Going to the 고아원명 orphanage to tutor in English and to paint murals really helped me grow. As a student of an international school, I was never given the chance to notice a world different from mine...

395-word version: Most of the children in the 재단명 Rehabilitation Center were those who did not have parents and only few of them had single mother or father. At first, the children there came across to me as just any other child you can easily see on the street... 461-word version: Most of the..

Standing onstage alone is mentally and physically challenging. Like many young adults my age, standing onstage always makes me nervous. What makes me even more nervous is when I stand onstage in a foreign land...

In 9th grade, I had the opportunity to participate in the Seoul International Youth Film Festival, a convention committed to youths interested in filmmaking. On the first day, the multinational congregation was divided into several groups...

390-word version: Toiling in a restaurant as a waiter and a member of the pots and pans crew for thirty-five hours a week had enhanced nearly every part of my corporeal senses from ocular, for any visions to come, to auditory, for any empathy or sympathy that I may develop, and from physical, for..

166-word version: In Cambodia, I learned that the “conception” of happiness rests in subjectivity. I thought the pastor’s assistant...was a very gifted man down on his luck... 171-word version: In Cambodia, I learned that the “conception” of happiness rests in subjec..