# Korea should devote 0.7% of our gross national income (GNI) to poorer nations.

# Korea should devote 0.7% of our gross national income (GNI) to poorer nations.

 

1. The UN recommend that OECD membership to support poor countries by 0.7% of their GNI. Recently the ratio of international aid to GNI is growing in Korea. However Korea's Official Development Assistance (ODA) is currently 0.14 percent of the GNI. It is much lower than the average ODA of other wealthy nations. Critics have said Korea’s commitment to helping nations overseas was poor among the member countries of  OECD.  Also There were fears that Korea’s international reputation would have been damaged had the government not raised the projected contribution.That why I think we should bring it up to the level of the UN's recommendation.

 

2. After the Korean War, South Korea became an independent country. but Only 50 years ago, Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. South Korea had gotten a lot of helps from other wealthy countries such as England, the USA and so on. After 50 years, now South Korea is helping other poor countries with other wealthy countries and become one of the greatest markets of technical items for other wealthy countries. Without help from wealthy countries, South Korea could not develop. It’s about time that Korea, which has been a beneficiary of foreign aid, helped other countries in need.

3. Famine in Africa has been a serious problem  for a long time. Poorer countries still struggle on economy and some governments of poor countries cannot satisfy even fundamental needs of people in their countries. The people who were born in poor countries have human rights, but they live without any quality of life because they wear born in poor countries. As a view of the human right, their rights should be protected by helps from some countries which are already developed. The Korean economy has made unbelievable progress during the last 30 years and Korea entered the line of developed nations. Therefore I think Korea should devote our wealth to poor nations through more active participation.

Gender Discussion Questions

1. Which do you prefer to have as bosses or coworkers – men or women ? Why?

(If a teach ) Who do you prefer to teach-boys or girls? Why?

 

At my last job, my boss was woman and she was 13 years older than me. In fact we were same gender, there was many good things. She could understand my emotion and heath state than man boss. But When we go to abroad we should stay in same room and had a whole trip together. If there occur emotional conflicct between us, we were very hard to recover it.

However My second boss was man. I did’n have any problem with him. I had a good relationship with him and there was no emotional conflict at all. Therefore I could concentrate on work well. Thus I prefer to have man as my boss.

 

11. If you had the option of choosing your gender next time, which would you choose? Why?

 

If I can have a option of choosing my gender, I would choose men.

Because I often envy man’s life. Since I was child, I was so weak that I used to easily gets ill. I wanted to be a strong man. I know that Men and women are biologically different, and these differences led to women's dominance to the private sphere such as home life and childcare, and women's dominance to public life, the workplace and political authority. But My ideal life is close to the life of man.