The most important thing I wanted to do after entering university was to become a campus couple(CC). Of course, there are many things like going to MT, seeing celebrities at university festivals, attending department meetings, and drinking with friends, but the most important thing I wanted to do was become CC. As I saw in dramas and web-toons, the romance of my university life is to take liberal arts classes with my boyfriend, study for exams in the library, eat together, and take a walk on campus. Because of COVID-19, I couldn't do much school life and I didn't have many opportunities to mee
In fact, I personally did not have a dream for college life. Because I came to college with the idea that I would just go to college. Still, if I want to do something in college before graduating from college, I want to try to have fun at the festival. I want to leave unforgettable memories in college festival, eat delicious snacks, listen to songs, talk with friends until the festival is over. However, it is too bad that we cannot enjoy the festival properly due to COVID-19, which started in 2019. I hope the day will come when COVID-19 will end and we can fully enjoy festivals and events. kmi
Cross-Cultural Awareness Program, often shortened into CCAP, is a program where a foreigner teams up with a Korean interpretation volunteer and delivers a class about their own culture to the Korean children in school. This time, we met Enora from France and listened to her CCAP experience. She went to a boys-only high school and taught a full-sized class about the French language, music, style, cities, government, society, the flag, food, and cultural misunderstandings. 1. Can you introduce yourself, please? - My name is Enora Elise Ménager. I come from France. I live in Lyon, the second most
I think what I expected was joining a lot of programs here. I saw, before coming here, that there are a lot of festivals in campus. It’s a big thing in Korea, like this year opening festivals, something like that. Because I don’t have that in my university. So, it was really nice to open the new semester like that. There were stands around the campus where you can get some snacks and stuff. It was very new to me. What I missed is a sort of get-together for the international students. One of my friends goes to a university in Berlin. He said that they have this get-together in the beginning of
1. Please introduce yourself. My name is Choi Hwa-yoon. I recently graduated from the Department of International Relations of Keimyung Adams College. Recently, I finished a 5-month internship in a Big Data team at Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, KOTRA. 2. Could you tell us about your job as an intern? - I worked in the Big Data team for five months, from March to July. The main task that I did was related to the website called Tribig, which is created by KOTRA to assist Korean corporates to engage in trade more easily. The prime function of Tribig is the match Korean corporates with
At the library, the distinction between the entrance door and the exit door was kind of confusing. Because normally, the entrance door is on the right. But we wanted to go into the door on the left because the door on the right had a sign written in red. And normally, the red sign on the door means the exit or do not enter here. So, we wanted to enter on the other side, and then we found out that it actually is the other way around. Also, one time, we went to the library. And when you go to the library, you have to reserve a seat on the application before you sit down, Clicker. But we didn’t k
Probably, trying to communicate with other students because we have this language barrier. Either the students are very shy, or they don’t know English. And I don’t know Korean. It’s kind of hard when we try to talk because then it just feels like we go back and forth and back and forth. Typically, when I’m in class, my teachers my teachers can speak in Korean and in English. But when I’m paired up with students, some of the students can’t speak English, and I can’t speak in Korean. It’s like we are trying to pick words. I’m trying to build my vocabulary, and they try to build theirs. And it f
When I entered the university, all the classes were done through zoom class due to the Corona virus. So I had no chance to get to know my classmates. I thought it would be good to take online classes because I didnt have to go to the school but after few months of taking online classes, I really wanted to go to school. I believe for most of the freshmen, it would be their fantasy to go to school and hang out with friends, going to MT, field trips. And I also began to miss those things. Even though I entered university, I had no one to spend time with and travel with. So I was so excited to hea