Eunbi Hwang / My favorite relative / Wed 11 a.m.

My favorite relative   My favorite relative is my aunt who is 4 years older than my father. Not having got married, my aunt started living with my parents when I was born. She became my best listener and mentor because we can communicate very well. I shared my room with her and we spent many hours talking and having fun everyday, so we had a lot of experience to share. Naturally, she knew well about my hobby, personality and what I like and do not like. Whenever I have a trouble, I talked with her why I got upset and how to deal with the problem. She gave a clear answer by sympathizing with my feeling. I think her open-minded and considerate way of thinking make me more matured spiritually. Although I do not live with her nowadays I will be nice to my thankful aunt.

Lee Sanghoon / My Favorite Relative / Wed 11AM

    My uncle

My uncle is a math teacher in high school. The fact was quite useful when I was in high school. I found it hard in math during the time. He was willing to help me with that, and he came to my house to teach me 3 times a week on vacations, driving an hour every time. The tutoring was good enough to raise my scores in math. He gave me a substantial help. In addition, with the tutoring, he and I could build up kind of personal intimacy. He really involved me in maternal family. We gathered some people there, to have meetings besides holidays. Going skiing 3 years ago left unforgettable memories to us. On last vacation I spent in Busan, I used to go his home to tutor his son, which is my cousin. It reminds me of the past I learned from him. It's pleased that we interact continuously.

Joung Hwan Park / The worst waitress / Wed 11am

     Some people might say that it's easy to come upon a bad waitress at a restaurant and some might it isn't. However, I can say with great confidence that out of the few bad waitresses that I've met this one was the worst. My friend and I were at a restaurant, reading the menu and looking to fill up our empty stomachs when the waitress approached us. At first, she didn't appear anything different from the other waiters and waitresses at the restaurant, but we were able to tell that she was the odd one out when she spoke. For many restaurants, in general, customer service is considered one of the many things that attracted customers besides the food quality, interior designs, word-of-mouth, and so on. However, this waitress' tone of voice was so low and unenthusiastic in taking our order that we thought the manager hired her just for the sake of it, or she was just tired from the day's work. We ordered our food and were enjoying our stomachs being filled up as the chopsticks and spoons continuously delivered into our mouth. Then, we decided to order some drinks to quench our thirst and the same waitress that took our order happened to approach us again. As we were waiting for the drinks, the bowls and plates on our table were looking pretty empty, but still no drinks. We called the waitress again to tell her that we've finished our meals, but no drinks were served. It was revealed that she had forgotten about our order while we finished our meals without even getting a sip of those drinks. My friend and I were so frustrated, even though the food was nice, that we told the manager about the situation and ended up receiving a discount on the bill. The food was good and the discount wasn't so bad, but I'm never going back to that restaurant again.

Kim Seong Yeol / The Worst Waitress / Wed 11a.m.

"This isn't what I ordered!"

 

 It was about 4 years ago when I met the worst waitress. Well, I wasn't the direct victim of her impudence, instead my friend was the victim, but her act was ridiculous enough for me to feel bad as my friend. She was the waitress of 'Kimgane kimbab' in Apgujeong. Me and my friends were studying at a math institute is Apgujeong, and the day I met the waitress, we went there to have a lunch. One of my friends ordered 'dumpling soup', but the waitress brought 'rice cake dumpling soup'. It was because the waitress misunderstood the order. Although it wasn't much different from what my friend originally ordered, which rice cake was just added, the real problem was the attitude of the waitress. She almost 'ordered' my friend to eat the wrong ordered menu, though it was more expensive than the original ordered 'dumpling soup'. My friend asked for remaking the original menu or pricing the wrong ordered 'rice cake dumpling soup' cheaper as 'dumpling soup'. However, the waitress rather talked unpleasantly to us that we should pay as much as the wrong ordered menu or just go to other restaurant. It was so ridiculous and we were so angry that we called for the owner and talked to her. The owner apologized to us and discounted to foods we ordered. There wasn't much time left for having lunch, so after all we had to eat there. It was the worst lunch I ever had, and it's of course because of the worst waitress.

Miyeon Kim / My smiling boy / Wed 11AM

My smiling boy

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Miyeon Kim

My youngest cousin, Dohyun is only four years old. Even though I have four cute cousins who are younger than me, I love him most. I love him because he is a smiling boy. His smile has a strong power that makes others smile too. For example, when he visits my home, Dohyun always says hello to me first with a big smile. I do feel happy with his pleasant greeting. And when someone shows a sign of admonishing him, he deflects blowing-up by making his eyes to scolder. If he smiles at someone, no one can scold him severely. I like him a lot due to his expressive face. He walks around every nook and corner in my home and finds new things. Finding something, like a trophy my brother newly got, a signboard my father made, a picture of insects, he is busy with catching and asking me what that is. He has a expressive face when he approaches me to give a question, I really like that cute look. I am looking forward to seeing his smile and cute face again.

Dasom Yoo/my favorite relative/Wed34

My favorite relative- my aunt- Strangely I am close with not my cousin, but with my aunt. She is my mom's younger sister and she is 19 years older than me. We are very close to each other because she lived with my family for long time, and to be specific I shared my room with her. She has affected me in many ways. For instance, I did not have any interest about foreign countries. But my aunt told a lot of things about her experience in Japan, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, USA, and so on. She showed me pictures she had taken at famous attraction such as a picture of her in front of Statue of Liberty and explained them to me how the country was. Also I think she is odd and little bit pessimistic, because she sometimes tells me strange things. For instance, when I was young I asked my aunt if there is really a true love. And my aunt said that love only last 3 years and it shocked me. So I told her how could she say something like that, but she said that is a life and that is a truth. Like this she sometimes tells me something crazy, but still she tell me intriguing stories of her experience and she cares me more than anybody.

Hyung-Il Kim / My favorite relative / Wed 11AM

Hyung-Il Kim / My favorite relative / Wed 11AM

 

My favorite relative is my cousin. He is older than me 4 years. Since when I was young, I met him frequently because my mother her have usually met and they have brought their son. Also, sometimes, I played with him until night and I slept at his home. When I was very young, I like him because he is good friend for playing games, sports. But after I became high school student and had many experiences, I found that he is very admirable person. First, he always try to take cares his parents well. In vacation, he works very hard to earn money because he doesn't want to get allowance from parents. Also, he is always praise other people I haven't seen that he speaks ill of others. And he doesn't use swear words. I was influenced by him so I don't use swear words much. After I entered highschool, he and I were busy so we couldn't meet many time. Still he was same with before and took care of me. At that time, I felt he is one of the best man for me again.

Hyejin Kim/My favorite relative/Wed 11 a.m.

My Beloved Grandmother

 

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My favorite relative is my grandmother. She is in my hometown which is really far from here, Seoul. Since I was born, I had lived with my grandmother and she had raised me until I became a college student, as my parents were busy at work. So, she is like my second mother. She naturally taught me how to respect the elderly, how to take care of them, and how to communicate with them. Also my grandmother has sacrificed herself for me. For example, she had packed lunch for three years when I was a middle school student. She always made delicious food for me, saying that I was tired because of hard studying. Being a high school student, I was often irritated from a lot of pressure and acted rudely. But my grandmother understood all my faults and forgave me with love. Even now, she is constantly concerned about whether I have healthy food every day. Although I can't often call her these days, there are few things that I can do for her now, and I am so poor at expressing affection, I truly hope my grandmother to live so long time that I will be able to do a lot of things for her. I love my grandmother so much.

 

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Seung Young Yu / My favorite relative / Wed 11AM

My favorite relative    My favorite relative is my cousin who is 7 years younger than I. His name is Kyeong Han Kim. He is 21 years old. He doesn't have any job because he failed entrance exams for university. He will fulfill mifitary duty. When we were early years, we lived closely. In his early years, he was very good-natured. Growing more and more, he was being a troublemaker. When he was in middle school and high school, he had many troubles. For example, He stole a motorcycle with his friends so that he was under indictment. So, my aunt transferred him to another school. Then, he didn't couse trouble. Since he was grown-up, He and I have sometimes some liquor together. Looking back on it now, his doing bad behavior was up to me. It is probable that I did wrong too, so he watched and learned. Now, We aren't troublemakers.

Young In, Lee/ A president you would vote for/ Wed 11 A.M.

A president I would vote for.

Actually before three year, I had no idea about politics. I didn't care who won the election or which party got the majority of parliamentary seat. But after realizing the importance of policy, I could not keep watch over. Especially I got this think from the education policy. Entrance of college was changed by the policy. In honestly not only policy, but also some other intend. Anyway, the important thing was not that what I was interested in policy or not. The important thing was the visible effect of policy to my life. So, I need to know the politics.

What I want for president is not so many. There are just two things. Not excessive welfare-policy, firm handling of provocation of North Korea. In honestly I really worry about welfare policy. The Europe's fiscal crisis is the warning of excessive welfare. And by the statics above 70% of nation did not agree with exacting more taxes from there for more welfare. So there is the only answer, liabilities. So I will vote for president who pledges the not excessive welfare-policy.

And I hope government to handle the provocation of North Korea, adamantly. Because I was really disappoint about the government's reaction of North Korea's provocation. There were lots of provocations for the past 2 years. But every time, I was disappoint. It's not mean that I love the war. And I really do not want to war with North Korea. But I think, there are no responses of provocation, the North Korea keep provoke Korea.  

So, in this year's presidential election, I will vote for the president who does not promise the excess welfare-policy and promise the firm reaction of North Korea's provocation.

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

Geun-Hong Kim

Professor Jon Bahk-Halberg

Introduction to Academic Writing (1)

May 2, 2012

 

My Favorite Relative

 

             My favorite relative is my grandmother. She has dementia. Therefore, she acts like a child and hardly can recognize family members. When I was a child, I didn't like my grandmother. During her visit to my house, she didn't say a lot of things and I had to tell her who I was over and over again because she couldn't remember me. I had to help her eat and go to bed. And until she fell asleep, she insisted that I hold her hands. Then one day she went back her home, I gave my cardigan to her because it was freezing outside. I forgot my cardigan and after a few years, when I visited her, I saw my cardigan which was hung finely in the closet. I realized she cared about me even if she couldn't remember my name, and realized how foolish I was. Now, I like her more than any relative. She lives in Andong which is really far from Seoul so I can't visit her often. However, when I visit her, she holds my hands and keeps saying welcome, welcome. And even though she can't cook, she wants to make some food and feed me. I'm planning to go meet her during summer vacation.

Min Ho jung/ My favorite relative/ Wed 11AM

My Favorite Relative 201101227 Min Ho Jung My favorite relative is my cousin who is five years older than me, and liked by everyone. We have a special bond that was formed when we were young. I was six years old, and had recently returned from the States with no friends to rely on. In addition, my younger sister came out into the world so I felt truly alone. My cousin stepped in to fill that hole in my life. My mother would often drop me off at my cousin's house when she was busy, or when I asked her to. My cousin was like a sister to me. She would take me to places I have never been to and was skilled at making me laugh. She gradually helped me open my heart again: to my parents and friends. While we were like sisters, we also had our fights. There was a time when she and I got into a huge fight. It is a blurry memory to me, but I can remember that we were grabbing each other's hair and screaming. My aunt burst into the room with wide eyes and tore us apart. We were a mess with frizzy hair, red faces and scars. Nevertheless, these fights were what made our relationship more special. We were truly like sisters who had good times and bad times. I could go to her whenever I had a problem, and she would come to me to talk about the things that went on in her life. We have grown so much from the days we were little girls with matching ponytails, and now have less time to spend together. It's sometimes sad to think we can never be close as we were when we were young and less preoccupied with our lives, but I am thankful that I have a cousin who has been there for me during my difficult times.

Sehee Hwang/Your Favorite Relative/Wed 11AM

My British Cousin

   My closest cousin lives in Manchester, England. His name is Woosup Shin. He was born in England but he speaks Korean very well because my aunt and uncle wanted him to speak Korean as well as English. What I like about him is that he has humorous personality. He laughs and jokes a lot. Sometimes he does something off the wall. For example, few years ago when he was visiting my family in Korea for several months, we were eating watermelon for dessert. We finished half of the watermelon together and I saw his eyes twinkling. He was looking at the leftover watermelon peel. He silently took it to the kitchen and made a mask with it. After few minutes, he showed up with the watermelon mask on his head and began to run around the house. Everybody was laughing out loud. On the other hand, he is a very sensitive and caring man. He knows that I like music and soccer so when he visits Korea, he buys music CDs or a soccer uniform of my favorite team, Manchester United. When he is in England, he often cooks for his family on holidays such as Christmas. Because of his kindness, warmth and humor, I am very sure that he would get so much love from many people around him including me and my family.

Eom Yuseong/About Myself/Wed 11am

I can't get enough of it

I have never been a fickle person. When I begin to like something, I am deeply absorbed and seldom become tired of it; for instance, I eat the same food day in, day out, addicted to its palatable taste. My mother cooked Miyeok Guk, Korean sea-mustard soup, for my birthday. I loved its slippery texture and fragrance like sesame oil. I poured it in many plastic bags to bring them to Seoul and ate it for several days in a row. Moreover, I read books again and again which I find impressive and great. For example, when I started to have an interest in the environment, I found a book named No Impact Man by Colin Beavan. His effort to save our single planet impressed me and I read the book more than 10 times. Even these days I am reading it once more before going to bed. Also, I enjoy listening to the same song non-stop for days on end. My favorite song is The Reason sung by Hoobastank. There was only that song in my iPod and I listened to it in loop everytime and everywhere; while I do the housework, have a meal, prepare to go to HUFS and so on. This habit still often astounds my family and friends, but I like my patience-not being bored of something easily.

Kim Seong Yeol / About Myself / Wed 11a.m.

My biggest weakness - Laziness

 

 To be honest, I didn't want to admit myself as a lazy person. In fact, I wasn't that lazy when I was younger, and even if I sometimes acted lazy in the past I just regarded myself as relaxed. But recently I found out that I actually became a bit lazy and indolence. I plan many things to do, things like searching for part time jobs or studying for exams. However, quite many of my plans were not actually put to action, and I think this is because of my laziness. In the same manner, even if I had something to do such as assignments or studies, I just thought I had much time to do and didn't consider them seriously and put them back. As a result, I had to do my jobs just before the due day most of the times. One of my strong points what I think is that I concentrate well on things which is almost meeting the dead line or things which need to be done rapidly. But the problem is that my concentration is weak before it's running out of time. Because of my laziness I get much pressure doing things what I delayed urgently right before the due date. It's definitely not a good habit to delay what I can do right from now on. Luckily I am noticing my biggest weakness; laziness, so I'm trying to, and have to fix my harmful habit.

Geun-Hong Kim/About Myself/Wed 11am

Geun-Hong Kim

Professor Jon Bahk-Halberg

Introduction to Academic Writing (1)

April 18, 2012

 

About Myself

             There are two things that I hate about me. First thing is laziness and second is my passive attitude. Sometimes, those who know me say I have a strong sense of responsibility and they can rely on me to do something. Actually, I really am being a responsible person when I feel like the task is really important or I want to please someone. However, if my lazy button is pressed, I let everything go like a fuse is blown out. I don't check my cell-phone or e-mail. I don't even wash or go outside of my house. I just watch TV or play game. Therefore, my close friends are always complaining about my laziness. I think it is hereditary because all of my family members like to lie down and watch TV all day long every weekend.

             Also, I dislike I am passive. Fortunately, I show a passive attitude towards not everything but I really hate to speak in the presence of others. One of my least favorite classes is a debate. Once, I nearly threw up during my presentation. When I was young, I was more inactive than now. It was hard for me to make friends then. Due to my negative attitude, I have missed great opportunities a lot. I would rather stay still than be active. I hesitate to take center stage and lead other people.

SeungYoung Yu / About myself / Wed 11AM

My bad habits    One of the worst habits I would like to get rid of is smoking. But, It is difficult for me to get rid of smoking. I first started to smoke when I was in middle school. I wish I had never picked up the habit in the first place. I tried to quit on several occasions, but failed every time. I think it is hard to quit because of the psychological effects of smoking. There's nothing like a cigarette break when I'm under a lot of stress. But, Nothing can be worse than the harm which smoking does to my health. Now, I'm seriously thinking of getting some professional help to quit.  Another thing I want to change about myself is my tendency to procrastinate. I tend to put things off as long as I can. I've been in many bad situations because I waited until the last minute to do something. I really wish I could kick my procrastination habit and become more proactive.

201101227/Min Ho Jung/Wed 11AM

About Myself 201101227 Min Ho Jung      I have always had a soft spot and thirst for change. Even when I was little, I would watch Aladdin and try to grow my hair long and black like Jasmine and ask my mother to braid my hair the same way. I got bored with the same things and constantly progressed forward to make changes. The ironic fact here is that I am terrified of change: of its instability and the uncertainty that it presents. However, this is the reason why I try to make changes. I want to face my fear and overcome it. I have always hated it when I had to face the weak, vulnerable side of myself. It made me feel worthless and exposed to the world. Thus, I persistently tried to present myself to unfamiliar situations and create changes not only to the outer part of myself, but my inner side as well. For instance, one of the most difficult changes I had made was having more trust in people and myself. For some inexplicable reason, I had difficulty opening my heart to people. It took me quite a while to open myself to someone, and I always acted awkward in front of people who I were uncomfortable with. I began to realize this when I entered high school and tried to change this. It was difficult, trying to trust and open myself up to people. I was badly hurt along the way and one incident caused me to completely shut myself from people. However, I gained courage from my family and friends and slowly gained recovery. I guess the big moment came when I finally realized the problem was that I lacked faith in myself. This acknowledgement made it easier for me to heal and change myself. I can't say that I changed completely. I have that side of me that still fear exposing myself to people. Nevertheless, I have made a great improvement and I am satisfied with that progress. Change is something that I will always yearn and strive for even as I grow with wrinkles and graying hair.

Kang Dong Hoon / About myself / Wed11A.M.

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Kang Dong Hoon

 

 Left-Handed

 

 I am a left-handed person. There is a study that the left-handed are creative. Then do I see the world differently? Maybe yes. I think I am creative and I like to imagine. From early childhood I enjoyed making things. I always had scissors in my hand, cut pictures that caught my eyes from magazines and did a collage. My childhood dream was always a job which is related with making new things. My first dream was a painter. So I attended a painting class for a year or so. Then my dream changed to a baker. But I naively chose this dream because I just loved eating cakes and I wanted to make cakes for me. I gave up this dream when I attended a baking class for a few weeks because it was pretty difficult than I thought. I also wanted to be a potter. I don't know when, but I saw a famous scene of the film Ghost, and the scene was about a couple making a pottery together. So when I was an elementary student I took a pottery lesson at lunch time in school. It was really interesting and I enjoyed it a lot. When I went to middle school I changed my mind to be an ad-maker. I had to make a collage for art class and I made an advertisement. It was an ad of adhesive and I wanted to show the adhesive strength. For this I cut the two hands doing finger kiss from the famous movie, E.T., and attached it to the famous paint of Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, between the separated fingers of Adam and god. I got a good grade and this made think about an ad-maker. Right now none of the above is in my mind. I don't have a specific dream yet. But someday I think I might be doing a job which my left-handed creativity can shine.

Jung-Min / About Myself / Wed 11a.m.

I am a busy person

These days, every student who are up to my age, are getting concerned about becoming unemployed. They are all busy studying and looking for jobs, I am also a really busy student, but I tend to take different measures when preparing to get a job when others are mostly just sitting in the library and studying all day. I tend to believe that having more social experience is relevant to getting a better job than just looking at books, which is why unlike most university students, I have three jobs other than being a student. First, I work as a manager for an internet shopping mall industry, and the reason I am doing this job is that it provides me the skills to learn better leadership and cooperation because I have twenty more workers below me and I have to give the main orders. The second job I am doing is somewhat similar to my first job, but for a different position. I work as an interpreter for immigrants which have low incomes and couldn't afford to hire "real" interpreters, so they look for me because I was just a trainee. Since being a trainee, I am in one of the lowest positions in my company and I learn how it is important to obey the orders from the people above me. For my third job, I currently own a convenience store in Seoul, and unlike my other three jobs, I am the founder of this shop which means that I don't have anyone below or above me except for a few part time workers. This job offers me to become more independent since I have to take care of the financial businesses on my own, and I would learn the important issue of not being dependent when there are financial issues coming toward me. In conclusion, the three jobs that I have talked about makes me a busy person. Although every student at my age are all busy taking care of their own issues, I am also very busy taking care of my own issues.

Hyung-Il Kim / About myself / Wed 11 a m

Hyung-Il Kim / About myself / Wed 11 a m

 

About myself-lazy but consistent

 

Since when I was young, I tend to be lazy. Usually I sleeps long time so my parents frequently says me to 'go bed early and get up early'. I had some difficulties because of my laziness when I was in the high school. My high school was far from my house so I should get up at before 6a.m. and had little time for washing and eating. I went to school by the school bus but when I was little late, the bus had gone and I have to take the subway. It was very tired because of the rush-hour time. There was so many people in the subway so I was pressured and felt uncomfortable. After I entered the university, this laziness didn't change so I tried to avoid morning classes. But since this semester, I try to change my laziness and chose several morning classes. And although I tend to be lazy, I finish what I have to do in time. I sometimes postpone what I have to do so there are many things to do on last few days, I more concentrate on the things, hard work and finish the work. Also I don't give up the things I started. Although that becomes tiresome or hard, I endure and make the result from it.

Eunbi Hwang / About myself / Wed 11 a m

About myself - Reflecting my weakness -         I always bear my goal, to do my best, in mind. So far I have thought that I am a person who has a strong will and makes a lot of effort to achieve a purpose. However, two small events in 2012 changed my thought and alarmed my weak point. As a sophomore, focusing on major and preparing an exchanging student program is important and necessary especially for me. So before starting new semester I took a class at Hackers Academy, an English Academy where people prepare TOEFL, with my friend. Actually it was hard because we had to wake up at 6 a.m. In spite of lack of sleep I believed in myself to study hard because I had to get high score until summer vacation. Shamefully sometimes I dozed off in the class and I scarcely did my homework. Just thinking how my TOEFL grades would become, I stocked class documents in the corner of my desk. As the semester started, I made a small team to win a prize for a project which was organized by LG. It required detailed and logical plan which develop Korean society. Sadly, team members had a little passion and initiative. I should have leaded them to run an outstanding idea by discussing a lot and encouraging ourselves. However, I gave up the project with self justification that our team members were not good. One of my friend who prepared same project in other team endured all burden and finally finished it. I was really shameful on me because I always had made my mind firmly in studying English and doing project at the beginning. This semester I did not keep promise to myself. But now realizing my weakness, I will endeavor to spend my time meaningfully by put into practicing plans.

Dasom Yoo/ Myself/Wed34

My self - straightforward and honest-      You are very straightforward and honest. Sometimes I like you for being outspoken, but sometimes you hurt my feeling by being direct. These are sentences that I hear a lot from my friends. Yes, I speak directly to people when they ask me an opinion on them. For example, when someone asks me how they look with their new hairstyles, I don't lie to them to make them feel better like "You look great! You look just perfect." Instead I say "It does not suit you. You are better with your last hairstyle." But my friends do not usually get upset, because they know whom they are asking at. They ask me to have an honest opinion on them. However, now and then some people who do not know me well hurt their feelings because of my honesty. Then my friends take my side and explain them that I have no offense on them. Also there are often situations that I cannot say frankly. In those cases, I usually do not mention anything because I do not want offend someone's mind. Then I just keep my mouth closed. I like being straightforward and being honest because I do not want to tell a lie, but sometimes I regret for being too direct and frank.

HyunCheol CHO / About Myself / WED 11AM

About Myself

Lazy boy... but at the same time, most diligent boy in the world!!

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HyunCheol CHO

 I'm lazy person. I hate doing something that I don't want to do. When I have task that must do but don't love to do, I always put off the task till it's deadline. Although the work is very easy to do and can be finished fast, I always put the work back. That's why I do this assignment at this time of night in spite of a mount of books that I have to read for tomorrow's midterm exam. I'm getting off the subject here, I think it is punishment for my laziness.

 But, like the subtitle, I can be most diligent and active boy in the world. Because when I think that something is very important task and necessary thing, I go through fire and water in order to complete the task. For example, When I was high school student, my teacher gave me a hard assignment. This assignment was so difficult that it took at least 2~3 days to complete this task for an average person. At first, I didn't know this assignment comprised 50% of midterm exam score. So I didn't do that task until one day before deadline. And when I realized that this assignment was important for my grade, I didn't sleep for 24 or more hours. I think I was mental victory.

 I think my laziness is the thing that must be fixed. But I'm proud of my strong will and determination.

Miyeon Kim / Strong Ability to stay calm / Wed 11 AM

Strong ability to stay calm

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Miyeon Kim

 

When I was kid, I was said to be mature for my age due to my presence of mind. For example, I keep my head in an emergency. When I was 18, a fire broke out at my school dormitory. The only living space got engulfed and many items we had owned were burned. For shock, most of my friends were glassy-eyed and wept uncontrollably. But I didn't. Instead of that, I just thought what I could do to manage the situation. I checked first the place to sleep that night with my friends and called my mom to inform my situation. About four months later, the uproar was totally settled down.  

Also, I remained calm while I feel sad. About one month ago, I prepared my maternal grandfather's funeral. I was really astonished and sad when I heard the news of his death at six a.m. in Seoul. But I started to pack up for returning home soon. I received guests who visited the mortuary of my grandfather's for three days and led the funeral procession carrying his picture. My parents said all procedures were well ended with the help of me. It was not easy for me to stay calm either. However, I was learned to keep my composure from my parents and I knew that is faster way to deal with the situation. I am proud to have that ability and I believe that it was really helpful to address many things which happened in my life.

Young In, Lee/About Myself/ Wed 11a.m.

It's my turn.

In honestly, I thought that I am really responsible & cheerful person. When I was a freshman in 2009, I always find other guys in other major to meet. Also I could not let go of my study. So when in the exam period I always keep study hard, so I could get the scholarship. But the reason why I entered the university, especially "Hankuk University of Foreign Study", was the only one. I just want go abroad and met many people as I can. So I selected here, and in 2009 I met many people who I want to follow or excited the passion and so on. And you might imagine that how I enjoy my university life in 2009. But in the army there was a turnaround. I could not spread my passion or feelings to other person at first, so I got cold feet. But time helped me cheer up, I rose my lank in there and that made me freer.  And after finished the army service, I got many interesting days. Now I realize that I find myself in 2009. Because I joined some club that show foreigners around in Korea that help me remind my goal in here, and these time in midterm exam period also makes me getting tension that I know I'm the university student, not the soldier. And from now on, it's my turn to enjoy this university life. Not anymore protect the Country from North Korea.

Hyejin Kim/About Myself/Wed 11am

About Myself: I Am Really Busy Now!

 

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I am sure that almost every student in HUFS is busy studying for midterm exam these days. However I think I have much more works than other students except senior students who try to get a good job. For example, my daily life is full of preparation for English speech and presentations as well as for exam. Even though the presentations are scheduled after midterm exam, I should prepare earlier than other students. This is because I have two scheduled presentations right after next week. I attend many classes related to presentation and discussion in this semester. I knew that this semester would be really tough session when I registered the classes but, it is far more exhausting than I expected at the first time. In addition, I have an important interview next Friday since I plan to go to abroad for volunteering work after this semester. I found out great opportunity to volunteer in United Kingdom and to study English at the same time, a few months ago. I had to spend a lot time preparing required documents such as four-sheet application form, two references and self-introduction form which are all in English before I selected as interviewee. It was extremely tough and stressful to me. Therefore I cannot let all the efforts be in vain spoiling the interview. As the face-to-face interview also will be conducted in English for 30 minutes, I need lots of time and efforts for preparing it. That's why I am really busy now, but I believe all the processes will be helpful for my future.

 

 

Sehee Hwang/About Myself/Wed 11am

Blood Type O

 

     My blood type is O. It is commonly known in Korea that people with type O blood are likely to be optimistic and outgoing. I think I am the typical type O blood person. For instance, I never get stressed out too much. Whenever I get irritated at something, I stop everything and start to think. Just thinking for some minutes helps me calm down and then I talk to myself "Okay, let's give it a try. You will know what is going to happen after that. It might end up nicely." Plus, I imagine the situation that everything went well after all. This really helps me feel better. Other than that, I play sports or piano to get rid of the stress. In addition, I like talking to people even if they are strangers but I don't usually talk to them first because considering the cultural base of Koreans, it is very unusual. So, when somebody talks to me I pleasurably answer to him. Otherwise I enjoy chatting with the taxi drivers. There are also bad sides of the blood type O personality but I will always try to upgrade my optimistic and outgoing personality and keep working on improving the bad sides.

Joung Hwan Park / Music / Wed 11am

     I enjoy music very much. As I mentioned in my previous writing, I like playing the acoustic guitar, but I really love listening to music. Although I listen to acoustic music the most, I wouldn't say it's my favorite. I actually don't have a favorite genre of music because I think different kinds of music have their own characteristics in which make people listen to them. For example, when I was in middle school, I used to listen to hip hop/rap music due to their loud beats and rhyming lyrics. At a fairly young age, I thought artists such as Eminem, 2 Pac, 50 Cent, etc looked cool, which was another reason for my interest in hip hop/rap music. I was part of my church's praise and worship team during high school and this influenced my taste in music in changing from hip hop/rap to contemporary Christian music (CCM). Since our team played and sang at church, I had to listen to various CCM songs for reference, and to become familiar with the actual style and organization of CCM music. After coming to university, I joined a band and this allowed me to learn and be exposed to pop, acoustic music, and the different styles within rock music such as punk, metal, alternative, britpop, grunge, indie, etc. Hence, nowadays, I listen to a mixture of those genres mentioned above from the multi-genre music collection on my laptop. I also have different styles of music that I listen to for different situations. For example, I play hip hop/rap, dance, house, or other music of fast beat and tempo when I'm getting ready to go out, whereas I listen to R&B, jazz or acoustic music when I want to relax or go to bed. In looking at the different types of music for the different periods of my life, I can say with confidence that music has had and will have a great influence in my life.

Eom Yuseong/A person who I admire/Wed 11am

A writer who I admire

 

Nami Horikawa, a person who I admire, is a Japanese illustrator and writer. She writes sentimental books in which texts and illustrations are in harmony. Most of her books have 50 to 60 pages and are the size of an adult's two palms. But the important thing is that these thin, small books touch my heart. She usually paints illustrations in soft and bright colors and they sometimes look like a water-color painting and sometimes a colored pencil drawing. For example, Watashi Wa Anata No Konna Tokoro Ga Suki shows a couple's daily life. They go shopping, have a meal, and drink tea together. Also the drawings painted in pastels are cute and so detailed that I do not have to read the texts meticulously. All of the sentences and delicate pictures together create a warm-hearted atmosphere which is peculiar to her books. After I read this book, I think of my beloved since it conveys a sincere 'love message'. Her works deal with normal, literally 'daily' situations and gain sympathy from readers. Everytime I pull out or just see them, I always feel happy and moved by mellow contents in her works. I think that she is a very admirable person because she knows exactly how to show her message in a tidy way and makes the readers smile all the time they read her books.

Kang Dong Hoon / A Favorite Piece of Art or Music / Wed11A.M.

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Not Ashamed to Be Korean

 

 One of the songs I like the most is Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. Aguilera is the artist that I like the most too. The song is listed on her second album named Stripped. I heard her song Beautiful when I was abroad in 2002. The song starts with beautiful piano, cello and violin sound. Then Aguilera starts to sing with her powerful and soulful voice. The first moment I heard the song was by watching its music video on the TV. On the music video, various kinds of people appear; Skinny boy, gays, bullied girl, punk, drag queen, colored races, girl with eating disorder etc. At the first, I could not understand the meaning of the lyrics. I just understand that the song was about the people who are considered odd and thus isolated from the society. After I saw the lyrics, I found that the song was really talking about people who are regarded unusual. Aguilera says that no matter what "normal" people say to them, they are beautiful and the words can't bring them down. I was really impressed by the meaning and message what the song wanted to tell. Especially because of the situation that I was facing was similar to the neglected people the song was talking about. At that time my family was living in France and I went to French school. I was the only Korean at my school and few of the kids used to pick on me. They used to make fun of my narrow, chinky eyes. Though I made a lot of friends and stayed well, sometimes that kind of word hurt me. I could not get rid of the feeling that I'm just a foreigner and can't harmonize with them. But the song Beautiful gave courage to me. I could overcome no matter what they said and be confident that I'm a Korean.

Eunbi Hwang / A favorite Piece of Art / Wed 11a.m.

Powerful impression, The spring   I have interested in impressionist paintings since I was a little kid and always wanted to see famous works. Luckily, Seoul Art Center, one of the most famous art center in Korea, held Orsay Museum exhibition in last summer. There were many advertisements saying The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh visits Seoul so I could not help but expect this exhibition. Art works came from Orsay Museum which is located at France and famous for impressionism exhibit. At exhibition, I fixed my eyes on the paintings of Gogh. The strong touch of brush made me feel that the picture was alive. But the most impressive work was spring by Milet. Walking slowly the big ivory hall, I stopped in front of it. When I saw first the white palm-sized cube which introduces name, drawer and period before watching the work, I thought the spring would be bright and cheerful. To my surprise, however, it was totally different from my expectation. Milet captured the moment after the spring rain of the tranquil countryside. Since the rain just stopped it was somewhat dark especially the bottom. There were two linear rainbows on the left side of dark gray blue and the sun was shining dimly on the opposite side. Under the woods and the golden farm a dirt road with small grass bent a little bit in the middle of the picture. Both sides of the road were two big trees and grass. The soft touch of brush made the picture mild and peaceful. I felt the smell of the wet earth and pleasant breeze in the moist air. During watching, the powerful impression made the time stand still and I thoroughly concentrated on The Spring in a long time.

Lee Sanghoon / My favorite room in my home / Wed 11am

 My favorite room in my home

 

     I love my room even though I am now living far from there. I do like my room because most of its interior was done by myself. Except the built-in closet which is immovable, all the assignment of the furniture was by me. I didn't really care about the way the furniture was located, but our family discussed remodeling of the house, and at that time I got sick of the ordinary, a boy's room. So I decided to design it myself. It used to be kind of brown in general. I thought it was not easy to change its tone totally, and I wished it would be good to make it like a study. So I concluded brown is okay as at the closets, the desk, the bookshelf. The room's walls are white, but I put dark brown on only one side of the wall facing when sitting on the desk. My room is rectangular which is longer lengthways. On the right top end there's a double-sized bed as I pestered when 12. On the feet of the bed there's a desk. I really love it because it seems more like in the office rather than in a student's room. It has a big space rather than having storages. As it has a simple design I needed an independent bookshelf. I put 2x5 bookshelf on the opposite wall. I became so attached to my room as it is designed by me. I've not been there for about a month, and I sometimes really go back there because of the comfortableness there.

Miyeon Kim / Use Train Cafe / Wed 11 AM

Use Train Cafe!

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My original home is really far from here, so it takes much time to go home. It's quite hard for me to spend time in the bus because of my motion sickness. So I love to get a train, and a train trip has its own advantages excepting for this. First, I choose trip by train because there are many interesting things to watch. Farmland, birds, long tunnels, rivers give a good sight to me. Secondly, a train has comfortable seats. The seats of bus are quite narrow, however, the ones of train aren't. And last merit, the most important reason I take a train, is "Train Cafe." It is a room with many facilities for rail users and there are many things I like such as game machine, computer, and karaoke machine. Most of trains in Korea have Train Cafe which is arranged in fourth section of the train. Once opening the door, there is a kiosk and some tables and chairs to sit on. When I feel thirsty or hungry, I usually grab some food at a kiosk. It sells chips, sausages, beef jerky, dried squad, peanuts, sandwiches, and many kinds of beverages. Its counter is colored with orange and white. And plastic tables and chairs are set which are yellow and green. After eating, sometimes I use karaoke machine in Train Cafe. Karaoke room is very small, but it is enough to sit and sing songs. While I enjoy Train Cafe, I can reach my destination. By using Train Cafe, I cannot feel any boring, so I can be more satisfied with the travel by train.

Joung Hwan Park / Acoustic music / Wed 11am

     There are various genres of music that I listen to, but I've always been a big fan of acoustic style music. To be exact, my favorite type of music is of those which use acoustic guitars in them. The first thing that comes up in my mind when I think of the word "acoustic" is the sound of picks or fingers strumming or plucking the steel strings, which echoes throughout the body of the guitar and produces a beautiful melody or a chord. Compared to rock music, which is loud, of fast tempo, and somewhat heavy, acoustic music is more soft, relaxing, and of slow or medium tempo. My two favorite acoustic singer-songwriters are Jason Mraz and John Mayer. I enjoy listening to the sound of their acoustic guitars combined with percussion instruments that goes well with acoustic guitars such as the jembe, cajon and shaker. One of the reasons I like acoustic music is because I can actually sing and play the songs myself if I practice enough. Although I'm not able to imitate the smooth voices and professional guitar skills of acoustic artists, I can feel the mix of emotions inside which could be sometimes mind-soothing, sometimes exciting, or sometimes passionate. I think my love for the non-artificial or natural sounds of acoustic music and its way of relaxing my mind would never change in the future.

Dasom Yoo/ My favorite room/Wed34

My green and white theme Bedroom        Of course, my favorite room in my home is my bedroom. I like it more these days because my bedroom has been redecorated last summer. Other rooms are also redecorated but I think my bedroom is the best. When I get inside my room, I can always smell the incense because I like to burn incense in my room. Then, about the wall paper, the color of half of the wall is lime and other half is white with fine flower pattern. I really like the color because it is refreshing and neat. I have dressing table and desk on one side of the wall right next to the door. My 13-year-old desk is very big; it is twice the size of normal desk. I have my new black laptop, calendar which has pictures of my favorite TV program MuhanDojeon, blue desk lamp, and a drawing of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night which I drew in high school and got good grades. My beige desk is connected with bookshelf which is divided into 14 shelves and filled with my books. I also have a white air cleaner in the middle of the room, because my room has a lot of dust due to the books, and I am allergic to the dust. On the opposite side of the desk, I have my bed and it has lime-color covers with matching soft pillow. It is very comfortable that I don't want to leave. And right above my bed, there is a window with lime and white color curtain. I really like my room because it is the only place I feel free to do anything and most of all it contains my favorite and precious stuffs, and has literally my everything.

HyunCheol CHO / My Favorite Room In My House / WED 11AM

My Favorite Room In My House

-The Absolute Stability Room-

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 In my house, there are kitchen, living room, two bath room, and four rooms. Among these four rooms, one is my parent's room, another is my older brother's room, a third is my room, and the last is multipurpose room for common use.

 There are few spaces that I might like. In the kitchen, I have nothing to do. Kitchen is space for women and people who like cooking. In the living room, my privacy isn't guaranteed. Living room is always crowded with my family. In the bath room... it is needless to say that I don't like this space. In the my room, I'm pressed to do study hard. I hate study. But only one room utilized for multiple purpose give me happiness, enjoyment and comfort. I name this room 'absolute stability room'

 'The absolute stability room' actually give me stability. There are computer, computer desk, book shelf, easy chair and small TV in this room. You might be surprised at shabby composition of this room. But it is enough for me. I can do any behavior that I like in this room. When I want to play computer game and surf the internet, I can use computer and when I want to read a book, I can read favorite book sitting on easy chair in peace and when I want to watch the TV program which my family don't like, I can watch this program through small TV. And I can even have a restful nap in this room because there is warm, soft and silky blanket in this room.

 So, my favorite room is this 'absolute stability room'.

Hyejin Kim/The person That I admire/Wed 11a.m.

The Person That I Admire ; Hillary Rodham Clinton

 

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Hillary Clinton is well known as U.S. Secretary of State, ambitious leader, and the strongest woman in the world. That's why many women consider her as their role model these days. As a matter of fact, I am one of them and have dreamed of living like her. On the surface, she is a perfect leader, perfect wife, and perfect mom. She was successful as a lawyer and played important role in helping her husband, Bill Clinton to be elected president. In addition, their daughter, Chelsea Clinton got into Stanford University which is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Hearing these facts, most people have no choice but to truly admire her. It was her parents who had the biggest influence on her whole life and thought. Her mother was very open-minded woman in those days and she wanted her daughter to become an ambitious woman. On the other hand, Hillary's father was stubborn and strict. He helped her to realize her dream and encouraged her to get achievement. When she was a college student, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and she was really shocked, since he was a hero that inspired her. The death of him encourages her participation in the wave of change and progress and she gradually found her political identity. Graduating college, she entered law school at Yale in 1969 and met fateful love, Bill Clinton there. They loved each other very much. But Hillary could not decide the marriage easily because she wished to go to Washington, while Clinton wanted to return to his hometown, Arkansas and run for office. Eventually, Hillary decided to support Clinton's election campaign right by his side and went to his place. She believed that if she were with him, she would be able to go to Washington sometime. Hillary assured she can change the country with him. To sum up, Hillary Clinton taught me how to dream ambitiously and how to make the dreams come true with endless effort.

 

 

Sehee Hwang/A Favorite Piece of Art or Music/Wed 11AM

Seven Days in Sunny June - Jamiroquai

 

   One of my favorite artists is Jamiroquai. I really like his songs so I put every album in my iPod. Of all his songs, Seven Days in Sunny June is the one I like the most. When I first heard this song, I didn't know about Jamiroquai. I don't remember exactly when and where I heard it but I was very shocked at that time. I just stopped right away to listen to the whole song. I couldn't forget the song so I searched it on the internet. Finally, I found out that the title was Seven Days in Sunny June and the artist was Jamiroquai. At the beginning of the song, there is the guitar sound. Listening to the sweet guitar sound, I can see a guy lying on the white bench in the sunny beach and the seawater is right infront of him blazing because of the reflection of the sunlight. After that, the song starts and it feels like he is walking along the beach with his bear feet wearing white clothes, hat and sunglasses. This is the feeling when I didn't know the lyrics. After I realized the lyrics of this song was about a man and woman breaking up, it felt like the guy was walking as reminding the memory of the beach with the woman he loved. It feels very strange because while the melody is very relaxed and warm, the lyrics is not happy. Maybe the guy overcame his sadness and found peace in his mind. I highly recommend this song to the students in my class.

Hyung-Il Kim / The person I admire the most / Wed 11am

Hyung-Il Kim / The person I admire the most / Wed 11am

 

The person who I admire the most is JoJo in China. He was the most brilliant general and at the same time, great politician and leader.

First, he achieved a lot of victories in the war. Although his army was inferior than enemy numerically, he wined with genius strategies and tactics. Also he has the eye of viewing the whole war and patience. When he lost in the battle, he didn't submit and find the way to change the situation. So he could win at the almost of wars and become the ruler of north, central part of the China. 

Also he was great politician. At the beginning, he was just a little lord but he noticed the benefit of support and take the emperor so he could get great advantages. Also he conducted many institutions for soldiers and farmer so he could get their loyalty. And he conducted the law very strictly. He didn't give the mercy to high-ranking officials, relatives and even himself. The reason that he could get loyalty from his retainer is he used people with his ability and very fair with punishment and reward by the law. 

From these reason, he was the greatest leader in that time. He conquered most part of China and stabilized there. It's very difficult to have many qualifications but he has ablities to find talented people, brilliant strategy, cool-head, making decision, getting loyalty, tolerance. Even he has great ability as a poet. Some people criticize him because he is too tricky and brutal. But other lords who were merciful and kind were conquered and gave pain to his people with continuous war. Also they lost their land and destroyed. Although JoJo used some tricky ways to unify the China, he gave piece and fair law for people. Also he had to use cruel way to protect himself from many conspiracies.

In conclusion, he had many great abilities which are needed for leader and make the best of talented people. He used some immoral ways to achieve his purpose but it helped a lot of painful people by stablized the land. Many other great leaders-like Napoleon, Caesar-also used similar ways. I think great leader is a person who can give benefit for more people. So in my opinion, he was genius leader who achieved his goal greatly and gave stablity to many normal people in his land.