Bill to Establish a Game Shutdown System passed subcommitte of the National Assembly

See http://www.thisisgame.com/go/?p=3412

The judiciary subcommittee of the National Assembly of Korea passed the bill for a shutdown system for online and mobile games by unanimity on April 20.

The bill is intended to protect juveniles (under 15) from game addiction.
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4월 7일 콘서트

대전문화예술의 전당에서 하는 콘서트에 갈 예정.
라흐마니노프 피아노협주곡 2번과 브루크너 교향곡 4번.
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클래식 음악과 가식적인 분위기

정혜신의 "사람 vs 사람"에서 손석희 편을 읽어보면 클래식 공연장에서의 가식적인 분위기 때문에 클래식 공연을 가지 않는다는 말이 나온다. 손석희 뿐만 아니고 많은 사람들이 클래식 공연장의 가식적인 분위기를 싫어한다. 충분히 이해가 간다. 궁금했던 것은 손석희가 클래식 음악을 듣는 것도 하지 않는지였다.

음식을 담아내어오는 그릇이 마음에 들지 않아서 음식도 먹고 싶지 않은 것도 충분히 생길 수 있는 일이다. 하지만 음식이 마음에 안 들더라도 음식 자체를 음미할 수 있는 능력 역시 쉽게 챙길 수 없기도 하다.

오페라의 창법이 앰프가 없던 시절 오페라홀 전체를 울리게 하기 위한 창법일 뿐이라서 오페라를 싫어한다는 자세 역시 이해할 수 있다. 하지만, 음식 보존 기술이 발달하지 않았던 옛날에 식초를 이용해 밥을 오랫 동안 보존하기 위해 만들어진 초밥은 음식 보존 기술이 발달한 현대에서도 각광 받는다. 오페라 창법이 앰프가 없는 오페라홀을 벗어나서도 아름다움이 발현될 수 있다면 오페라 창법을 즐길 수 있는 능력 역시 의미가 있다.
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Drawing - Coffee Man

I've been procrastinating on this painting for over a year. I did a little bit of work on this tonight.
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Bull Durham - possible motive for next generation Korean sports movie

One of my favoriate 1980s American movies is Bull Durham. The movie stars Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. It's a baseball movie, but it's not about the major league, but minor. It's not about a super star player falling and rebounding. The movie is about an old catcher who gave up on the idea of advancing to the major, and a woman who unofficially grows promising young player.

Aside from all the mouthful things I want to talk about this movie, I never saw this kind of Korean movie. Sports movies in Korea have always been melodramatic. They always are about sports players in economic hardship eventually overcoming difficulties and succeding. Too predictable and not inspiring. This 1990 movie might give some inspiration to the makers of next generation sport movie in Korea.
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Same Twitter, Different Emotional Behaviors

Twitter has been popular in Korea for about a year only. It has become a popular media mainly due to the wide adoption of smartphones by the public, esp. iPhones. A cursory look at the behavioral patterns of Korean Twitterians and U.S. Twitterians gives an interesting comparison. Obviously Korean Twitterians are emotionally attached to what happens on his Twittter timelines. It seems to me that Twitter has become another fight-by-replies field for those who were addicted to fighting on-line.

One can easily say Twitter is another media and it doesn't change people. True. But my question is more like what the ideal form of internet communication that minimizes people's pathetic behaviors is. Or am I too naive to throw such question and not understand people need terminal sewage treatment facilities for their not-so-pleasant-to-see-under-real-name kind of emotions?
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Cost Benefit of Law School

It's a bit too late in time that NYT brings this issue up. Does law school pay off your student loans and the time you spend?

The Volokh Conspiracy comments on the NYT article. 

Most people who are insiders in the legal industry will agree on the implications of the NYT article. It should be noted that Japan's law school has turned out to be a failure. Korea introduced law school two years ago. Only a year left for the first graduates of the Korean law schools face the realities. Will they break even on what they spent in law schools? We will see.

Apart from ROI or break-even analysis of law school graduates, the Volokh Conspiracy's comment is worth reading from a different perspective. Does the society need many lawyers? Do people have to go to graduate schools to make the society better?

Often times, this question is out of the question. Does high education level in general promise high per capita GDP? This question is cast by Prof. Ha-Joon Chang, a Cambridge fellow. Higher average education means higher education cost. To make both ends meet, higher education must produce higher GDP. Highly educated people must contribute to the GDP by way of making the intangible social infrastructure better so that other people can make better output even at the same level of labor input.

But in reality highly educated people often times get involved in professions that are not directly linked to such functions, rather they have jobs in areas that mostly contribute to the individual income. It's a question of adequte distribution of resources.

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