<목욜정모> January 26, 2006 Thursday meeting's topic

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A blind date among Korean University students

How popular a blind date is.

A blind date is one of the most exciting and interesting parts among korean University students. Participating in blind dates is more common and popular than you can imagine.
Some even do it twice a day in their freshman year, someone who is in his freshman year does it once a week or once a month. But as his/her grade goes higher, the chances he/she can participate in a blind date are less frequent. Anyway students feel like to do it whenever they want it and they seem to want to be hang in there until they graduate.

The difference between" So-gai-ting" and "meeting".
Generally, there are two types of blind dates in terms of the number of people who participate in. In other words, if there is only one man and one woman who participate in the blind date, that is called "So-gai-ting." In the other one, which is called "Meeting", there is no limit in number of people who can participate. But the general number of people in Meeting is from 3 to 4 from each side.

Generally we do "So-gai-ting" to meet someone we can go out with in the future. But we do "Meeting" to meet new people and enjoy one day with them as well as to find a girlfriend/boyfriend. So if you do "so-gai-ting", you have a 50-50 chance. If you like your partner, then good for you. But if you don't, you feel like you are wasting your money and time. You have to take a risk to do "so-gai-ting".

How do we decide our partner?
There are also many kinds of ways how we do blind dates. In other words, there are several different types of methods when we meet our partners. For examples. The most common way is by a matchmaker. There is person A. He knows both person B and C. And person B and C don't know each other. Then A is supposed to be a matchmaker. He hooks up B with C. He sets up everything including time and the place. In this case, person B and C have no choice to choose a partner. In some way, they are very lucky. But they are really taking a risk. And a very important thing here is that even if two of them don't like each other, they have got to be kind to each other not to make the matchmaker feel bad.

Another way is called 007 meeting, a boy(B) is waiting with a flower or any noticeable things, and a girl(C) comes, if she thinks he is a nice guy, they meet and date, without a matchmaker(A). In the so called 'Insurance meeting', a matchmaker supply meetings to someone until the match is successfully established. In 007 meeting, the matchmaker doesn't show up in the place where person B and
C are supposed to meet. Generally in a blind date by a matchmaker, he shows up in the place and introduce each other and stay there for about 10 minutes or more to have them feel more comportable. But in 007 meeting, all person A has to do is let person C know about the appearance(height,clothing,weight,age,and name) of person B and let person B have information about Person C. In the place, person B and C have to find one another. To make sure that they find each other.

There is also a very brave way to get to know someone you are interested in. That is called "Hunting". It's not in the category of a blind date. But some who are brave really do it. If you want to get to know one girl or boy and go out with her/him, just tell her/him that you want to get to know her/him better. You don't have to take a risk you have in a "so-gai-ting because your target is the one you are really interested in, and feel like to get to know. But the big problem here is that the person who is targeted by you could be embarrassed. In addition, in Korean culture, hunting is not regarded as good manner in society because Korean culture has been dominated by conservatism as well as we are not get used to it.

Question

1. Do you know how Korean students meet their date partners (Boy/Girl friend)? And if you have a boy/girl friend, how did you meet your partner?

2. Have you ever participated in any kind of blind date? If you have, how was it? and why did you do it? Share your experience

3. Are you using other methods, like parties, clubs, internet sites to meet someone? If you are, what kind of it?

4. What is your opinion on 'A blind date' ? And what has to be there for you to agree to meet your date partner again?

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WOMEN'S SMOKING

1. Do you smoke? If so, when and why did you start smoking?

If no and if quit smoking, when and why did you quit smoking, and did you easily quit smoking?

If no and if haven't yet started smoking, why?

2. Recently the rate of smoking men is decreasing, but that of smoking women is drastically increasing. What do you think is the real reason?

3. (to women) Do you have any feeling and opinion to your father or brother's smoking? Do you take into consideration in deciding your spouse whether he smokes or not?

(to men) Do you have any feeling and opinion to your mother or sister's smoking? Do you take into consideration in deciding your spouse whether she smokes or not?

4. It is generally accepted that smoking gives more harm to women than men because of women's pregnancy, So some people insist that women should not start smoking at any cost. Do you agree with that assertion?

5. Nowadays we can easily find out smoking women at public places. But Our society has some prejudice toward smoking women. Even some people have extreme prejudice that smoking young women may have somewhat liberal attitude to sex. What do you think about that prejudice?

Do you think that smoking young women have liberal sexual tendency?

6. Nowadays our society has become more generous toward women's drinking and smoking, But some parents strictly forbid their children's drinking and smoking. After your marriage and giving birth to your children(especially if they are daughters), if you happen to know that they start drinking and smoking at adolescent age, then as their parents what action are you going to show to them?

7. and related points.

[DEBATING MATERIAL]

title: TOBACCO DEVASTATING WOMEN'S HEALTH

WASHINGTON -- The latest surgeon general's report gives dire new meaning to that old cigarette ad, "You've come a long way, baby." Women now account for 39 percent of smoking-related deaths, a proportion that has more than doubled since 1965.

Worse, more teen-age girls are smoking, and increased tobacco industry marketing threatens to derail recent progress in fighting the killer habit, concludes Surgeon General David Satcher in a report released Tuesday.

"What starts out as a simple puff is turning into a death sentence," said Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, pledging to use his office as a bully pulpit as he travels the country to expound on the "evils of smoking."

The surgeon general's report urges a new push to fight female smoking, and Thompson said his office will develop strategies to do just that.

But the last big federal attempt to curb smoking -- Food and Drug Administration tobacco regulation to prevent cigarette companies from targeting minors -- failed a Supreme Court challenge.

"Speaking only for myself, I think tobacco should be regulated," Thompson told reporters Tuesday. But because of the court action, "It's up to Congress to pass legislation."

80 PERCENT OF SMOKERS START AS TEENS

Legislation to reopen FDA regulation has been introduced. While he wouldn't endorse a specific bill, Thompson said curbing tobacco marketing that encourages teens to smoke will be key -- because 80 percent of smokers, women and men, start as teens.

States, however, can fight tobacco without awaiting federal action. Satcher's report cites a California program that cut lung cancer among women even as it rose across the rest of the country, and a Florida program that has reduced smoking by middle-school girls by 40 percent in just two years.

Smoking is the nation's leading cause of preventable death, claiming more than 400,000 lives a year. Smoking has killed nearly 3 million women since the surgeon general last investigated female smoking in 1980, the new report says. It can cut short a woman's life by an average of 14 years.

Lung cancer is smoking's top harm. Once rare among women, it's now the top female cancer killer, claiming 27,000 more lives each year than does the breast cancer that so many women dread.

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