US officials visit man jailed in North Korea

News source


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10992369



BBC has its own style of website design with red and dark red as the background main colours and white to category different columns and titles.

This news title was comprised by eight words that clearly depict the main idea of the whole story, using dark grey to emphasis and to make a distinction between the news story and the title. Following the title is a summary of the event coloured by dark but much smaller font size which can be apprehended in a glance of who involved in this event, what, when, where and how did it happened.



In the right side of the article, also the middle of the whole website is a close shot of photo of the protagonist, an US man jailed in North Korea which we known from the description under the photo.



At the beginning of the article we get a general idea of the background of this man and the reason of his being put into jail. Then there is a brief introduction of this news story—the grant of permission from the North Korea bought forward by US, illustrated by a series of interview of the US state department spokesman. We can also know from the story other additional information such as how the US consular office are dealing with the application of releasing Aijalon Mahli Gomes and the unfathomable enigma of his suicide in chrismas.



This is a well-described news because it tells the whole story very apparently, however it left like no ending story for it didn’t unclose questions in the news, and no analysis can be found in the news which makes this news lack of something profound. Even answers guessed from experts will enrich the article.

Japan apologizes again for colonial rule of Korea

News source


http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/japan.korea.apology/index.html#fbid=n7Pv3F1tfe8&wom=false



The website of CNN world news is designed very compact and clear, with the red column to categorize news from different areas and the white background serves as a good set up for making hard news more reliable and persuasive.



A big picture of a close-shot of the president of Japan is very eye-catch packed with the interpretation of the picture and readers a general idea of what this news is talking about. The story highlights in the left side of the page uses four sentences summarizing the core idea of this news story, which is also follow the style of the website.



This news story only has 230 words but is divided into 10 paragraphs. the structure is simple and very clear to scan the whole story.



However, strictly speaking, this story more likes a history review rather than a hard news or world news because there are three paragraphs related to the Japanese and Korean history and with two paragraphs’ interviews talking about the history.



Admittedly, this news happened based on the history and would be well illustrated if we reported from the historical perspective, but if the story contained with too much information about history without other analyze or talking from a single angle or personal angle, the borderline seems be blurred. That is why I think this news is kind of a little bit off the topic.



Besides, the interview and the history review interlaced together, which makes the structure of the whole story seemed disorder, especially for those who don’t know very well about the relationship between Japan and Korea.



And it would be better if the author focus on one angle and add more experts’ opinion or the expectation of the future of Japan and Korea.

South Korea begins massive anti-submarine drills

News source:


http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/south.korea.submarine.drills/index.html?iref=allsearch#fbid=3dIV5lblt_u&wom=false



This is a hard news about the international relationship between Korean peninsula, China, American and Japan.

The relationship of Korean peninsula has been in a tension since the March sinking of the Cheonan, the two neighbors has fought a war from 1950 to 1953 and this drills also has caused wide international public concern. From the perspective of news value, the news story highlighted the latent conflict of South and North Korea through reporting the massive anti-submarine drills. Consequently, a lot more attention from the government of these countries, the people who work, live and study in Korean peninsula will be drawn to this event. Looking backwards to the world war and world warⅡ, tragedy was always begun from a little conflict between nations. This news story help people to compare the history and the status quo and prevent the tragedy happen again.

From the perspective of writing structure, it is a traditional hard new writing with a brief introduction of the whole event and more details and analysis in depth in the following articles. Precisely, the main body of this news story is comprised by four parts: a review of the past event- the March sinking of Cheonan- and the impact of this event; a list of numbers of submarines, military braches and people involved in the drills; the interviews, analysis and views from experts, which make this new story more persuasive. In the final parts of this news, it reveal the hidden truth of this submarine drill, that is, this dills was actually supported by American, who is deliberately pressuring China to clarify its position. It is not only a simply antagonize and from South Korea to North Korea, but also a trick American playing on China.

In a word, this news story draws a clear relationship framework about those four countries to reader and can be seen as an important reference about international relationship to people.

Introduction

life likes a string

              the more we experienced,

the smaller the experience will be
  
             when life ends, we will find that

every moment , no matter how cherish it was
                  
             was just a little dot in the string!

인생은 길이 정해진 한 줄이다

인생의 경력마다 이 줄에서 표현 되어있다

경력이 많을면 많을수록

이 줄에서 경력을 표현 하는 길이 작아지고있다

인생 끝았을때 돌아서 보면

우리 겪었던 그 기쁨, 그 슬픔

오직 아주 작은 점일 뿐이다!