The Invention of Steam Vacuum

             Have you heard of ‘Steam Vacuum?’ Steam Vacuum is the great innovation which made the life of housewife comfortable. The innovator who made this great invention is ‘Han Gyeong Hui’ who is the female CEO that succeed in the business targeting housewife. After she graduated her Ewha Womans University, she joined IOC(International Olympic Committee). After two years working there, she entered graduate school in California. She get the degree at school and had a career in other different company in USA. Finally, as she passed the exam, she became deputy director of education. As we can see, she always challenged to her life and tried to do many different things. Now, she is the hero among mom. Thus, she contributed a lot for housewife in the family and had brought lots of change of thinking .

             Among her inventions, the most representative innovation is ‘Steam Vacuum.’ Han Gyeong Hui was a very neat and organized person. So she always cleaned her house with the boiled water. One day, while she was cleaning the house as usual, she suddenly thought it was uncomfortable to boil water every single time. Then, she started to think of the innovative way to clean her house. Finally she came up with the ‘Steam Vacuum,’ and started to develop her idea. She was working as a public official at that time. However, she quitted the job right away because she had the confidence about making her innovation. There were lots of difficulties in the process of inventing it. She had to mortgage her house and parents' house and also spent over 600million won. After 3 years of effort to develop the steam vacuum, finally it came out in the market. However, there were lots of problems in the vacuum such as water leaking. Through lots of trial and error, the vacuum developed and became popular among housewife. This is the process of how steam vacuum developed and invented.

             The invention of Steam vacuum changed the quality of life. Most importantly, steam vacuum made the life of housewife more comfortable. Due to the invention, instead of wiping the floor by bending our knees, we can now clean our room in a very comfortable way by just standing still. Steam refers to the hot mist that forms when water boils. Therefore, steam vacuum means the vacuum that contains the function of turning on the steam. Before the invention, people had to get wet towel and then wiped the floor. This was a very uncomfortable way to clean that made mother tired. However, Han Gyeong Hui was the person who noticed the mind of mom so well and devised the invention which brought to a big success. Not only Steam vacuum, there are other invention like steam iron, humidifier, or wet mop iron. Her invention is famous now days throughout the world like China and USA. Therefore, the invention of the steam vacuum relieved the hardship of the housewife.

             Furthermore, the innovator had brought lots of change of thinking to the women. The remarkable point of this invention is the person who made this invention. Most of the CEO that had big success was mostly men. However, in this case, the CEO is the women. The fact has brought lots of hope to other women, especially to every mom in the house. She gave hope to women to start new life as a business women. Also, she told people to do innovative thinking. She insisted to get rid of the habit of settling in the present. In fact, after the success of Han Gyeong Hui, many women started their new business and tried to live challenging life. Her success broke the stereotype of the role of housewife. The stereotype that housewife should  work all day only for their family broke and gave many opportunities to the women. Therefore, she contributed to the change of the stereotype of people.

             To sum up, the innovation of Steam vacuum changed the quality of housewife life. Due to the innovative thinking of one common housewife, every housewife of the world could be comfortable whenever they clean their house. Not only that but it also led to change of the thinking. We should thank to her contribution and always try not to settle for the present and think creatively. Thinking creatively could make our life more comfortable than today.

             

Sustainable Future Starts From Our Hands

           At the end of the news, weather forecaster often tells people to be careful with the fine dust. As we can find out in this weekend, the weather is often very foggy. As time goes by, pollution in this society are becoming worse. To solve the problem, government and many environment organizations tried lots of solution. Also, there are many treaties between countries to save the environment. Although there are lots of effort came into action, the environment is not getting any better. There are three simple ways to ensure sustainable future by our hands ; which are practicing responsible consumption, using public transportation, and saving water.

           First of all, we should consume responsibly to reduce waste. There are many trash thrown out these days because people buy things impulsively without thinking carefully. Before we buy something, we should first think ‘Is this a necessary object to me?’ For instance, a student went to a bookstore to buy a textbook for his class. After buying his textbook, he looked around the bookstore and found other interesting books, and decided to buy those books too. After he came back to his home, he realized the books that he bought were boring and he just threw it away. Thus, his action causes the waste so he should have consumed more responsively. Also, when people buy something in store, they should think of the container or packing that covers the products. We should try not to buy products with packing that are disposable. Over packaging of the product will also cause serious effect in environment. Products like Styrofoam take lots of time to dispose, so to protect the environment and to reduce waste, we should have responsibility on consuming things.

           Furthermore, using public transportation is very helpful to reduce air pollution. As car used widely, many people use their own cars whenever they commute or whenever they go to a near in place from their house. This effects environment very bad. When we think ‘it will be okay to use car just for today,’ that’s a wrong idea. When everyone starts to think like that, all the people will use their own car. Consequently, exhaust from each car will make the air pollution even worse. There are lots of public transportation we can use near our house. We have bus station and subway station right in front of each house. In Europe, for example, bicycle is their common transportation. European use their bicycle wherever they go, and the roads of bicycle are also very well organized. In addition, now days there is a smart phone application called 'Big Walk.' When we install this application, whenever we walk 100m, 1 won of donation for disabled children is created. In other words, we can donate money by just walking without using our own cars. This could be another good method that we can use to reduce air pollution.  

           Lastly, we should save water. People tend to use water very thoughtlessly. We should stop water flowing out from the faucet when we don't use water. For example, when we wash our face, brush our teeth, or wash our hair, there is a moment when we don't use water. However, many people tend to just let the water flow out. Even though people think the amount of water is very small, but when all the people use water like that, the total waste of water will be tremendous. In fact, the amount of wasted water per person in one day is 362 liters. Also, one report told that when we reduce 5 minutes of shower time, we can reduce 9500 liters of water annually. Besides,  when the amount of laundry is small, we can sometimes wash them with hands without using washing machine. Same method could be apply for the dishwasher too. Reducing the usage of laundry machine and dishwater could save water. The amount of remaining water in the world are very small than general thought. So, saving water is a really urgent matter that we should participate.

           To sum up, the ways to make sustainable future is not that hard. Sustainable Future can be achieved by starting from our hands. We should try to consume responsively, use public transportation, and save water. These methods of saving our environment can be practiced in daily life. Let's start from saving water when we wash our hands tomorrow morning. This would be a great help for our sustainable future.