<목욜정모> June 12nd, 2008 Thursday meeting's Topic

[Scarlet]

Howdy Englisholic member !!!

Increasing importance lies on the outter appearance in our society.

These trends started from women are now prevailing in the men's society as well .

And nobody deny that the superior appearance is working as a beneficial influence on the social realaionships & activities.

I think you guys have lots of stuffs to talk about. Then R U ready?

Let's talk about it more deeply.

Scarlett.

The ideal young korean male – revealed ==================

A plastic surgeon has published a composite image of the ideal male Korean face. Rhee Seung-chul, the head of plastic surgery at Hanil General Hospital, made the image from the faces of 16 Korean Wave stars. Rhee had earlier done the same thing for women by making a composite image of 19 female stars.
The ideal Korean male consists of bits and pieces from Kang Dong-won, Kwon Sang-woo, Kim Rae-won, Mun Jeong-hyeok, Bae Yong-joon, Jung Ji-hoon, Song Il-gook, Won Bin, Lee Wan, Jang Dong-gun, Jae Hee, Cho In-sung, Jo Hyun-jae, Ji Seong, Ji Jin-hee, and Hyun Bin? all of them popular not only in Korea but in China and Japan as well. He analyzed their faces with a computer program called BAPA, for “balanced angular and proportional analysis.” The result is a slim face with chiseled cheekbones and a clear chin, big eyes, a long nose and long, thin upper lip.
"According to the beauty theory that says the average of all the most preferred faces is the most beautiful, I made the new-generation handsome face by using the faces of stars that young Internet users like most,” Rhee said.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) --
It started with doctors sculpting his nose, then an operation to cut his eyelids to create folds and make his eyes appear bigger. Next came Botox injections in his forehead, followed by the fat being sucked out of his abdomen.
Before he was done, Park Hyo-jung had 24 procedures on his body in a little more than three years to improve his appearance. "Before I didn't have a girlfriend. I didn't want to even try because I didn't have confidence," said the 24-year-old, a technician at a medical supply company and part-time student.
Plastic surgery was once mainly a female domain, but men have increasingly been going under the knife around the world to improve appearances as a way to boost self-esteem and compete for jobs. South Korean men have begun to join in, so much so that local media write of men being gripped in a "plastic surgery craze."
While cases like Park are an extreme example, the trend of men seeking a nip and tuck reaches all the way to the president's office: Roh Moo-hyun had his eyelids done last year. The official reason his office gave was to correct a condition that could affect his sight.
According to a survey by AGB Nielsen Media Research and Men's Health, 86 percent of South Korean men between age 25 and 37 believe their competitiveness for jobs would be increased by having a good appearance and healthy body. More than 56 percent said they weren't satisfied with their appearance. The survey of 500 men had a margin of error above 4 percentage points.
Park, who had the 24 procedures at a cost of $8,150, said he won't have any more surgery for now, under doctor's advice. His story has gained national attention and earned him 10 appearances on TV talk shows — and even an offer to be in an adult film. He turned it down.
Friends who were earlier critical are now pondering their own surgery after seeing the positive changes in Park's appearance and self-confidence. And there's been another benefit, too: Park has a girlfriend.

Questions ----------------------------------

1) Who do you think is the best-looking, most modern ideal of a young Korean male out of the entertainers today?
2) How has the ideal look for a male changed from 20 years ago?
3) Why do you think there is a growing preference for the “pretty boy”?
4) Park invested $8,150 into his looks, do you think he is being vain and superficial? Why or why not?
5) Many women nit-pick about their looks and aren’t easily satisfied. However, looks seem to be of a growing concern to men. Do you think men obsess about their looks the way women do these days? How satisfied are you with your looks?

How to Make the Better Teamwork ======================

I believe most of students have the experience in working by groups. It is quite natural for us to do teamwork because there could be limitation solving the entire problem by oneself. That is why many professors emphasize the import!ance of teamwork and often suggest students to do the assignment by group-making. But still many students are not familiar with doing teamwork and do not try to get along well with the team members. Rather, they do it by themselves. Doing team work does not seem to be easy because of the difficulties in coping with various characters of the group members. However, it is essential for us to do work as a team not only for the result we would perform, but also for the improvement of our interpersonal skills we would need in the future.

What is the teamwork? In this topic, teamwork is not a term which means abstract atmosphere that is really required for smooth group working. Then, is the team work just one way for many people to solve some problems expecting synergy effect?

First of all, we should make the boundary of the concept, ‘teamwork’, in this article. Actually, the definition of the teamwork is too wide to cover in this short writing. For example, someone who wants to know more about teamwork, they should study organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and some practical methods such as communication, authority, leadership, reward system and so on. So in this article, we will just consider familiar cases of the teamwork we usually do in our school days.

There are several things which I think it is import!ant to consider while doing teamwork. First, each member should take each role and its responsibilities. Not only setting hierarchy system by dividing members into a leader and followers, but also assigning fair amount of work to each person is import!ant. In addition, the leader should equally distribute works and encourage or awake members’ to do their best to make a best performance. Second, the team should set the distinctive purpose of the meeting to solve the problems together. The goal should be realistic but not too easy to achieve. Third, it is import!ant not to make any free-rider during the teamwork. When one free rider occurs, other members will feel unpleasant compensating for his/her vacancy.

There is no answer how to make the perfect teamwork. However, there could be a satisfaction if you dealt with both personal relationships and subjects of team project successfully. Creating the good atmosphere for great teamwork is difficult, however, know-how for harmonious teamwork would help the team to achieve dominant position in competitions. So it will be required more and more from now on. Now, it is your turn to think about the teamwork you have experienced before.

(Message from Publication Girl 5)

Generally, teamwork is used as a noun, which means cooperative effort by the members of a group or team to achieve a common goal. We usually use this word in a sentence like ‘teamwork is import!ant in order to success in group competition.’ Collaboration, cooperation can be thought as the synonyms for this term. However, in this article, the writer wanted to emphasize the teamwork, which means making a team and doing a work or a project, rather than a noun to express the coactions.

Questions ----------------------------------
1. What kind of difficulties do you face when you are doing a group project?
2. Which type of team is more effective on working together? Group member having similar characteristics or all having different styles. Why don’t you think of another type of ideal group?
3. What kind of position do you prefer in a team work? Usually, what is your style? Are you a leader, follower, free rider or somebody else?
4. What could be the qualification for each role? (e.g leader, researcher, presenter…)
5. In what situation do you think teamwork will be more efficient than individual work?

[Dean]

업로드 정말 빠르네요.~~ 거마워요~^^

[Samuel(Sam)]

요번주엔 나오시는거죠??? Scarlet 얼굴 잊어버리겠네요^^;; 암튼 항상 좋은 글 감사합니다~토픽읽으면서 많이 배워가요ㅋㅋ 잘읽겠습니다~

[Anna입니당(Anne)]

ㅋㅋ 잼있는 타픽 이군요 회장님...ㅎㅎ