From a Supporter to Become a Friend

윤선욱

윤선욱 [Yoon SeonUk] -- That's his name. He was (or maybe has been) a supporter of mine. What is supporter? I had asked the same question to him. Supporters in Korea are Koreans who help foreigners to settle up and to help solving foreigners problems. Anyway, this post is not about general supporter, this is about my supporter who has become a friend of mine ... a good one.

Born and grew up in 구미 [GuMi], he is now a junior student of Chungnam National University majoring in Mechatronics Engineering. He has a great passion in learning language, though. Even though at the first time I met him we had some problems with communicating in English, he purely helped me as best he could. And now, because of that passion and his habit of studying hard, I think we have no problem in communication anymore.

He is also now learning Japanese, because he said Japanese language is very cute ... and the girls, too ... hahah. He has been to Japan for like 2 weeks (I think), and the crazy thing he did was that he went there carrying his bicycle and planning to ride it to Tokyo. But after discovering that it would take much more time than expected, they (he and his friends) decided to stop the biking thing in the middle of somewhere in Japan and continue the trip by public transportation. He seemed to have a good time.

It has been more than five months since my arrival to Daejeon, and it means more than five months I have been maintaining friendship with him. As time went by, the label "supporter" to him, I think is not a necessity anymore. Because what I understand about supporter is that they only help you, right? But friend is another thing. Friends are there even when you don't need any help. And that is exactly what we are.

Yesterday we went to a restaurant and ate unlimited beef meal set and it was delicious and was a good time. 

I call him 형 [Hyeong] and he is a part of my adventure life in Korea. Thank you 형. ^^

September 20, 2010

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