Our team's topic is to find the difference between the life of Hanyang university students by each grade. In this infographic, we used several images which represents well the life style of each grade. We divided this slide into 4 grades and arranged appropriate sentences to each square. And also added 4 images for each grade. The images are what we predicted about their life style or attitude like images of preparation for job interview, study, graduation thesis for 4 graders. Our team interviewed students about what they would do at certain situation. If you wonder about the results, come to watch our video!
In Korea, most of high school student in 1st ,2nd,3rd
grade have almost same life
pattern. However university students are not same as high school students in
life pattern. We thought that the life patterns of university students are
different by their grades. I was drinking and playing all days when I was 1st
grade and now I am studying much harder than when I was young. I also think
that grade level means (to students) how they should act or some kind of
obligation or something determines dos and don’ts. Our team members will
interview students in different grade in Hanyang university. Each member will
interview each student by grades. I will interview 3rd graders and make infographic (after
the video is edited roughly) which can well represent what our project is about.
We made four questions which is directly related to student’s life patterns. The
four questions are asking students what they would do at certain situation. We expect
that our guess is right.
I made this video by 5 photos which inspires me. Some photos give me a sense of happiness and some make me sad but the same thing is that they make me think of the meaning of life. Life includes not only happiness and romance but also sadness and agony.
People who plan to get a job after graduation or who currently
have a job.
Non academic
Purpose: To explain that
overtime work decrease productivity and quality of life.
In Korea, people traditionally regarded night overtime
as a criterion of diligence. Workers tried to attract their boss’s attention through night time
work. There was usually no ‘Dinner or weekend with family’
It has been found that the work-life balance
of the Korean people is the lowest level in the OECD In 2012, each waged Korean employee worked for 2,092
hours, which was 420 hours more than the OECD average. The numbers were 1,765
for Japanese workers, and 1,334 for the Dutch. Meanwhile, the labor
productivity per working hour was US$30.4 as of the end of 2012, whereas the
OCED average was US$ 47.00
Labor productivity of OECD counturies
(measured in Korea)
There
were some good points of long time work. It used to hold the company members
together and make them feel a sense of belonging. Apart from the matter of
productivity, the work culture of Korea contributed to deeper unity of
organization, which played a big part in the fast development in 1970-80s.
But the bad points are much more than those.
First, despite
their long work time, the productivity has been low. The overtime work is
usually not for the contribution for company but for their bosses. As they
regard night overtime work as natural, they feel no need to work diligently
during the official work time. That is the reason why productivity is low.
Second, as the fatigue is accumulated, they become
less motivated and hard to search for more creative ways. So they are apt to the
same methods as before which makes no progress. Working overtime is unsustainable only in very short term. And working a lot of overtime creates a level of
burnout that sets in far sooner and
is far more acute and requires much more to fix than most bosses think it does.
As this graph shows,
as long work time continues
for many weeks,
the productivity is declining.
This video is telling that working more hours doesn't always mean producing more
Third, Relation with family is worsening because they
have less time to spend with them. The lack of conversation and unconcern for
family because of work can cause family discord.
Fourth, it becomes hard to maintain work life balance.
Everyone needs to keep the balance because that is closely related to the
quality of life and happiness. Valuable things such as spending time with
family and friends, doing self development or having meaningful conversation
are need as human being. As Korean workers cannot keep the balance, they have
one of the lowest degrees of happiness in OECD countries.
I think that Korea should change its ‘success formula’
which is overtime work for boss’s attention. Because fixed closing hour can raise the
degree of concentration during work time and organization competitive power.
And that will bring much change into the way of living of people.
Almost every work place of Korea has too much drinking
parties, it is not helpful for work or even relationship between members
because there are usually no honest talks.
For the increase of productivity and creative ideas for the future of companies,
managers need to give workers enough time between work sessions. Getting enough rest will make them better focus on their work.
Second, What I want to emphasize is that the purpose of people’s working is not working itself. Workers and young applicants need to reconsider the ultimate objective of life.
In this video I prepared, a man says “If I start sacrificing my family, I start being
less human. I start being less of the person God called me to be. And I believe
I bring less ofmy real self to my role.(~)
That responsibility of holding onto my family has the place where I’m really
known for being who I am and being myself there ”
Koreans were proud of their diligence which lead to
the high speed growth but now they are agonize over the way to happiness. Many
1970, 80 generation people who had less conversation with their child, are now
confused of about their identity and role.
So I think we had better do reconsider our way of
working and living. This link is a writing about how overtime Hours Threaten Work-Life Balance
We used some images which represents differences between men and women. To compare them, we set 4 separated images for each gender. Each gender behaves differently in same situations. What we tried to express by this inforgraphic is that women are more sensitive and complex than men. They are naturally apt to regard small things as big ones if the things are involved in their lifestyle but men's are not that much. We used two colors, pink color for women and blue color for men to represent the difference. I set up a link to a writing for more information for readers.
Recently, I found an interesting
book which is about house. The name of that book is <Recommend a small house>.
This book tells us why living in a small house worthwhile.
I think Koreans are abnormally obsessed with
house. They usually get loans to live in a bigger house when they take a job and
work for repayment for their lifetime. Work becomes nothing but just means for
money. People dreams of a large house with dress room and each rooms for
children and many bathrooms and wide living room… and so on. Japanese are not much
different from Korean. People want more big furniture and household goods.
But do you agree with the idea that these big
things ensure a good life? Of course they can provide convenience. We can put
many clothes in big closet and many foods in refrigerator. But I think people
are forgetting why they possess things and they are possessing to possess.
This book, <Recommend
a small house> suggests us ‘A minus philosophy’. If we define ‘A plus philosophy’
as a possessive idea, ’a minus philosophy’ is an idea back to the essentials. It starts with a simple question. “What is house?” We need house to protect us
from cold and heat and to have independent place from outside. A bedroom has
only to make us sleep well and other places also have only to maintain their
essential functions. The writer of this book tells us that we are able to find happiness
from the essentials, escaping from possessiveness.
Every house in this book is very small.
Readers may think that it is impossible to live in those places. But everything
we need in our lives is equipped. <Recommend a small house> is not a
guide book to build small house, it is a philosophy book about our lives. The
writer says “living with what we really love is the most luxurious life”
This video is about an american tiny house I found
in Youtube. If you are planning to move in other house or
buy new one, I hope you read this book before.
I hope to introduce one of my favorite songs, Moon river.
It was an original
song of the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.
In the movie, Audrey Hepburn sang this song on her guitar.
It won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Mercer the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. After this song had a huge hit and was nominated, Andy williams who was supposed to sing this song at the presentation ceremony recorded it quickly and made an album at the same day as the ceremony which also made a hit. After that, it had been recorded by famous singers like Jerry Butler, Louis Armstrong, Pierino Ronald Como, Frank Sinatra Judy Garland.
This is the lyric of Moon
river
Moon
river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing’ you in style some day Oh, dream maker. you heart breaker wherever you’re going’I’m going your way
Two drifters, off to see the world There’s such a lot of world to see We’re after the same rainbow’s end Waiting ’round the band my Huckleberry friend Moon river and me
This is Audrey Hepburn singing Moon river in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Holy(Audrey Hepburn) is living in an apartment in New york, dreaming to be upwardly mobile by hanging out with rich men. One day Paul(George Peppard) move in the same apartment of Holy and they come to know each other. Paul is mesmerized by her free spirit but Holy yearns for the upper class, escaping from poor reality.
This movie depicts their same
and different values and the ways of life with some episodes.
From the beginning of
the film, the differently arranged ‘Moon river’s keep flowing fitted into the
atmosphere.
This is Andy Williams’. Very
classic.
This is Frank Sinatra's.
He is well known for his song, My way.
There is an interesting
episode when the title ‘Moon river’ was made. After the writer Mancini
made this song, he went to see John Herndon Mercer to ask him to write a lyric
for the song.
Mercer was pleased with the song and wrote the lyric. When they were
making a title, June river , Blue river, Red river were considered but Moon
river was finally selected.
This is bugge weseltoft’s Moon
river piano play which I like the most.
The previous ‘Moon river’s were light
and romantic but this play has deep and blue emotion.
This is Naomi & Goro’s Moon
river. This singer has a pure and transparent voice.
I think this voice is well fitted to the mood of Moon river.
There are hundreds of other Moon rivers that you can find on the internet I hope you find your Moon river.
