Blog Post #8 - Compare and Contrast: Two Products or Two Restaurants

     Outback Steak House VS VIPS

     Nowadays it is very popular to have dinner at family restaurants with friends or family.  There are many kinds of franchise family restaurants in Korea.  Two of them are the most popular, one is called Outback Steak House and the other is VIPS.  Many people go the restaurants because of the atmosphere and the menu of each.
     Most people think that one of the most important things is the atmosphere of the restaurants to choose where to go for family or friends getherings.  Outback Steak House offers the own servers for every three or four table.  The tables are placed individually and every server wears uniform.  Through the service customers can feel comfortable during having meals; similarly, VIPS also offers the greatest sevice to the customers.  VIPS also places the tables appropriately for customers' feelings.  And all VIPS staffs wear uniforms and they take charge of several tables for serving.  The customers who visit VIPS also can feel pleasant during their meals.  Both companies have great systems of making reparation for the customers' complains.  Also, every staff is well trained.   
     The menus of each restaurant are a bit different.  Basically, the main dishes of both restaurants are Steaks.  At Outback Steak House, customers can order the only menus of the menu.  Steak, Spagetti, Salad and some kinds of desserts; in contrast, there is salad bar at VIPS.  As a result, people can order Steaks and make some different kinds of salads and have desserts such as cakes, beverages, fruits and so on, even tacos.
     In modern society, people have much time with their family and friends at outside also prefer having meals at the restaurants together.  So that many companies compete with each other for attractions.  Consequently, you became to choose and get better services from them.  I prefer VIPS to Outback Steak House, because I can make my favorite tacos, salads and have my taste food.  Even if I have high calories food at the restaurant, I do not feel heavy in VIPS.  However, when I have meals at Outback Steak House, I sometimes feel oily and heavy.

Blog Post #7 - Compare and Contrast: Two Places

My Old and New Hometowns

     I moved to the house from Suwon to Cheonan about eight months ago.  Both cities have each charateristic.  Even I had lived in Suwon for over twenty years, I do not feel unfamiliar to Cheonan.  Both are very different.  There are several things to compare two cities.
     The streets scenes are distinctions between Suwon and Cheonan.  For example, if you visit Suwon, you can easily see the modern style buldings or streets, not ruralism streets.  However, Cheoan is composed of new types and old types of houses.  To find out that kind of streets is not difficult at all.  Suwon has been developed so much enough already.  On the other hand, Cheonan is getting modernization more and more.  Although people call both areas a city, I can find out how people are different.  From my experience, people who live in Suwon do not usually say "hello" to strangers, even if they meet other people in the elevators in their apartments. While people who live in Cheonan normally say "hello" to their neighbors with their smiling.  When I get on the elevator, always I can hear "hello" so that I became a person say "hello" to my neighbors.  The last different part of both cities is the public transportation system.  Suwon has many routes of buses the reason why is that Suwon is located very good positon.  It is easy to get Seoul or any other cities which are called capital areas.  Even at midnight, people can take a bus.  When I lived in Suwon, I was able to stay in Gangnam until twelve midnight.  There is a bus to my old hometown until twelve thirty.  But now, I cannot even playing in my new town.  The time for the last bus is around ten o'clock.  For me, it is a kind of tragic situations.  In addition, Suwon citizens can get the transfer discount by using a bus or a subway.  In contrast, Cheonan city does not offer the discount system for the citizens.  As a result, I pay for the public transportation's fees much more than before.  Despite this terrible system, a group of Cheonan people feel happy.  They are the taxi drivers.  Oneday, a driver told me his income is higher than the other divers who work in Suwon.  We are citizens in the same city, one hates the system and another loves that system.  It is funny.
     In conclusion, those cities have distinctive features make me always warm.  Suwon is very familiar to me, and the atmosphere of Cheonan causes warm feeling to me.  I just found out some tiny little problems of both cities.  And just want to mixed the good points between the two cities.

Blog Post #6 - For the Sake of Argument Part II

Does smoking have to be considered the only bad behaviour?

     Many people say that there are no benefits to smoke at all.  It can cause several kinds of cancers or makes other people get injured through the second-hand smoking.  However, I do not think there are only bad effects on smoking.  Certainly, there must be some reasons the cigarettes have existed for a long time.
     First of all, smoking can reduce stress.  The mind controlls the body.  I know there are many sorts of ways to decline the length of stress, but in modern society, people work a lot and need to move on as fast as they can.  Therefore, people have no enough time for doing activites to decrease their mental stress.  That is why people have found smoking out as a fast way to make the stress less.  Just in less five minutes, people can become relaxed through smoking, only five minutes are enough makes people take a rest without thinking any their burden work.  Another thing is that smoking is not only the reason for causing cancers or deseases.  Even if we take too much Vitamines, it can also cause other serious illnesses.  No matter it is good for health, if it overflows it must be worse than lack.  Also, some doctors say that if smokers take vitamine C, B1 and A, it must be helpful, because during smoking the smokers' digestive organs cannot affect properly as sorbents vitamines or minerals.  Some people who have smoked for many decades use to live for a long time.  Thus, with taking Vitamines or Minerals, smoking would not be too dangerous behaviour as much as people think.  The last thing is about the second-hand smoking.  Nowadays many buildings and other places are seperated smoking area and non-smoking area.  Most of smokers tend to smoke in the smoking area, but small minority people do not follow the rule.  However, only because of the very slim amount of smokers who smoke in non-smoking area, do the other smokers need to be blamed?  Do you really think like that?  It is really ridiculous.  Just following the rule and smoking in an appropriate plce do not give bad effects on non-smokers at all.  They try their best not to give bad effets on the others.
     In conclusion, smoking is surely not good for health but with doing another efforts to keep the body condition is alright, it should not be too injourious much.  Smoking or non-smoking is the person's choice.  However, people do not need to stand not to smoke only keep thinking of how many cigarettes you will smoke a day, how maintain the health condition good and how do not give others bad effets.  You just live once then just do it whatever you want to do without causing others any harm.