S. Korea President Park's "Good Sleep makes you Healthy" and our Prospects for Political Situation

The Way for S. Korea President Park to go before going to bed

S. Korea President Park's "Good Sleep makes you Healthy" and our Prospects for Political Situation

CEO of Maccine Korea, Han Seung-bum

It was only four years ago that I started to have a sound sleep. My elder brother, who is six years older than me, and studied in Seoul with me, suffered from insomnia. Due to my older brother, I had to live like a night owl since I was 10. For as many as 36 years since then, I haven't been able to sleep well. I would either go to sleep at dawn, or if I ever went to bed early, I would often sleep fitfully as I awoke from sleep at dawn. Such being the case, I had to spend most of the daytime in a state of foggy mind, and naturally my concentration was very low. Since my 20s, my eyes were bloodshot, and my eyes were severely blinking often. It was natural that I looked a stupid person, but, such a symptom got worse, especially when I lectured at universities, gave speeches, or did an interview on air. It was a big complex to me, and I had to give an evasive response like ‘That’s not true, initially my eyes easily become bloodshot” to the remark “You look really tired” from every person I met. There's a saying that "If the body is worth a thousand nyang, the eyes take up nine hundred nyang." Actually, this writer was overstraining my eyes.

Four years ago when I was going through the worst days of my life due to a failure in business, I happened to start Danjeon(lower abdominal) breathing. I was a fatty with super-extreme obesity weighing 120kg; however, I managed to do weight loss of 45kg within 6 months. I got back on my feet with the business called the Online Reputation Management, and I have been leading my life so meaningfully every day that I could not let a day pass without reading a book. Above all, my living pattern, whose nights and days had been switched for the past 36 years, came back to normal. It took me 36 years to turn the abnormal into normal. My life has been enriched through daily 7 or more hours of sound sleep.

Sleep is happiness. A life without proper sleep is miserable. The reason South Korea’s happiness index is lower than Nepal is not social welfare or work stress, but the lack of sleep. In any country, happiness index is accurately inversely proportional to the amount of sleep. Insufficient sleep is bound to lead to a lack of concentration at work or in studying. To make up for this, people these days have become used to consuming stimulants like coffee or energy drinks to hike up their levels of concentration. Such stimulants then create a vicious cycle of obstructing deep sleep. This indeed is a useless solution.

Insufficient sleep also greatly affects a suicide. As we all know, a suicide is a disease of the mind. The number of deaths from suicide in South Korea is estimated at about 14,000 a year. Of these people, 80% suffered from depression. According to another study, 75% of the depression patients suffer from insomnia. In other words, we can conclude that about 60% of those that committed a suicide suffered from insomnia. According to a study by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs in 2013, about 3.68 million people in our country are classified as high-risk mental health patients, suffering from things like depression. Early treatments for patients with insomnia and depression could be an effective solution to a lower suicide rate.

According to Joong Ang Sunday on November 13, a religious figure met with President Park, and greeted her by saying, “you seem to be sleeping well,” to which Park responded with a smile, “Sleep is the best medicine.” In addition, spokesperson Ki Dong-min for The Minjoo Party criticized the President’s remark at a briefing at the National Assembly, saying, “High school seniors, who are to take their college entrance exam in five days, are spending their nights worrying about their country, but their president is saying things like “Sleep is the best medicine. It is only deplorable and shameful.”

The “Choi Sun-sil Gate” has turned South Korea into all mess. A million citizens have taken to the streets with candles to yell out “Park Geun-hye step down,” and the president’s approval rating is at its worst 5%. What will President Park do, and how will our political situation will be unfolded for the time to come?

Losing both parents to a bullet, like President Park did, is a rare case worldwide. Moreover, after the October 26 incident, she spent a long time in house confinement, actually like prison life. In 1991, when President Park was forty, she once said, “I have nothing I want to do, no dream I want to achieve.” It is totally understandable. Then, the next year, the same person suddenly

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