The Chonnam Tribune asked students for their opinions about some social issues that need lots of consideration. Why don’t you read this article and make your own opinion?

Adopting Wage Peak System
   Hwang Bub-ryang (Sophomore, School of Economics)
     Recently, the government announced that it would introduce a wage peak system in public companies within the year in order to create thousands of jobs for young people. The system is a burden for a family of four in our society. Even if the total salary remains equal, the wage employees feel that it will be lowered, as the wage they get at a specified time goes down. Most employees have to support their families, but the government does not consider their spending plans. Furthermore, it is not sure that the new wage system will improve youth employment opportunities. The government has no strategy to make companies adopting the system hire young job seekers instead of spending saved money to other uses. In this case, the system to increase the youth employment rate is useless. I think the government’s mandatory working hours reduction affects employment positively. If work hours decrease, workers involved can support their family with the reduced two-three work hours and then young job seekers can find work.

How to Elect College Presidents
   Kim Hyeon-jo (Senior, School of Business Administration)
     The College voting system has become a big issue after a professor’s suicide at Pusan National University protesting the university’s decision to abolish direct election of its president. The Ministry of Education has insisted that the direct election system could negatively impact on professors’ studies because it causes factional conflicts between professors. However, it is just a good-looking excuse to suppress the autonomy of universities via an indirect voting system that is used to appoint a candidate who suits the government’s taste to be the president. Therefore, the direct election of the university president is the cornerstone of ‘university democracy’ and it should not be abolished. Furthermore, the suffrage of students to elect their president should be guaranteed and the ratio of students’ votes should be the same as professors and officers.
 

Jeon Hyun-jeong, Tribune Reporter