[2013년 외교아카데미:시니어]

UNEP 한국위원회 사무총장상

& 우수에세이상(코리아헤럴드 명예기자) : 김주환 (고1)

1. 'Whistle-blower' is a term to indicate people who reveal immoral or illegal aspects of their organizations. Many people have different ideas on this issue. Some think that it is a betrayal. However, some think it is the right thing to do. As for me, I strongly agree with the latter since I believe it would be a good chance to give pressure to organizations. Also, people have the rights to know. Furthermore, whistle-blowers will eventually protect democracy.

  First of all, revealing immoral acts of many organizations will warn other groups. If whistle-blowers open unacceptable informations to the public, many other organizations will become skeptical about their own employees. They must be worried that if they start to do things by breaking certain laws, maybe someone from their own group might tell the information to the public. This will prevent organizations from participating in immoral, illegal actions. This revealizaton is important  for both the citizens and groups which had whistle-blowers. Citizens will be able to decide whether they should support certain organizations or not. Organizations will regret their actions and have a chance to rethink about their behaviors.

  Secondly, people have the  rights to know. We are born with certain rights and the right to know is a part of it. Knowing things is important since people decide with the facts that they obtain. Not revealing facts and keeping them as secrets violates people's rights. It's a tyranny. The flow of informations is crucial now a days since almost every piece of information can be spread to anywhere on Earth. This world that we live in right now is a world of revelation. I understand that organizations would not want to reveal illegal, immoral actions but this is the point. They  shouldn't put their hands on things that are illegal. The reality will be known to everyone anyway so focus on legal actions and more treatments.

 Finally, whistle-blowers will be the one to protect democracy. A country of citizens. A country for citizens. A country by citizens. We have  the rights to decide the acceptability of informations. We are the ones shoe rebel and spread informations to other people. We are the ones who have the rights to defend ourselves from tyranny. Controling, restricting, and threatening does not work on us because we, the citizens, are the primary and supreme components of democracy. Whistle-blowers bravery, their truthness will awake citizens and even the whole world. that no one stands over us and secretly affect us.
 To sum up, whistle-blowers are the protectors. They will warn other organizations that same thing could happen to them. They will remind us that we have the rights to know. And they will protect our society. Whistle-blowers should be praised for their bravery. Their truthfulness. They are not betrayers but just ordinary people who will not stand there watching immoral and illegal; actions spreading.

2. Globalization. We are now living in a world which are connected by every possible means.  Media, treaties, immigrants and so on. Korea is one of the leading countries which are exchanging continuous diplomatic contracts and global issues with other countries. China and Japan are two of the most important and influential countries of Korea.

  Most important issue among Korea and China these days is FTA. China, which has a huge market and finances, is a very attracting country for Korea since if FTA is contracted, many companies will be able to export their products more freely since there will be a rise in a number of consumers who are willing to buy their products. Also, china is the number one country for our exports. However the problem is that china keeps on tackling on rice. Korean agriculture structure is  very vulnerable due to its lack of farm land and rice which takes up about 95% of all the agricultural products that are produced in Korea. This is a serious problem since Korean rice will not decrease in their costs while chinese rice, if they are imported after FTA, will be very cheap. Korea should not give up rice and continue to pressure China.

  Japan and Dokdo. This problem has been continued for decades. Dokdo is rightfully Korean and we do not have reasons to take this problem in front of the global judiciary since it is so obvious that  Dokdo is ours. Dokdo has abundance natural resources such as fish and gases. This is a reason why Japan is so ambitious about obtaining Dokdo. They are tackling us continuously about Dokdo problem because they do not want Dokdo to get out of people's minds. Korean government should take move hard actions. President Lee's Dokdo visiting is one of the good examples.