Hyon-Joo’s Everyday Life

Sansung(산성, 山城) in Korean means a mountain fortress wall. A good example is the Great Wall in China. Obviously, the main purpose of sansung is to prevent enemies from invading one's territory. Many great kings and leaders of old Korean dynasties built sansung throughout history. So this Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, deeply worried about safety, decided to build some sansung himself. When? On June 10, 2008. Koreans wanted to hold candlelight protests against US beef imports as well as commemorate the revolutionary gathering for democracy of June 10, 1987. Where? In the main streets of Seoul such as Sejong-ro ...

So Koreans can watch a popular talk show on their cell phone in a moving bus. How cool is that? This fast-developing technology cannot always have benefits, but at least it's moving forward in the sense that it makes our lives more convenient. What direction does the Korean government heading into then? Stupidly and sadly, it looks like it's heading toward one of its gloomy dictatorship eras such as the president Park' or Jeon's governments where they created conspiracy to brainwash, torture and kill people. Why do I think like this? There have been quite a lot of incidents last year that ...