Who I am - Jeongjun Park

Who I am

Jeongjun Park

 

Let me tell you about myself. I’m a man from South Korea where I have lived for 25 years. The city where I live is Goyang which is located northwest of Seoul. In Korea, many people have their religions, but I and my family have no religion. I’m too young to get married, I have a girlfriend in Korea. I’m studying in Soongsil Univ. and my major is Materials & Fibre Engineering, where I study about finding or making new materials related to fabrics, especially polymer materials. And we also deal with natural fibre materials. There is a year left before graduating. I think I’m going to become a member of a company that is pertinent to my major. These days unfortunately, job seeking is getting harder for young people than before. So everyone must have something special to get a job. Many students who are in engineering and science in Korea don’t regard English as important. Also they don’t speak it well. Fortunately, I like English more than other a same sort of students. Therefore, I thought I have to learn some foreign languages for example, specifically English, and that’s why I’m here in New Zealand writing my essay. An advanced ability of English will be a gift to me.

 Let me tell you about what is important to me. I love myself most. Even though you might think I’m weird, I like me most. There’s nothing that changes me. Next, many ordinary adult men in Korea have to enrol in the army. Because there was a historical war in my country, the Korean War. Korea had been a colony of Japan about for 30 years.  After the defeat of Japan in World War II, Korea restored the independence. After then, there was a difference of ideology between north part and south part of Korea. Therefore the Korea war happened at 25/6/1950. After few years, the two parts had a cease-fire agreement, and it is still effective. So our peninsular is divided in to two parts. So that’s the reason why all common men should enter the military for 2 years. I also had done 3 years ago and it was a really hard time, but I think it is a present for me because I became a more somebody than before. Because I had done so many things when I was in the army like, protecting my country as well as myself that are different from what I usually did in ordinary life.