Jungyeon's Blog

 A few days ago in Gyeonggido, Korea, there was supposed to be a Bus Driver Strike. Although it got cancelled and I had no problems using public transport, I needed to get a taxi or stay at home without going to work if the strike happened as planned. Not only in Korea but in the whole world, strikes happen for various reasons. What's the history of strikes and what are the popular causes for the strikes?  The history of strikes goes back to the late 1700s when the strike was first recorded officially. After this, strikes became common as an action to make a better working environment and to get their rights corrected. Strikes were active during the 1800s and this continues until now.  A common way of the strike is stopping their work until the capitalist of the group, for example, a boss, agrees to accept what was suggested. In the case of Australia, when the public transport workers decide to have a strike, public transports function as normal but citizens don't need to...

Yesterday I was going through Twitter and saw a tweet saying "We only have 100 days left until Christmas and the temperature will be dropping by at least 30-40 °C  during this period." I never felt the severity of Climate so bad until I saw the tweet.  It was only a few times that I experienced a huge storm while living in South Africa. I remember not going to school due to a storm in 2017 or 2018, but there wasn't such a thing after that. Other countries in African Continent, for example, Mozambique, are experiencing terrible floods and losing a lot of lives every year, but it was difficult to realise how terrible climate change is. On one note, the reason why these countries are experiencing damage every year is because of the lack of infrastructure to prevent the damage.  After five years of living in South Africa, I could finally come back to South Korea. I could experience Korean winter a few years ago when I came back for a month, but the summer that I faced for the...

 I've been waiting for this September to come - to get my new phone, iPhone 14 Pro. As the rumours about the price spread, more and more people assumed that the price for this new phone in Korea would be much higher than the previous ones. When the official price was posted, this worry about the cost became true. Although the price in USD remained the same as last year's iPhone 13 series, it increased by an average of 190,000 KRW. The problem behind this was the weakening of KRW. Since I bought my phone directly from the U.S., with my mom's USD card, I wasn't hugely affected by the increase in price but I see people around me still having conflicts about whether to buy this new iPhone series or not due to the price.  I've been hearing the news from my parents and on social media about KRW weakening consistently. In other words, the KRW exchange rate has been increasing and now, it has reached 1,400 KRW. 2009 was the last time when the exchange rate increased above 1...