Current Status of Living Radiation and Countermeasures

The ‘Radon bed scandal’ that has recently caused is a hot potato in our society but we haven't found the right solution yet.

Radon is a typical radioactive decay product, but we are in a situation where everyone is at risk for radiation. Seoul YWCA had a lecture to know what the radiation is in our everyday life. In the lecture, Instructor Hye Jung Kim focused on ion products, cell phones, and medical radiation problems.

She started her lecture by mentioning the Radon bed scandal. Put simply, Using Radon bed make people exposed to radiation continuously while sleeping in bed without notice. The most miserable thing is that Radon bed has received more than 10 government certificates because they are known as an eco-friendly bed which is not true. In fact, it was a terrible product that caused a cancer.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is advising us to throw ion products away from you. Do you know that cell phones also have radiation? Studies show that cell phones cause brain cancers, heart, and other cancers. If an adult uses a cell phone for more than 30 minutes a day, the risk of brain cancer doubles.

For the last session in the lecture, we dealt with the harm of medical radiation such as X-rays and CT scans. If it is unnecessary, do not have immoderate scans.

The more you get scans, the more you are exposed to radiation.

If you once are exposed, it is impossible to get rid of them for a long time. That’s how important you have to avoid exposure as much as possible.

Seoul YWCA hopes you to live a healthier and safer life. : D

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Women Empowerment Project in Myanmar

The efforts to find the dream of Myanmar women continue! Since 2020, Seoul YWCA has been supporting income generation through vocational training for women in Thandaunggyi, Karen State, Myanmar and has provided trainings on women’s rights for gender equality. In the midst of difficult circumstances such as the threat of COVID-19, soaring prices in the market and all the turbulences across Myanmar , we carefully restarted the Women’s Empowering Project to proceed with various vocational training as being planned. From February to March, an advanced sewing course was held, which has been ongoing since 2020. By developing further from previous trainings, the participants made various sizes of cross-body bags, tote bags, and travel bags with using the traditional pattern fabrics of the Karen tribe in Myanmar. In order to lead to the actual sales and generate profits, they created bags of various designs by paying attention to

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The Training of Enumerators of Baseline Survey for the Myanmar Women's Empowerment Project

As part of the Seoul YWCA’s Myanmar Women's Empowering Project, the Women Development Center in Thanduanggyi, has been successfully extended. Furthermore, a baseline survey will be carried out in July. It aims to gather information about the basic living standards of the residents and their demand for vocational training. From June 22 to 23, Myanmar YWCA conducted training of enumerators using Messenger Rooms, an online conference platform, due to the ban on inter-regional travel and gatherings in the village, which are the countermeasures against Covid-19. Ten young people who are fluent in Bwe Karen language, Myanmar language and proficient in Internet use were selected as local enumerators for the baseline survey. National YWCA of Myanmar shared the goal and details of the “Myanmar Women's Empowering Project” with enumerators. In addition, they were trained on survey ethics, what to do during door-to-door surveys, what should be done (providing detailed guidanc

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Gender equality media monitoring #3 Korean Current Affairs Program

Seoul YWCA proceeded media monitoring based on gender equality perspective, here's the third episode that explains Korean current affairs programs. We edited this short video, hoping that gender equal programs are made so that we don't have to monitor the media anymore. Please enjoy and spread all over the world!

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