LunA's Success Story

Yesterday, I took the first physics exam and I have some free time to do some other things. I had a really busy week until yesterday and this week, I will have some rest and start preparing for my mid term exam.

I am taking to test in mid term, Western Music History and Chemistry. I have to do lots of memorizing on western music history and I am ready to do it. I studied chemistry a lot during the semester, so I just need to review several times more and I am confident with the test.

This month, I almost did nothing to do make money online and I think I will not do much until December. I just don't have time to spend on do things other then just updating my blog 2-3 times a week.

If you are the one who visit my blog almost everyday, you will probably have noticed I did not write anything since the 18th. I was really busy. Before the semester starts, I thought I would still have time everyday to update my blog, but no, I don't have time to write something down, if I have so many projects, homework, reports to complete and test and quiz to prepare. I hope this will not decrease the amount of traffic I get on this blog.

Last Saturday, I went to a English academy and worked as a part-timer and earned some money and I would like to share this experience later this week if I have time to write about it. It was a fun experience. I also think I need to write something about MMO and I have to earn some money online. Can anybody relieve me from all those school work?

When I was starting this blog I was planning to write posts on my blog everyday. However, after I started second semester, I have nothing special happening while attending school and I am just getting tons of projects and homeworks. Therefore, I decided to update my blog every 2 days, if I have something to say, I will write something, but if not, I will just write something every 2 days. I guess this will make me write 4 posts everyweek.

Well... It is very weird. During the summer vacation, many interesting things happend to me and like I was thinking various things, which I was planning to write on my Personal Thoughs section. But, after I start going to school, I became busy and everything in my head was gone. It is filled with Calculus, Physics and Chemistry and probably those things I wanted to share was erased in order to make some available space in my brain.

I think by the time second semester finishes, I will be doing various stuffs and I will update my blog everyday. This is just a personal blog, so I don't really care about the quality of the blog. I just want to share what I felt and what I experienced everyday. But I also don't want to post some rubbish to update my blog everyday. This is the reason why I am doing this.

From September 13th to 15th, it was Korea's national holiday which is Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day). I had to go to my relative's house to celebrate it and I did not have internet connection, so I wasn't able to update my blogs properly.

The sad thing about this Chuseok is that it was overlapped with Saturday and Sunday!!!! It means I only get one day break from school, which makes me terribly sad. I have to go to school tommorow... I am doing my homeworks right now and preparing for a quiz I have tommorow. Since I am a student so I guess my duty is to study hard and do my homeworks.

Although I was not able to be online for 2 days, nothing special happened and I don't have many thing to write about except for having lots of Korean traditional foods. I think I need to find something interesting to do.

Tommorow is the last day of the summer school. This month was really a busy month and this gave me a lesson to not take major course in a summer school. I should take electives which are more easy to study in the future.

I have a calculus exam tommorow, and since I have messed up the first two calculus exam, I need to do my best in order to get a B in this course. I will not write too many things today. I should study now.

I like to share some of Yonsei University campus pictures with you. In my personal opinion, it is a beautiful school, but it is not to be compared with many other universities I saw in United States, Japan or other countries.

Picture taken from the top of Underwood Hall

Picture of Graduate School of Engineering Building

Picture of Social Science Building

Do you think having lots of money and being rich will lead to your happiness? I don't think money is the only factor for your happiness, but it is definitely a thing that influences you a lot. Living in Korea, you can't really earn much money. If your annual income is higher than $100,000, you earn more money than 90% of the people in Korea.

In my opinion, graduating one of the best universities in Korea and entering one of the best companies like Samsung, LG,  Hyundai etc, does not really help you earn a lot of money. Most of the people start with a salary of less than $2,000 a month. Studying like hell and working like hell for 15-20 years only brings you that much money when you start actually earning money. I don't think I can live a happy life by getting that much money for the time I spent on studying.

This is why I am trying to earn money online. To live a better life and to live more joyful life. I sometimes think, if I had just enough money to live my life, I will withdraw from the university and seek for a better life. I currently think, money can bring happiness to me. How about you?

You must drink alcohol in Korea in order to know each other better and to not get neglected from society. This is what most of the people in Korea thinks. I don't like it. According to the statistics, people in Korea drink 123 bottle of Soju, 372 bottle of beer and 46.5 bottle of liquor. Really a lot isn't it? People say drinking alcohol relieves their stress from work, they can enjoy that moment and it is a way to know people easily.

Society makes people to drink when they enter university. When students first enter university and go through orientation and membership trainings, in most of the case, you must drink alcohol. It is getting better but still you can say 99% of the school seniors make us to drink and make us drunk. Why do we have to drink alcohol? I am not saying that alcohol is a bad thing (although it is bad for your health), but still if someone does not want to drink it, why force us to drink?

When people start drinking they go to a bar, drink alcohol come out, go to another bar and start drinking and people at least 3-4 bars before they go back to their home. Maybe people don't force me to drink alcohol in the bar, but I don't want to follow people to 3-4 bars and just sit their watching people drinking and they don't let me go until they go.

I like the fact that in other countries (I don't know about it for sure but according to what I read and heard), they just enjoy drinking, don't force people to drink, don't drink until they get drunk etc (in normal cases). I avoid drinking even with my best friends, because I will anyways going to drink with school seniors or colleague at work. I just hate how people drink in Korea.

What do you think about being late on an appointment. Maybe you can be late due to traffic or trouble finding the place. However, I believe if you are going to be late, you have to tell other person  who you are going to meet that you are going to be late on an appointment due to blah blah blah...

However, Koreans don't. When I make an appointment almost all of them are late for no reason. What makes me more angry is that, when I call them where they are, they say they are coming and it takes a while until they arrive. They don't apologize, they think it's nothing and it is okay to be late.

This is one of the reasons I don't like Korea. To be more specific, I have to say this is one of the reasons why I hate Korean people. Most of the time I arrive 10 minutes early and my friend arrive 10-20 minute late. I have to wait more than 20 minutes to meet people. I hate that.

Being late is not a big problem, you can be late, but can't people at least tell me they are being late before being late?

Right now I am 18 years old. I lived in Korea for nearly 9 years and in foreign countries for 9 years. I lived half of my life outside Korea. Because I had experiences living abroad, I sometimes compare the things I liked about Korea with other countries and things I did not like about here and there.

Well, for me I have more bad feelings about Korea. It does not mean I hate my country, but the people I met and things I experienced in Korea, made me want to leave this country. This is one of the main reasons I am trying to study abroad after graduating university in Korea.

I will introduce you one by one about the things I don't like about Korea. When I say the things I don't like about Korea and hope to see changes, some people thinks it is not a problem and just say you have to accept it if you are a Korean. Whatever... I still hate it and because of this, I want to leave Korea.

This just not mean Korea is a bad place to visit and to live in. Since I am a Korean I really love staying in Korea than living in any other countries in the world. I am going to introduce great things about my country.

If you are curious about anything in Korea, please leave a comment, I will gladly answer all of your questions and I hope people can throw out their prejudice on Korea.