주제는 지식이 장점보다 burden으로 작용할수 있다 입니다. 잘봐주시면 너무너무 감사하겠습니다 ㅠㅠ
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There’s a proverb ‘Ignorance is a bliss’. This proverb, unlike from most people who regard knowledge as an absolute benefit, shows knowledge can turn into burn rather than an individual benefit.
Many intellectuals in Japanese colonial era suffered from this dilemma of the knowledge. One of them who represented it very well was Dongju Yoon who was the most famous poet when it comes to Korean resistant poetry.
Amonst all intellectuals, he was the true intellectual because he graduated Yunhee professional school which was the famous Korean university at that time. So as his depth of the knowledge was boundless his burden on the situations of Korea was very big. Thus through his pieces he expressed his feelings and feeling of guilty about not participating actively and not resisting to Japanes colonial government. For example, among his pieces, Seosi especially expressed these emotions well. In Seosi there’s a phrase which says ‘becoming Jesus Christ on the cross who sacrificed his sacrosanct blood’. Many Korean scholars interpret this phrase as an expression of the burden of intellectruals and guilt for their cowardness.
Another example which shows that knowledge can be a burden is a great advancement of technology in beauty treatment.
In today, when you watch home-shopping program on TV or advertisement which is published by beauty treatment companies you can often see a person’s face which is enlarged as 500 times so you can see very dirty, and ugly pores of the skin so vividly and often think that you could have much more pores than a model in the advertisement or shopping channel does. This would make you feel a burden to purchase the cosmetics which efficiently gets rid of pores from the company.
But in the past when people lacked of scientific technology so couldn’t enlarge the face of human to enlarge the sized of pores that made consumers to purchase their goods. Because people didn’t have any knowledge they didn’t feel burden on cleaning their face relatively.
Of course, a proeper extent of knowledge could be applied as a benefit, for example scientific innovations. But the intellectuals of colony and cosmetic advertisement I mentioned as examples suggest knowledge could be a burden more than a benefit,.