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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Korean; learning Chinese, English, Spanish
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • Player & Writer
  • Journalism & Korean
  • From Seoul, 서울특별시, Korea (Republic of)
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Just LIVE it!

ABOUT ME

I'm open-minded, considered and sometime too funny. People said, I'm very energetic & curious & easy-going & so brave.. but I think I'm shy somehow.
I studied Journalism and Korean at Univ. After the graduation, I became a journalist. I'm very interested in encouraging people, especially their dreams. So I wrote 2 books about Self-development.
and then I changed job. I worked for NGO to help people unimployed. After that I did world trip for about one and a half years. I wrote stories about people who inspired me a lot while travelling. It was my third book. I’m currently working at education company. I’m a coach and writer ant the same time.

PHILOSOPHY

-Seize the Day.
-No ventured, no gained.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Last winter(2011), I was travelling in China. and I met a argentina guy, he introduce this great website to me and told his story after using this. It was awesome! I was surprised how could this be possible! This is revolusion! so I joined here happily.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Two times.
In Turkey and USA.

Interests

My interest is quite broad.
Culture -People's the way of life /
Writing - a good way of expression myself /
Nature - our homeland, forever/
and Travel-I want to see and experience as much of the world as I can!!

And I like playing Panflute, hiking, riding a bike, reading a book and talking with whom I like. I'm doing yoga and meditation. and I'm quite good at Korean cook.

  • culture
  • writing
  • books
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • reading
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • adventure races
  • journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music : New-age music, Pops & Korean pops. Instrumental
Movie : Shawshank Redemption, Forest Gump, Dead Poet Society, and so on
TV series : Prison Break, Criminal Minds, etc
Books : So many books inspire me. I love reading books, all kinds of books. I’ve read over 10,000 books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

First, wrting and publishing three books so far.
Firat two books-i joined as co author and third book i wrote by myself. Writing book is never easy but fun n meaningful work. Can’t resist to do it.

Second, New zealand in 2004, I did Bungy jumping three times at once. even though I've got Acrophbia. I felt almost died, but did. You Might be curious 'Why she did?'. The reason was so simple, I just found that three jump was cheaper than just one jump!
anyway I got a big gut after that.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have certificates of Korean cooking & Teaching Korean to speakers of other language. So I can teach and share Korean, Korean culture with you well. and also I really wanna learn about yours. 'm very curious about other cultures. We can share manything, I bet.
I love adventure, I got some stories about my adventure, like 'free travel'. They are too long to write here. If given the chance to meet, I am willing to tell you anything. ^^

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Peru, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea

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