Is Psychosomatic Disorder Considered a Reason for Commutation?

Is Psychosomatic Disorder Considered a Reason for Commutation? With the coming release of Cho Doo-soon, the felon, and the passage of the Yoon Chang-ho Law, a number of opinions have been raised about commutation based on psychosomatic disorder. Before the revision of the Yoon Chang-ho Law, there were many concerns that psychosomatic disorder could be abused as a defense for violent crime. Since the revision of the Yoon Chang-h...

A Step Toward a Better Environment

Today, as environmental pollution gets worse, enviro-political campaigns and regulations are increasing. Among them, disposable products are especially highly regulated, but the regulation bills’ details and accurate reasons for the introduction of bills have not been revealed. Therefore, the Pharos will explain the bills’ details and their introduction causes, and provide information about the regulated things. Also, we will ...

What Are Your Choices for Refugee Acceptance?

What Are Your Choices for Refugee Acceptance? Refugees are people who don’t want to return to their homelands after leaving them to escape from fear of persecution for reasons such as race, religion, political views, or participation in certain social organizations. In recent years, Europe has begun to accommodate plenty of refugees, and the issue of refugee acceptance has become a global problem, not just a national problem....

Youths Become Victims in the Power Trip

The definition of “power trip” is injustice done to weak people by people who have more power in a relationship. This type of hooliganism is already prevalent in our society, and as we can see from the peanut-rage case and nurse picking culture, it is a constant social issue across all fields. University students also have been victims of people on power trips. It is true that many university students are suffering from serious damage in ...

Depression: When the Heart Turns Cold

The world is changing faster, so people today are more stressed out and busy than ever. University students also have a busier university life than before. For this reason, mental illness is getting worse day by day. Therefore, the Pharos investigated depression, a topic that has been on many people’s minds lately. We all experience sad and gloomy feelings. These feelings are temporary. They are normal as our lives become more variou...

The Jeon-an Law: Who Is the Law For?

With the beginning of 2018 coming to an end, the grace period for the pre-operation of the Jeon-an law is also ending, and the issue of how to make an effective Jeon-an law has become a hot potato. The Jeon-an law refers to a test of certification by a national certification institution for product quality. Simply put, it means that you need to have a scientific examination of your products to ensure that your products are safe. Once the prod...

The Rights of Those Who Hide Behind the Law

When teenagers commit a crime as a minor, the crime is classed as a juvenile crime. When teenagers commit crimes during this period, society thinks of them as youths in the process of development. Therefore, they are treated as needing to be protected and nurtured. However, the crimes of teenagers are as cruel as the crimes adults commit. Recently, the crimes of teenagers have become bolder. Serious crimes such as forgery, fraud, r...

King Sejong Is Crying

"It's hard to understand the meaning of words that students use these days.“ Most young people may have heard this complaint from their parents. Nowadays, we can hear strange words easily while walking down the street. It's caused by the easy use of neologisms which transform or abbreviate our language, loanwords, and slang in our daily lives. Phenomena like this occur often on campuses. Hearing conversations, we can notice...

The Child in the Parent’s Pocket

An adult is someone who is usually over 19 years old. A university student is an adult. Adults can decide for themselves and solve their own problems. However, some parents help children with everything and destroy their independence even though the children are actually adults. We call these parents "helicopter parents," "drone parents," and "snow plow parents." Helicopter parents circle their children, throw themselves into their chil...

Why Don't We Enjoy the Holidays?

One of our biggest holidays "Chuseok" is coming. During the upcoming holiday season, we are supposed to be happy. However, every year at this time, we can easily see some negative words such as holiday stress, holiday syndrome, and so on, in the news and newspaper. At "The 101st Episode Special, Part 2" of the JTBC TV program "Non Summit", Canadian representative Guillaume Patry said, "I have never seen a person who likes holidays in Korea...