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THEARGUS,JUNE1,2000
CULTURE
ProblemsoftherestroomsinKorea
Indonesia,YoungandAlive
StayingBehindinCulture
T
heelectionisover,butitseems
Inthemiddleofthechangingwind,
life. Or if some careless person
PicturedbyRestroom
likeitneverhappened.Onlythe
young kids listen to radio channels
happens drive a red car among the
mediahavetalkedaboutitasifitwas
with English speaking DJs who play
crowd,thecar,nomatterhowfancyit
an hot issue, but nobody really feels
billboard charts. The older ones
looked before it passed by the
that way especially the young ones
gather to a vacant lot nearby the
particular street, would instantly get
likeus.Thisquietnessoftheelection
neighborhood in a hot summer night
jammed in the street surrounded by
inourcountrymakesmethinkofthis
to watch wayang kulit(the traditional
¡®the green people¡¯, and lose its side
I.Therestroomiscoming
visittherestroommorefrequently
particular nation quite a lot;
Indonesianshadowpuppetshow).
mirrors,headlightsandtires,andeven
outside.
thanmen.
Indonesia.
However, among all the liveliness
get a nasty scratch at the sides of its
N
ature used to serve as a
However,thenumberoftherest
Indonesianarchipelagowasknown
that can describe this nation called
body.
great rest room to the
room for men and women are
to be a nation full of mystery and
Indonesia, the biggest incident that
Asifit¡¯snotenough,peoplewould
ancestors of the human beings.
almost
equal,
which
wonder from many explorers from
caught my interest was the election.
getonthetopofthecarandjumpup
However,atthebeginningofan
inconveniencesmanywomen.This
Marco Polo, Captain Cook, Sir
Actually,thesceneoftheIndonesian
and down, violently shaking the car.
agrarian society, a closed rest
is not the case, for example, in
FrancisandtothetimeofChristopher
electionismorethaninteresting.The
Foreigners, especially Koreans and
room appeared. As the society
USA; California government
Columbus.Beautifulislands,majestic
first and the last time I¡¯ve seen the
Japanese who are Chinese look-
wascivilized,excrementshadto
decidedtheprovisionsconsidering
wild forests, environment in
election, I believe, was the year of
alikes, were often targets of the
becontrolled.And,atthetimeof
thatfrequencyofthewomen¡¯visit
marvelous harmony with nature and
1996, when they had a general
attack, and that¡¯s why our school
the ancient Greece, a rest room
tothetoiletistwotimesmorethan
various cultural assets mingled with
election.Atthattime,threebigparties
often suffered bomb threats(thank
with the door was made. This
thatofmen.
such beauty has been the source of
-thePPP(theearlierformofNational
Godmostofthemwerefalsethreats)
tradition handed down from
endlessadmirationoftheearlierspice
Manate Party), the governing
andteacherstookitasaprimaryduty
III. Try to introduce the
generation to generation. As
merchants to the travelers nowadays.
party(Golkar),
and
the
to notify the campaign days and the
making a good rest room,
cultural concept to the rest
Indonesia, being the prosperous
PDI(Indonesian Democratic Party)
colorstothestudents.
room.
excretion acting was aware of
nation of natural resources, is also
ledbyMegawatiSukarnoputri-were
Theserallieswereverythreatening
the brutal action. Everyone has
Quite recently, people try to
rich in human resources, with the
invigorousoppositiontooneanother.
toforeigners,thatevenKoreans,who
to go to the rest rooms, making
introduce the cultural concept to
population of around two hundred
Unlike the usual election campaigns
have experienced the bittersweet
unrelated remarks when they
therestroominKorean.Theysay
million,whichisthefifthhighest
victory of democracy and know
wentoutoftherestrooms.
thattherestroomcanserveasthe
next to China, India, Russia and
the necessity of it, can¡¯t help but
It is quite recently that a rest
place where people can relax and
U.S.A. Among such plenitude,
hope the conservatives to
Global
HongJoo-hee/TheArgus
room is located outside. This is
chat. This movement is taken step
more than half of the Indonesian
maintainthethrone.Thisisoften
Sketch
Haewooso is the place to communicate opinions with students and GSC in
the new situation to take place
bystep.Peoplecantalkwitheach
peoplehaven¡¯treachedtheageof
just a brief thought that occurs
HUFS. It is one of the examples to introduce the cultural concept to the rest
around us. Dark lighting is not
otherandreadbooks.Forexample,
twentyyet.Wouldalltheseprove
while situated among one of the
roominKorea.
welcomedanymore.Fireflyrest
inthefireflyrestroominSu-won,
that Indonesia is a young,
wildest political wars, and of
Indonesia
room which is located in Su-
strolling street is connected with
promisingcountry?
course,everyonewouldthinkitis
won is a representative example of
Likewise,thelackofawarenesson
intotheplacetohanganoblestyleof
therestroom.Andpeoplecantalkon
In this respect, the current of
best to avoid such violence.
themodernrestroom.Thisrestroom
thepartoftheprovidersaswellasthe
thedeluxehotel.
the chair beside the rest room. Also,
democratic movement that
However, when recalling this
looks like a museum. In the firefly
visitors of the rest room is to blame.
Moreover, an elevated place was
vendingmachineislocatedinthere.
covered every mountain high of
rather violent but impassioned,
rest room, lighting is coming to the
Before scolding visitors of the rest
equipped for visitors to put their
And the school rest rooms are
the nation over the past two years
we have all personally experienced
active election scene full of youthful
windowsoftherestroomandvisitors
room, awareness conversion of the
belongings and same line was made
changing, too. In Hogye elementary
mayhavebeenanaturalphenominon.
here in Korea, and unlike the
ardor,thecomparativescenethatgoes
can see scenery of the lake through
providers on themselves is needed.
forhandicappedtoinducethem.
school in An-yang, peculiar
I had the chance to attend an
campaignsofothercountrieswehave
with our nation - decreasing voting
thewindowsoftherestroom.So,itis
Since the rest room facilities are not
Surely,tokeeptherestroomclean,
experiment is drawing people¡¯s
international school in Indonesia due
often heard of which are carried out
rate, the indifference of the general
selected of the best and the most
good, visitors tend to use the rest
five hundred million won is spent a
attention. In the rest room, a round
to my father¡¯s work, and I have to
freelyanytimeanywhere,theelection
public (especially the young ones)
beautiful rest room under the
roomscarelessly.Therefore,whenthe
year. However, this surely gains the
table, a bookstand and a chessboard
admit that I have heard many
campaign in Indonesia is the most
toward politics etc.- makes us all
sponsorship of the Korea Tourism
providers of the rest rooms give a
maximum effect with the minimum
are provided so that students can
negative things said about Indonesia
uniqueofall.
bitter.
Corporation. Moreover, many other
deliberate consideration, visitors are
investmentconsideringthattheclean
chattingaroundthetable.Thetypical
suchasthecountrybeinguncivilized
Each parties in this particular
Indonesia, in our country, might
rest rooms tend to be renovated and
able to keep rest rooms clean like
rest room gives people a very good
restroomoftheschoolisthegloomy
and under developed. To add more,
country, had their own ¡®campaign
come to us just as another less
redecorated from considering
usingtheirhome.
impression.Thehighestofficialofthe
place where students are punished
I¡¯ve also heard about Indonesian
day¡¯ assigned from the government.
developedcountryoracountrywitha
people¡¯s convenience with the trend
This is the best example of how
terminalsaidthattherestroomhasan
and are smoking. However, this rest
people, having lived in the tropics
For example, Golkar campaigns on
name that¡¯s often misunderstood as
of raising rest rooms to the cultural
importantconversionoftheproviders
influence largely to the first
room provides the place to think,
where people don¡¯t have to worry
the17th,PPPonthe18th,PDIonthe
India(Koreans call India ¡®Indo¡¯).
place. However, there are inveterate
is. A rest room of the Seoul Express
impressionoftheterminal.
communicate and read. Such a place
about winter, being too optimistic or
19th, then Golkar on the 20th again
However,whilelivinginIndonesia,I
problemsoftherestroominKorea.
BusTerminalwasselectedtheworst
According to the recent poll about
can show children that the rest room
rather lazy. However, even after
andsoon.Somepeoplemayfindthis
have often heard the elders say that
by Korea Tourism Corporation in
theconditionoftherestroomsofthe
isaculturalplacetorest.
hearing these, Indonesia that I saw
very interesting, but the reason for
thiscountryresemblesKoreawhenit
II. Inveterate problems of the
1998. However, this rest room is
whole country by Korea Tourism
InHUFS,therestroomcanprovide
thereafter was passionate and
doing this has not come from a fun
was in its seventies and eighties.
restroominKorea.
selected one of the best by Korea
Corporation, 77% of the respondent
aplacetoexchangeopinionsbetween
energetic,fulloflivelyspirit.
cause,butratherfromaspinechilling
Especially after having spent the
After Seoul Olympic games, the
TourismCorporation,nowadays.
said that rest rooms are unpleasant
general students and GSC (General
InJakarta,thecapitalofthenation,
one,especiallyfortheforeigners.The
memorial of the 4.19 democratic
campaigntokeeptherestroomclean
The key was a decision of the
andstink.Architectssaysthatwecan
Student Council). This is Haewooso.
most of the major streets in the city
reason? Violence, of course! Let me
movement
recently
through
has been continuing for about ten
highest official. He practiced the
telltheculturelevelofthecountryby
On the white paper sticking on the
are adorned with beautiful flowers
giveyouanunderstandableexample.
remaining photographs and feature
years. However, the situation of the
service program considering the
their rest room. Plus, the lack of
rest room door, students write their
andtrees,creatinganaturalharmony
One of the uniqueness of the
stories on papers, I can¡¯t help but be
rest room was not made better
customers. One of the service
facilities for the handicapped shows
opinionsaboutcertainissue.Actually,
with the skyscrapers. The buildings,
election campaign in this country, is
sure that Indonesia is right in the
remarkably. Nowadays, according to
program was fixing the rest room.
thatwearenotconsiderateenoughfor
GSC has experienced a difficulty to
unlike buildings in Korea which
that each parties have their own
midst of the similar phase towards
Korea Tourism Corporation, foreign
The rest room which the employees
the weak. The rest room for the
communicatewiththestudentsabout
resemble square boxes built to save
representing color; Yellow(Golkar),
improvement.
tourists point out a breakdown of
of the terminal even avoided using
handicappedisboundtosetupinthe
various plans. So, agony and
money and space, are various in
Green(PDI)andRed(PPP).Saythatit
I hope this newly started country,
communication, traffic congestion
has changed after conversion of the
subway station. Currently it is
argument of the college students can
design to fit the surrounding
was the day for the PDI to hold a
fullofhopetothefuturepossibilities,
and the dirty rest room as the
providers. The toilet tissues, the
reported that there are about ten rest
bealivethroughHaewooso.
environment.Nighttimeistheprime
campaign. The streets would
would not fall into hasty satisfaction
problems of the tour uncomfort in
aromatic and the soap are provided.
roomsforthehandicappedinsubway
GSC is planning a lecture meeting
timeforthecity.
practically overflow with the color
and indolence followed by cold
Korea.
And external appearance is changed
stations in Seoul, most of which,
and is trying students¡¯ opinions to
When the sun sets early at around
green.Whenpassingastreetdrivinga
indifferencelikeoursdid.
unfortunately, are used as a store
reflect about certain issue which is
6pm, the whole downtown main
car, people scream and go crazy at
house.
debated through Haewooso. Like
streets light up their flower beds
youonthesidesofthestreetasifthey
Besides, the lack of consideration
wise, the rest room is developing to
decoratedwithcolorlightbulbs.Here
are welcoming a bunch of marathon
forwomencanbepointedout.Inthe
theculturalplaceineachsociety.
and there, these fun loving people
runners, streaming green flags in the
ARTICLESWANTED
woman rest room, fitting up with
Before2002Worldcup,renovating
hum, sing and dance to the strong
wind.
facilities like baby seats and powder
andredecoratingtherestroomshould
beatofdangdut(traditionalIndonesian
Of course, they are wearing green
roomsisthelatestwork.Accordingto
bedone.Whatisimportantisnotjust
tunes made into popular music),
shirts,letalonethegreenribbonstied
statistics,women¡¯frequencyofusing
appearancebutthecultureoftherest
while the sweet smell of bananas,
around their heads and wrists.
therestroomadayis7.2whilethatof
room.
guavas, mangosteen, durian, mango
Tragedy sometimes happen when an
The Argus is now waiting for articles from readers
men is 5.5. And women stays about
andmanyotherofmyfavoritetropic
innocentpersonwhohappenstowear
onanysubjectson-and-offcampus.
99 seconds for each visit to the rest
fruits come from the market place
a yellow shirt walks by. This man
ByHuhYoonJung
ByKimJi-yoon
room while men stay about 37
where people talk, smile and happily
would easily be the target of a mass
TheDept.ofKoreanLang.&Lit.at
TheArgusgivesdesignatedcontributionfeetothe
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maketheirlivesgoon.
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