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The High-Handedness of Big Corporations - Cont’d The high-handedness of big corporations appear in many areas in our current society. It is clear that there are many differences between small businesses and big corporations. Even so, both have the same advisable role in society: to improve our society's growth. In order to protect the small businesses, the government should set appropriate rules, and people should act according to conscience.
Small enterprises continue to suffer while big corporations become even bigger / © FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Smart Phone Addiction: Students Can Go Through Serious Side Effects Writer: Yei Rim Jun Editor: Jungyun Choi We can see many students who easily use smart phones with bending their heads in various places. Smart phones give convenient accessibility and information to people and they have become modern people's daily life necessities. However, because they do not keep their eyes off of their smart phone even for a short period of time, there are various side effects to smart phone addiction. Ministry of Science ICT and Future Planning in Republic of Korea announced in the "2012 Internet Addiction Actual Condition Survey", that adolescent's smart phone addiction percentage has increased by 7% compared to previous year (11.4%).: teenager 18.4%, young people in their twenties 13.6%, people in their thirties 8.1% , people in their forties 4.2%. The teenage addiction percentage showed the greatest increase. Shin Ui Jin pediatric psychiatrist specialist, the author of "the digital world makes children feel pain,” pointed out that digital devices like smart phones’ strong influence can disturb the children's emotional development and social development. Moreover, it can cause the frontal lobe growth problems. Also in the worse cases, a person’s brain would want even more impetuous action, more resplendencies, which can cause brain pursuing stimulus called the "Popcorn Brain".
Teenage smartphone addictions are risking teenage health / © Photo provided by Yei Rim Jun Smart phone addiction. They are not only mental problems like attention loss, game addiction, sociality problem, etc. They also consist of body type problems like forward head posture. Using smart phone for a long time causes teenager’ necks to bend, stretching forward like a turtle. Turtle neck makes a person’s side line look bad and becomes the reason of an undesirable body shape, causing one’s shoulder and spine to bend unnaturally. But most students do not know that smart phone addiction can change their body stooped. That is why it is important to straighten one’s body. Always let the smart phone in eye level, and every 30 minute we must stretch our
body, and do neck stretching. That way you can prevent your body from being hardened. Smart phone is a digital device that can bring convenience into people's lives but at the same time it give us several problems. We must straighten our posture while using smart phone to maintain a healthy body, and nurture a habit of using it, if possible, only when greatly needed.