강미 | learning koreanWhat connection do I have to Korea?
That’s a good question, and thank you for asking.
Back in the 80s, I took a year off from college to teach English in Korea. I was so enamored of Korea that after I graduated from college, I returned, but this time I wasn’t interested in teaching English. I ended up working as a recruiter for the language institute system for which I worked and happily spent another three and a half years working in Korea.
During my second “tour of duty”, I studied Korean both formally and informally but never spoke it well. Here I will allow myself one moment of self-recrimination (and I promise I will never have another one like this here): Every day that I study Korean, I learn something that would have been useful while I was living there, and I give myself a little mental kick. Then I move on.
I’d like to return to Korea to live, but the timing is not now (and may never be) right. So I content myself with my language study, some culture and history, and a Korea-related project or two on the side.
Posted by kangmi on February 23, 2004 at 2:48 PM0 comments