Yun You Jung / The Best City To Live In / Monday 9 a.m.

 

The City We Can Meet Ourselves And Nature

 

     In the world, there are so many cities. Even in Korea, there are 83 cities. Among cities over the world, the best city I want to live in is Hallstatt. The name of this city might be unfamiliar with most of you. But you would have seen this city if you had watched a famous movie, The Sound of Music. Hallstatt is the setting of this movie. When I watched it, I was impressed not only by the contents but also by the city in it. I searched this city and found its name and beautiful images. The more I know Hallstatt, the more I think that in the future, I will live in this city.

 

     Hallstatt is a small city. There aren't any high buildings. Most of buildings are houses which are two to three stories high. There aren't many cars and people. By leaving from busy life where noise of cars and people is existed all the time, we can feel peaceful. We can do our work not being disturbed. We can look back our lives and organize our thoughts well.

 

And it is a city where we can meet nature at any time. It is in the Alps so we can see the huge mountain which is covered with snow. Also, there is a lake with the same name as this city. The lake is so clear that mountain and the houses are reflected in the water. People feel as if another town is in the lake.

 

The life in Hallstatt can be inconvenient because there are not many transportation or department store. Instead, we can have a time escaping from busy life and thinking about ourselves. This is the reason I want to live in the Hallstatt. One day in the future, I will look back my life seeing wonderful nature in the Hallstatt.

SunGyung Kim / the best job for me / Mon 1,2

 

A Translator, My Future Job

 

Attending to various courses from English Interpretation and Translation department, a translator, as an occupation has become very attractive for me. Actually, a translator used to be my dream job, but I was not that confident, because there was almost no information about how to become a translator. However, having learned this in classes and acknowledged what good attributes translators should have, I started thinking that the job really fits me well. First, the most important requisite to become a translator is a good language skill. Although it has not been a long time since I started learning English and it is far behind to be perfect, I am quite fast at absorbing it. Not only the aspect of skill, I am also very interested in speaking foreign language and feel excited, communicating with others who are using the language other than my mother tongue. Regarding this, my desire to learn foreign language, especially English, will make it easy for me to become a translator. On top of that, I prefer working alone at home than working in a company, spending most of my time with colleagues. Since I like individual work and always want to work professionally by exploiting my time the most, the fact that I can work on a project by myself, managing my own schedule is the most attractive aspect of taking a translator as a profession. Of course, I have to cooperate with my friends who are in the same field and build good rapport, I definitely want to be alone, when I have to do the job because it's not distracting. Considering these two reasons, I think a translator is a job that is the most appropriate for me.

 

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Kim you jin /// opinion paragraph.

When we marry?     I think age between 27 and 29 is the most appropriate for marriage. In the research says nowadays the average of age to marry is hovering around 30 because of the problem of money. Almost 43% replies that is the main reason to make them be reluctant with marry early. It is because that many people have a hard time to get a job just after graduate. So it takes a long time to make money to support their marriage. However when they get married after 30, women have risk of pregnancy. That is, they have difficulty to have babies. I think the money for support their economic condition and the body condition to have babies are the most important think we should consider when they decide to marry. In fact many adults like relatives say age between 27 and 29 is the best. For example, my mother married when she was in 23 and she always told me not to marry too fast. She insisted that I should enjoy my life first. However she also agreed age over 30 is too late in terms of reasons I mentioned above. In conclusion, we should consider the life both after and before marriage and I think age between 27 and 29 is appropriate for those condions.

Jae-Hun Lee/ The best city to live in/ Mon9AM

 

The city of beautiful nature: Je-ju Island

 

I think that Je-Ju island is the best city to live in. So if I have opportunity, I want to live in Je-ju Island. According to <Si-sa Journal> (One of the weekly magazine in South Korea)'s research which is based on 2010 Population and housing census and the National Statistical Office's e-local indicators, Je-Ju Island is the area that has the most quality of life among nationwide 16 cities and provinces. Je-ju Island is famous for its beautiful scenery and nature environment. In the middle of je-ju Island, there is the Halla Mountain which is the highest mountain in South Korea. And throughout the island, there are many O-reums (the Je-ju dialect) which mean parasitic volcano. The sea of Jeju lsland has different scenery and atmosphere unlike the East-sea or the South-sea. When a high school excursion, I visited Je-ju Island. It was so impressive that Je-ju Island has beautiful scenery like the Jeong-bang waterfall and the Sung-san sunrise peak. Life of city is too tired because we are so busy and the city always crowd with many people. So escape from the city, I believe it is truly happy life that live in beautiful scenery like Je-ju Island.

 

 

 

Takgyun Lee / Living with Relatives / Mon 9-11

In many Korean dramas, we can find many kinds of big families, in which all the relatives live together. And it has not been long since the notion of nuclear family was adopted in Korea. Koreans would live with relatives and that was common. Then, do you think living with relatives is a good idea? I think it is. As the size of family has been smaller, it has caused many problems. First of all, children raised in the nuclear family don't have many chances to learn how to deal with adults and peers at home. If you live with relatives, you have to confront many other grownups beside your parents even inside the house. That will help you internalize the right attitude toward adults which is very important for Koreans. Also, children nowadays don't know how to call their relatives. Different from English, there are tens of names used to call relatives in Korean. It is essential knowledge for Koreans. Children may learn about it without difficulties. Not only for children but adults also benefit from relatives living together. On every big holiday such as Seol and Chuseok, Koreans 'travel' the long way to get together with relatives. But living with them in a house will reduce the fatigue and tiresome. Relatives are just like family. Living with relatives are same as living with family, which is really natural. And with all those advantages, I think living with relatives is a good idea.

MinKyong Sohn/Mon1,2./Teacher

The Teacher Whom I Depend On

 

           We meet a lot of teacher in our lives. But not all of them remain in our hearts. I've met this one teacher in my 3^rd grade of high school and she's the one who will remain in my heart forever. Because since the day I've met her, my life has been totally changed. She was my German teacher and I really liked her from the start. She was always cheerful and full of pride in a good way. Whenever I had problems I went to her and she always gave me the best answer. It was beginning of my senior year and like other students I was afraid to step into the life of preparing for University entrance. I was in dilemma of choosing what to study in the future; like the trend of society, should I go for the management? Or should I go for majoring in linguistics as my interest lies on? I asked this question to people I know and most of the answers were like "Of course the management! It would be helpful when you apply for a job". Then I went to my favorite teacher, Ms. Kim and she answered with mild smile on her face. "I used to work at Siemens a year ago. I was in charge of many projects. As you know I studied German and English back in university, not management. I got the job not according to my major but my ability." She looked in my eyes and continued. "Not everyone gets a job that follows what they have learned in the university, who does so is very few. I used to have same worries like you had but I chose to trust myself". By telling me this she assured me it's okay to follow my interests and also that the power that makes you outstanding is to have faith in yourself. Other than that I always asked her for solutions whenever I had problems. She always helped me to choose what's best for me and for my mind. For weeks I've been depressed and got bored with everything. I've been thinking that I can't get through all these burdens on my shoulder. But last week I got a phone call from Ms. Kim and we decided to meet up soon. Just by thinking of seeing her it gave me strength to go through.

Kim you jin , Jang ji young // Teachers

GOOD TEACHER       We meet many teachers in our lives. Not to mention from in elementary school to in high school we meet teachers in university. Of course, not all the teachers are nice. Sometimes, there are bad teachers. I think a good teacher means a teacher who lives up to his words. If he teaches polite greetings to his students, he should set a good example by saying "Annyeonghaseyo, yeoreobun." Giving a good example like this works well because students tend to follow those who act first. A teacher I really liked was this kind of teacher. For instance, we had a class about protecting the environment. During class, he explained that environmental protection is critical these days in terms of a sustainable development. Of course, he taught us through books, videos, and other materials such as discovery channel showing the importance of it. However before the class, he had participated in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He said, "We should consider the environment as if it is a part of our body. He also helped us learn other things like making bread. It was when we studied all days in school. When lunch time came, he told through announcement, "People who want to make bread for lunch, come to my office! I will wait for you."  Many students went there, and made bread together. Also, when we played baseball with friends, he helped those who were not good at it by explaining the skills. He helped us throw and catch balls well. "You should weigh on your left foot more than on the right one when you throw balls" Thanks to this, my class could win the gold medal on the athletic meeting held in autumn. I feel really lucky that I had him as my teacher. There wasn't any teacher like him until now.