Jang Jun Hwa
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What Your One Click Cause
Have you ever missed something you used in your teens? In my case, I have missed letters written by hand, the phone box in front of my school and junk food I ate. The thing I miss the most is my CD player which I always carried. Nowadays, however, I prefer to use MP3 players. Likewise, most people usually use MP3s rather than CDs. Using MP3 players cause a serious problem; the downloading and sharing of music from the Internet. A single click for illegal music files leads to bad effects.
First of all, the quality of music will be declining if we continue to download music illegally. Nowadays, investors realize that making and selling music CDs are unprofitable and reduce their investments. Consequently, record producers have to make albums with little money, and it causes the low-quality music. Also, if people in the music industry run a deficit on their business, they have low morale to make the best music.
In the long run, the failure of music industry can have a bad influence on the Korean economy. "The Korean wave" is spread of Korean culture around the world. It helps develop the Korean economy. Music is one of the important parts of the Korean Wave. For example, BoA is a famous singer who starts "The Korean wave" in Japan. According to research in Samsung Securities Co., her economic value is worth up to 1 trillion won. However, the music industry can fall into a decline due to the illegal downloads of music. It hinders the development of the culture industry. Finally, the Korean industry will be negatively affected.
Some people say that they download and share music because CDs are too expensive to buy. They usually listen to two or three songs, not all of the songs in a CD. As a result, they do not want to pay 20,000 won to listen to a few songs. I understand their opinion, but the illegal download is not a proper solution. In order to address people's complaints, the recording industry offers several ideas, including selling low-priced CDs that have only a couple of songs on them.
We should stop downloading and sharing music off the Internet because it may lead to bad-quality of music and the stagnation of economy. People in the music industry should seek a great solution to prevent from music piracy. Also, listeners have to be aware that downloading and sharing music is totally illegal and appreciate efforts of people creating music. Lastly, everyone should remember what our one click for illegal music files can bring.
201181021 Huiyeong Kim
ReplyDelete1. What I like this piece of writing is you use made good use of examples such as BoA and CD price.
2. The main point seems to be the bad effects that are caused by dodownloading and sharing of music from the Internet.
3. The words "The Korean Wave" are powerful.
It is just appropriate expression that expresses Korea's situation in culture.
4. I really think your essay is good enough.