(토요모임) [Aug. 9, 2014]Saturday meeting topic

[Scarlet]

Hello ! Englisholic members !~

It's me Scarlett :)

2 topics for this week are as follows.

- Younger people pay more, receive fewer benefits from public services

- Jelousy feelings of Pets.

Hope you have fun in the meeting !~

Sincerely yours,

Scarlett

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Younger people pay more, receive fewer benefits from public services

Members of South Korea’s younger generation are likely to receive less than what they paid into public benefits,

a report showed Monday, highlighting the government’s demographic dilemma of having to balance its fiscal policy

amid a rapidly aging society that is spurring welfare spending.

People in their 20s and 30s during their lifetime will spend 100 million won ($97,561) more than the value of government

benefits they will actually receive, according to a working paper coauthored by Bank of Korea economists

Kim Myoung-chul and Im Seong-yong, and Kim Young-gak, an economics professor at Senshu University in Japan.

Compared with people aged over 55 as of 2011 who received more benefits for what they paid for, those in younger age

groups are expected to pay a minimum of 36.2 million won (50-55 age group) to as much as 112.4 million won

(30-35 age group), according to the report.

The paper, which compares South Korea with its more quickly aging neighbor Japan, comes as the underemployed

but highly educated younger generation faces mounting costs in supporting their parents.

Article source : http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140728000615

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<Questions>

Q1. Have you ever heard about the aging-society? Can you define what it is?

Q2. Even though we have to help the weak or the old people as an one of the community members,

       too much burdens on the young generation can cause troubles on our society. In this perspective, 

      our society have to figure out how to sustain and support old generation's economic activity

      as long as they can do. For this socio-economy phenomenon, do you think what could be the solutions

      to reduce the burdens on the young age groups?

Q3. If the goverment puts more tax on you to support old aged group what is your response to it?

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Study shows dogs get jealous of other dogs   (26th July, 2014)

Dog lovers have known since time began that pets get jealous, but now a new study has shown that it is true. A professor from

the University of California conducted research into what makes dogs jealous. Dr Christine Harris first decided to investigate

canine jealousy after she noticed strange behaviour among her parents' three border collies. She noticed that when she stroked

two of the pooches at the same time, they became aggressive towards each other. Both dogs tried to knock her hand away

from the other so they could receive maximum attention. She said: "To me, that really fit with the core motivation of jealousy….

I was petting them with both my hands, not just one. They wanted exclusive attention. That got me to thinking about jealousy in dogs."

Professor Harris adapted a jealousy test commonly used on young children. Her research team conducted tests on 36 different dogs

in their homes and videoed their reactions. The dogs' owner had to read a short passage from a book while petting a toy dog that

wagged its tail and a Halloween lantern. Harris wanted to see how the dogs reacted to their owner petting the toy dog, as well as

looking at if they had any reaction to the petting of the lantern. She noticed that the dogs were twice as likely to be jealous of

the toy dog. A third of the dogs tried to muscle in between the toy and its owner. Professor Harris thinks it is important to understand

jealousy more. She said: "Jealousy is the third-leading cause of non-accidental homicide across cultures."

Read more: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1407/140726-jealousy.html#ixzz39ZDSP5rT

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<Questions>

Q1. Have you ever raise any kinds of pets? Why do you keep pets?
 
Q2. Do you think animals can similar feelings as people do? 
      If, yes Plz make an examplary cases for it.
 
Q3. In the case of human-being, do you think women get more jealous than men do?
 
Q4. When are you getting jealousy? Would you get aggressive if you were jealous?

Q5. Someone said jealousy is a mental cancer? Do you agree? 
      Do you think it helps to improve your work performance?

[steve]

안녕하세요 스칼렛 누나 스티브(유석)입니다
요거 토론 주제가 너무 좋아서 그러는데 제가 좀 사용해도 될까요?
저희 천안 영어 모임에 사용하고 싶습니다 :)

[Scarlet]

물론 ㅋ 사용해도 좋아요 !~
그리고 자료 사용료는 ㅋㅋㅋ 담에 모임와서 커피쏘세요 ㅋ

[고급사과]

토요모임에 참석 하는 방법을 모르겠어요 알려주세요 참석하고 싶어요 ^^

롯데시네마 아트에스프레소로 그냥가면 되나요?;;ㅋ

[susanna]

카페 직원한테 영어모임 어디서하는지 물어보시면 안내해줄거에요ㅋ..ㅋ