▶ Your Answer :
There is a famous Korean saying that, “Evolutionary
scientific improvement affects people’s life and take the most part of it.”
This is the saying my parents have told me when they wanted to emphasize the
fact that people’s life is greatly dependent on scientific improvement.
Therefore, I think that television represents much more amazing improvement of
science effecting on people’s lives than the telephone does for the following
reasons: wider view of world and convenience.
To begin with, the television has helped
people to have wider perspective to see the world. People in the past had no
chance to experience the other parts of the world that they had not seen and
experience variety components that variety of people feel and see. For example,
when I was young, I thought Korea was the only country that is the best since I
had no system to feel and see other parts of the world at least in an indirect
way. Our family was financially not enough to purchase computer or televisions.
When I grew up, we purchased a television and there were variety of programs
that provided people something to watch. I was able to see there were many
kinds of country except Korea and could experience variety of culture
indirectly. America was a fascinating country with different language, foods
and clothes. Now I travel many parts of the world and enjoy learning different
languages. Telephone cannot deliver vivid cultural experiences. Thus,
television helps people to have wider perspective of viewing the world.
Furthermore, television made our life much
more convenient than the past. In the past there were no systems to convey
variety of information that people need in the future. To illustrate, every
evening the day before I go to school, I always watch weather broadcast to see
if I need to bring umbrella. It is very convenient for me to do so because I do
not have to worry about come back home without it when it rains. Also, I hear
events through the news so I could be aware of certain events. I one day saw a
news that in Japan nuclear power plant exploded and surrounding countries’ sea
water is seriously contaminated by the nuclear energy. The news also said that
we should be aware of eating fish, seaweed or related sea water creatures
because they may contain a considerable amount of harmful components that
affect our body in a next few years. Without that critical life event news, our
people in the country may do not know how bad the situation is. However, in my parents’
generation, older people lived inconvenient life without that news. Thus,
unlike telephone, television provides us convenient life for us.
Therefore, wider view of world and
convenience are the reasons why I believe the television has had a greater
effect on people’s lives than the telephone has. Some people would think that
since telephone enabled people communicate far in distance, it affected on
people’s life greatly. However, while a telephone has only that advantage,
television has brought various kinds of benefits that past people could not
think of.
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