[2013 외교아카데미:시니어]

에세이 콘테스트 (나우진 / 중3)

 There are lots of media in all over the world; computer, TV, radio, etc. However, some people try to use them in a bad way such as hacking, spreading the computer-virus and revealing their own countries important documents. What I’m going to mention is about the people named Jalian Assange and Edward Snowden.
 Julian published secret diplomatic documents of the U.S government and Snowden leaked the top-secret U.S government was surveillance programs to the press from my point of view, they are betrayers of the century because revealing nation’s top secret or documents can bring the social chaos and serious problems between the nations, leaking nation’s secret couldn’t be seen as a serious problem for some, but as were living in the digital world, a person’s behavior or statement can affect society especially if the behavior or statements indicate the serious problem. Even though there is an amendment that the freedom of speech is protected a person’s behavior on the internet should be stopped if it’s too much.

 Nowadays, it seems that something serious happens in Arab and North African countries. Some Arab and North African countries have been against with their own government and society, and it caused civil wars and demonstrations. This serious social problem has been lasted over the last two or three years. This wave of demonstrations and protests in the countries is called “Arab spring” or “Jasmine Revolution” which is derived from the Lunisia’s national flower; Jasmine so called “Jasmine Revolution” has stared in lunisia and spread to Syria, Egypt, Bahrain, Libiya, Aigeria. As we can see, there are a lot of nations that have been doing “Jasmine Revolution”. To help the nations stop doing of, I think there are 3 ways to get a solution.

 First, the presidents in some countries should stop dictating. Some presidents in Middle Eastern and North African countries dictate. This one-man-power can take a way people’s freedom and most people won’t be able to use their unlimited possibilities and abilities because of the pressure from one-man-power. Just like Korea, some Arab and North African countries will be peaceful after the president stops dictating. Also, government should try to fix the other social problems, and there should be a person’s eager joining after it.