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South Korean Government's indifference to Animal Welfare

   On november 29th, the first new outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) was reported in North Gyeong-Sang province in South Korea. The South Korean government failed controlling the disease at an early stage and now the highly contagious disease has been reported in five another provinces. The government and the officials did their best but to no vail. The lethal disease to cloven-hoofed animals does not seem to restrain from spreading.

   As a measure to control such highly contagious disease, mass slaughters were taken place and it was in record numbers. It is unavoidable to kill animals in order to prevent the disease from spreading. However, the procedures of killing animals for disease control purpose should be conducted in a way that meets the international standards for animal welfare.

   However, it is reported that thousands of pigs have been buried alive as part of the control. Since the outbreak of the FMD, over 470,000 animals, four percent of South Korea's livestocks have been either culled or destined for slaughter. Live burial of animals is a breach of the World Organisation for Anmal Health's (OIE) guideline on the Killing of Animals for Disease Control Purposes. Since South Korea is a member of the OIE it should observe the guidelines. The guideline says "When animals are killed for disease control purposes, methods used should result in immediate death or immediate loss of consciousness lasting until death; when loss of consciousness is not immediate, induction of unconsciousness should be non-aversive or the least aversive possible and should not cause avoidable anxiety, pain, distress or suffering in animals.”

   Some people who put priority to human interest over animal welfare may say that considering animal welfare into the measure is inefficient in controlling the disease, causing more economic damage. Their argument is based on a premise that since animal do not have emotion, they do not deserve any rights. It is true that animals do not have sophisticated emotion like human, such as feeling depressed by one's social status even though they have enough to live on or being amazed at 3D movies and etc. However, when it comes to death, the fear and pain which animals feel are no less than those of human. The fact that human enjoy more delicate feelings does not lead to the fact that animals have less fear of pain in front of death. People even say that human has the right to die in dignity. It does not need to be to this extent, but the slaughter should be completed as quickly as possible in order to minimize the pain and distress that animals might have during the process.

   However, the most preffered approah dealing with FMD, from the standpoint of animal welfare advocate, would be the vaccination. The OIE distinguish states into three kinds concerning FMD; FMD present with or without vaccination, FMD-free with vaccination and FME-free without vaccination. Countries that are designated as FMD-free without vaccination have the greatest access to export markets because there is a possibility that the disease might remain in the body of the vaccinated animals. Therefore, it is difficult to regain FMD-free witouth vaccination status and this is the reason why governments try not to use it when such emergency disease outbreaks.

   South Korean government reluctantly begun vaccination cows as FMD spirals out of control. Pigs are exempted from the inoculation. This shows that the government makes decision only by the economic damage that will cause. It is lamentable that there is no consideration on animal welfare. Also people's lack of interest in animal welfare and taking killing animals for granted contributed to this situation. For a long-term project, an education and promotion of animal welfare should take place.

Dress to Impress

   In some businesse industries, appearances can make or break careers. A bank is a great example. Recently, the Swiss bank UBS released a 43-page dress code to its retail banking staff. The advices were strict to the point of excess. However, the reation to the dress code is unexpectedly positive. It is unclear whether the staff members of the UBS are at the same page with their company, but customers are welcoming the policy.

   To point out some guidelines from the dress code, staff members are recommended to wear suits in dark grey, black or navy blue beacuse these colors usually symbolize competence, formalism and sobriety. For female staff members, the skirt should reach their knee and also wearing too much accesories are not recommended. For male staff members, wearing accesories is banned except for a watch, which represents reliability and great care for punctuality. In addition , long knee-high socks are encouraged in order to prevent from showing their actual skin when they cross their legs. The code even designates which underwear one should wear. For men, it should be of good quality and easily washable but still remain undetectable. For female staffs the color of their underwear should match with their skin color in case the uniform is made of translucent fabric.

   Under these strict guidelines, there is no chance to express one's personality through their fashion. As a result, it may be undesirable for the staff. However,the fact that customers prefer clerks who are neatly dressed led many companies likely to adapt such kind of dress-code. It was the customers' preference which reversed the trend of casual dress code into a formal business attire, which was once abandoned for the sake of positive effects by expressing one's personality.

   Not only people have their own personality but also companies have a certain image that can appeal to customers. The image of a company is as important as the personality of individuals, since it determines how other people think about you. There are many elements that build up a comapany's image. It includes quality of their products, employers, corporate strategy and etc. Especially for service companies, the employees play a big role in establishing their companies' image. Therefore, employers, who care about the image of their companies, can demand their staff to cooperate with the company's policy. Policies that are related to promoting a corporate's image should not be regarded as an invasion of privacy since working in a company is open to the public.

   Especially businesses in the sevice industry, a good image is essential as well. It is a common sense that people do not like to go to a restaurant where the kitchen looks dirty and whose waiters are unfriendly. When people choose a restaurant for a dinner, they consider not only the taste of food but also the atmosphere of the restaurant. People expect to have a dinner at a clean restaurant with a nice service. This also applies to financial service companies like banks. Banks live on confidence by their customers. 

   It is the staff's duty to satisfy clients by providing good quality of service. Good quality of service includes not only the service that a company provides but also secondary services that emplyers provide such as comfortable environment, friendly attitude and etc. Dress code is one way to enhance the quality of secondary service.

  Common belief of the copyright is that it protects the interests of artists by providing them with exclusive right on their works. However, today's copyright system runs counter to this general perception. In fact, conglomerates are those who benefit from copyright, not the artists. 
 Most of the copyrighted works are owned by small number of conglomerates because they are the ones who have power to distribute those works. And as the Internet, which purpose was to share academic information among scholars, became a large part of our society, it invoked a problem of sharing creative works.

    It is not a surprise that the current copyright benefits big companies rather than the real owners of creative works, the artists, because this was the original purpose of copyright in the past. In 1557, Queen Anne in England granted the stationer's guild a monopoly on printing and publishing books in order to control ideas in the society. This is considered as the first initiative for the modern copyright.
Copyright is especially detrimental in the cultural field because it restricts diversity. No ideas, arts, music and anything that form a certain culture are created by a sole mind of a creator. Every person's work is based upon the works of predecessors. In this sense, copyright, which discourage people from building on other people's work is an obstacle in developing cultural diversity.

   However, this does not mean that we should abandon the whole copyright system. Rewarding and protecting the interests of artists must he guaranteed for their further creative works. The problem is to what extent should the rights be reserved? In order to solve this problem, many organizations invented their own copyright system which do not have adverse effect on artists' creative working condition. Creative Common is one of the pro- 'copyleft' organizations.

   Creative Common is a non-profit organization which is devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. They found that the problem of the current copyright system lies in the exclusive rights of works. With the current copyright system people cannot build upon other people's works or share it with others because copyright guarantees all rights of the work exclusively to the owner. However, the Creative Common solved this problem by dividing the rights which creators have cut up into several pieces. By using the Creative Common license, people can easily notice which rights are reseved and which are not. Since the license tells people what is allowed, they do not have to ask the owners, which people do so in the current copyright system when they want to use the works. This will encourage people to build upon other people's work and eventually contribute to our cultural diversity.

   However, there still remain problems because creators themselves depend on conglomerates who is the main distributor in the culture industry. We have the key in solving this problem. It is hard for No one c( write your opinion) When there is no demand there will be no supply. Thanks to the Internet, it became much easier to publish our works without distributors. Now we can find much diversity through the online world. The Internet, which original purpose was to share ideas, is the most contributiong factor to our cultural diversity, and it is a flexible copyright system that makes this possible.

Amazon.com selling a 'Pedophile guidebook" outrages consumers

   The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct a self-published e-book by Phillip R Greaves II was available on Amazon.com. The book’s title came as a shock to many people and Amazon.com deteriorated the situation by reacting inadequately. People were outraged by its policy and some people even began to boycott the company. The self-published e-book is now pulled from Amazon.com, but controversy on the company’s guidelines for digital publication still remains as the company has refused to comment on it.

   The only official statement on the book was “Amazon believes it is a censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable. Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decision." There are many issues to this statement. Is the guidebook for pedophiles just an objectionable book to people which can be protected by the First Amendment or authentically an illegal book? Another controversy is that if it is legal to publish this book, can the inconsistent policy by Amazon.com be justified?

   It is legal to publish a guidebook for pedophiles? The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech in the United States, but there are some exceptions; child pornography laws, speech that incites imminent danger, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising. Since the book only consists of text, it does not come under pornography. It is controversial whether this book incites imminent danger or not. Statistics show that 30 to 40 percent of child sex abusers were caught by reoffending crime. Experts say that these child sexual offenders are most likely to conduct this crime again. These reoccurring habits show that they lack the ability to control their impulses. As a result exposing this book will only enhance their vulnerability in this immoral behavior. However, considering that the court maintains a generous position in permitting advocacy of unpopular ideas that people may find distasteful the guidebook for pedophiles is likely to be protected by the freedom of speech.

   So let’s say this book is legal. Why is it a problem for Amazon to choose certain books they want to sell? People have a right to run a business related to anything unless it is illegal. The problem is that Amazon does not apply a consistent standard in selecting books to advertise. Pornography is legal and is a profitable business, but Amazon has their own policy not to sell those books. Then why do they sell a pro-pedophile book? People cannot help but to think that Amazon supports this book. Selling this book will not cause a legal dispute, but it is clear that it will cost economic consequences. If Amazon does not make their position clear, outraged consumers of Amazon.com will continue the boycott.

What made Lady Gaga become famous so fast?

   With her successful debut album, The Fame, released on August 19th 2008, topping many charts around the world, she became a world star overnight. It is not surprising that she became so famous with her fascinating songs. But Madonna and Britney spears also became famous for their good looking and their popular songs. Then what is so special about Lady Gaga? Her debut was no more explosive than that of any other pop stars. It can be said that she literally became a star overnight since her album had released. Now she has 10 million followers on her facebook and 6 million on her twitter. How can we explain this phenomenon? Is it just because many people like Lady Gaga more than Madonna or Britney Spears? The change in our environment is the answer. It is not because Lady Gaga’s debut album was better than that of Madonna or Britney Spears, but because of the environmental change in our society.

   When Madonna made her debut in 1983, it took weeks to top the billboard chart and make a mark because the promotion team had to merely rely on radio or television broadcastings. Twenty years later in 1999, Britney Spears released her debut album …Baby one more time and for her it took less to distinguish herself thanks to MTV which enhanced the exposure of her undeniable music video as well as traditional radio and television shows. However, television or radio broadcastings, which are intrinsically one-side media, were not effective as the Web do today. When Britney came out the Web existed but there were fewer households who had PC in their home, and also the contents on the Web were limited only to text and photos which we had to wait for minutes to load them.

   On the other hand, by Lady Gaga’s debut in 2008 the Internet played the most significant role, making her superstar overnight. YouTube allowed people to watch Lady Gaga’s eye-popping performance whenever they want to. It wasn’t a big matter if you missed performance at the MTV music award because in a minute it was on the YouTube. Thanks to the video-sharing website people could upload and share video clips of their favorite stars and those who just began to get interested in Lady Gaga ultimately become a fan by watching her fascinating performance. Facebook helped her promotion as well. People can share their interest on their walls and through this it took only few hours to make people know who Lady Gaga is, while it took several seeks at the time when Madonna came out. So it was a matter of accessibility.

   Next to the accessibility to her great debut album it was the Lady Gaga’s personality that attracted many people. Beforehand celebrities had promotion team that gave advices to them what to wear, how to speak and everything possible to make them attractive. Everything was controlled and images were made up so people looked up their stars in awe. However, the separation between celebrities and the public raised somekind of anti-sentiment against the celebrities. Social networking sites on the Web changed the basic relationship to some degrees. Since people are already exposed to many of Lady Gaga’s promotions, video clips in YouTube, fans did not stop there. They wanted to know more about her: what kind of personality she has, what she does in her free time, and what she is thinking right now. Twitter, facebook made this possible.

   On the Web the distance is drawn close between the fans and their stars. Celebrities use twitter or facebook just as other netizens and this made people think that celebrities are just like us. Lady Gaga’s open-minded and highly individual attitude attracted many people. As we can notice by her fashion, wearing innovative costumes, she knows exactly what she wants to do and makes it happen. Her unaffected attitude appealed to many people. She is not an imitation of Madonna or Christina Aguilera. She is Lady Gaga. Without being Lady Gaga herself she could not be famous as she is today.

Public Isolation Project

   What would it be like living in a glass house where everybody can see you? Literally, we are talking about a house with no curtains. These days, many architects design buildings that have large glass windows in order to enhance the natural light inside the buildings. In addition, some animal rights activists also did a performance of living in a glass house in order to denounce people’s unethical treatment of animals. This time, Christine Norine is ‘trapped’ in a glass house for one month for the purpose of a Public Isolation Project.

http://www.publicisolationproject.com/

   Public Isolation Project is kind of performance art consisting of two symbolic art pieces: Joshua Jay Eliott’s “An Examinable Life” and Christine Norine’s “the Future of Socializing.” The transparent window which enables people to view Christine’s life represents the current situation of modern people who have succumbed to the privacy of their home due to the comfort of the internet. People can now socialize through twitter, facebook, skype and other social networking websites without having to see the person face to face. Since Christine is unable to get out of the house and has no direct interaction with people, she can only communicate with her friends and family through these social networking websites. During the performance she will focus on examining her feelings and mental health, so that she can better understand how the social networking through the Internet affects her social life.

   It is a meaningful project to our society, given the fact that we are now witnessing ambivalent effects of the social networking websites. Thanks to these online services we can keep in touch with our friends and get information anywhere at anytime. On the other hand issues such as cyber-bullying and lack of privacy are increasing. People are aware of all these phenomenon, but there is no adequate solution to this problem. Since the positive effects are so enormous, some people tend to shrug off the negative impact of the social networking service as a trivial problem. It is inevitable to eliminate the problems because of the intrinsic prosperities of the internet – openness, connectivity, and fast diffusion. However, at least we can minimize the adverse impact. In order to come up with measures, more research must be conducted. In this sense, the Public Isolation Project has stepped off on the right foot of academic research on social networking services and also will open people up to think carefully about how to use the online services correctly.