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Nowadays, thanks to the development of the diverse media as well as
the internet, we can meet on-time news via televisions, smartphones and PCs. As
too much source of news are popping up on media, some people are reluctant to
read some of them when they think that the news are not related to them
directly. However, I think that to read the information, although it does not affect
my daily life, is also beneficial in some points of view.
First of all, just reading about diverse events in the world is
already a good lesson of life. It is somewhat similar getting wisdom from
books. For example, two years ago, there was Toyota recall happening due to a defect
in Toyota cars. In this incident, Toyota was hesitated to appologize about
their fault and instead continuously tried to conceal it. Finally, after being
concentrated from whole the world, the company ended up to admit it’s faulty
reaction toward angry customers as well as the initial mistakes. However,
public never forget about the Toyota’s dissapointing morality. From this point
of view, I learned valuable lesson that we should not cheat on others and
always be alert in keeping honesty and sincerity.
Also, we can prepare good weapons to ice break in the meeting with random
people by learning of diverse events from news. I would explain this in more
detail by introducing my personal experience. Last year, I had a business meeting
with a company in America. In the very beginning of the meeting, I was so
nervious because it was my first meeting with foreign business partner. Then a
manager from the counter company tried to relieve me by talking about 2002 worldcup
which was held in Korea. Thanks to this interesting small chat, the meeting
flowed very smoothly. Then I realized that having common knowledge like this is
very helpful in icebreaking especially in a formal meeting such as a business
one and that is why I believe that knowing about the events outside my life
scope is necessary.
To sum up, getting informed about diverse events all around the
world is important in our lives. As mentioned above, just reading about diverse
happening, although it has nothing to do with my life, gives me good lesson.
Also, in order to icebreaking with new people, knowing about diverse events
around us is good for breaking the embarrasing mood.
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