It is very important for students to have an experience such as volunteer work for their community in that it raises their sense of responsibility and sacrifice for others. However, some people are concerned about young people in modern days because they seem to be not interested in volunteering for our community at all as they are living in a society where their private life and benefit are more important
than other values. However, it is not true at all because the number of activity to contribute to our society have been increased by young people's volunteer work.
First of all, students in these days are obligated to do volunteer work at least assigned time from their school. In korea, if they don't complete required time of volunteering work, it would be hard for them to enter the better university. Therefore, they should be involved in activity for community whether they want to do it or not. For example, I spent almost more than 40hours working in library or orphanage since it was necessary for me to finish it as a rule of our school. According to a research by 'Korean university' in 2007, the amount of time students have been conducting in their volunteer work almost increases twice times compared that of 10years ago. In contrast, some people disagree with the idea of compulsory volunteer work in that it would be useless if students don't work without thought willing to sacrifice themselves. However, students have a tendency to be satisfied with their volunteer work and find a value in it later as they are getting to spend their more time in working for community.
Second, finding information about various volunteer works is much easier than before due to the development of internet or lots of media. In the past, students had to find a volunteer work by visiting each place where it is needed because there was no way to research those informations without walking around themselves or searching a bulletin board at school. However, internet makes it possible for students to find a lot of information about them easily and what they want to do. For example, I have been working in various communities such as film festivals or kindergarten in my local town for last 3years by searching on the web. On the other hand, some people claim that amount of information about activities for community on the web site are not enough for contributing to our society. However, finding those informations on the web would be much better way for students to take part in community activities in that they don't need to be deterred anymore like 15years ago when students had a hard time finding volunteer work by themselves. |