Monday, May 5, 2008

Globalization of Music

In these days music industries are working in every country and are getting bigger and bigger thanks to Globalization. Everything we hear goes around all over the world and vice versa. Globalization is based on development of the technology of communications so as everyone can exchange all sorts of information like movie, news and everything including music.

Especially the improvement of music players and Internet is considerable. Listen to music through a mobile phone can be a representative model for globalization meets technical development. Just 10~15yrs ago, we started to have mobile phones universally, but still didn’t think we’ll be able to listening to music through it. Now we have very small and light MP3 players like i-pod, and multi-functional mobile phones so as we can listen to music, which the files usually we download from world wide Internet servers easily, anytime, anywhere. Not only from Internet, we buy CDs made by foreign musicians, from every CD stores. Development of transportation makes it possible to deliver those products from countries to countries.

Therefore performers also go and come everywhere in the world. Many countries have their own national music festivals those invites famous musicians from other countries. For example, there's a music festival in Korea, it is called 'Pentaport Music Festival' which many singers and bands from different countries and also audiences were composed with many people from various countries. Furthermore, many Asians and even some western people love Korean music. In Asia, there is a big stream named ‘Han-ryu’. A big number of Asian people hear and see Korean music and music videos and they want to be like Korean singers they see.

Remarkable thing that we can hear whatever we want but also there has been a big problem which is piracy. Because people don’t pay for downloading music files to their computer or mp3 players or i-pod. They share and copy the files without any restraint. This is a quite serious matter, as the companies cannot make enough income to pay their performers. It can possibly interfere the improvement of music industry. We should continue work on it. We could make it better by strictly restrain piracy activities and constantly encouraging people to buy legal products, also make products impossible to copy.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Task Two- Class profile(family info.)

Blog Task Two – Class Profile

This blog shows that all the family information of my classmates.

Ally and Duu, They are the married people to their own partners. And all the other students are not married yet. Ally lives with her 20yrs old daughter in NZ but her husband lives in China. Duu also has a 3yrs daughter who lives with her mother in PNG.
There are 3 people in my class who have 2 siblings in their family, Aki, me, and sopheng. Aki has younger brother and younger sister one each. And they’re living in Japan with their parents. I have one older brother and one eldest sister and my parents in my family. Sopheng also have one older brother who is married. His parents live in Cambodia.
Joey and K.D have only one sibling in their family. Joey has one older sister and his parents who live in same house in China. K.D lives with his older brother in city. His parents live in An-yang in South Korea.
Interestingly, Choi has 6 members in his family including him. There are 3 older sisters above him. Obviously he is the youngest child. Third sister lives with Choi’s parents, Second sister lives in Seoul and the oldest sister is married living in Seoul.
Audrey and Timmy are the only child in their family.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

To all of you who visit my blog.

If I made any grammatical mistakes and you've noticed that,
then feel free to point out all the mistakes that I've made.
And if you can, correct me.
I'd be grateful for that.

Monday, March 3, 2008

This is Me.

My name is Kim Hyun Jeong, English name Jesse. I'm from South Korea. I'm 20 yrs old. This is my first time in abroad. I was living with my family in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. I have 6members in my family including me, one older brother, one older sister (she's the oldest), mom, dad, and my grandmother, in the apartment. My all siblings didn’t get married yet.

Now I've been here for 7 months. I live in Waterview. I've been studying English for more than 7yrs. I've been to Piha beach with my friends. And I also have been to Mission Bay. It was all pretty good. I love listening to rock music, watching movie, reading books too. I'm interested in cultural things.
While I'm here I want to do part-time jobs but my mother never let me even though I have working experiences. I worked at the ice-cream shop for 2~3months. All I needed was healthy body and medical certificate.
In the future I want to be a English tutor. I’m still struggling with grammar and writing which are my weaknesses. I think my strength is listening. I want to get married before I turned into 25yrs. I don’t think I’m going to have a child in the future.