Cultural Rhetoric

Last summer, when I was in Korea, I had chance to listen one of the great sermon from the pastor. He was the pastor who came from Canada, and I got the ticket to go and listen to his sermon. He was having sermon about his travel throughout the world. He told us that he was a missionary before he become a pastor. So he traveled a lot of countries to spread the gospel. Then he started to tell on of his trip which he experienced a great miracle. He said he was persecuted by spreading a gospel. He said he gave up his life and waiting for his death. Then night before his judgement he had a vision and angel told him God will solve all the problem for him. Then he got up and there was a Bible next to him. The Bible was opened and it was showing Bible verse, John 3:16. It was about everyone who believe in God will be saved and live eternal life. After he read that verse, he had to go to his judgement. So he was getting ready to go to court and get his judgement. But as he arrived it was not a ...

4 Years ago, I saw an impressive commercial in TV. It was not advertisement to introduce product to make profit. It was public service advertisement about wasting tissue. In advertisement, it was showing tissue machine that we can easily see in public places. There was shape of Africa at the middle of tissue machine and it was filled with green tissue. By pulling out the tissue the green part of the tissue become black, then advertisement was saying “Please don’t waste tissue, Earth is dying.” By this commercial Korean government provided same tissue machine in commercial. Also, many places in Korea, started campaign to save tissue. In this advertisement, the main purpose was to tell people about the problem in society and make them to recognize and fix the problem. For this advertisement, it was very effective and reasonable. One year after this commercial, Korean government checked the change in amount of tissue used. By one year, the amount of tissue usage decreased 20 percent. In t...