Hello everybody , I am Mira
Today, I would like to share the reason I came to Korea
In fact , sometimes people asked me this question
I thought the rest of you might also be curious
So I'll share it with you guys now
Actually connection with Korea wasn't that deep
Even my impression of Korea wasn't particularly good
I didn't know anything about Korea
I remember that my impression of Korea was dramas like Stairway to Heaven that aired on TV,
and Rain and Song Hye-kyo's Full House.
I really liked watching those, but I think it's funny.
I only remember that Korean dramas really liked to show their characters crying and bawling.
When I was little, I really loved Taiwan.
I was a huge fan of Taiwanese idol dramas and variety programs.
Around 2004-2005, which is when I'd just started junior high school,
I was completely obsessed.
I had watched most of Taiwan's idol dramas.
Bull Fighting
It Started with a Kiss
Love Contract
Meteor Garden
Corner with Love
Hi My Sweetheart
Why Why Love
I had seen so many Taiwanese idol dramas
and I was really obsessed with these dramas.
I was crazy about the variety programs too.
Mo Fan Bang Bang Tang
Blackie's Teenage Club (Wo Ai Hei Se Hui)
University (Da Xue Sheng Le Mei)
100% Entertainment (Yu Le Bai Fen Bai)
KangSi Coming (Kang Xi Lai Le)
Anyway, I was obsessed with Taiwanese idols and variety programs my entire junior high school career.
Towards the end of my junior high school career,
Big Bang had already become very famous around that time.
That should've been the period when Big Bang and 2NE1 came out with Lollipop.
There was a girl on the "Blackie's Teenage Club" show called Angel Hong (Hong Shi)
I really loved her at the time.
At that time, she chose Big Bang's song to do a dance performance.
And ever since then, I started to learn about Korea and K-Pop and such.
But at the time, I wasn't particularly interested in any certain artists.
I only knew which groups existed.
Later on in 2012, I suddenly garnered a huge interest in the Korean language.
Because I discovered that the Korean pronunciation is extremely similar to Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, and English.
So I was really curious about Korean.
I wanted to figure out exactly what Korean people were saying.
And so, I started to self-study Korean!
So I looked at materials online and took notes.
If you all want to know how I learned Korean in 3 months,
Please watch this video above!
But why did I learn to self-study?
First off, I felt that taking Korean lessons in Hong Kong was very expensive.
Maybe for 8 to 10 lessons a month,
it would cost about 10,000 HKD.
I thought it was really expensive.
The second reason was because I enjoy the feeling of self-learning.
I really like the process of figuring something out from scratch.
Because I was really interested in it,
even I think it was fast, but it took me about 3 months to learn Korean
and become able to communicate with Korean people.
At the time I was working, and some of the customers were Korean.
So sometimes to practice my Korean, I would speak to them in Korean.
They were always really happy to see foreigners learning their language.
So when I spoke in Korean, they would always be very encouraging.
Not long after, I traveled to Korea for the first time.
I felt super happy
because I was surrounded by Korean.
All I heard around me was Korean.
Plus, I was able to apply all the Korean that I'd studied on my own, so I had this huge sense of satisfaction.
After that, I traveled to Korea a few more times.
The first two times I went to Korea, I got a lot of help from Korean people.
That made me feel that Korea was a very warm and friendly place.
So that made me like Korea even more.
At the time,
I didn't know anyone or have many chances to speak Korean in Hong Kong,
but I really wanted to improve my Korean.
So I decided to go to a language school in Korea to learn Korean.
Many people think that I studied Korean because Iike K-Pop.
But at that time , I really wasn't too interested in K-Pop.
But now, I really love K-Pop
I love Chanyeol~
But I only studied Korean for a half a year
and then returned to Hong Kong.
Following that, I worked in Hong Kong for a year.
But the whole time, I was unable to forget life in Korea.
I always thought,
if you don't do certain things while you're still young,
you won't get the chance to do them anymore once you turn old.
So I decided that while I'm still young
in order to not let myself have regrets
I'll come live in Korea.
Actually, I sometimes wonder, what if I had been interested in French instead?
I would probably be in France right now!
Some people ask me what my family's opinion on this was.
My family has never been opposed to my leaving Hong Kong.
They really support me in going after my dream.
So I'm really grateful towards them.
I don't want to let them down their hopes for me either,
so I'm living every day to the fullest.
I hope to bring them as well as myself an even better future.
I have no way of predicting how things will turn out in the future.
So I choose to live in the present.
I feel that enjoying every single moment is the most important thing.
However, I'm really happy that the language Iiked was Korean.
It's taken me a few years and I've gone in a few circles.
Now, I'm living in Korea.
My own way of thinking has changed a lot since coming to study Korean.
And because I came here, I've made friends with people from many different countries.
My view have broadened a lot.
After all sorts of experiences, now there's me, the Youtuber.
Alright, well this is the reason why I came to live in Korea.
Sometimes, I think it's important not to think too much
when you want to do something.
If you think too much, then you'll become hesitant.
And instead, you'll lose that initial impulse.
Sometimes, you need to have that enthusiasm and impulse to go after your dreams.
Of course, that's just my personal opinion.
You don't have to do exactly as I say.
Just do what you think is right.
As long as you're willing to take that first step,
many unpredictable things will be waiting to happen!
Lastly, I hope everyone will bravely go after your own dreams!
That's all I'm going to share for today.
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Thank you all so much for watching, and see you in my next video. Bye~
------ Thanks for the subtitles^^ (BY MIRA) ——