Thursday, August 23, 2007

Customer is the King

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Few weeks ago, the quality of products made in China became serious problem. If we read the newspaper at that time, we know that the problem caused very great impacts to both sides, the customers and the producer. The health factor became the main reason of the problems that were faced by China’s quality of products.


The case of US banning to the import of China toys isn’t false. Obviously, it is because after the research that had been done, they found the concentration of lead in the paint that they used for the toys exceeds the limit of the maximum amount of lead that is safe for human. Ironically, the users of the toys are children. Their brain can be damaged because of the high amount of lead.

Not just the case of China toys, there is also a case in New Zealand because of the quality of clothes made in China. A boy suffered a burned skin after his mad in China clothes caught in the fire. After the research that has been done by the police. They found that in the clothes, there is a chemical substance that is inflammable which exceed the limit of the safety amount of that chemical in clothes.

If we reflect of these two cases, it is very sad that nowadays, there are a lot of companies that forget about the customer safety. What they just do is about the business. They just think of how to make high profit from low capital. We know that China products are very famous for their very cheap price, compared to other brands. But, behind the low price, do we know how they can make a very low price? One of the answers is that they used restricted materials which can be very dangerous for the customers. They just forget the quality of the product because of the high profit that they can get.

Maybe they forget the important law in the business is that customer is the king. Customers are the people who buy theirs products. They can’t do anything if no one wants to buy their products. They can’t live without the customers. Now, after the cases, people tend to avoid buying China’s products. So, who will be damaged afterwards? Of course, the producers will be. Now, the company that produces the toys that contain concentration of lead that exceeds the limit suffered very high penalty. They became bankrupt because of the quality of their toys. The head of the company has committed suicide, and now thousands of the employees are forced to lose their jobs.

Therefore, the quotation that customer is the king is very important. All the producers have to ensure that their products are in good quality for their safety customers and also the rights of the customers to get good stuffs. The high quality producers is the producers who can give these to their costumers.


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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Hostages and Dilemma

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0817/p99s01-duts.html

It is not rarely that when we watch action movie, the protagonist character will take hostages when he is in difficult situation or when he is demanding something. Ironically, maybe it has been in our mind that taking hostages is a way to get what we want.

About one month ago, Taliban capture 23 Korean missionaries who went for humanity mission in Afganistan. The people came with peace, helping the Afganistan people to get well from the condition of war. In fact that they would get safety and security along their mission in Afganistan, they were captived by Taliban as hostages.

Taliban used them as hostages in purpose to make the Afganistan government to release some of Taliban soldiers released. In addition, they will also kill the hostages one by one, each one every decided deadline approached.

Until now, there are already two Korean were killed. The Afganisthan governments doesn't seem never ever grant Taliban's request. On the Taliban side, they also don't seem want to release the Koreans. Now, they tend to give the deadlines when if their request isn't granted, they will kill one of the hostages.

This condition is like dilemma for Afganisthan government. They have to decide whether protect the rights of the foreigners that came as missionaries to their country, or to protect their own citizens from the threats if they release the prisoners as the Taliban's request. Even the wisest person maybe can't decide which one is better.

I think the way that Taliban took is very wrong. Same as the other people that take hostages to get their requests approved, I don't think that it is the good way to do. They just give away innocent people to get requests granted. Ironically, the asked requests aren't good at all, even if the requests were granted, they could danger the society by making more and more people suffered.

Now what can we do when these things happened? One thing for sure, there is no any good answer to be the solution. Then what can we do is to prevent all these things happen. Taliban wouldn't do these things, if there is peace if there is peace in Afganishtan. The criminals will also unable to take hostages if they can be caught in advance.

But, when these things happen, what we can do is only to take which one do we thing happen, then pray that the decisions we make will be the best decision. That's all we can do..




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http://english.people.com.cn/200409/19/images/hostage.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/08/03/world/03korea.600.jpg