“Uber”- Convenient Service for Travelling Seoul, Korea

Have you ever got lost in Seoul?
Or have you ever been late, not being able to take a taxi or get on a bus?
There is a service for those people.

That is Uber. .
It is well-known for advanced IT technology which combines the latest IT tech with transportation.

Then, what is Uber?
To explain it easily, it is application for call-taxi. People had to call the taxi company for a cab. Now that people can just download Uber application and call the nearest cars. 

It is easy and simple to use.
Users need to put their name, email and credit card information, and then there will be available limousines on the map.

 

If you click it, you will be able to see the driver, kind of vehicle and review from Uber users.
Based on information, user can call it and the car will be ready to your location.
When the user is not at the destination, they will send you a message to let you find the car easily.
Uber is different from other limousine companies.
The driver will take you to the destination. It is the same as the call-taxi service.
Payment for Uber is also different. When you arrive to the destination, people normally pay with cash or card to drivers. Registered card on Uber application is paid through IAP (In-App-Payment).
So, users don’t have to pay in cash or credit card to the driver.


There are many more convenient advantages.
Uber user can check the location all the time and share it with families or friends.
All limousines which provide Uber service has own registered number, so anyone can locate the Limousine with this number.
It will be reassuring when you put your friends or coworkers at night. Also, the person who pays for it doesn’t have to be in the limousine since it is paid automatically through the application.
It is useful when someone has to pay by corporate credit card. 

Besides, people can use it even when users are nearly impossible to get a taxi because of bad weather, the end-of the year and so on.
The reason is simple. They use peak-time price that the cost will depend on distance with high demand and the cost will go down with high supply.
The driver will get incentives when they are on service with high demand. It enables the company to have enough limousines.

The price is higher than normal taxies. It is 1.5 times more expensive. If you can use a cab in 20,000 won, you will have to pay 30,000 by using Uber.
Though, it is not that expensive considering that you can take a sedan and it will come to you wherever you are.
It will be just like taking deluxe taxi.

Now you know the way of using Uber, you don’t have to worry about transportation and enjoy your time in Seoul. :)

The Wingbeat for Peace

The book “Butterfly Effect” was popular once. A wingbeat of a small butterfly may create a typhoon on the opposite side of the earth.
  
Among the 7 billion population of the world, I am just a small human being. But I think sharing my idea on peace through my blog where I communicate with other people can be kind of like a butterfly's wingbeat.

Although there are many precious things in this world, but I think nothing is more worthwhile as peace. It is never too late to start doing something worthwhile. I believe that realizing peace on earth has effects on not only an individual, but also all the people around the world, and moreover, our descendants.

Wars gave us a great deal of damage for both physically and mentally for a long time. My grandparents experienced a war first hand. I haven't experienced any direct damage from war, but I can't say it has no influence on me. When I get married and have a son, he will be obligated to go to military. There is no 100% guarantee that my son will return safely home after his fulfilling duty of national defense. My imagination may be excessive but everyone is under the influence of the war unless we put an end to all wars for good. 

I know realizing world peace by bringing in an end to all wars won't become true in a glimpse of an eye. But maybe if we gather our hopes for peace we could accomplish our goal in our generation.




"The future depends on what we do in the present." It is the words of Mahatma Gandhi.




Gandhi said that the future depends on what we do in the present. If we make efforts to achieve peace now, then we will live happily with our descendants in a peaceful and wonderful world in the future. I hope my wingbeat for peace will start a butterfly effect to make world peace into reality that everyone longs for.

Give a big hand to all those people who work for peace on this planet!

Words Kill Wars

ADOT.COM believe focusing on differences in each other sits at the root of discrimination and conflict, and that a shift in perspectives to acknowledging the similarities we all share is necessary in order for us to connect and for peace to prevail. ADOT.COM want to promote words over wars, urging people to choose dialogue over death as a means to connect and coexist as one, disregarding any differences between one another and choosing to focus on similarities we all share.

Attitude that every press in the world needs to have - Mr. and Mrs. Taylor’s ‘Dilkusha'

2-17, Sajikro, Jongrogu, Seoul, South Korea
This house was obviously built in American style.
The name of the two-story house is ‘Dilkusha' which was built with red bricks in 1923.
The word is originally in Sanskrit and read as ‘Dilkusha' in English.
This word means palace of hope, happy mind and utopia.
Who built a house with this name?

This house is Mr. and Mrs. Taylor’s house.
Albert W. Taylor who is an American came to Joseon with his father, George Taylor, in 1896.
After that, he had worked as a UPA correspondent in Seoul and helped Joseon for its independence by letting the whole world know Japan’s atrocities.
He found the Korean Declaration of Independence which was hidden by a nurse who helped a birth of his son, and sent it to Tokyo by hiding under the heel of his brother’s shoe.
This was the chance to let the world know about it through an article.

 

Also, he was the one who discovered the Jeamri incident while he was on the move with missionaries on April 17th, 1919.
The Jeamri incident which happened in April 15th, 1919 is that Japan killed civilians after nationwide 3.1 movement.
Because of these activities, he was on the blacklist of Japan and was sentenced 6 months in prison in 1941. His wife, Mary who helped Joseon people along with his husband was sentenced under house arrest.
After getting out of prison, they were deported to the USA.


“If I die somewhere not in Korea, bring my ash to Korea and bury there.”
According to his will, he who died in 1948 was buried in Korea with his father. 

Even though Korea wasn’t their country, they fought with their lives.
With their sacrifice, we could broadcast the damage of war in the third person’s point of view.

The efforts the Taylor’s had made for peace showed us how the press should be.
‘Dilkusha' which is the palace of hope and where the Taylor used to live
What would the appearance of Korea that they hoped for? 
Does Korea.., does the world live in utopia?
What is true peace and what the press should do? That’s what we need to think about once more.

The story of people in need to be protected, “Save the Children.”

Nowadays, Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza strip is drawing heavy attention from worldwide presses. Korean media also reports what is happening in Gaza strip day after day. Actually, I don’t wonder whatever causes the conflict. No matter what the reason is, war is the worst option because it makes innocent people sacrificed and killed. There is nothing more precious than life. Especially, victims in war are the weakest people who are not able to flee from the war due to the lack of money, who are caught because of their uncomfortable body, who are weak women and so on..
Among these, what makes me feel heartbroken the most is children.
That’s why the selfishness of adults has caused wars and it has deprived the children’s naïve smiles and hope.
Now, we need to think how far the distance is between war and a life filled with peace in children’s shoes.

This is the first poster.
A boy is playing with a gun, another is fishing. The boy with a gun seems quite serious and militant to say that is a toy-gun,
What is he aiming at?

There are people submerged under water due to the flood on the one side. On contrast, there are people playing in the water on the other side.

This is the last poser.
On both sides, people are running.
People on the left side are desperately running in order to save their lives.
However, it seems that a person on the right side is jogging and she looks leisurely.


When we look into each poster image of children, all of them are aimed to show the same thing.
Children are playing.
People are swimming.
People are running.


They are doing same things. But, the environment around them is quite opposite.
Why do they seem different although they do the same?
We should think on our own what the reason is and who has to be responsible for.
This is an advertisement of the story of people in need to be protected,” Save the Children”.

Remains bucket Challenge

Ayman al Aloul, a journalist based in Gaza, dumped a bucket of sand, rocks, and shrapnel over his head to bring attention to the plight of Gaza — a challenge based directly on the Ice Bucket Challenge that’s still going viral.

Journalist Starts ‘Rubble Bucket Challenge’ to Bring Attention to Gaza.
However the use of water is more important than to empty over our heads
And even if the water is available it is difficult to freeze it.
And when we tried to make the Palestinian version, we looked around us, we find the place as you see (destroyed buildings) therefore I decided to sue it instead of iced water. This challenge is no for specific people but for all people who sympathize with the Palestinian people. We do not ask for material aid anybody wants to help Gaza should invent his own idea. We asked for solidarity position especially from those who have followers and audience. We need these positions.
We do not have water but this is what we have. Perhaps I will not find water to wash up when I return home, so if you saw me dusty in next reports try to forgive me and try to sympathize with us.
 We can make world peace a reality.

you are more beautiful than you think - dove