[Final Draft] Should Subway Freeriding of the Elderly be Abolished?

The uprising issue nowadays is ‘Should subway freeriding of the elderly be abolished?’ Subway freeriding for the elderly is a welfare policy that letting people whose age is over 65 to get free subway rides. As I am one of subway users, I thought about this issue. My opinion about this question is that the freeriding for the elderly should be abolished.

Reasons for my opinion are three. First, financial loss caused by the elderly freeriding is increasing every year. Seoul Metro and Seoul City said, “From 2010 to 2015, about 50 billion won was lost from the freeriding.”, and they also mentioned that the elderly freeriding takes 65% of all freeriding types. Considering that Korea will be aged society with 24.3% of the elderly, financial loss will continue and grow. Seoul City also said that, “The reason of the 65% of the loss comes from the elderly freeriding.”

           Second, the loss from maintaining senior discount policy is filled up by raising fee. Raising fee becomes a distress to the young, who actively take subways. For example, I take a subway to go to school, and it charges me about 100,000 won per month. Since I pay transportation expenses, this becomes a lot of burden to me. Seoul City, however, announced that they will increase 200 won of the subway fee in 2017, making it 1450 won. Increasing fee will also increase the young’s spending, which will be very stressful.

           Third, Senior Pass Card can be used by other people who are not seniors. Senior Pass Card is provided to people who are subjects of freeriding. Though the card is for the elderly, Seoul Metro said that they caught 195,749 not-senior people using this card. Seoul Metro also said that, “Accumulated illegal rides can effect on increasing fee.”

          Financial loss, increasing fee, and unauthorized usage of senior pass card are reasons of my opinion; the elderly freeriding should be abolished. It looks like all my three reasons are actually telling that the elderly freeriding is causing financial problems. To stop the problem, it would be nice to abolish the freeriding of the elderly. If it is hard to abolish this policy, I think government should draw up some suggestions to resolve the financial issues caused by the elderly freeriding.

 

 

References

[기획] 65세 이상 지하철 경로우대 이대로 좋은가? (2015, November 25). Retrieved November 27, 2015, from http://www.segye.com/content/html/2015/11/25/20151125002371.html?OutUrl=naver

[댓글多뉴스] 서울지하철, 2호선 빼고 모두 적자 소식에 네티즌... (2015, November 5). Retrieved November 27, 2015, from http://maxim.wowtv.co.kr/cms/contents_view.php?contents_uid=6935

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[2nd draft] Should Subway Freeriding of the Elderly be Abolished?

      

           The uprising issue nowadays is ‘Should subway freeriding of the elderly be abolished?’, and as I am one of subway users, I thought about this issue. My opinion about this question is that the freeriding for the elderly should be abolished.

           Reasons for my opinion are three. First, financial loss caused by the elderly freeriding is increasing every year. Seoul Metro and Seoul City said, “From 2010 to 2015, about 50 billion won was lost from the freeriding.”, and they also mentioned that the elderly freeriding takes 65% of all freeriding types. Considering that Korea will be aged society with 24.3% of the elderly, financial loss will continue and grow. Seoul City also said that, “The reason of the 65% of the loss comes from the elderly freeriding.”

           Second, the loss from maintaining senior discount policy is filled up by raising fee. Raising fee becomes a distress to the young, who actively take subways. For example, I take a subway to go to school, and it charges me about 100,000 won per month. Since I pay transportation expenses, this becomes a burden to me. Seoul City, however, announced that they will increase 200 won of the subway fee in 2017, making it 1450 won. Increasing fee will also increase the young’s spending, which will be very stressful.

           Third, Senior Pass Card can be used by other people who are not seniors. Senior Pass Card is provided to people who are subjects of freeriding. Though the card is for the elderly, Seoul Metro said that they caught 195,749 of not-senior people using this card. Seoul Metro also said that, “Accumulated illegal rides can effect on increasing fee.”

           Financial loss, increasing fee, and unauthorized usage of senior pass card are reasons of my opinion; the elderly freeriding should be abolished. It looks like all my three reasons are actually telling that the elderly freeriding is causing financial problems. To stop the problem, it would be nice to abolish the freeriding of the elderly.

 

References

[기획] 65세 이상 지하철 경로우대 이대로 좋은가? (2015, November 25). Retrieved November 27, 2015, from http://www.segye.com/content/html/2015/11/25/20151125002371.html?OutUrl=naver

[댓글多뉴스] 서울지하철, 2호선 빼고 모두 적자 소식에 네티즌... (2015, November 5). Retrieved November 27, 2015, from http://maxim.wowtv.co.kr/cms/contents_view.php?contents_uid=6935

(n.d.). Retrieved December 5, 2015, from http://img.etoday.co.kr/pto_db/2015/04/20150403011731_614266_600_540.jpg

Should Subway Freeriding of the Elderly be Abolished?

          The uprising issue nowadays is ‘Should subway freeriding of the elderly be abolished?’, and as I am one of subway users, I thought about this issue. My thought about this question is that the freeriding for the elderly should be abolished.

           Reasons for my opinion are three. First, financial loss caused by the elderly freeriding is increasing every year. Seoul Metro and Seoul City said, “From 2010 to 2015, about 50 billion won was lost from the freeriding.”, and they also mentioned that the elderly freeriding takes 65% of all freeriding types. Considering that Korea will be aged society with 24.3% of the elderly, financial loss will be continuing and growing. Seoul City also said that, “The reason of the 65% of the loss comes from the elderly freeriding.”

           Second, the loss from maintaining senior discount policy is filled up by raising fee. Raising fee becomes a distress to the young, who actively take subways. For example, I take a subway to go to school, and it charges me about 100,000 won per month. Since I pay transportation expenses, this becomes burden to me. Seoul City, however, announced that they will increase 200 won of the subway fee in 2017, making it 1450 won. Increasing fee will also increase the young’s spending, which will be very stressful.

           Third, Senior Pass Card can be used by other people who are not seniors. Senior Pass Card is provided to people who are subjects of freeriding. Though the card is for the elderly, Seoul Metro said that they caught 195749 of not-senior people using this card. Seoul Metro also said that, “Accumulated illegal rides can effect on increasing fee.”

           For two main reasons, increasing fee and financial loss, I think the elderly freeriding should be abolished.

 

References

[기획] 65세 이상 지하철 경로우대 이대로 좋은가? (2015, November 25). Retrieved November 27, 2015, from http://www.segye.com/content/html/2015/11/25/20151125002371.html?OutUrl=naver

[댓글多뉴스] 서울지하철, 2호선 빼고 모두 적자 소식에 네티즌... (2015, November 5). Retrieved November 27, 2015, from http://maxim.wowtv.co.kr/cms/contents_view.php?contents_uid=6935

Has my own experience from the blog writing changed your understanding of knowledge production and/or knowledge ownership?

My answer of the question, “Has your own experience from the blog writing changed your understanding of knowledge production and/or knowledge ownership?” is yes. I knew about citing, using visual elements and many other things we learned in the class before Gary taught about them. I just had knowledge of them, but didn’t know how to apply them for real. Through his class, I could learn how to use outside sources, how to make citations, and how to write paragraphs. Among them, learning about how to make citations helped me a lot. I could advance knowledge with things Gary taught us, and could apply them to my other assignments. Thanks to Gary.

2 Part Question

1) What has the comments others have posted on my blog taught me about my own writing?

        I’ve got comments for my blog postings from many other students, and learned several things from that comments. Most of all, I could check errors of my writings. Most comments were about what is wrong about my paragraph. They told me how to change it, and I could fix my wrong things. Second, I felt confidence with my paragraphs. Not only students told me what to change, but also did they tell my paragraphs were good. That made me feel confident of my writings. Lastly, I also felt gratitude for reading and correcting my writings. I know this is for assignments, but it surely did take some time to do reading and correcting. I am really thank for that.

2) What have the comments I have posted on other blogs taught me about writing?

     

     Commenting on other students’ blogs taught me three things. First, I learned to write paragraphs in different ways. I always wrote paragraphs in the same way, but reading others’ let me realize that there are many ways to write paragraphs. Second, I developed a sense of responsibility. The thought that writers of paragraphs will read my comments, and apply my opinion to their final drafts, led me to have responsibility when commenting on paragraphs. Third, I learned to read carefully and analyze the paragraph. The reason is somehow the same with how come I got to develop the responsibility. My comments need to be helpful for writers, then I have to understand what they are talking about perfectly. That is why I learned to focus on the paragraph.

3 Reasons Why I like Hote&Tourism Management Cafe

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Jaewon Lee

Oct 10, 2015

 

Hotel & Tourism Management Café

 

Hotel & Tourism Management Café, as known as HTM Café, was established by Sejong Hotel & Tourism Management University last year. It is located in 5^th floor of Gwanggaeto building, and it is open to everyone. My friends and I are huge fans of HTM Café, and we defined this place as the most comfortable place to be, and there are three reasons for that. (Well, I meant the most comfortable place just for us, not for everyone.)

First of all, everything HTM Café is offering is at reasonable price. We can pay as much as we want, and paid money is donated. Even though we got to choose how much to pay, we have to pay at least \2000 per each food. Low price makes us to visit often and lessens burden of paying money.

Second, there are variety foods and beverages. For beverages, there are two types exist; non-coffee and coffee drinks. There are also fruits, breads, and cookies. Many kinds of foods and drinks let us to be in a happy decision time, and we can eat and drink them as meals.

Third, HTM Café is large. There are many desks and chairs, so we do not have to go outside with our coffees. There is another room with more desks next door, and that large space lets us to stay long freely. What I like the most is that we can stay there without buying food! No one throws us out.

Hotel & Tourism Management Café’s reasonable price, variety of food and drinks, and large space made my friends and I to choose this place as the most comfortable café for us. I hope many other people visit here because drinks and food are delicious, and most of all, it is open to everybody!

Cite:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=506381492876576&set=o.344456348998079&type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=506385036209555&set=o.344456348998079&type=1&theater

My Ideal Place to Focus

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Jaewon Lee

September 26, 2015

 

My Ideal Place to Focus

 

           The ambience of the room influences my concentration. When I do a job that requires the high level of concentration, I try to find the qualified place which I set up standards. Standards which I established are the size of a desk, noise and lighting, and the size of a room. The room that qualified all three of them can be called my idealized place.

 

           First to say is the size of a desk. Since I am not an organized type, I put things everywhere disorderly. If a desk is small, things I don’t use can interrupt the space where I am actually using, and can take a lot of time finding what I am looking for since everything will be piled up. That is why I prefer the big and wide desk with many cabinets to put things away and to have my only-focused space.

 

           Second, the lighting and the noise also affect my focusing. For the noise, I want a quiet atmosphere, but not a noiseless place. I would like my room where I can hear a daily noise, for example, the noise from cars passing by and wind. For the lighting, I do not like to turn on the whole room’s light because I can see all the things inside of a room and that feels like I am disturbed. Turning on a desk lamp and spotlight where I am focusing on will be great, and it will make me feel concentrating.

 

           Third, the size of the room is the most important thing when I choose the place to focus on. I do not like the place where there is windows. It feels like I am watched and interrupted so I prefer closed and small place. The place where can have the big-sized desk, and where I can come in and out easily will be perfect for me to concentrate.

 

           When I am in the place where all my standards are qualified, I feel relaxed and focused. Whenever I need to concentrate on something, I look for where there is a large desk, little light and noise, and small room.  

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How does where I live influence how l live?

Jaewon Lee

English Writing2_035

September 11, 2015

 

How does where I live influence how l live?

 

         My life style has been influenced a lot with where I have been living. Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do is where I am currently staying and have been living there since I was born. Three things from my hometown can be described as influences of the way I live. First of all, there is the Lake park close to my house. For its near location, I could go and exercise easily and regularly. Those regular workouts made me healthy and that made me enduring my long commute time to school more simply. Second, there are a lot of movie theaters. I really enjoy watching movies. Whenever I am full of worries, I always go to watch movies alone to take a rest and to empty my mind. After I watch movies, I feel organized and try to make new plans for things afterward. Third, there are some good places to visit with my family. There are good attractions, such as a zoo, an aquarium and galleries. My family always had good time enjoying and visiting that places. I think good memories of hanging out together and having fun made our family shares more closer loving relationship. In short, close location to the Lake park, movie theaters and many other attractions influenced me with how I live right now.