▶ Your Answer :In the 1990s, Korea witnessed a severe economic
crisis and had to depend financially on International Monetary Fund (IMF). At
that time, our country Korea was really so bad that people were busy solving
problem related to their basic necessities, such as cloth, food and shelter
rather than convenience in daily life. However, with the economy condition
getting better, technology gradually advanced and made our life more
convenient. This cannot be ignored but to some extent I am of the opinion that
technology makes our society more complicated. This issue will be discussed
based on two perspectives: There are so many accidents by development of
technology and, such development made our society more desolate.
First of all, many problems have been made
by advance of technology. In other words, our society is facing so many side
effects on technology. The prime example to illustrate this question is Korea’s
Dae-gu subway disaster in 2006. It is called the worst incident of Korea in
twenties-one century. In my memory, the day was very hot summer day. In subway,
there were so many people because it was closing time. Suddenly a fire broke
out and driver escaped alone with his passengers left. In a few minute, most of
passengers could not breathe and eventually died. Because of this accident,
Korea was filled with grief at that time. There is no doubt that it had lack of
driver’s rapid dealing with the accident, however, it is true that so many
people were sacrificed by advance of technology, too. If there were no subway,
it would not happen. This clearly proves that many side effects are being faced
on our society.
Moreover, the more time goes, the more
getting along with family members is difficult. That is to say, by development
technology it has become shortened conversation time between family members. According
to the Korea Media Research, up to 90% of the family that have students possessing
smart-phone answered between parents and their children communication certainly
decreased rather than before after having phone. To come up with an example, I can
mention about my brother, Ji-sung, who was eager to possess smart-phone when he
was 17 years old. My mother said to him that smart-phone can disturb for
students to studying, therefore, she could never buy it for him. From then, he
did not go to school and started to be rebellious. Eventually, she bought
smart-phone for him and my brother really pleasant with having that. However,
it was beginning for our family to become unfamiliar. After having phone, he
became enthusiastic only in playing game and reduced talking with not only mom
but also me and, father. After all, my mother took smart-phone from brother and
the situation got better soon. Because of advance of technology like
smart-phone, there are so many problems with friends as well. As seen this
case, technology has increased unfamiliarity between social members.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that
advance of technology is bad for our community. Unintended problems were made
by advance inconceivably. Plus, society is getting more difficult for people to
getting along with members. So, the answer is very crystal clear. Development
of technology makes our life more sophisticated.
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