"There is always something we can learn from tradition" This is what my parents always say (that I cannot totally agree) whenever I complain about conservative, patriarchal tradition of Korean holiday, Chuseok and New years day. Every time I go to grandfather's house in Korean holiday, I feel disgust to see scene that shows radical patriarchal tradition of Korea. Only women work in kitchen as soon as they arrive in grandfather's house, and men watch TV in living room, seems not to even 'consider' helping women. However, women are the last to eat meal since they are allowed to eat after they finish cleaning a kitchen and has to set the men's table first. The difficulty that women go through when they eat does not end here. Since men use much larger table for eating even though they are fewer than women, women have to eat in a small table in a huddle. Though they ache in joints because of intense labor in a kitchen, they can't even st...
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Your mom nudge in your ribs. It is a signal to take off your earphones in a place with all relatives. Because you wore earphones to avoid conversations with them, you consider neglecting the signal for a while, but soon, you quietly follow her signal. It is because you don’t want to see your mother’s face gets hardened. However, shortly after you take off your earphones and hear relatives’ conversation, you regret it. Grandfather’s boring and obvious sermon about life, meaningless son show off, endless political debate which is done only to boast their knowledge and constant marriage push towards uncle… When you decide to put on earphones again since you know you cannot listen to them with a smile anymore, the arrow of conversation turn towards you. Uncle who could not bear his mother’s marriage push anymore, asks you about your school life. Since they know there is no more interesting themes to talk about than a school life of a student in ‘the best highschool in Korea’, most of...
In a TED talk with a title "Everyday leadership" by Drew Dudley, Dudley talks about a lollipop moment, a moment where someone said or did something that people feel fundamentally made their life better. He shares a moment that he gave a lollipop moment to other person, which he couldn't not remember and talks a necessity to redefine leadership as lollipop moment. Actually, I don't have a memory of making other people's life fundamentally better by my own words and behaviors. However, I have a moment that my life became better by other person's words, and want to share it through this post. Before I came here, Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, I could not believe God though I have gone to church on Sundays since I was born and had a Bible study almost everyday from my parents who were sincere christians. Though I always prayed and sung hymns with my mouth, my heart never thought I was doing them with sincerity. I was just pretending to be a fa...
Q. there is no better place for me than KMLA. At this very moment, there is NOWHERE i'd rather be . Really..? A. I am sure that there is no better high schools than KMLA for me in Korea. I have always hated the atmosphere that 'force' students to study since I was very young and had always dreamed of dropping out of school where 'I' am never respected as I am. (I got to hate it since I was objected to major in arts by many adults though I had started drawing since I was 4 and was actually good at it just because 'I won't make much money if I major in design".) KMLA was a place where I actually 'escaped' from those forceful atmosphere as I thought I would be able to do what I want to do more freely than other places. I am completely satisfied with what I am doing in KMLA since I must not have been able to do activities like designing T-shirt, newspaper, and newsletter, taking photos, and running a play if I were in normal high schools. ...
(Before I start this writing, i want to make sure that I really don't know well about myself.) 1. I am a normal 18-year-old girl who live in KMLA, a high school that I've desperately dreamed of for 1 years in middle school. Before I came here, I assured that I am person who SHOULD study liberal arts, but now, I am thinking of majoring biology. The main reason why I changed my mind to study natural science is because I didn't have confidence to study liberal arts in 'English' in foreign university. (I lost a confidence in English a lot in last semester as I had a difficulty in English writing in two literature classes-brit lit and AP lit.) Although I am far behind many students who have studied biology long time since I started to learn biology deeply in SAT biology class in this school, I think I would not change my major anymore. I am not sure what job I want to have in future, but I am considering being a doctor in England for now. To achieve that goal, I...