<목욜정모> September 11st, 2008 Thursday meeting's Topic

[Scarlet]

Howdy !~ guys !~

Korean Thanksgiving day is just around corner. Do you have any speacial plan during holydays?

I think we're gonna have a sudden gathering to have enjoyable time with members who are staying cheongju. hope I can see many of you in that meeing !~

then let's get down to the topic !!!

This week we're gonna talk about psychology related on your goal attainment.

I think you have tons of things to talk about !

then~ Have fun !~

Scarlet

 Small talks !~

0. Could you describe the geographic features of korea?

(This weeks challenging script is as belows.)

The thing that stands out the most about Korea’s geography is that it’s very mountainous. In fact 70 percent of Korea is covered with mountains. Most of the mountains don’t have high altitudes, but the mountains are especially beautiful in fall when the tree leaves change color. Since Korea is a peninsula, it is also surrounded by water on three sides. This means Korea also has a lot of coastlines and beaches. Sandy beaches, like Haeundae in Busan, are popular places to visit in summer, but many rocky beaches on the west coast are also nice. Korea also has tons of islands on the south and west coasts. There are many rivers too in Korea. The most famous one is Han-gang, which flows through the middle of Seoul.

1. Tell us about your opinions on the rising college tuition fees in Korea.

2. Could you explain the diffrence between the korean TV drama and American TV drama?

    And what kind of drama do you like?

3. Can you explain korean thanksgiving day for foreigner?

    and what do your family uaually do during this holyday?

4. Do you have speacial recipe to lose your weight? how about habit of living and exercising?

 Attainment psychology

Why are some people more successful than others? In the 20th century, countless millions of hours and dollars have been invested in searching for the answer. Today we know more about how to achieve success than ever before. The good news is that success is predictable.

Eighty percent or more of your success is mental. What you achieve is determined primarily by the way you think about yourself, your life and the people around you. In this exciting programme, based on time-tested and proven methods and techniques, you will learn to be more positive, more focused and more effective in every area of your work and personal life.

Questions ================================================================
1. Peace of mind

    - What can you do for a positive change to improve your peace of mind right now?
2. Health and Energy - Lively(soul) 
    - What kind exercise are you training to reinforce for your health and energy now?
3. Relationship with others - Love 
    - Who would you the most like to get along with? Why? 
    - What kind of person you don't want to get along with? Why? 
    - What can you do the first thing to change positively for a good relationship with people?
4. The freedom of finacial problem 
    - What can be the first step for attaining your goal to get the freedom of fiancial problem?
5. A valuable aim and an ideal 
    -When you try to achieve your goal, what can be an obstacle to success?
6. Understand about yourself 
    - If you produce a film about your life, what will you give a title?
7. Self-realization 
    - What is the definition of your own self-realization? 
    - Which part in your life are you satisfied with? 
    - What can you change to improve the quality of your life from now?

 For the Korean Noblesse Oblige

One of the richest people in the world, Warren Edward Buffett, the president of Berkshire Hathaway, announced he would 1) distribute 37 billion dollars forward 5 charitable organizations. The amount reaches 85% of Warren’s property and it is the largest as the sum of donation. He said that his wife passed away 2 years ago and he had thought about their donation continuously, but he delayed it till the amount became the largest. And now, he plans to distribute his stocks to the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation, Susan Tomson Buffett Foundation, and 3 other 2) charitable organizations managed by his children.

Surprisingly, most will be donated to the richest foundation, Bill and his wife’s foundation. Bill Gates, the president of Microsoft, is well known for the richest person in the world and his charity too. As he made lots of money, he also returned it to the society through his foundation. He established his own charitable organization which is the largest foundation in the world in 1994. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has worked for AIDS elimination, and children education. In addition, Bill said he would leave MS to concentrate on his foundation few days ago.

Like above cases, donation is meaningful and very import!ant in the U.S., and these great presidents who mentioned above have emphasized it at all times. So far, they opposed the abolition of 3) inheritance tax most strongly, and both said that 4) bequeathing a large amount of money to their children is not good for them. As a result, they won respect from others, and influenced on the donation culture of the U.S. Beside these familiar presidents, there were a lot of enterprisers who played a major role on the U.S. donation culture - Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and Henry Ford and so on. They made money toughly, and then gave it back to the society generously.

At this moment, we cannot help comparing this with our situation. In Korea, it is hard to face with the news about a huge donation. Even in the case of 5)seasonal charity, it is distributed by companies, not the rich. This means there are some enterprises which give back its benefit to the society, but there is no enterpriser who returns money which he made in the society.

Even though we can see Samsung and Hyundai president’s family distributed a large amount of money, people think that they have another purpose, such as calming down public criticism. Like this, donation in Korea demands compensation. They distribute to 6) cover up their trouble, avoid inheritance tax or punishment, but this distribution cannot be justified.

What is worse, most Korean rich people are eager to hold their property with every possible means. While Warren and Bill have the idea they should give back their money with responsibility, Korean enterprisers traditionally tend to think it is import!ant to inherit the right of management and the wealth. As a result, they try every means available to hold their property. It makes many companies be 7) implicated in a tax 8) dodging case. This can be a danger to Korean capitalism.

Of course, we cannot demand the rich or enterprises to contribute their money. However, they should know what is actually good for the society and themselves. Then, we will need to consider how to develop the Korean donation culture.

Questions ================================================================
1. What makes the current Korean donation culture?
2. What can be the way to develop the Korean donation culture?
3. What do you think about the abolition of inheritance tax?
4. What is the most effective way to make an enterprise give back their property?

[신선영]

Thank you for the topic..~~^^

[Scarlet]

hope to see you this week's meeting. z have a good week until thursday.

[Anthony.C]

Good job .. this week topic little bit early. .

[Scarlet]

I think so... This week I'm a kind of early bird.

[Serena]

역시 우리 회장님!! 토픽 너무너무 고마워요, 언니~~ 이번주엔 모임 꼭 나갈께요~!!!^^

[Scarlet]

이번주의 써뤼나의 이 궁금해지는걸. 꼭 나와 이번주에 Mr. 핸섬가이들 대거 참석하도록 힘써볼테니. 기대기대

[Dean]

회장님 거마워요.~~~~ 생각해보니 모임날이 911 이네요.. 월드 트레이드 센터 사건.~

[Scarlet]

우리 모두 묵념.