SeungYoung Yu / A embarrassing incident / Wed 11AM

My first class as a teacher    I can still remember a small incident that helped me relax on my first day of teaching in a academy a few years ago. I was twenty-four years old at the time, and I had not graduated from university. The practice teaching that I had done for 3 years was very different from teaching my own class. When I walked into the room, I was very nervous. I carefully put my books down on the dest. Then I heard a girl say something in Korean to another classmate. I speak Korean, so I understood her perfectly when she told her friend to look at my hands. She said "Look how his hands are trembling," and she was right. Neither of the two girls knew that I could hear that. When I smiled a little, the first girl started to laugh because she realized at that mement that I heard that. It seems like such a silly thing now, but the humor of the incident really helped me relax on the first day of my career.

Jung Min / Meeting Family Matters / Introduction to English Writing(1), Wednesday 11a.m.

Meeting Family Matters

 

When I think about my childhood, I could only think up about playing with my friends or throwing tantrums at my parents to buying me a shiny new toy. Although a bit embarrasing, those thoughts consisted of 90 percent of my childhood memories, except for one incident which was the time I met the cast of my favorite TV show, Family Matters. This TV show was a popular family sitcom and to be honest, if you were a 90's kid and living in America, there was no chance that you could have not heard about this show. The show was consisted of mainly African-American characters with having simple plots, but had it's own unique comedy routine which was a huge hit for children at my age back then. The show was mainly filmed in Chicago which was a long way from the state I lived in, but for a new scene, they filmed an episode right near my house. I can still remember the excitement I felt when I got to see them in person for the first time in my life. One of their main characters Jaleel White, or in the show mainly known as "Steve Urkel", was my favorite character and he actually waved to me as he walked down the streets to the filming crew. That was the most exciting moment I ever had when I was a kid, but it wasn't over. After they had shooted the whole film in three days, they had some spare time left to stay at my neighborhood, so the filming crew decided to let the casts interview some people on how they thought about the show. I prayed the whole time hoping that they would pick me, and to my surprise, Jaleel White actually looked at me and said, "I remember you, do you want to take an interview?" This moment nerver left my head since I was overwhelmed with excitement and almost cried  because I was able to talk with my favorite TV show character in person. Although I had some other good memories as a kid, the time I met the characters of my favorite TV show outweighs any other moments from my childhood.

Kang Dong Hoon / The best city to live in / 11A.M.

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The Best City: Singapore

 

 One of the cities that I want to live in is definitely Singapore. Singapore is situated in Southeast Asia, beneath Malaysia. It is a small country a little bit bigger than Seoul. Its capital Singapore can boast one of the best scenery in the world. It is situated next to a sea and there a lot of famous tall skyscrapers. Because Singapore is in Southeast Asia, it has tropical climate. It is always hot and it rains often. But this climate really suits to me because summer is the season that I like the most, and summer in Korea is humid and hot too. We can also enjoy various kinds of culture in Singapore since it was a vibrant base city for trade from the past and it was once a colony of England. So we can find out a lot of cultures mixed in a city. There is Arab Street famous for Arabic culture, Little India known for Indian culture, Hindu temple, mosque, China town, and Marina Bay which boasts modern architectures. And since it was a colony of England we can live without having linguistic problems if fluent in English. The price is not that different to Korea, but Singapore's is a bit expensive. Singapore is also known for its tidiness. We can't smoke in the city and can't spit on the road. If violated, huge fine would be charged. In these reasons, I picked Singapore the best city to live in.

Kang Dong Hoon / A special memory from childhood / 11A.M.

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My missing dog

 

 I keep a dog for more than 10 years. Her name is Amelie and she's a precious family to me. Her breed is Cocker Spaniel, famous for ducking, so she always yearns for walk. One day, when I was about 15 years or so, my dog Amelie disappeared. I came back home from school, and unusually, my dog was not welcoming me. At first I had no regard. I thought she was having a nap under a bed or something else. But when my sister came back she said Amelie was missing. She said she came home and she forgot to close the door. She found out a few minutes later that Amelie was missing. My sister thought Amelie went out so she ran out home quickly to find the dog. But Ameile was nowhere. My sister guessed the way she would go and asked passersby if they saw a dog. Some people said that they did see a dog walking alone. So my sister hurried up to find the dog to the way people told her. However she could not find Amelie. She was embarrassed because the road before my home was always crowed with cars and my dog could easily hit by a car. Then she asked at security office situated at the gate of my neighbor apartment. Surprisingly the officer told that he did see a dog walking alone and according to him a car stopped and took my dog. He considered it strange so he took a memo of the car's license plate. So my sister took the memo and called the police to get the driver's telephone number. My sister and I got the number from the police and we called him. Fortunately the driver said he did take a dog because it seemed missing and he said it was Cocker Spaniel. So my parents went to take back Amelie. The first moment I knew my dog was missing I was really sad but thanks to the officer and the driver I could see my dog again safely.

 

Lee Sanghoon / How I met my best friend / Wed 11am

  I met my best friend when I just entered high school. Our school had a kind of membership training before even an entrance ceremony. It was designed to let freshmen have a foggy idea on high school life in advance. We stayed 3 days in a training center, and there was a lot of time vacant as the schedule itself wasn't that tight. We didn't know each other, of course. But there was a ball, and a court, so we played basketball whenever it was available. I saw my best friend there for the first time. He was just one out of ten, players. He wore a cap, and his movement was rough, enough to associate a robot. His first impression was not that good. I didn't think he and I would make best friends as he looked too cool-headed. It's kind of ironical that we became intimate in earnest playing basketball about 6 months later, on one Sunday afternoon. We had hardly talked to each other since the very first meeting until then. Bored in a dorm room, he suggested me who was almost only one left in the dorm during the weekend to play basketball with him, and that made us the best friend. We wouldn't even know each other well without the day. And it's interesting that meeting him for the first time and being best friends both involve basketball. He doesn't still know I don't really enjoy basketball.

Joung Hwan Park / DRIVING IN SEOUL / Wed 11am

     Driving in Seoul gives me headaches. I had been driving for five years when I got the chance to take my dad's car and drive from Suwon to Seoul to meet a friend. Since I had no problem with my driving, and was good with directions and fining places, I didn't have a single bit doubt that I'd have trouble driving around Seoul for the first time. With some of the way points locked in my head, I drove off and entered the highway with confidence. The highway is one of the easiest places to drive as long as you remember and don't miss your exit, because all you need to do is just drive straight most of the time. As I passed through two toll gates and an exit, I was actually in and driving around Seoul for the first time in my life. Now, I was trying my best to focus on driving as well as looking at road signs in order to get to my friend's place. The traffic wasn't so bad at that time of the evening, so I was quite surprised to see the opposite of what I imagined Seoul to be before leaving the house. I finally arrived at my friend's place and parked the car in the parking lot of his apartment. By the time I was done having a good time at my friend's place, it was around 10 o'clock, which meant that it was time for me to drive back to Suwon. Before leaving, I checked the map again for directions on my way back home to avoid taking a detour or getting lost in the middle of Seoul. On my way back, I had to go past Dongdemun and this when it all began. I realized that I was driving among a lot of cars and especially motorcycles with men delivering clothes and fabrics to the markets surrounding nearly the whole area of Dongdemun. Another thing that I noticed was that the traffic was moving real slow and this was because the combination of cars driving everywhere and motorcycles trying to squeeze their way through those busy cars. I was so shocked at the level of traffic jam this one little area was going through, and was slowly getting sick and tired of just waiting on the road where Dongdemun was a sea of vehicles. After taking two and a half hours to get home, I promised myself that I'd never drive around Seoul, especially the central areas, at nights and weekend where there was a possibility of getting stuck in between a huge traffic jam.

Kim Seong Yeol / A special memory from my childhood / 11a.m.

Enemy to friends

 

 While I was in Romania, I lived in an apartment where only Korean people lived. It belonged to my father's workplace so my father's coworkers also lived there. They had children, and they were in the same age group with me so we were really close to each other. As a matter of fact, we Korean children were too thick with each other that we didn't try to make native friends. We thought we were different with them, and as a childish mind we thought they were poor and dirty so that we looked down on them. And finally they got mad to us. We, about 6 children, had a big fight with some of neighborhood native children. As we were all about elementary aged children, fortunately no one got seriously injured. However some cried and some got bruise on the body. Eventually the war was over, and nobody was the winner. We couldn't know the reason for the fight, and also the reason why we looked down on them. They were just the same innocent young children, and in fact they even wanted to be friends of us. We felt shameful and sorry for them. We regretted and apologized to them, asking to be friends. They also apologized to start fighting and gladly became friends of us. After the fight we became good friends and played soccer together or come over to each other's house. As I was very young, honestly I cannot remember each of them. But one thing I can confidently say is that it was a valuable experience to me, and it was one of the most painful but also happiest memories in my life.

Kim Seong Yeol / Are pets good companions? / Wed 11a.m.

Last week's homework.

Sorry to be late...

 

Pets are good companions

 

 I think that pets are definitely good companions. They can be a good friend for us and make us not lonely or bored. People feel lazy and meaningless when they have nothing to do. However if there is a pet we have things to do to care them, such as feeding them of washing them, or even training them. Sometimes these might be bothering and hard, but still it's a good way to prevent passing meaningless time. Also giving them love makes people feel happy and relieved. I heard that people have hidden desire to give one-sided love to something. Love between humans is interactive and that is a natural thing, but such love can cause stress unconsciously and that cannot satisfy our desire fully. Pets help us to satisfy it. Love giving to pets is unconditional and one-sided so that it makes people feel comfortable. So pets can be very good companions to us.

Sehee Hwang/A Special Memory From My Chidhood/Wed 11AM

Sitting Down On The Couch While Sleeping

 

When I was in elementary school I used to love playing soccer. I spent most of my break times on playing soccer outside but I had to stop playing soccer for 10 days because of an accident. One day, I was playing soccer with my friends as always. It was lunch break so there were hundreds of kids playing on the ground. There were more than 20 balls rolling on the ground. It was like a chaos so I had to look for the ball among those kids. Finally, I found my ball and I was running toward it and suddenly, I saw another ball flying toward me in a split second. It hit my right eye so hard and I felt the pain coming to my eye. It was very painful so I had to cover my face with my hands. The kid who kicked the ball came to me and said sorry. He didn't see me coming becase it was such a mess. After the pain was gone, I looked up the sky and it was very weird. The sky was yellow and I couldn't see it clearly. I was so scared because I thought I might lose my sight. I ran to the nurse's office immediately and the nurse said I needed to go to the hospital. In the hospital, the doctor diagnosed me and said there was bleeding inside my eye. Fortunately, there was no problem with my eye sight. However, he said it would take some time until the bleeding stops and settles down. He said if I move, the blood would spread inside my eye again so I had to sit down and do nothing. Even when I am sleeping, I had to sit down. I did it for 10 days. It was a nightmare. I can tell this special memory with a laugh now but at that time, it was the longest and most uncomfortable 10 days in my life.

Dasom Yoo/trip/Wed34

Unforgettable Experience on the Bus   I went travel to Suzhou, China with my aunt 5 months ago. The things I remember the most of it was how I got to Suzhou. It is about a bus my aunt and I took to reach our destination. The bus was unforgettable. I have never seen this kind of bus in my life. It was a bed-bus which had size of two-story bus and contained about 30 beds. It was good transportation for us because we had to take bus for 12 hours, 5 pm~5 am, to get to Suzhou. So I did not have to suffer from sitting on the seat for half a day. I spend most of hours on sleeping and watching movies. An hour before we reached our destination, I sensed that something was wrong. My aunt was talking with the driver, and she looked confused. I asked her what was going on and she said that the driver is going to drop us in the middle of highway. We knew before we took the bus that we had to get off the bus because the destination of the bus was not Suzhou. The bus was on the way to Hangzhou via Suzhou. So we thought that the bus was going to stop at the bus station in Suzhou. But instead, we were standing there, middle of highway near expressway rest area around 4 am. And the worst thing was that it was raining and we did not have umbrella with us. But luckily, there were two other passengers who got off from the same bus and they offered us a ride. They had a friend with a car waiting for them. Thanks to them, we did not have to shiver with cold and got to our hotel safely.

Hyejin Kim/Narrative Paragraph/Wed 11 a.m.

Valuable Challenge; Volunteering

 

 

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Hyejin Kim

I have read many books since childhood thanks to my mother who encouraged me to learn true knowledge through reading books. Especially, I liked the autography of Biya Han who is a famous aid worker in Korea. She taught me there are millions of people who need other's help and I can be the one who volunteers for whole world in my own way. In spring semester, 2010, I started volunteer work for young students. I taught Science to middle school students and also studied science every week and had meeting with other teachers to teach them in much easier way. I participated in making our own Science textbook with other teachers for students, too. I would face many barriers to interact with each student, because I could not understand what they were feeling and they also did not understand why I reacted in that way. As time goes by, I realized that I kept enforcing them to do in the way I easily took control them without changing myself. And then, I tried to understand them sincerely and changed my way to act. After three months, my volunteering period ended. At the last day, my students wrote letters for me, took picture of me, and promised to study hard. They taught how to communicate with others to me, while I taught Science to them.

 

Young in, Lee/ A man with a knife. / Wed(11am)

A man with a knife.

Have you seen the murder case in directly? I didn't sure the case that I saw is murder or not, But I could not forget the scene I see. In 2009 summer, I was in the china. My Chinese friends called me there house, so I and my friends went to the china. First place where we went was Qingdao, it was famous for beer. But the case was happened in Changsha. I and other Chinese guys went to the club and we went out for more drinks and we were in a narrow alley for eating famous grilled skewer. We were all drunk and the time was around 1a.m. The alley's lighting was not bright enough and streetlamp gave light weekly, so the color of there was like a light red. And there were so few people around us and the sounds like Chinese song came to my ears. Then I saw a man put a hundred meter, and he was holding like a stick. He looked that urged by someone, and in the road after he went over, some water trace was spread. I could not notice what that is because it was same with a color of the lightness, Red. It was blood. And after around five steps over to me, one man collapsed in the street. The victim's bleeding continuously and the blood wet his body. There was no moving on him. I felt some of an intense fear of seeing his body. Also there was no sound in there, The Chinese song was sure to play nearby there, I could not catch it. I couldn't hear anything. And my friends, few people in the alleys were in the deep silence. Then some woman started to cry out and the man with a knife still ran away. I saw my friend's eyes there was only fear, other emotion was not existed. After I noticed that I was not the only person who feels the fear, I could hear some sounds. I and my friends decided to get out of there. We should cancel the plans which drink more beer.

Geun-Hong Kim/How I Met My Best Friend/We​d 11am

Geun-Hong Kim

Professor Jon Bahk-Halberg

Introduction to Academic Writing (1)

June 6, 2012

 

How I Met My Best Friend

 

             When I was 12 years old, I met my best friend for the first time. While I was walking in the hallway, there was a person who was walking toward me. She wore the same clothes so I couldn't help but recognize her. She also looked at me weirdly and we just said hello only for the reason we wore the same clothes even though we didn't know each other. It was really unusual experience so I laughed off and forgot about her. Then a few days later, I went to the church because of my mother's continual nagging. After attending mass, there was a Catholic doctrine class for young students and I took it for the first time. There were about 20 students in the class I felt really awkward. Teacher said get the textbook out but I didn't bring anything because I didn't even know there was a class. Teacher said look at the textbook with a student sitting way in the back then I saw her, I noticed she was the girl who I met in the hallway. I already felt like she was my best friend even if I didn't know her name. However, we just said hello and took the class without saying anything. I didn't even ask what her name was or which class she took. I thought it was odd and smiled away again. Then when I reached 13, the new semester started. I didn't know anyone but my new classmates seemed very nice. And there was her, the one who I met in the hallway firstly, and in the church for the second time. I felt funny and weird but approached her and eventually said "Hi, I'm Geun-Hong. What's your name?" Then we became best friends and ten years have passed since then, we are still best friends.

 

Min Ho Jung/ Childhood Memory/ Wed 11AM

My Childhood Memories 201101227 Min Ho Jung      When someone asks about my special childhood memory, my mind immediately goes to the time I spent in Michigan. Among the countless stories I can remember, the ones that linger longer than other are the ones that I had with my family and our friends. The friends I am referring to are my dad's friends and their family. There are three other families, and all our dads met when they went to University together. We spent most of our Summer and Winter vacations with them and would gather together once in a week. Among the various trips we went on, the most memorable one is the last Christmas all of us spent together. We went to the usual place we go during Winter break, rented a condo and went skiing together. It was nothing much different from our usual trips; we skied, had our snowball fights, rode down the high hill on our sleds, ate delicious food from the restaurant, drank hot chocolate in front of the fire place, went into the hot tub and stayed up all night talking. In the morning we will discover presents in the stockings and under the Christmas tree; nothing different from your usual Christmas. Nevertheless, what made it special for me was that I knew it would be my last holiday I would be spending with my friends, and the fact that it felt so warm and cozy to be with them made me sad. When I had to say good bye to them, I felt as if someone punched me hard. It truly broke my heart, and was one of the hardest things I had to do. Despite the fact we haven't seen them for a long time, I know that this special memory will be in my head and will always be cherished.

Miyeon Kim / The most nervous interview / Wed 11 AM

The most nervous interview in my life

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Before entering HUFS, I had to do lots of things such as taking the scholastic aptitude test and the college essay test, and undergoing interview. I remember that the first two processes were really hard, but the last one, the interview with teaching staff, was the most difficult course. Just before I　entered testing room, I was waiting in the hall. And when my name was called, I sat in front of professors having lots of mixed emotions. The first task was reading English text and answering the related questions. Other student might know about the English test, but I didn't have any information. I was so embarrassed and thought many things in few seconds - how can I　give them right answer? Fortunately, the text was a short story of a girl and her mother, so I could understand what it was. The next one was current topics. The teaching staff asked me few questions, like "what do you think of multiculturalism?" I swallowed hard because I　have not thought about that. There was a silence for a while. I asked for time to think. Then, I swallowed hard again and give them an answer. Lastly, they ask me to explain my vision and dream. I mentioned it shortly and I went out of the room. After finishing all questions, I couldn't feel my legs. After a few weeks, I was luckily accept by HUFS, and now I am studying at this college. Interviewing gave me a hard time, but it was really worthwhile. And moreover, thanks to experience of having interview, I could pass other club interviews quite easily!

Hyung-Il Kim / national college entrance exam / wed 11a.m.

One of the big challenge that I faced was the national college entrance exam. When I was 20 years old, on November, I went to the Sang-Il high school for my national college entrance exam. Before the exam was started, I feel very nervous because it might be my last opportunity. The first subject was Korean language. At first, I concentrated on the questions and solved them calmly. I felt so good and I thought it's my face. However, when I faced with tricky text, I suddenly felt nervous and became confused. Moreover, I noticed that I wasted too much time and I felt more confusion. After the Korean exam, I felt very dispirited. I even thought about going home now and give up other subjects. With this mental state, the math exam was started and I just solved the questions phlegmatically. After math exam, I ate lunch and was able to cheer up myself so I could do well in the other subjects. But I thought that I can't go good university because I spoiled Korean and math. After few month later, when I checked my score, I found that my Korean score was much better than I expected. I felt sorry that if I didn't be confuse by Korean, I could get better score in math too. I still regret that I made hasty conclusion about Korean score.

Geun-Hong Kim/The Best Place to Live in/We​d 11am

Geun-Hong Kim

Professor Jon Bahk-Halberg

Introduction to Academic Writing (1)

May 30, 2012

 

The Best Place to Live in

 

             I think the best place to live in is Honolulu, Hawaii. After I spent two weeks in Honolulu, I became to love living there. First of all, the weather is perfect. It always warm all year around about 75F to 88F and mostly sunny so you don't have to wrap yourself up in many clothes in order to warm yourself up. And even if it rains, it would last for a few minutes, so it isn't going to bother you. Actually, once I was walking the street, suddenly it started raining so I really didn't know what to do because I didn't have any umbrella. But it didn't continue for longer than a few minutes and rained mildly. In addition, there are beaches everywhere in Honolulu. If you are awfully hot and drenched with sweat during the summer days, you can just take off your clothes and jump into the sea. Or if you get stressed out too much because of your work, study or personal relationship, you can just put aside the problems for a while and take time to straighten up your thoughts while swimming. Moreover, you can do every thrilling water sports like snorkeling, sailing, windsurfing, water-skiing, and scuba diving. Especially, Honolulu is really famous as one of the best surf spots so you can do wind surfing or just watch skillful surfers. Also, the whole island is the perfect place to spend a vacation. Many people think Honolulu is just a vacation spot but, on the other hand, it means that the island knows for sure how to make you feel happy and special every day. Living in Honolulu seems like having a vacation every day. There are fantastic fireworks every week in the summer. The people are friendly and kind. Life is in Honolulu is very slow so you just can be laid back and relax. You can forget some problems which are bothering you. Nobody cares if you don't wear proper jacket or shoes. You can go everywhere in your thong. For these reasons, the best place to live in is Honolulu in my opinion. One day, if I have a chance, I really want to live there.

Eom Yuseong/The Best City/Wed 11am

Dynamic Busan

Busan is one of the best cities to live in. It is a historical port city. In the 1960s, Busan was the temporary capital of Korea and it is now called "No. 2 City in Korea". Most people are attracted to this city because it provides citizens with conveniences and constantly changing attractions. Even though Busan is such a big city, prices are relatively low. There are affordable housing, inexpensive restaurants and many traditional markets where it is customary to bargain. And people use public transportation at a reasonable price. Another benefit of Busan is that people can enjoy the sea all the time. Since Busan has many famous beaches, for example, Haeundae, Gwangalli, Songjeong and so on, it takes only 30 minutes at the most to reach and see the sea regardless of the place where people stand. Taking advantage of its location near the shorelines, there are many things related to the sea: an international port in Nampodong, the Jagalchi market with a variety of fresh fish, and a huge aquarium near Haeundae. After I graduate from HUFS and also complete my studies in Germany, I will definitely live in Busan. Certainly I am not sick and tired of this city thanks to its comfortable environment and the interesting nature.

Jung-Min / Brooklyn is the place / Introduction to English Writing(1), Wednesday 11a.m.

Brooklyn is the Place

 

People have different preferences when they choose a city in which they want to live in, but most have the opposite taste in their current inhabitance. According to social statistics, people who lived in big metropolis cities tend to live in a more quiet environment, whereas people who lived in the country side tend to live in big cities. I lived my entire life in big cities, but I always chose my hometown Brooklyn to be the best city that anybody could live in. First of all, Brooklyn has many diverse communities living together, which is actually an easy way to encounter and experience foriegn customs. Since the population is consisted of Asians, African-Americans, Hispanics, and Jewish people, rather than being mostly made up of Caucasians, there are many restaurants and shops that are related to their culture. Also, many people have this dream on wanting to live in New York, especially Manhattan, but because of the high price existing in the city, it is difficult for most of the population to live in this area. This is the point where I would recommend Brooklyn the place to live if you wanted to be residented in New York. Unlike Manhattan, Brooklyn has a more reasonable price range existing in the society which is similar to Seoul or most of the middle class cities in the U.S. If I had to be exact, the price range is almost one-third of Manhattan in Brooklyn. If you want to experience foreign customs and the NY'ers lifestyle while being residented in the same city, Brooklyn is the place to be.

SeungYoung Yu / The best city to live in / WED 11AM

The best city to live in, Gwacheon     I think the best city to live in is Gwacheon. Gwacheon has many advantages. Annually, the city of Gwacheon which is my hometown is chosen the 1st best city in Korea although this city is not familiar as Seoul for foreigners. My hometown also has a lot of government buildings which including the integrated Government Building and it is a major transportation between Seoul and Gyounggi province. It has a lot of political and economical advantages, and it is called 'the best city in Korea' because Gwacheon has many recreation sites. The first site is The Gwacheon/Seoul Grand Park. The Gwacheon/Seoul Grand Park is an absolutely one of the landmarks in Korea. Second, the Grand Park Zoo built the first zoo in Korea is located next to the Gwacheon/Seoul Grand Park. This zoo was built not in artificial site but in natural site. It has a lot of animal species. This place has attracted many visitors because it holds many festivals. Especially, in spring and autumn, our zoo has become a tourist attraction for family visitors. This place is also taken advantage of trail for citizen of Gwacheon. Lastly, Gwan-ak Mountain which is just 632m is located between Gwacheon city and Seoul. It is used to use for a lot of citizen's mountain trail because this mountain's altitude is not high and low. And this mountain is easy to access in all seasons and traffic situations because its entrance is located between two metro stations. As referred to earlier, many enjoyable places are in my hometown. Specially, because many places for families are located in Gwacheon, many families visit Gwacheon. Absolutely, a great many fantastic cities including Seoul and Busan where I live are in Korea for visiting, but Gwacheon is the best city for me forever.

Sehee Hwang/The Best Job For Me/Wed 11AM

I want to be a composer

 

The best job for people is the job that they can truly enjoy while doing it. For me, it would be the something related to the music such as a composer. This is the best job for me because I feel really happy when I play or listen to the music. I think people can become an expert by working on the field for long time. It is not easy to work on one thing for long time unless you really like doing it. If you truly enjoy it, you would not only work on it but also keep developing your ideas and make strong points that other people can hardly follow. So I think doing what I want to do is the best job for me. I have been playing the piano for almost 20 years. I don't play the piano to look cool or to show off. I just like it. No one has forced me to do it but I took lessons about making a song and how to play jazz piano well because it is what I enjoy the most and what I can do the best. These days, I stepped back a little bit from what I really want to do because I have works to do in my college. I am conflicting whether I should get a job in some company or work on what I want to do. Nevertheless, I am sure that the best job for me is the composer.

Dasom Yoo/best age for marriage/Wed34

Thirties, the Best Age to Get Married        People say that age thirty is also called Irip. It means that in that age you are ready to lay the foundation in the society and in your family. And I agree with that too. When you are in your twenties, you are a grown-up taking your first step toward the society. You are just a beginner in your college or at your work. You are very busy working just to take care yourself, and you are not yet ready to afford other people. But when you are in your thirties, you have experienced a lot and you become serious and more rational because you have failed few times in your past. And you know now what is better for you and do not longer do anything irresponsible. Also people over thirties normally have solid jobs that they are now used to, and are responsible for themselves and for other people than people who are younger. It means that you are ready and stable, and it is time for you to make your own family. These are the minimum conditions that people have to have before they get married to someone. And I think age thirty is the best age for marriage.

Joung Hwan Park / KOREAN EDUCATION SYSTEM / Wed 11am

     The education system in Korea today consists of one university entrance exam, called Soo-neung, and students being accepted into universities depending on their exam scores. I believe the current education system is very ineffective in its way of making students focus only on achieving high scores in Soo-neung, and not allowing themselves to expose or be exposed to a diverse range of information during their times as students, which could benefit them in the future. I also think that the current education system turn its highest scorers into instant celebrities for getting into a decent university and meeting the expectations of the society that they live in. However, the so-called low performers or lowest scorers are made to face reality and the pressure that they receive from their parents, society and peers. The consequences of Sooneung's after effect include depression, and possibly suicide if the situation gets worse. In stating the problems of the current education system, I'd like make suggestions on some of the changes that could be implemented. First, the education system should provide an alternative career path for students, who don't wish to enter university, but acquire other skills and step into society earlier than others. This means that schools should take those students into consideration in accommodating their needs and operating a separate curriculum just for them. Second, the university entrance exam should be branched out in providing students with different types of exams depending on the courses they wish to apply in entering universities. In other words, exams should be changed to accommodate the special abilities that are required for a particular course, hence, have different marking criteria in terms of giving them a final score. Therefore, in stating the negative facet of the current education system, I strongly believe that changes should be implemented for the benefit of the students in the long run.

Hyung-Il Kim / The city of art and soccer / Wed 11a.m.

Hyung-Il Kim / The city of art and soccer / Wed 11a.m.

 

I want to live in Barcelona because this city has many beautiful architectures and great football club. In 19th century, Barcelona was called as the most artistic city in Europe. There are many gorgeous architectures that were built by Gaudi. He had excellent sense of color and creativity. His architectures has many elegant curves and they looks like the houses of fairy tale. Also Spain has warm weather and good environment to live. For example, the Soccer player who transferred from Barcelona to Manchester said, he misses Barcelona because there was very wonderful city to live. And the most important reason that I want to live in Barcelona is there is FC Barcelona. Since about 3 years ago, I was fascinated by their play and they have showed great performance in many matches. Their players have great technique and organizational power so their play has attraction and makes me surprise. I think this level of team is hard to see because this team color needs very high quality of technique and takes long time to complete. If I live in there, I could watch their games directly at the stadium and feel the passion of supporters. It would be the great joy for me.

Miyeon Kim / The best job for me / Wed 11 AM

The best job for me

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College students, especially those who are about to get a job, they really worry about their studying and career. I also try to choosing my profession, so I considered some options. One of my options is Human Resource Director. So far, I think that HR director's work is the best for me because of these three reasons. First, HR directors are required to have a solid knowledge of their company. I believe that I have already learned through majoring business administration. It gives me a lot of information and knowledge to understand such as business structure and expected future outcome of companies. HR director is related to my first major so I can more understand about issues on companies. Second, HR directors should have an expert eye to be a judge of applicants. It might be very difficult to choose person to hire because hiring process is limited. So, it is essential to have an expert eye on identifying a person. I believe that a professional eye is formed by doing extracurricular activities like meeting many people and working with them. During these activities, I could acquire experiences from contact with others and a professional eye will be naturally formed in that process. Volunteering, participating in a club, or getting a part-time job will be a big help. Third, HR directors need to have teaching skills. HR directors have a responsibility to help new workers to adopt the organizational culture through training program. When it comes to teaching, I try to accumulate similar experiences. For example, I worked as an instructor at a private educational institute about two years in total. And when I was a sophomore, I took part in tutoring program as a tutor. I taught introduction of economics to my tutees. Being a HR director is quite challenging thing. However, I believe that it is the best option for me because I am being ready for this. I hope to be a HR director someday.

Eunbi Hwang / Suitable age for marriage / WED 11am

Deciding when to marry is totally one's personal sphere. However, I think getting married around 30 is the most optimal choice. Marriage means maturity and responsibility. We should be considerate of family members and adapt our own lifestyle with each other. It is said that those ability are accumulated through various experiences in society. In addition, people generally start to firm self identity in their late of 20's. It means that they can deal with realistic problems with their spouse. If a couple have a baby, responsibility becomes much greater. Also, sharing similar experience with friends is important. Especially if someone get married too early, he or she rarely have a freedom. One day, I saw a very young mothers who were same age for me. They talked about their marriage life and baby. At first, I thought that it would be hard for young couple to spend their time for themselves. For example, drinking until late night and having a trip with friends would be not easy. It seems that it could make them stressed. Finally, if a couple want to have a baby, becoming pregnant too late threatens baby and mother's body condition. Also, there is little communication between parents and children, in case generation gap is huge. So late marriage is not that good. To sum up, it seems wise to avoid excessively young or old age for marriage.

Young In, Lee/ The best city to live in/ Wed 11am

The best city to live in.

Where I want to live should have three things. First one is that I always can watch the sea with not high or big wave. I know that kind of cities. And I also have been there. There were Sydney Australia, Hong Kong China, and Qingdao China. Even I've been four or five abroad. I could not forget these cities. When I sat a bench and see the gentle wave sea, in front of me, I could feel very happy. So I really hope living these cities. And second is comfortable of living. It connected with everything, traffic and even convenience store's existence. But above cities that I wrote all have the best usability. So I cannot choose one. The last one is an atmosphere of the city. I like lazy air in the city. But it is so tough that the city have that mood. But the Hong Kong was different. Even I was there only one week. I knew that city's specialness. The people who I saw there looked really relaxed. It was 9a.m. in the morning, people walked to office and some people just got around. The Hong Kong has the calm seaside, convenience and leisurely air. So my best city to live in is the Hong Kong.

Hyejin Kim/Opinion Paragraph/Wed 11 a.m.

 

Changwon; the Best City to Live In

 

 

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I believe that Changwon is a very good place to live in. In fact, I was born in Changwon and had lived 20 years in the city. Also, my family is still living in there. So, I really know well the benefits to live in Changwon. First of all, Changwon is a planned city. There is no traffic jam and industrial zone and residential area are clearly divided. Various discount stores, department stores, theaters, restaurants and concert halls are close together. This means once you go out, you can get to almost every cultural facility and enjoy your free time conveniently. Second, there are many beautiful parks, even though Changwon is very big city. As I mentioned earlier, Changwon is well-organized city. If you stay in residential area, you would find a lot of parks such as park with all kinds of rose, park with a lake, and park for exercising. You will be able to enjoy picnic with family and friends and take a fresh air in the heart of downtown. Finally, Changwon won the second prize at the International Awards for Liveable communities 2010 which is a contest that selects the best city to live in by UNEP (the United Nations Environment Program). Therefore, I think Changwon is the best city to live in.   

Min Ho Jung/ Ann Arbor/ Wed 11AM

Ann Arbor 201101227 Min Ho Jung Ann Arbor was the place I spent my childhood, and the place with one of the best memories. I can say with confidence that it is one of the best cities to live in. The word cozy describes Ann Arbor perfectly. It is not your typical city with busy people, tall skyscrapers and gray cement, where you feel loneliness and coldness. In Ann Arbor, you feel warmth. First of all, the people and nature blend in well. There are hills and vast fields of grass with people having a picnic and children playing by the stream. During Winter, there are thick layers of snow and you can see children having snow fights and riding sleds down the hill. This is one of the things I loved most about Ann Arbor. In addition, all the things necessary for a living are all nearby. Although Ann Arbor may not be a big city like Los Angeles, it has all the department stores, super markets, and places that people look for. Lastly, the people are friendly. Since Ann Arbor is a small city, people develop close relationships. For instance, when I lived there, I developed a very special relationship with a librarian. She was pretty old and had grandchildren of her own, but treated me as if I was another grandchild of hers. She would give me the latest updates on books, and invite me to her home for a sandwich or a chat. She was one of the reasons I have such good memories of Ann Arbor. It's been more than 8 years since I left Ann Arbor, but it still remains in my heart.

Jung-Min / My University Professor/ Introduction to English Writing(1), Wednesday 11a.m.

We met a lot of teachers in our lives, whether from middle, high school, or even college. There were teachers who had great work ethics when teaching their students making them more ehthusiastic about studying, while there were also others who were too lazy even coming to class on time. One of the professors I met in my university, who's name was professor Yi, helped me to have a more broader view point when looking at the society. Since my major is Public Administration, the courses I take talk mostly about current events happening in the society, and I have a lots of chances in getting to know them. The problem was that most of the professors in my major teach the students directly, in other words the teachers do most of the talking while the students just listen. On the other hand, professor Yi was a teacher from the U.S. and unlike most typical Korean professors who lectures out the whole course, he let's the students talk and parcipate at most of the time. Because of this, when taling about current events, all the students participated and talked about how they viewed the issues and its outcomes. Since I was albe to hear more information and considering the thoughts from others, I was able to have a broader view point when looking at the society, thanks to professor Yi's teaching method. To this day, I still take his courses, and I always thank him for teaching me the valuable lesson on becoming more open-minded and having broader viewpoints when looking at the society.

Ka-yeong Kim / My Friend, My Teacher / Wed11am

 We meet a lot of teachers in our life. In my perspective, everyone can be a teacher, because we reflect ourselves by exploring others. There are many teachers who can be instructive, doing step by step as a book says. It can be helpful at sometimes, but I prefer to learn by practicing actually. In that case, working with teammates helps a lot. It's the best situation that you can learn from others and affect them at the same time. I realized everyone deals with works in their own way, even we don't know. When I have a meeting for processing the conference, there were 15 people who facilitated and 2 more people who managed the whole conference. It was too big group to communicate each other and we need to find an effective way to adjust all things. –asking outline of sessions, feedbacks and rehearsals. We need to show our self management skill. Timeline for each one is quite different, so we had to manage that with fresh mind. At that time, I couldn't manage well because I couldn't memorize all the things. One of my teammate, She was a great teach for me then. She gave instructions to fill out the schedule note and keep looking that. Moreover she checked me periodically, confirming whether I use that or not. From then, I use schedule note and become good time-keeper. I'd like to express my thanks to her for making me today as well.

Young In, Lee / the worst teacher / wed 11am

The worst teacher.

 I met the worst teacher in high school, " The sweet potato", it was a nickname of my teacher. When I was 1^st grade in high school, he was a teacher in charge of me. The origin of the nick name, sweet potato, was his face. His red face looked like sweet potato's peel. Also he's law height made him to look like a sweet potato. More over his class was really boring. So he always had to check around all over the class. That was so many students sleep or doing other thing. What the worst was, he was tormented by students. By stories from senior, one day he entered the warehouse in the physical rom, then suddenly students locked that door so he could not get out. And sometime I looked he was struck by students. In my case, once we was in the school trip in Jeju-islands, someone pulled up a wastebasket in the bus. He urged us to clean that trash, but nobody followed his order. From these cases and boring class time, I remember him as the worst teacher ever I met before.

Lee Sanghoon / Teacher Influenced Me / Wed 11am

   We meet a lot of teachers in our life. Some are good and some are bad. One teacher I really liked is her who was the homeroom teacher when I was a senior in the middle school. At the time, I was kind of troublemaker who habitually come late for school. She tried to deal with that talking to me how I could improve my life without being late. She taught us well and helped us learn other things too. As a senior, we had to decide high schools we were going to enter. I, personally, was not really into those kinds of things. My teacher, however, suggested me to go to a special-purpose high school for foreign language, as I was better at it than others. The suggestion made my life even better or made significant difference on my entire life. I am glad she was my teacher.

Kim Seong Yeol / Teachers / Wed 11a.m.

Truly good teacher

 

 We meet a lot of teachers in our life. Some are good and some are bad. Good teachers are who teach students well or be very kind to them and care a lot. On the other hand, bad teachers don't care about their students and act mean to them. And one teacher I really liked fulfilled all the factors to be a good teacher. She was my home room teacher of my second grade of high school. She was teaching Korean geography subject, and she taught us really well and furthermore helped us a lot about our worries as a high school student, such as studying problems or concerns about entering university. But moreover, the bigger reason I like her is that she really cared us a lot. At every last day of a month she prepared birthday gifts for the students whose birthday was on that month. She not only prepared presents but also wrote birthday cards for each of us. She understands our characteristics and wrote about it. For me she wrote "I'm happy to see you having good time playing soccer and hanging with your friends. Maybe that's why you always doze at supplementary lessons!" It made me smile bashfully, and at the same time I was grateful to her for caring even my habits. Actually she is chic and quite strict at ordinary times, but I never thought her as a cold-hearted teacher and rather felt warm and relieved. I really admire her and glad she was my teacher.

Joung Hwan Park / My middle school homeroom teacher / Wed 11am

     There are many great teachers who are popular among their students, hence, still remembered even though many years have gone by. I believe a lot of aspects are necessary in being a good teacher, where some of those could include knowledge, humor, appearance, personality, and so on. My homeroom teacher back in middle school, Mrs. Musarra, was one of the best teachers that I've ever had. Since it was an all boys school, her appearance was the first thing that caught my and the other students' attention. She had brown eyes, brunette hair, and a really nice smile, which always worked well on students. However, her appearance wasn't all that made her a good teacher, but it was also her way of talking and dealing with students that made her stand out among the other teachers. Whenever there was a problem with a student, she would have a one-on-one conversation with the student, where she gave him a chance to explain the situation and then she would suggest some ways to fix the problem without getting angry. This personal quality of hers made us students become aware that she actually tried to understand us as a person, rather than other teachers who just pin pointed the problem and scolded us, which made us feel distanced from them. This is not to say that her way of teaching wasn't that good, but I'm just trying to emphasize that these personal qualities of hers, combined with her good teaching skills, made her a good teacher who I'll remember for the rest of my life.

Sehee Hwang/Teacher/Wed 11AM

My Great Homeroom Teacher

 

   I had a great teacher when I was 3rd grade in high school. He was my homeroom teacher. Most of my classmates really liked him because he was very dedicating and caring teacher. For example, he bought cakes, bananas, sodas and snacks every month to celebrate the students' birthday. He didn't go home until the last student went home. After Sooneung, he planned to go on a trip with everyone in the class. We actually went on a trip to Jebudo before the graduation and he gave little CDs to each one of us. In the CD, there was a video he took during the whole semester and farewells to each one in the class. It was very touching. In my case, he gave me a ride everyday because I was living near his house. He was supposed to go to school until 8AM but he arrived one or two hours earlier to give me a ride. Plus, when I changed my mind to take social studies class rather than science class, he let me do it even if it was very rare case and almost impossible. He was a great teacher to everyone in my class. I still keep in touch with him and try to visit him on Teacher's Day. I will keep doing it to thank him about all those things he had done to me and my classmates.

Seung Young Yu / My best teacher / Wed 11AM

My best teacher    When somebody ask me who is your best teacher of your life, I would answer without any hesitation. My best teacher is Ms. Kim who was my second grade class teacher in middle school. She had nice appearence. She seemed to enjoy her life and looked noble and vivid. She was one of Chinese character teachers of my middle school. She had taught me for 2 years. When I was first grade, frankly speaking, I was scared of her because of her priggish side. She always perfect with her jobs and worked very hard. She tried to understand our opinion and thought with students' viewpoint. And, Compared with other old teachers, she was so young. It has been 12 years since I graduated from middle school. I really want to see her. Tonight, I remember her.

Geun-Hong Kim/My Favorite Teacher/Wed 11am

Geun-Hong Kim

Professor Jon Bahk-Halberg

Introduction to Academic Writing (1)

May 23, 2012

 

My Favorite Teacher

 

             We meet a lot of teachers in our life. Unfortunately, every teacher doesn't give you a valuable lesson. Some are good and some are bad. And frankly speaking, it is hard to find good teachers, and not everyone gets a chance to meet a teacher who inspires and leads you to be a better person. There is one teacher I really like. He is a journalism professor and I am taking one of his classes this semester. It was last semester when I first met him. Before the class started, my friends scared me that he was strict and gave a ridiculously large amount of assignments. I really wanted to drop his class but I decided to accept the challenge. At the very first class, he looked strict and touch like my friends' saying. He gave us an assignment and explained about what kind of subject he would teach for the rest of the semester for 3 hours even though it was the first class. Therefore, I can't tell his first impression was really good. However, I had to admit I was wrong. It turned out he was the best teacher. He taught us well and helped us learn not only journalism but also other things too. Until I met him, I had never thought that journalism was fun and interesting subject. In the most of journalism classes, I learned only about the history of journalism and how to write articles. Eventually, I lost my interest in studying journalism. I didn't care about politics or journalism and thought all sorts of things were just boring. But now, I could never love it more. He puts journalism, which is really difficult subject to me, in simple terms. We have discussed journalism in a practical way at various times. He gives me a new perspective on journalism and the world where I live. Moreover, He is nice and cares about all of us. For example, he tries to catch up with us during the break time. And he likes to talk with us and listen to our opinions attentively. I feel he treats us with respect because he uses the honorific form of language during the class. I can't tell his class is full of wit and humor but I feel I really learn something. I think I am turning into a better person. I am glad he is my teacher.

Dasom Yoo/my english teacher/Wed34

My English Teacher- MR. Sunny   We meet a lot of teachers in our life. Some are good and some are bad. One teacher I really liked is my English teacher I met at Institute when I was 15 years old. We called him Sunny Sam –sam is short for teacher in Korean-because his name was Sunhee and the pronunciation was similar to sunny. The one reason why I liked him so much is that he was always cheerful and fun to be around. He gave all of his students their nicknames and that made us laugh and feel closer. He called me a plump since I had chubby cheek and called one of my friend antennae because she had two spots in her forehead look like feelers that insects have. The other reason is that he was the best English teacher I ever had. He had his way of teaching English, especially he taught us how to memorize vocabulary easily. He made a sentence with the meanings of the word that makes sense. For example, he told us to memorize the meaning of the word 'stable' as "There is a stable stable." You know that 'stable' means steady and safe or means a place where horses stay. This made us remember meanings easily and longer. Thanks to him, I memorized many words without difficulty and still remember the meaning as he taught me.

Kang Dong Hoon / Teacher / Wed11A.M.

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My Best Teacher

 

 We meet a lot of teachers in our life. Some are good and some are bad. One teacher I really liked. He was my homeroom teacher when I was on the first grade of my high school. He taught PE and he actually was a judo player. You can see how much strict and scary he was. He was harsh on every student including me. But he helped me developing myself. All the students were assigned their classes by their middle school grade. Honestly my middle school grade was really poor. About 520 students entered my high school with me and my grade fell behind even the half. The first day I entered my high school, we had a test to classify students for class by achievement level. It was math and English test. Surprisingly I got the first. Every student noticed at me. Some students that knew about me thought that I cheated, but most of the students didn't know at all about me so they thought I was a top student. I was proud of myself. My homeroom teacher believed me but he didn't compliment me. Instead he said that it was not my genuine grade so I should not be proud of myself. He said that I should study harder to meet other students' heightened expectations. But I failed. I got really poor grade at the first mock test. My teacher exposed my grade at the end of class to every kid in my class. I felt ashamed and humiliated. I felt extremely hatred on him for a moment. Many students started to backstab that I cheated at the last test. Few days later my teacher told me the reason why he disclosed my results to every student in my class. He thought that I can do much better but I didn't believed myself and stopped trying. I was ashamed at the fact that I felt pride and settled for the last test result even though that wasn't my real ability. After that day I tried my best to come up to my teacher's expectation. I never got the first place again. However I really studied hard and that effort showed at my grade. I think this was thanks to my teacher's belief on me. This is why Mr. Kyung is the best teacher to me.

Hyejin Kim/Teachers/Wed 11a.m.

 

Good Teachers in My Life

 

 

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Hyejin Kim

I have met a lot of teachers since I was 8 years old. There have been various teachers whether they were nice or not. I have four nice and unforgettable teachers. I met one of them when I was 12 years old. She was always cheerful and active. Besides, she didn't hesitate to talk together with young students and listened carefully to our trivial opinions. After listening to us, she would give a practical advice. She treated students as not small children who do not know the world but a human with emotion, always saying that "You can be anything you want and your future will be brilliant and infinite as long as you put all your efforts on achieving it". So I still remember her voice, face, and her name. Second good teacher I miss is a Korean historic teacher in middle school. She was really good at explaining history and helps students to understand the difficult and enormous subject easily. When she explained war or negative events, her face looked so sad and was filled with anger. Also when she said about great achievements of our ancestor, her facial expression and voice would show everything that she wanted to say like excitement and happiness. I think I have loved the subject of history since then and I really appreciate her.