<목욜정모> April 3rd, 2008 Thursday meeting's Topic

[Scarlet]

Howdy!~ Englisholic Members. !!!

This week's topic  is as belows.

Hope you enjoy it.

ur SCARLETT 

Human Relationships and Friends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Today’s topic is human relationships and friends. Everybody makes his own human relationships living in society. You meet a lot of people through your entire life. Among those people, some just pass by, but, some become your lifetime company. Human relationships are powerful force. According to what kind of people that you make relationships with, your life can be a hell or a paradise. Even your life can be totally changed. Through today’s discussion, I hope that you can take a look around the people in your life and give thoughts to the meaning of those people to your past, present and future.

(1) How do you think about successful human relationships?
Make your own definition of the successful human relationships based on your personal experiences, and share the basic factors requested to build up a good relationship with other people.

(2) What kind of person you are in making human relationships? Are you active or passive?
If you are good at making the relationships, what is your secret if any. If you are not, what is the reason?

(3) Talk about your most difficult experience in human relationships so far and how did you overcome that? Also, share your most happiest experience in your history of human relationships in detail.

(4) What is the difference between the people that you met at school and the ones after graduation? What are the good points and the bad points between before-school and after-school relationships?

(5) What is your understanding of best friends?
How many best friends that you have, which makes you think that this one is going to be my lifetime company? How many scores that you give to yourself as friend of other people? Why did you give that scores to you?

(6) Do you think that marriage affect friendship? If you think so, how? Can you tell the difference between pre-marriage and post-marriage based on your experience or imagination. Do you think that the difference can be big between men and women?

(7) Do you believe that men and women can be friends? If you think so or not, what are the reasons?

(8) In summary, what do friends and other human relationships mean to your past, present and future?

61% of Parents Receptive to International Marriage --------------------------------------------------------------
By Chung Ah-young / Staff Reporter
More than 60 percent of Koreans are willing to allow their children to marry non-Koreans, showing a change in perception toward international marriages, according to a survey.
The survey indicates that Koreans are becoming more open-minded about interracial marriages, as they may accept their children’s foreign spouses but wouldn’t marry a foreigner themselves.
According to the Corea Image Communication Institute, 61 percent of Koreans answered that they would allow their children to have foreign spouses, while 37.4 percent said they would not do so themselves.
The institute conducted the nationwide survey of 1,470 women and men aged 18-68 to measure perceptions about foreigners from Dec. 7 to Dec. 22 last year.
The survey indicates that Koreans’ attitudes towards interracial marriage is moving into a transition stage, but only in terms of accepting a child’s choice of partner.
However, concerning the intercultural marriages themselves, 73.8 percent of respondents replied that they would not marry a foreigner, while 24.8 percent answered that they would.
Recently, an increasing number of Koreans are marrying foreigners, becoming more open-minded about finding a potential partner, rather than sticking to the notion of a one-race nation.
About 25,000 foreigners married Koreans in Korea in 2004 alone, especially to Korean men living in the rural areas who have difficulty finding Korean spouses.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the number of foreigners living with Korean spouses here jumped 35.5 percent to 60,214 in February last year from 44,416 in December 2003.
The figure was up from 57,069 at the end of 2004.
Females accounted for more than 90 percent of foreign spouses, with 54,533, due to the increasing number of marriages between Korean males and women from Southeast Asian countries that are arranged by marriage agencies.
By nationality, most of them were from other Asian countries.
Chinese, including Korean Chinese, accounted for the majority of the foreign spouses with 35,928, followed by Japanese with 7,609, Vietnamese with 4,145, Filipinos with 3,876, Thais with 1,347 and Mongolians with 1,024.

(1) What is your general idea about international or interracial marriage?

(2) Have you ever thought about getting married with foreigners? Regardless of your answers - yes or no – please tell the reasons.

(3) What could be advantages or disadvantages of this type of marriage?

(4) If your parents or relatives strongly oppose to your marriage how can you persuade them?

(5) (For women) What are important conditions to select your Mr. Right?
(For men) What are important conditions to select your Miss. Right?

(6) Why the numbers of interracial or international couples are getting increased these days?

(7) If you have to face a shortage of the number of brides (or bridegrooms) how can you handle this?

[바쿠스 최치원]

미수다에 에바&일본친구...자밀라 자꾸 보니깐.... 국제 결혼 하고 싶다는 생각이들어.. ㅎㅎㅎ

[yona.]

헉뜨.......!!!!!ㅋ

[Ashley]

띠~~~용~~ㅋㅋ

[바쿠스 최치원]

머야 오버하고 있어.... 경진아 난 니가 넘 이국적으로 생겨서 좋아.... 마치 이탈리아 풍이야 모니카 벨루치 마냥.... 볼륨있는 몸매 ㅎㅎㅎ

[클린패스]

국제결혼 한표 던지고 갑니다~~ㅋ

[[Jay]]

형님~~ ㅠ

[바쿠스 최치원]

지금 할일 없어서 한번 배껴 쓰는중임.... 음 아주 좋은거 같아요... 이거 스칼렛이 쓴거야?????

[Scarlet]

설마.

[Samuel(Sam)]

이번주도 어김없이 내용이 참 실~하네요ㅎ 잘 읽겠습니다~~~

[Scarlet]

샘 모임에서 봐요...

[Ashley]

내용 넘 좋아요....*^^*이번주는 꼭 참석해야지..ㅋㅋ회장님 항상 수고 많으시네용...*^^*

[바쿠스 최치원]

진짜 나올꺼야....!!! *^^* 경진아 나 한번 배껴 썼어... 지금 두번째 읽는 중야... 준비 많이 하고 나와 ...

[Serena]

나 내일 회식이예요..엉엉~ㅠㅠ 일찍 끝나면 2차 모임에라도 참여해보도록 할께요~~ See Ya!!!

[바쿠스 최치원]

내가 진행하고 있을께... 천천히 와... ㅎㅎㅎ

[백은주]

주제가 정말 좋네요.^^ 스칼렛이 쓴 첫부분...원어민이 쓴 에세이를 읽는 듯한 느낌..멋있네요.^^

[Scarlet]

제가 쓴 건 아닌데 정말 주제는 좋죠 이런류의 주변을 둘러보는 주제 적당하죠.... 요즘.

[클린패스]

와~우 이거 잼 있겠다~~ㅋ

[[Jay]]

와우 오늘 토크 기대중 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[jAmEs]

아씨- 나도 하고 싶당..흑흑 요새 잉글리쉬 버닝인데~ ㅋ