2008년 1월 30일 수요일
Update
Recently, candidate Obama has won the pre-election greatly in South-Carolina. Also, Senator Kennedy said that he would endorse candidate Obama. Yet, candidate Clinton has won greatly in Florida. Indeed, both sides never back down. I remember watching CNN and saying that endorsement from Kennedy could be both poison and medicine for candidate Obama. CNN said that endorsement from Kennedy could cause some voter to turn to Clinton side. It looks like that senator Kennedy became poison to Obama. However, the pre-election is not over yet, and it is too early to judge this fact. Although it is interesting to watch the battle, it is boring that the result of pre-election is very easy to predict. Wherever there is more African-American population in a state, then candidate Obama wins, where Caucasian-American population has bigger portion than then African-American does, then candidate Clinton wins. The key to the victory over the election, the candidates should find some ways to capture interest on their opponents’ supporters (white Caucasian women for Obama, and African American for Clinton).
2008년 1월 23일 수요일
Response piece (Assignment #2)
publication of the column: Han-Guk Ilbo (Koreatimes)
Columnist: Jin-Soo Yi
Link to the column: http://www.koreatimes.com/article/articleview.asp?id=423400&comment_yn=N
In the column, the columnist starts with a very brief summary and his opinion on the result of the presidential election in Korea. His hopes are that citizens of Korean should work hard to make Korea better place, and elected candidate, Yi, would revive dying Korean economy. Then the columnist mentions 2008 American presidential election. He makes a comment that American-Koreans should participate more in politics in an attempt to make immigrants’ country, “America,” better. The immigrants’ communities in the United States should work hard to reform the immigration law. “We must solve the visa problem (I do not know what this means), and achieve the right to labor. The immigrants’ communities have waited 20 years for inclusive reformation of the immigration law. It is the communities’ responsibility to emphasize the immigration issues in 2008 American presidential election to reform the immigration law, which the communities want. If we can get the heat (enthusiasm, I assume) to this election, these tasks should not be difficult to solve.”
This columnist makes very interesting comment on the participations of American-Koreans in the politics. I have known that American-Koreans have not really participated in American politics. However, the comments made by the columnist reminded me the seriousness of this lacking participation. Indeed, there must be an inclusive reformation of the immigration law of the United States of the America. Although American-Koreans are in better condition than Koreans in Canada, the condition of American-Koreans is not good. I feel this way especially looking at my aunt’s situation. She is having much difficulty with achieving permanent resident ship in America, due to some visa problems (I don’t know much about it.) Also, looking at other immigrants (meaning not Koreans), especially, Afro-Americans, the immigrants participate much more in politics than the Koreans do. For example, Barack Obama, the African-Americans are already ready to have one of their people to be the American president. To raise their position in the society, the Korean immigrants must participate more in the society. In this way, I totally agree with the columnist.
Columnist: Jin-Soo Yi
Link to the column: http://www.koreatimes.com/article/articleview.asp?id=423400&comment_yn=N
In the column, the columnist starts with a very brief summary and his opinion on the result of the presidential election in Korea. His hopes are that citizens of Korean should work hard to make Korea better place, and elected candidate, Yi, would revive dying Korean economy. Then the columnist mentions 2008 American presidential election. He makes a comment that American-Koreans should participate more in politics in an attempt to make immigrants’ country, “America,” better. The immigrants’ communities in the United States should work hard to reform the immigration law. “We must solve the visa problem (I do not know what this means), and achieve the right to labor. The immigrants’ communities have waited 20 years for inclusive reformation of the immigration law. It is the communities’ responsibility to emphasize the immigration issues in 2008 American presidential election to reform the immigration law, which the communities want. If we can get the heat (enthusiasm, I assume) to this election, these tasks should not be difficult to solve.”
This columnist makes very interesting comment on the participations of American-Koreans in the politics. I have known that American-Koreans have not really participated in American politics. However, the comments made by the columnist reminded me the seriousness of this lacking participation. Indeed, there must be an inclusive reformation of the immigration law of the United States of the America. Although American-Koreans are in better condition than Koreans in Canada, the condition of American-Koreans is not good. I feel this way especially looking at my aunt’s situation. She is having much difficulty with achieving permanent resident ship in America, due to some visa problems (I don’t know much about it.) Also, looking at other immigrants (meaning not Koreans), especially, Afro-Americans, the immigrants participate much more in politics than the Koreans do. For example, Barack Obama, the African-Americans are already ready to have one of their people to be the American president. To raise their position in the society, the Korean immigrants must participate more in the society. In this way, I totally agree with the columnist.
2008년 1월 14일 월요일
Intro
Hi, everyone. This is my first entry for this blog assignment. My topic for the assignment is the American Election that is happening now. I am sure that many of you have this as your topic too. Although the election would turn out to be a battle between only the 2 major candidates, Obama and Clinton, the processing and the result of the election would be very interesting to see. As an only Korean in class, I think I can post some of Korea’s opinion on the issue, North Korea related issue, and the relation between the newly elected Korean president and the winner of the election, and etc… Of course, the election has many more things than just Korean related, and I hope some of you will share them.
I haven’t done much of research due to my sickness. However, it seems to me that the research would be easy because the election is a big issue in the world. I found a few interesting things from CNN reports and North American news papers, and some from Korean websites. Many of the Korean websites mentioned similar things to the English ones, but Korean ones were briefer about the election. Although it is a bit challenging to find the election related articles in Korean, I will try my best to share my people’s opinion on this issue.
Thanks.
I haven’t done much of research due to my sickness. However, it seems to me that the research would be easy because the election is a big issue in the world. I found a few interesting things from CNN reports and North American news papers, and some from Korean websites. Many of the Korean websites mentioned similar things to the English ones, but Korean ones were briefer about the election. Although it is a bit challenging to find the election related articles in Korean, I will try my best to share my people’s opinion on this issue.
Thanks.
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