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Entertainers on Private Loan Ad Blamed

Entertainers on advertisements for private loan firms have come under criticism by the public who say that such ads often mislead consumers who get embroiled in larger financial debt due to high interest rates.

Consumers have been expressing their disapproval over entertainers who pose as models for such commercials by pouring vindictive comments toward them on the Internet, distributing blacklists of the entertainers who have been on the ads and forming hate clubs in cyberworld.

In April, one Internet user at Daum portal site, named ``Silhouette,’’ proposed Internet users sign up to make a petition against television networks to take such ads off the air. More than 2,000 people signed the petition. ``We can no longer take such hypocritical private loan companies and entertainers that drive people into great financial debt,’’ wrote Silhouette on the proposal.

They say that as a public figure who can greatly influence ordinary people, entertainers should not appear in the ads of private loan companies which can mislead the public. `Celebrities should be more sensible in choosing advertisements since they have a great influence on consumers’ decision-making,’’ said Jang Soo-tae, an official at the Consumer Protection Board.

According to the board, the number of registered civil appeals regarding complaints about private loan firms increased from 267 in 2005 to 500 last year. Between January and April, the number stood at 133.

Consumers who made civic appeals said that private loan companies’ excessively high annual interest rates which almost reaches 67 percent, unfairly caused them to bear serious financial burdens. Owing to the public’s strong rejection of commercials for private loan companies, they have recently disappeared from major television networks and can only be seen on cable television channels at the moment.

Currently, there are about 20 celebrities who are under attack. They include Choi Soo-jong, Choi Min-shik, Choi Jeong-yoon, Tak Jae-hoon, Ahn Hye-kyung, Choi Jeong-won, Wang Bin-na, Shin Hye-jin, Lee Beom-jin, Ahn Yon-hong, Kim Mi-ryo and Cho Won-seok.

Question

1. Did you see that private loan firms advertisement that entertainers are in? How did you feel?
2. Following the latest survey, 53% of adults answered that "I was going to hate the entertainer who are in the private loan firms advertisement". On the other hand, people praise the entertainer who rejects that advertisement. What do you think about that?
3. Do you think celebrities should be sensible in choosing advertisements despite lots of money ?
If you are in their shoes, what are you going to do?
4. what do you think is the reason of lots of Private Loan Advertisement are in these days?

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'Blackout' Hits 35% of Working Women
More than three out of 10 working women drink alcohol to the point of passing out, says a unit at Dasarang Central Hospital which specializes in alcohol-related diseases.

According to the hospital‘ survey of 170 working women in their 20s to 50s who drink alcohol, 35 percent say they blacked out due to binge drinking and 34 percent say they drink excessively more than once a month.
In fact, four percent say they experience blackout on a regular basis, which raises awareness on women’s drinking habits.

Regular blackout is one of the early symptoms of chronic drinking. If one drinks more than one bottle of soju or more than four bottles of beer on a regular basis, one is already seen by specialists as having an alcoholic problem and is in need of treatment.
Also, 30 percent of those surveyed found their working lives affected by hangovers such as being late for, or even absent from work. Another 37 percent say they drink alone due to stress at work.

Recent studies suggest women have fewer alcohol metabolizing enzymes than men. The fact that women typically have more body fat also causes them to metabolize alcohol differently. This means that a woman will have a higher blood alcohol concentration level than a man, despite consuming the same amount of alcohol, which might explain why women seem less tolerant of alcohol than men.

Women become addicted to alcohol faster than men once they start drinking, and are more likely to suffer from alcohol-related diseases including osteoporosis, dementia and depression. Also, women’s death rate from such diseases is more than twice that of men.

``Although men drink much more than women in general, the fact that there is an increasing number of women experiencing blackout and drinking on a regular basis is quite worrisome, as they are more vulnerable to the aftereffects of drinking than men,’’ said Lee Jong-sub, a doctor at Dasarang Central Hospital. ``Those who suffer from the aftereffects of bad drinking habits are advised to consult an expert as soon as possible.’’

Question
1. Have you ever experienced blackout or other disease from drinking?
If you did, when? where? how? Please tell us about your example.
2. How do you feel about drinking? What kinds of strength and weakness does it have?
3. What do you think about problems of Korea's drinking culture including University students'
4. What kinds of efforts are needed for establishing the healthy drinking culture in Korea.
 

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hahaha I'm really into this topic & that pics wow I'm really expecting it.

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우와 고마워요.... 인상적이네요 아티클이 요번주 토요일은 꼭 나갈께요...

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ㅋㅋ.. 난 이번주에..어린이날_어버이날 행사 땜에...참석이 불가능 한데..sorry

[[Jay]]

black out..... 어익후 생각하기도 싫다..

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저 미소... ㅎㅎ