Hawk CP # 4

      My second meeting with Dojun was another interesting conversation. As I have not often skyped with people let alone with someone more than half a world away, I still found it very bizarre. I was just waking up at 8 when he was ending his day. I mentioned this Dojun and he agreed. This rekindled our conversation about daily life in our respective countries. I learned more about his career, his work history, and his school days which was all such an interesting story and I told him more specifics about my past academic career and my extremely short professional career
 
      When he began to talk about his experience in school learning English, I was particularly intrigued as it brought me back to the conversations we had with Prof. Kim in class. He basically reiterated back to me exactly what her experience had been. He continued by telling me more about the current English teaching trends in South Korea and how they have been changing, especially in recent decades. According to him, children are taught more often by native speakers who take a more communicative approach. Based on what he told me, reading and listening are emphasized much more than when he was in school. Primarily, he stressed that the biggest difference was South Korea's eagerness to import native English speakers.

     After, we talked more about the music culture in South Korea and how viral it has become in the United States among certain demographics of Americans as demonstrated by the hit sensation Gangnam style. He also explained to me that Gangnam was a district in Seoul which he compared to Beverly Hills. I found this information very enlightening and it completely changed my cultural understanding of the song. We also talked about American music stars that were popular in South Korea. I was tickled to find out that Beyonce was a hit and that many South Koreans loved her music, fashion, and general style. I can't really fight with them on any of those points. No one can deny that she's got all of those things.