Men Are from Mars, Women from Venus in Smartphone Use
Men mostly listen to music on their smartphones while women mostly take selfies with them, a straw poll
suggests.
Online shopping mall Auction polled 925 people and found that, bar Internet searches, the most popular use of smartphones for men is listening to music with 52 percent, and for women taking selfies with 51 percent.
Men next favor playing games (18 percent), taking photos (16 percent) and watching TV (12 percent). But for women, listing to music comes next (25 percent), followed by games (11 percent) and watching TV (nine percent).
Retrieve from "http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/08/11/2014081100807.html"
1. What do you usually do using smartphole?
2. Do you often enjoy taking selfies? when do you usually do?
3. Do you usually change main picture of Kakaotalk?
What kinda picture do you usually use as a main picture or profile pic of SNS?
All restaurants to go smoking-free from 2015
By Kim Se-jeong
Starting next year, smoking will be banned in all restaurants, regardless of their size.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, smoking regulations will expand to cover the entire restaurant business starting Jan. 1, 2015. This will include coffee shops and bars known as "HOFs," and will result in all 68,000 restaurants across the country becoming smoking-free zones. The ministry added the same law will apply to all cyber cafes, and violators will be fined 100,000 won ($90).
"This is to enhance public health and the quality of lives for the people. This will also help us save on the cost of treating patients with smoking-related illnesses," said Kwon Hyung-won of the health and welfare ministry.
Currently, only 23,000 restaurants are subject to smoking regulations. They are larger than 100 square meters in size. Smoking is allowed in smaller restaurants, but only in sealed-off rooms. These rooms will no longer be acceptable from next year.
Small business owners are not happy about the new rules.
"Many of my customers are smokers who choose to come to my place because smoking is allowed. A smoking ban is good and I have nothing against it personally, but for my business, I am afraid of losing my customers," said the owner of a small restaurant in the Mapo district of Seoul.
Kwon said that singing rooms, along with billiard and screen-golf facilities will be the next target for the ministry. Smoking is currently permitted in such places. "These are public places in which there are always people coming and going, and one smoking person can endanger many others' health."
More than 42 percent of adult males smoke in Korea
1. Are you happy with that rule of smoking ban in all restaurant?
2. What do you think of smoking?
3. Do you think we need to consider smokers' right to smoke inside building?
How about non-smokers' right not to be disturbed from smoking smell and smoke?
Korea to Increase Cigarette Prices by 80%
In 2015 smokers in South Korea will have to pay two times more for a pack of cigarettes which costs today 2,500 won on average. The government told that it wants to increase cigarette prices by 80% by January and the measure makes part of the plan to reduce smoking rates among adult males to 29% by 2020.
However, the plan must be approved by the parliament before the scheduled implementation in January, 2015.
Health Minister Moon Hyung-pyo told that they are looking for ways to increase prices on tobacco by 2,000 won ($1.95) per package. Besides this they try to introduce a pricing system where cigarette prices will depend on the country’s inflationary pressure
In 2015 South Korea to ban tobacco ads in all convenience stores in the entire country. Also there will be introduce graphic health warnings on packs.
It was reported that among OECD countries cheapest prices on cigarettes are established in South Korea, China and Thailand. In South Korea are registered 43.7% of adult male smokers and this is higest indication among OECD countries.
Last time cigarette price increase took place in South Korea in 2004, when prices were raised by 500 won. After that there was observed smoking rate drop by 12% over the next two years. Thus the smoking rate dropped from 57.8% in 2004 to 45.9% in 2006.
According to the WHO recommendations, tobacco tax should be increased to 70% of the retail price. In South Korea tax makes 62% of retail price. After the new increase, tobacco tax will represent 73.7% of the retail price.
1. What do you feel about big cigarette price increase?
2. Do you think Why government decide to increase cigarette price?
3. Some people might choose electronic cigarette as a alternative of cigarette. but, what if electronic cigarette
is banned, how would you feel?