Concern for the K-pop

     Honestly, I am not much into music. I enjoy listening to both k-pop and American pop, but I am not really interested in history or symbolism they take. I just enjoy the sound and music has always been a means to relieve my soul rather than complicating it further by trying to take symbolism from it.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/narsha-and-shinee-illuminati-infiltration-of-k-pop/
    The writer of this article was worried about the messages that music and the music videos send are becoming increasingly homogeneous. He says it started from the American pop where large companies monopolize the creation of music. By making the taste of people similar all over the world, they are enabled to control the mass people more easily. Korean pop which always gets influence from the American pop is also showing this tendency. Before I read this article, I never realized that there were such intentions behind the creation of musics. I thought the musicians were only concerned with the quality of music involved with only the sound. As I read the article, I watched the music videos that the writer allege to have included some Illuminati messages. Those were music videos by Narsha and SHINee. Since those two are quite famous in Korea, I saw their videos before. At that time however I did not realize that there was such symbolism. I was surprised to realize the dance SHINee did was explicitly representing the figure of a devil. However, I believe that the majority of people would not be able to realize the symbolism put on the video.
     However, there are people who are concerned. The people who realize the intentions behind the scene might be annoyed to let their children or family to be exposed to such overt symbolism. Moreover, as the music becomes homogeneous, many people might complain the monotony of music culture.

Assignment that is tickling my soul

     It has already been two weeks since my senior year started. As I always did before the start of each semester, I made a resolution to keep myself working hard and passionate about my life. I think I had not made up to my whole expectation but have been doing not bad for the last two weeks. Unlike the freshman who must be enjoying their first month in KMLA, seniors are getting a large amount of homework from school curriculum as well as from their own activities. 

     The assignment that I am working on right now is from the AP Statistics class. It is my first time to learn statistics and I am pretty much enjoying the subject. The above picture is a histogram that shows a bell-shaped distribution. The image is from Google so doesn't have much relevance to my homework. There is a question that I was impressed the most. It was not the hardest question but it gave me a thrill when I solved it and finally  understood the question wholly. The question was about a bell-shaped distribution just like the above picture. The question goes: Can you be sure that the below histogram has a standard deviation bigger than 5? 

The answer is yes because according to a rule called "Empirical Rule" in statistics, about 95% of population, the group of things that are under investigation, is between (median-standard deviation) and (median+standard deviation). The standard deviation could not be smaller than 5 since only about 50% of population belonged to the range between (median-5) and (median+5). Therefore, I could conclude that the standard deviation should be bigger.

     This question was actually a part of a bigger question. However, it gave me a better understanding about the relationship between bell-shaped distribution, empirical rule, and the standard deviation. It did tickle my soul.

The meaning of my name

丁 정  榮 영 一 일

                  Whenever people ask about my name and the Chinese characters that stand for it, they are surprised that my name uses “han il(一)” probably the simplest character. Korean names that are based on the characters, usually borrow characters that have gorgeous meaning and a lot of strokes that form a stylish shape. My name, on the other hand, is a lot simpler. The simplicity however does not hinder my name from being meaningful even more than other names.

“Younghwa Young (榮)” means success, prosperity and blossoming and “han il(一)” means the number, one. As the way many Chinese words are formed, the latter part of the word describes the first part. Therefore, my name, to make a literal translation, means one success. However, I would not want my life to be successful only myself. One success may mean a singular or unique but not only success. I would like my life to be blossoming with others as well too.