I met a girl whose name is Ipi on the online language exchange site. Of course I was looking for someone I can practice English with. But she was looking for Koreans who can help her immigration to Korea. I was surprised. Why on earth, an Estonian 17-year-old girl wants to immigrate to Korea? Though we exchanged 4, 5 emails back and forth, I found out a lot about her. The more I getting to know her, the more I feel comfortable about her. Finally, I was shocked that there is a person who is a lot like me live on the other side of the world! From the personality, relationship with friends, perspective of beauty to a little bit bitterness which I could grasp from her writing, we have a lot in common. For now, I don’t want her to immigrate to Korean, because the information she has about my country is might not correct. And I’m also afraid that she would be disappointed about Korea.
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It sounds like cultural exchange. What kind of wrong information did she have? Yeah, you can help her know correctly about Korea. What if she still loves to immigrate to Korea after you let her know about reality in Korea?
ReplyDeleteI'm curious what kind of things she got wrong too. Regardless, I'm not surprised by your exchange. I think even though there are many cultural differences, people are mostly the same all over the world.
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ReplyDeleteI see now that you really are concerned about my wish to come to Korea. I understand that you are afraid that all those "pretty pictures" I have in my mind will not be true. But do not worry about that, I know that reality is always different and I've already prepared myself to the fact that things may not be as they seem to me at the moment. I'm really thankful to you and I appreciate your honesty a lot! :)
ReplyDeleteDon't know what happened to the last comment I made T_T