11/22 Scrap-Rising cases of theft

<A href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2011/11/202_98899.html">http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2011/11/202_98899.html</A>   Summary: Now, because of poverty, more and more people theft. The number of detected theft cases in Seoul only is to exceed about 50,000 this year. According to the Seoul Metropolutian Police Agency, the number surged 76% from 28,000 in 2008 to 49,410 last year. The increasing of the number of the poor have engendered shoplifting, burglary and other types of theft because of the outbreak of the 2008 global financial crisis. The problem is that the number of thieves in their 20s arrested throughout the nation reached 20,855 in 2010. For them, they are really hard economically. This problem is caused by the high unemployment rate of college graduates. Now out of every four college graduates landing jobs are underpaid with their monthly wages averaging on less than 1 million won. They can't get much money but some of them tend to be plunged into a debt trap. Then the thieves encounter more difficulties to get jobs because of their criminal records. Therefore, the thieves have no choice but just suffer from the cycle of recidivism, poverty, and a poor life. The gap between the rich and poor is widened and at the same time there are a lot of people who don't have jobs. The government should beef up the social safety net for the poor and also shift its policy focus to ease the polarization and promote social cohesion.   Opinion: Actually, this problem is one of most serious worries for everyone. Now the entire world is not that good in economy and so the gap between the rich and poor is really wide and exposed very obviously. It doesn't happen not only individually but between country and country. For instance, U.S. and the countries in Africa have seriously wide gap. U.S. is still wealthy and productive but then some countries in Africa are really poor and many citizens are dying of no food. In our nation, Korea, many people don't have jobs. For me, I can't get the reason why some young people can't have jobs. Actually, there are a lot of jobs in Korea but then probably young people just want easy jobs. Though a man graduated a college, it's hard for him to get a job. Personally, I think young people in Korea must be diligent and think skillfully and purely in living a life because many of them are lazy to work and so they strive to find easy jobs such as officers. Instead of stealing some food or stuff from stores, it's really better for them to work in constructions where they should carry heavy things so that they will realize that being adults and making money is really hard.