Office workers suffer depression

  Office workers suffer depression


   Office workers who suffer from company depression is increasing. According to the survey of employment portal site 'job Korea', 62.9% of  workers were suffering from company depression.

     Company depression is the symptom that makes workers inactive in company, but not in other places like houses. As there are no symtoms out in the company, it is not treated as a real depression, but it makes serious problems.
     According to 917 workers in the company, 87.8% answered that they get too much stress from excessive amount of works, company policies, irresponsible boss, and burden of making creative goods.
     This is regarded as a serious issue to the whole company of Korea. Research professor of  Yale university said, absence rate of  workers who had company depressionwas two times higher than others, and productivity loss was seven times higher.

     For these reasons, companies are introducing Employee assistance program called EAP which helps workers get rid of their stress. Experts say, companies should change their view dealing with workers' company depression, for the individuals, and also for the companies. They requested workers to make good habits and sleep well to control body temperature, secrete of hormone and autonomic nerve.

Eun joo, jung. “출근하기 싫어” 직장인 63% ‘회사 우울증". March,2011.http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=shm&sid1=102&oid=028&aid=0002087294(visited: March 30, 2011

Audition syndrome sweeps across Korea

       Audition syndrome sweeps Korea

       These days, audition programs are hitting Korea TV channels like MBC, SBS, tvN, and Mnet. Starting from singers, audition programs are looking for talented actors, announcers, and even models.

        MBC is now broadcasting audition show called 'The great birth', and Mnet had already broadcasted two series of 'Super star K' and they are preparing for the third series of it. In addition, tvN is going to broadcast the show called 'Korea's got talent' which got motivated from the Britian show, 'Britian's got talent'. Plus, SBS is preparing for the show called, 'Audition of Miracle'.

        Critics of pop culture viewed that the reason why audition programs are getting popular in Korea is because of succession of Mnet audition program 'Super star K'. As audition program incites competition between participants, audience get interested into the competition that leads to success of the program. Also, as diverse people appear in the show, it can make the content of the program more interesting with various formats. Jung, the critic of pop culture, said, "The power that audition programs contain is so enormous. Audience will be able to enjoy various formats of audition."

       But, there are some worries about fairness of evaluation that some participants will get plus point with their appearance aside from the talent. There are worries about personal information being spread.

        As audition programs that were broadcasted so far made big hit, it is viewed that there are possibilities of other audition programs being made. People are also expecting fair and thrilling audition program that could dig up the verified and talented star. 

Dong je, Park. "‘오디션 프로그램’에 열광하는 진짜 속내는". March,2011.http://n.breaknews.com/sub_read.html?uid=164165&section=sc4(visited: March 22, 2011

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