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Gender Wars: The Deterioration written by 20114 Yoon Ji Won More than two-dozen women from all over the world started to reveal their stories of having been sexually harassed in 2017. They have done it on SNS platforms, using the hashtag MeToo. So far, over half a million women have tweeted #Me_Too, which gives people the sense of severeness of this problem. The hashtag not only expresses that they were sexually assaulted, but it also shows support to other women. At first, some brave women including Lady Gaga, Katie Stevens, Eliza Banks and more started the line. These women gave the chance and confidence for other women to also talk about their sexual assault or sexual harassment experience. As a result, the MeToo movement gives people hope, and for survivors that hope is powerful. Now, the world has witnessed and is still witnessing the domino effect of powerful men becoming vulnerable. Most of all, the most important goal of the MeToo movement is to improv

Medical Tour: Newly Rising Korean Wave written by 10414 Lee Ji In K-pop has led a lot of tourists to Korea. There were 13.34 million foreign visitors last year. But other than K-pop, there is a newly emerging and popular Korean wave, which is medical travel. Recently, a number of travelers visit Korea, because it has cutting- edge medical devices, professional doctors and broad range of treatments. 364,000 people visited Korea for medical purpose in 2016. Most of them are from China, Japan, America and Russia. Among these, the number of Russian travelers are increasing very rapidly. Why could this happen? How could this happen? According to KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency), Korea ranked the third place that Russians would like to visit for medical purpose. For the last 10 years, the number of the tourists surged for 10 times more than any other year. Since 2009 Korea’s medical tour industry started developing after Korea modified the laws about forei

Minimum Wage Crisis in Korea written by 10317 Yoo Hee-ju Ahead of deciding next year's minimum wage, convenience store owners argue that personnel expenses are already a burdensome for them. They warned that they are going to close their stores simultaneously when the government raises the minimum wage.   This year's minimum wage is 7,530 won per hour which was 16.2% more than the wages in 2017. However, the minimum wage council plans to increase minimum wage to 8,350 won per hour starting in 2019 causing an uproar in Korean small business society earlier this year.   Sung In-Jae, a representative of national convenience store association, held a press conference and expressed his mind related to minimum wage problems on Thursday(12th July, 2018). He argued that every convenience store and their owners could not make a profit to support their workers' wages to fit this 2019 increased. He went on to explain that while convenience store owners earned abou