Wanted: Sense of economic urgency

Allisa Hwang Eun Sol
5.3.2013

http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2970593

published April 24, 2013

Korea JoongAng Daily

This article says that economics future of Korea is getting darker. ADB, Asian Development Bank, lowered prospect rate of growth from 3.4% to 2.8%. This is second low rate among Asia top 11 economic growing nations, except Japan. This is not good situation, but government is not doing anything for the economic growth. So it seems hard to be recovered if the government just watches it. 

I honestly don't feel that Korea's economy is declining. Maybe because I am just student, and I don't involved in economic things in society that much. Anyways, I hope Korea's economy would become better and grow more. 

Who’s Happy About the Falling Price of Gold?

Allisa Eunsol Hwang
4.19.2013 

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/18/whos-happy-about-the-falling-price-of-gold/

published April 18,2013

by Sudepp Jain and Debiprasad Nayak 

INDIAREALTIME

Recently, gold has been considered as a safe bet, because its value was stable, and is not affected by inflation. But since last Friday, its price dropped. This decline has done significant effect to India, For some groups of Indians, gold price falling is not that bad news. Those are new buyers, India's finance minister, central banks, and gold bears.

I think nowadays economics are not that good. I thought decreasing gold price only means bad thing, but it is interesting that there are some groups that would glad this situation. I hope no one would get harmed by this.  

Worst PC sales drop in history

Allisa Eunsol Hwang
4.12.2013

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/10/technology/pc-sales/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Published April 10, 2013

by Julianne Pepitone

CNN

According to IDC, shipment of computer dropped about 14% last quarter. The article says the is the worst yearly decrease since 1994. IDC expected about 7.7% of decline, but it decreased about twice more. also, another technology consultant, Gartner said similar thing on Wednesday, too. The analysis firm said only 79 million PCs were sold worldwide in first quarter. This is the fewest shipment since 2009. PC companies had made a lot of new things, and Microsoft made Windows 8. But Windows 8 didn't help increasing shipment. Consumers feel uncomfortable with a lot of changes in Windows 8. So shears of every computer companies dropped.

I think the shipment will increase naturally when time passes, and people needs new computer. So I think it will be okay. Also, I agree with customers who said Windows 8 is complicated. I saw Windows 8, and it was difficult and very unfamiliar and uncomfortable. It was interesting, though. I hope those computer related companies would rise again. 

Chemical accidents face tough sanctions

Allisa Eunsol Hwang
4.5.2013

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/04/116_133325.html

published April 4, 2013

by Kim Jae-won

The Korea Times

This article is about a policy about environment. This policy states that if any company have at least three chemical accident in particular amount of period, the company should shutdown. Also, if there is any damage on environment, like pollution and chemical accident, the assailant responsible for recompense everything. The policy about chemical accident will start from next year, and its particular period is not yet decided. For the other policy, that assailant recompenses everything, if the amount of damage is over assailant's ability, he should pay it by insurance. Also, they will make damage of environmental pollution helping fund, so that they can pay for it if there is no particular assailant. 

I think this policy is cool, and I hope this would work well. I think this is good example of government regulation. Even though I like this policy for environment, I think this will hurt companies, because they should work on regulating and take caring of things that might pollute environment. No matter what type is the company, and how big it is, this policy will influence a lot if they against it.