Emily Woo's List: B/D Woo, Emily: Korea 2020

This websites says how english is becoming the future language of south korea. This should be included in the class list because it shows you how the customs of Korea has been developed into a western style and even the language is being changed. It makes you look at what will happen in the future of Korea. This article may not be appealing but it does have few pictures and set up in a newspaper format. But also, our grade level is perfect for this article because it mentions a lot of things that we learned.

Ruffin, Rick. "(Yonhap Feature) English language education in Korea, fad or the future? ." Yonhap

News Agency. N.p., 24 Sept. 2010. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/

n_feature/2010/09/17/86/4901000000AEN20100917002200315F.HTML>.

The site is about how in some cities of South Korea's Elementary schools have been starting to use robots to help them learn language. I think it's important to have this website in the class list because this website gives you bits of information about the present, how it's evolving with technology. But also, gives you an estimation of the future, how it will look like in 2015 when Korea is stated that all schools will have robots. The web can be easily read by middle school kids and it's has it's appeals with a lot of pictures.

Saenz, Aaron. "A Robot in Every Korean Kindergarten by 2013?" SingularityHub. N.p., 2 Nov. 2010.

Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/02/

a-robot-in-every-korean-kindergarten-by-2013/>

This article is an explanation of bad cases of South Korean people mis-using the concept of foreign marriages. They randomly choose people and set each other up, ending up using the foreigner and getting a divorce. This should be on the class list because the website shows you how the foreign marriage have been not used right in the past 2 years and what will happen in the future if this keeps on going on. This is a very short article but might be to, discussed in a adult way.

Google News. "S. Korea tightens checks on foreign marriages." Google News. N.p., Feb.-Mar. 2011.

Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/

ALeqM5jRs03BRq4IOrDU9UgGzqw_4PPCBw?docId=CNG.d9ba78ac861f7349fe2da71ea4e38c29.6c1>.