My essay - 'Changes of diet in Korea'

Have you heard of the word 'Global village' ? It is the special term to refer to the world on the earth in which we feel like it's just small village. Development of technologies enable us to communicate much faster than before, making us feel like the world is much smaller than actually it is. So it's not weird to find foreign cultures and foreigner people in Korea anymore. The border of each countries is disappearing. And when it comes to diet pattern, The situation is also not different. For last 50 years, diet pattern in korea has been changed a lot. Because of that, There have been changes in several area. It might be possitive or it might be negative. Then let's see the details. what kind of effect is resulted from change of diet in Korea?

We can find some positive effects resulted from change of diet in korea. First of all, There has been overall increase in our average height. Now we are not as small as we were in the past. We don't have any problems in nutrition supply, which is definitely affecting growth of our body. And thanks to that, we are less likely to get diseases which usually come from malnutritions. Second, we can esaily get foods from other countries. Thanks to the development of transportation, we can get pretty fresh food which is hard to find in Korea. So we can enjoy these kind of foreign food whenever we want. Third, we start to aware certain food is bad for health so we can avoid them. Nowadays, everyone can find out the ingredients of certain food by simple searching with internet. Now we know eating too much rice can be bad for our health, which was unclear in the past because rice was main meal of korea at that time. So far, it's about positive aspects of diet change in korea  caused by globalization. Then let's see what kind of negative aspects have we got from it.

Because of diet change in Korea, There are some negative effects. They are usually related with diseases. They are so critical that they have affected much more than sum of all positive effects have. As globalization began, big companies appeared. The foods from these companies are called junk food Because they are not good for your health. People are more busy now, so they usually don't have time to prepare meal. These big companies take advantage of this fact. Their food is easy to eat, not even expensive and it usually comes out very fast. So more and more people are getting interested in this food. But unfortunately, this kind of food is junk food. It contains not only high calories but also is not fresh at all. They are processed food and nobody can guarentee how fresh they are. According to statistics, Our society has been getting problems related with obesity, high blood presure and several other diseases which we usually didn't have before since this fast food store appeared in Korea. Now korea is getting sick because of it.

It's obvious that diet change has affected a lot of things in korea for last 50 years. Now we can't turn back to the past. Then what do we have to do in this situation? We have to be careful more than before about what we eat. If we start to care about it, i am sure that we can prevent these junk food related diseases from occuring. We can manage them and control them as long as you are cautious about what you eat so that we can maximize positive effects and minimize negative effects of diet change in Korea.

(In progress)