{"id":1426,"date":"2019-08-19T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2019-08-19T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:01:33","slug":"final-days-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/2019\/08\/19\/final-days-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Days in Seoul :("},"content":{"rendered":"

I just want to begin this post by expressing how grateful I am that I was selected to be given the SLA grant which provided me the opportunity to study in Seoul. I have met such amazing people and had incomparable experiences that I would not have been able to have without this opportunity.<\/p>\n

The final week of the program was bittersweet. On one hand I was excited to go back home, but on the other hand I did not want to leave the people I have become so close with. It is crazy how close people can get in just 6 weeks during a summer program. I was not ready to leave, especially knowing that it would be very hard to see these people again because they live across the country and around the world.<\/p>\n

We had our final for Korean, which not gonna lie, was really hard. I was pretty confident with the listening, but the reading really got me. There were some sentences where I could not identify any of the words, which made me realized how much more work I needed to put in if I wanted to become fluent in Korean. It made me feel better when we finished our exam and the rest of the class also agreed that the final was pretty hard. I did better than I thought I would, so I am thankful for that. But I still have a long ways to go if I want to be completely comfortable in Korean. One of my classmates printed out a picture of our class and handed it out to everyone. It was really sweet.<\/p>\n

I also made sure to eat all the foods I really liked before the end of the program. I love sweet potato pizza. This is what it looks like.<\/p>\n

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Sweet Potato Pizza with Chicken Tenders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It is the perfect mix between sweet and savory and it is so good. There aren’t any places near where I live that sell sweet potato pizza, and definitely none near Notre Dame. This pizza will be deeply missed.<\/p>\n

I also love this cheese sprinkled chicken. It’s called \ubfcc\ub9c1\ud074 \uce58\ud0a8 (Bbrinkle Chicken) and it is so good. I never truly appreciated Korean chicken wings until I actually had them in Korea. There are so many different flavors and a lot of them are marinated so well. The Bbrinkle chicken also come with cheese balls, which are basically doughnut holes with cheese inside, which is also very good.<\/p>\n

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Bbrinkle Chicken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also fell in love with Myongrong Hot Dog. It is basically a corndog with mozzarella cheese inside, but they sprinkle it with sugar. It is SO GOOD. I tried making it at home once but it wasn’t the same. There is a Myongrong hot dog in LA, but I live in NJ so it is very unlikely that I will be able to have Myongrong hot dog again until I go back to Korea, or I decide to visit LA.<\/p>\n

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Myongrong Hot Dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Korean food will always have a special place in my heart and it will be dearly missed. Same goes for all of the amazing people I met at Yonsei.<\/p>\n

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My amazing Yonsei Friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I have definitely seen my Korean improve. I don’t get too anxious anymore whenever restaurant owners\/store owners ask me a lot of questions. I don’t get anxious at all asking restaurant owners\/store owners my own questions. I have become a lot more confident with my Korean typing and my Korean writing. But I definitely need to work a lot more if I want to understand newspaper articles and have a fluent conversation with an adult Korean native. My sentences are still kind of choppy, but I definitely have time and the opportunity to improve in my Korean class this upcoming fall semester.<\/p>\n

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My Korean Class <3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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