정모주제 3.2 Tuesday washing machine recalls & temple food

[kuma.두홍]

   LG recalls washing machine http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/02/24/2010022400878.html

     LG Electronics is to launch a campaign to prevent children from being locked in washing machines, it said Wednesday. The company's decision comes after a child was found dead in a front-loading washing machine in Daejeon, on Sunday. Apparently, the child suffocated playing in the machine while his parents were away.

The company said it will voluntarily recall the washing machines in question. Only introduced to Korea in early 2001, front-loading washing machines make it easier for children to get inside. In 2008, two children got stuck in them and died because the door could not be opened from inside.
   Home appliance makers have changed the doors of such washing machines since then so that they can be opened from inside. However, the companies did not recall older models. The washing machine in the latest accident was also of the old type.
   LG Electronics will begin the recall on March 2 and replace the door locks. The recall will affect 1.05 million 10 kg and 12 kg washers manufactured before November 2008, when stronger safety rules were introduced.

1.  Have you ever returned or exchanged any goods from department store or street vendor? How was your experiences?

2.  Have you ever heard about 'Recall' service? What do you know & do you think about it?

3.  What do you think about the fatal accident at the article? If it ever happaned to you, what would you demand to the company?

4.  Some might blame the poor parent of the victim or the manufacturer of the washing machine for now-late correction. What do you think? Whom should take the reponcibility?

5.  Toyota is hot water all over the world with the suspicion of hiding or delaying fatal recall on their automobile and Hyundai recently announced recall service on both US and Korea. What do you think about their action?

Temple Food Earning Popularity  http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/02/113_61540.html

      If you are of the increasing health-conscious folks, temple food should be on your check list.

  To know what it looks like, you don’t have to go to a remote mountain where temples are usually located. There’s one right here in the middle of the central Seoul area, right across from the Jogye Temple.

    There, Ven. Dae An runs a restaurant, called Baru. It serves meals with fresh ingredients directly from various mountains such as Mt. Jiri, Mt. Odae, and Mt. Seorak, while the pepper paste, bean paste, and all the other sauces are made at Geumsuam Temple from the Mt. Jiri.

  Temple food experience offers more than a handful of choices. “I have about 1,000 recipes right in my head. Some 400 of them were created by me,” she said in an interview with Chosun Ilbo Saturday.

  You can bet that she is personally attached to her work. And there is a good reason. Earlier in life, she suffered from goiter, an enlargement of thyroid gland. Medicine didn’t work. She turned to religion.

As she spent more time at temples, she also got to know different temple foods ― all made from fresh vegetables in the mountains. She enjoyed eating temple food. She also started making her own tofu, and also grew bean sprouts as a starter. After completing a 1,000-day prayer, and eating temple food, her illness was gone. Her overweighed body also returned to normal. And she became a ``bhikuni.’’

Since then, she has been researching on temple food. She earned a master’s degree on temple food and is now perusing her doctoral degree on the same subject.

She wanted to share the healthful benefits of temple food with more people. So, after a one-year preparation, she opened Baru last year.

Expectedly, they are all vegetables, no meat. “Buddhists see eating also part of a religious practice. And the foundation of the practice is to nurture benevolence. Benevolence means no killing.

“It’s problematic to see other animals’ flesh as a food. The whole life in the world is one organically,” she said.

Recently, she has been advising on a few special menus, specifically geared for patients, for example, suffering from cancer and diabetes.

Even though she is a specialist on temple food, she believes ultimately the cure comes not from eating the food, but from one’s state of mind.

“Letting go of your ego and selfishness is the fundamental foundation of Buddhist practice and also the philosophy behind vegetarian diet,” she said.

Baru is located on the fifth floor of the Temple Stay building across from Jogye Temple. Lunch hours are from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Reservations are recommended. For more information, call (02) 2031-2081

Q1 – Do you have any specific eating habit, which you know it is not good, but you can not help yourself?

Q2 - What do you think about your health? What do you do for your well-being?

Q2 – If you get sick, what do you usually do first? go to hospital, just endure or take any family remedy? 

Q3 – Are  you a kind of gourmet? Could you tell us where the best of the best restaurant is in your life?

Q4 – Do you agree to her comment at the article that the cure is from one’s state of mind? What do you think of it?

[siron.영일]

I will make it unless something happaens.

[thana7찬화]

지참 합니다. ^^

[Meriel.노지은]

정참합니다.

[Nayoen,나연]

용기내서 처음으로 참석해 보려합니다. ^ ^ 정시참여 하겠습니다.

[Moon,종문]

정참합니다.

[Usama은주]

참석 입니다

[Steve(형준)]

정참할게요。

[kuma.두홍]

^^wow~~~ how about your first day of work!!! good for U!

[minky(민기)]

지참할게요~*

[푸른햇살(수정)]

정참입니다. 저번에 정참한다 했다가 못가서 죄송~^^;;