▶ Your Answer : The information people absorb every day is important because it helps people to shape their lives in a better way. With this understanding, knowing about global events is important. This is because it helps people to strengthen their interpersonal skills and enjoy a better quality of life. Firstly, keeping up with global events helps people to strengthen interpersonal skills. Understanding the importance of forming connections with people from different cultures and the potential role of knowing about global events is crucial to substantiate this view. I engaged in a variety of campus activities in my university and graduate schol years. the activities I had participated in were including people from various nations. They loved to talk about the issues happening in their countries. Consequently, the interest about knowing global events helped me to relate better with those friends. Also, absorbing various information in global issues is very useful in workplaces, too. I work in a corporation creating new drugs. As I work in a global leading corporation, I often meet buyers with various countries and cultural backgrounds. I always joyfully continue talking with those kind of clients because I often update myself with global news easily create common interest with those clients. Such interpersonal skills not only has helped me to form connections with various people but also establish huge contracts with clients. In this respect, I believe that knowing global events help people to strengthen interpersonal skills. Secondly, knowing about global events enables people to enjoy a better quality of life. Interestingly, a renowned social scientist in South Korea recently published an article in 'The Koran Herald" claiming that knowing about global events help people to strengthen social cometitiveness. According to the article 62 percent of 200 Korean leading recruiters prefer people who have a great interest in knowing global events. They show such tendency because they tend to be more creative. In the long run creativity enhance job performances. This is because having information happening throughout the world means opportunities to encounter new ideas which are diffcult to have in daily routines. For example, the promotion of social network called 'Cyworld' in South Korea helped one of the greatest entrepreneurs 'Mark Zuckerberg' to develop a well-known smart-phone based social networking system 'Instagram. This not only results in job promotions but also ultimately encourage people to enjoy a better quality of life. To sum up, I belive that it is important for people to know global events for the following reasons; to broaden interpersonal skills and to enjoy a better quality of life. Consequently the importance of my view cannot be underestimated due to the reason I have mentioned above. |