Patricia Shin-Ae Ko
I was born in California, but I lived in fifteen states and stayed the longest in Texas. After many years as a single parent, I found my true love, Young-Ig Ko, and we live near his hometown in South Korea. Together, we have 3 daughters, a son, two son-in-laws, a daughter-in-law, and a grandson. I'm proud of our international in-laws: They're Bangladeshi, Japanese and Vietnamese.
I started college late in life and finished at age 46 with a Bachelor's in psychology and a Master's in liberal arts. My graduate study was in public administration and natural resource management. I also enjoyed taking courses with cultural and religious topics.
I find value in all religions, but, to me, religion is a tool - like a hammer - once we've beat the nail into the wall, we need to set it aside. I like logic. The 6 days in the Bible and the 6 time periods of evolution add up to a logical conclusion: the writer couldn't fathom that a day was like a billion years. I believe our Creator is the original parent and source of love and that all people should treat one another like family. If we all had extended families that functioned with altruistic love, then we would have hope save our environment, end starvation, and bring world peace. See my website for directions on the route between ideals and reality.
I started college late in life and finished at age 46 with a Bachelor's in psychology and a Master's in liberal arts. My graduate study was in public administration and natural resource management. I also enjoyed taking courses with cultural and religious topics.
I find value in all religions, but, to me, religion is a tool - like a hammer - once we've beat the nail into the wall, we need to set it aside. I like logic. The 6 days in the Bible and the 6 time periods of evolution add up to a logical conclusion: the writer couldn't fathom that a day was like a billion years. I believe our Creator is the original parent and source of love and that all people should treat one another like family. If we all had extended families that functioned with altruistic love, then we would have hope save our environment, end starvation, and bring world peace. See my website for directions on the route between ideals and reality.
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Articles by Patricia Shin-Ae Ko
May 21, 2011
Jesus was persecuted for consorting with the tax collectors and prostitutes. Sun Myung Moon was doing about the same thing on May 21st, when he preached in Las Vegas and held a gambling gala to raise money for the Salvation Army. Harold Camping probably had God's numbers right, but just didn't understand what God was going to do with them
July 24, 2010
Re-think the response to the Cheonan disaster. If North Korea had really done it, they'd surely be bragging! But, would South Korea really lie? Sure, they have a history to prove they can. True or false, what really matters is heart.
February 18, 2010
With information at our fingertips, we no longer need to sit in a classroom to learn, but the social status of a traditional education keeps the status quo in place. This article gives a clear plan for education to evolve by using new methods of evaluation that are adapted for students who study independently. Tests without tuition would open up opportunities for the poor and, at the same time, stimulate self-motivated learning that could wipe out years of time and billions of dollars wasted on classrooms full of disinterested students.
February 15, 2010
The effects of social groups within schools, as well as the effect of schools on other parts of society, combined with economic issues, have made the traditional model of education inefficient. At the same time, advances in media technology have made it unnecessary. This article brings out the reasons why schools are not working the way we think they should and calls for a new approach to education.
January 28, 2010
This is a clear and practical plan for self-insurance cooperatives that would solve the nation's need for a health plan without any forced requirements, without hundreds of pages of congressional jargon, and without passing out favors to the already overindulgent insurance monopolies. Let's put it into action while there's still a chance.
February 28, 2008
Let's get talking about the canal project before the buldozer noise drowns us out!
I recently had the honor of having lunch with several of the top executives of the Hyundai Motor Company in Ulsan, Korea. It was a get together for the teaching staff of the winter English camp that Hy...
December 05, 2007
Sexual energy can't be bottled up. (Even though beverage companies suggest that in advertisements.) The natural outlet for sexual energy is a permanent loving bond between a male and a female. Why? First, all of nature is expressed in male-female partnerships - even on the most basic level, atom...
December 03, 2007
I once had a cat who learned how to tap on a window with his claws just like someone would knock on a door. At the time, I was taking care of my father, who was over 90 and steadily going down the other side of the hill. Previously, my father had been living alone for many years and gradually beca...
November 09, 2007
The Korean presidential election is rather entertaining. The front runner, Lee Myung Bak, who had over 50% support in opinion polls until recently, had his lawyers try to trip up the extradition of his former business partner, Chris Kim, who allegedly had run to the US with $49 million of stolen mo...
October 26, 2007
"Temporary" might turn out to be 5 years - the time Lee Myung Bak would serve as president of Korea if elected. However, don't plan on making a lifetime career out of canal building. His campaign promise of digging a "Grand Canal" across the length of the country is an over amplified rerun of his ...
September 12, 2007
I read several news reports that described the recent exchange between Bush and Roh as "testy", "tense" or a "translation problem". I watched the clip of it myself on Korean TV, and the humor was obvious: it was a "read my lips" moment. Roh set himself up by asking Bush to repeat himself. The Ame...
June 28, 2007
In 2005, when another hurricane followed Katrina toward the coast, Houston residents jumped in their cars to get out of the way. It was probably the biggest traffic jam since Moses led 600,000 out of Egypt. The same thing happens in Korea on every major holiday - half the nation lives in Seoul, bu...
June 22, 2007
An ugly scar lays across the west end of Pongseongri mountain - the timber has been clearcut. On the east end, a section is roped off to be bulldozed into a site for a factory. Pongseongri mountain is the largest of a number of low mountains that rise like emeralds out of the flat plain of rice fa...
April 25, 2007
After reading an interview with Harvey Wasserman about his book, Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030, I'm compelled to make a point about how to get there from here. Wasserman paints the glory-road to Solartopia (a clean-powered utopia) with the profit potential of alternative energies; ...
April 25, 2007
Israel's own history provides instructions on how to traverse a path into an embrace with brothers rather than a standoff with enemies. It's simple: Give them all you've got and bow with your face to the ground. Jacob gave his herds, servants, wives, and children. On a national level, it would be...