather define 'working class with spendable income'. High-quality markets will not feel any change. However, the markets for working class will face the change. That is why I expect success of IKEA. Before, funiture dealers imported IKEA products and sold them in bigger price. (Each consumer cannot be import expert.) But, IKEA opens its shop in Korea and sell more affordable price, working class who want to save spending will choose IKEA. And, any kind of outletmalls with similiar price position will face the same.

  Society. Economy affects society. I am noticed one symptom of social pathology. Anachronistic. We do educations like other civilized countries. But Confucian ideas are so deeply rooted in Korean society, democratic values like freedom, equal of all men, charity are often overwhelmed when economy is not good. Child is a mirror of adults. It can be found in a school. In a class of public grading school, kids from fancy town don't hang around with kids from not so fancy town. Their parents teach them to do so, and they learn it like a social rule. People from western world don't know that Confucial teaching has it that a class(caste) system is fair. It has 10 classes(caste) from king to slave, and Confucian teaching is that each doing duty of their class will make the society work, peaceful, and beautiful. Revolutions are evil. He didn't though of equal of mankind. Today, in a capitalism society, money replaced caste. It combined with this old habit, made an odd concept that the economic level is worth respected as a social level. This is not so much Confucial tradition in real, rather monster of half breed with mammonism. I feel like as technology is developing, society is getting anachronistic. Koreans has only half century length history of capitalism. They only experienced it's good to make more and more money for their own sake. Koreans need to learn by experience more about distribution, welfare, and, of course, democratic republic. What they are for.

'FROZEN' make a new box office record.

  The Disney's Animation 'Frozen' made a new box office record in Korea. The Song 'Let it go' can ben listen everywhere. Even I watched it 4 times. Watching it carefully, I found something profound in the story. It is different from previous any other animations from the Disney. It is a simple story but can also interpreted deeper meaning. If you develop more, you can notice there is something called 'prototype in legends and tales' in C.G.Jung's psychology and (late) Joseph Campbell's writings.

A texting mistake reveals corruption of a magazine.

  There are many weekly magazines in Korea. How do they keep publishing? How do they make money? Newsstand sales and subscribers will do most of them? No. Unfortunately, commercial ads are the major source of the magazines in Korea. This can be a double-edged blade. Too less ads will make the magazine hard to run the company. Too many ads will make the magazine nothing but waste of pulp. This is the worst case when a magazine is too much dependent on ads of a specific company. 

  The picture is a text message from publisher of magazine. What's saying in the message is that the publisher is sorry for the previous column which is not favourable about the advertiser. Only, he did a mistake sending it to a another news corporation reporter, so that we are able to know dirty connection between the magazine and the advertiser. Samsung. 

  The column was about a new movie released to the theatres, and the story is a father's struggle to revealing the samsung's semiconductor factory is using over hundres of kinds of toxic chemicals, and many workers are/were suffering from cancer, leukimia, or many unknown diseases/died without any appogies or adknowledgement of responsibility.

  On the contrary to our common sense, the publisher begged forgiveness to the advertiser in the text message. Why? Very simple. Samsung is number one advertiser of the magazine. Without money from ads of samsung, this magazine company can not keep living. There are many magazines so dependent on samsung. Here is the original report: http://www.pressian.com/news/article.html?no=114385

  You can change the view of this case to see that samsung is using ads for controlling the press. That is reason many intellectuals, labour unions and NGOs are making harsh criticisms on samsung.

"Acne is not a disease" by financial government.

      Korea is large financial deficit state. In order to break it through, a financial government - not a medical government - made a new medical definition. "Acne is not a disease." And, after now on, all kinds of the patients who take medical treatment at dermatologists have to pay more VAT because it's not a disease. Below is a protest campaign of doctors' association to call the department of VAT of the financial government which made this ridiculous medical definition.