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January 04, 2018 Advanced Audio Blog S5 #3 - “Culture Shock” and “Korean Instant Noodles!”
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'문화 충격'과 '신라면'!
안녕하세요. KoreanClass101.com 여러분.
한국어 공부는 잘되어가고 있나요?
여러분은 한국어 공부를 하면서 무엇을 느끼시나요?
‘한국어’라는 새 언어를 접하면서 한국의 말만 배우시나요.
아니면, 한국의 문화, 한국사람들의 사고방식, 생활 습관 그리고 한국의 문화를 간접적으로 느끼지는 않나요?
전 오늘 제가 캐나다에서 처음 느꼈었던 문화 충격 ‘culture shock’에 대해서 이야기해 보려고 합니다.
제가 혹시 말을 하는 동안에 눈물을 머금더라도 이해해 주세요…
제가 캐나다에 머문 지 2주일이 체 되지 않아 생겼던 일입니다.
전 방문을 굳게 닫고 방에서 한 발자국도 나가기를 거부하는 저 자신을 발견하게 되었습니다.
홈스테이 식구들이 해주는 저녁 식사도 마다하고 제 방 한구석에서 한국에서 가져온 ‘신라면’을 꺼내 들며 그걸 편안하게 부셔 먹는 저 자신을 보며 “내가 왜 이러지?”, “내가 미쳐가는 건가?”라는 생각도 했었습니다.
항상 밝고 사람을 좋아하며 스스로 긍정적인 태도를 잃지 않는 저였기에 그런 현상을 직접 느끼고 행하는 저 자신을 이해할 수가 없었습니다.
그렇게 하루, 이틀, 삼 일이 지났고… 무엇이 날 그렇게 힘들게 하는 것인지 고심을 하던 끝에 하나의 결론에 도달하게 되었습니다.
20여 년 이상을 한국이라는 나라 안에서 한국말만 편하게 쓰다가 갑자기 캐나다라는 나라안에서 영어라는 언어를 갑자기 접하게 되서, 제 몸과 마음이 그 새로운 언어와 문화에 적응을 못하는 문화 충격에 걸렸던 것을 깨닫게 되었습니다.
정말 불쌍했던 것은 너무 심하게 문화 쇼크에 걸린 나머지 스스로를 사람들로부터 격리하고 한국의 문화와 한국 사람들의 향기를 느낄 수 있는 ‘신라면’을 통해서 스스로를 위로하고 격려하는 아주 희귀하고 몹쓸 병에 걸렸던 것이였습니다.
이 '문화 충격'이라는 병은 병원과 약국에서도 처방전도 없는 아주 희귀한 병이였던 것이였습니다.
이건 마음에서 오는 병이며 스스로 이겨내야 하는 병이라는 것을 조금씩 깨닫게 되었습니다.
하지만, 해결책을 머리로 아는 것과 그 해결책을 행동으로 실천하는 것은 매우 다른 것이었습니다.
바로 그때, 머리에서 울리는 소리가 있었습니다
– “피할 수 없다면 즐겨라!!!”
그 소리를 들은 날부터 전 모든 것들을 새롭게 보기 시작했습니다.
캐나다 사람들과 대화를 하는 데 있어서 언제나 장벽이라고 여겼었던 영어는 어느새 실수를해도 괜찮은 ‘장난감’같은 존재가 되어 있었으며, 캐나다 사람들과 친분을 형성하는데 어려움이라고 여겼었던 캐나다의 문화와 사고방식들은 내가 알아가야만 하는 ‘새로운 친구’같은 존재가 되어 있었습니다.
그 후로 모든 것이 180도 변하게 되었고 어느새 그 ‘신라면’은 가끔 나의 허기를 채워주는 본래 라면의 존재로 다시 돌아가게 되었습니다.
KoreanClass101.com 여러분, 여러분은 한국어를 처음 접할 때 어떤 느낌을 받았나요?
혹시 여러분도 저와 같이 문화 충격을 느껴보지는 않았나요?
만약 느껴보았었다면 그것을 이겨내는 여러분의 노하우는 무엇이 있었나요?
처음 한국어를 접할 때 정말 힘들었다고 느꼈던 부분은 무엇이 있었나요?
여러분의 모국의 문화와 특별히 다른 한국의 문화를 발견하지는 않았나요?
저는 진심으로 여러분 모두가 ‘승리자’라고 생각을 합니다.
사실 이렇게 저의 블로그를 듣고 이해를 한다는 것이 절대 공짜로 얻어진 결과물이 아니니까요.
여러분 더욱 힘내시고요.
제가 마지막으로 여러분 모두를 위해 한마디 던지겠습니다.
“피할 수 없다면 즐겨라!”
들어주셔서 감사합니다.
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"Culture Shock" and "Korean Instant Noodles!"
Hello, KoreanClass101.com listeners.
How are your Korean language studies going?
What do you all think about while you study Korean?
Are you only studying the language itself, or are you also thinking about Korean culture, the way Koreans think, and life in Korea while you study?
Today, I'll be telling you about my first encounter with culture shock in Canada.
I hope you'll understand if I start to tear up a little while I tell you this...
This happened to me during my second week in Canada. After my arrival, I didn't set foot out of my room.
I refused to eat the food that my study-abroad family cooked for me, and instead I opened a bag of instant noodles I brought from Korea. As I broke off the dry pieces of noodles and ate them, I began to wonder, "What's wrong with me? Am I going crazy?"
In Korea, I was optimistic, outgoing, and loved to socialize, so I just couldn't understand why I felt this way.
As the days passed, I came to realize what was making me feel this way.
For more than twenty years, I spent my whole life living in Korea and speaking Korean. After I moved to Canada, I couldn't adjust to speaking English and assimilate to the culture. I realized that this was my first culture shock.
What was really pitiful was that the culture shock was so extreme that it felt like a disease, so I tried to comfort myself by eating a staple instant noodle from Korea called "Shinramyeon."
This rare disease was not something that a hospital or a pharmacy could cure. This was an emotional disease, and I slowly realized that this was something I had to overcome on my own. However, this was easier said than done.
Then suddenly, it came to me. "If you can't avoid it, have fun with it!" A [...]
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December 31, 2017 Korean Vocab Builder #129 - Travel
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December 28, 2017 Korean Business Course: Customs, Culture and Language #6 - Are You a Job Seeker?
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설레는 마음으로 대학교에 입학하여 새내기로 통학하던 때가 엊그제 같은데, 시간은 참 빨리도 갑니다. 벌써 대학교 3학년이 되었으니까요.
슬슬 졸업 후를 걱정하지 않을 수가 없죠. 게다가 최근 몇년 간 최고치를 경신하고 있는 청년 실업률을 보고 있자면 한숨이 절로 쉬어집니다. 취준생(취업준비생의 준말) 라이프의 시작입니다.
몇몇 친구들은 사망년이 왔다고 얘기를 하네요. 취업을 위해 스펙을 쌓다가 죽을것 같은 학년이라는 뜻의 “사망년”입니다.
다들 학점관리, 토익, 사회봉사, 자격증, 공모전, 인턴 경험, 어학연수 등 스펙쌓기에 열중하고 있습니다. 계중에는 스펙을 더 쌓기위해 휴학을 하는 친구들도 있네요. 인턴 생활을 벌써 시작했다고 자랑을 하는 친구도 있지요.
이렇게 바쁘게 한 해가 가고 드디어 대망의 4학년이 되었습니다.
인턴을 마친 친구들이 와서 하소연 하기를 본인들은 '흙턴'(허드렛일만 계속하는 인턴) 생활만 한 '호모인턴스'(정규직 채용에 실패하고 인턴 생활만 반복하는 취업준비생)에 불과했다고 말합니다.
그렇게 몇몇 친구들은 대기업 입사에서 취업의 방향을 바꾸고 공시생이 됩니다.
나라의 녹을 먹는 안정적인 공무원이 되려고 목표를 전환하여 공시생이 되었지만 경쟁이 너무 치열하다고 하네요. 노량진에서 열심히 공무원 시험 준비를 하는 친구들을 응원하고 돌아옵니다.
어느덧 하반기 공채 일정이 속속들이 올라오기 시작하고, 그에 맞추어 취업 동아리 친구들과 함께 자소서(자기소개서의 준말)를 준비합니다.
어떤 친구들은 아예 대놓고 자소설(과장된 내용이 포함되어 있어 허구적인 소설과 같다는 의미를 지님) 을 쓰고 있습니다
자소서포비아(자기소개서를 작성하는데 두려움을 느끼는 일)를 견디고 여러 회사에 지원하였지만 대부분 서류전형 광탈 (빛의 속도로 탈락한다는 의미) 의 고배를 마십니다.
하지만 긍정적인 마인드를 유지하며 더욱 노력하던 찰나 계약직으로 지원한 회사에서 서류합격 통보 문자를 받습니다! 면접도 통과하여 염원하던 취업이라는 쾌거를 이루어 냅니다!
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It feels like it was just yesterday that you first stepped into college, as a freshman with a fluttering heart, but time flies, and you've already become a junior.
Now you are concerned about your post-graduate future. And as you have heard for years that the unemployment rate has been steadily increasing, you cannot help but sigh. Yes, your life as a job seeker is beginning.
Some friends would say they are in the "death year" which sounds similar to the word for third-grader (or junior year) in Korean, and they do so because that's the year when students literally work themselves to death to make their resume look better.
Everyone's working hard to improve their resumes by managing their GPAs, receiving higher TOEIC test scores, enhancing their public service records, obtaining certifications, receiving contest awards and internship requests, and going abroad to study languages. Some have even taken time off school to achieve these goals. A few of your alumni are bragging that they have already started their internships.
Your junior year flies by and you've finally entered your senior year.
The friends that had taken their internships are back, but they are complaining that they were "Homo-interns" (those who fail to find a permanent position but repeat internships over and over) and that they were considered as mere "dirt interns" (interns who just run errands throughout their internship period).
And that resulted in a few friends giving up on aiming for a large company, turning into "civil servant applicants."
They thought being public officials would be a better, more stable choice since they will be employed by the government. So they changed their goal; however, the competition is extremely high. You offer moral support for your friends preparing for public official's exams in Noryangjin and come back.
Then recruitment schedules for the second half of the year are updated, and you meet up with your study club friends to work on your cover letter.
Some of your friends are writing a "cover novel letter" (cover letter likened to a novel, since it contains exaggerated information on oneself).
You had to endure "cover letter-phobia" (fear of writing a cover letter) to apply for numerous companies, but you swallow bitter failure as you receive rejections in the application phase at the "speed of light."
However, you maintain your positive outlook and persevere in your efforts of finding a job, and soon a company sends you a message that your application papers were accepted! You pass the interviews as well, and finally, you have [...]
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December 24, 2017 Korean Vocab Builder #128 - Religion
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December 21, 2017 Absolute Beginner Korean for Every Day #10 - 10 Phrases You Never Want to Hear
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December 18, 2017 Advanced Audio Blog 8 S8 #3 - Death With Dignity Act Passes in Korea
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December 18, 2017 Advanced Audio Blog S8 #3 - Death With Dignity Act Passes in Korea
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연명의료결정법이 2018년 2월 4일부터 전면 시행되기로 결정된 가운데 보건복지부는 2017년 10월 23일부터 2018년 1월15일까지 시범사업을 실시한다고 발표했습니다.
논란이 거듭 되어온 연명의료결정법이란 무엇일까요?
회생가능성이 없는 환자가 자기의 결정이나 가족의 동의로 연명치료를 받지 않을 수 있도록 하는 법으로서, 정식 명칭은 "호스피스, 완화의료 및 임종과정에 있는 환자의 연명의료 결정에 관한 법률"입니다.
"불필요한 연명의료를 받고 있는 분들에게 품위를 갖추고 생을 마감할 수 있도록 하기위한 절차"를 다루는 법률이기에 이른바 존엄사법으로 명명되기도 합니다.
연명의료는 치료효과 없이 임종 기간만 연장하는 의학적 시술을 의미하며, 현재 본 법률상에서는 심폐소생술, 혈액투석, 항암제 그리고 인공호흡기 착용, 이렇게 네 종류로 명시되어 있습니다.
그렇기 때문에 연명의료 중단을 의미하는 존엄사는 사망시기를 앞당기는 안락사(조력 자살)와 확연한 차이를 둡니다.
이와 같은 존엄사법이 통과되기까지의 과정을 거슬러 올라가보면 본 법률의 초석을 다진 2009년 김할머니 사건을 마주하게 됩니다.
사건의 발달은 이러합니다. 식물인간 상태였던 김할머니는 치료 가능성이 없었고 가족들은 할머니의 품위있는 죽음을 위해 무의미한 연명 치료를 중단할 것을 병원 측에 요청했습니다.
그러나 병원측은 이를 거절하였고 그에 따라 가족들은 병원을 상대로 소송을 제기하였습니다.
이에 2009년 대법원은 "환자가 인간으로서의 존엄과 가치 및 행복추구권에 기초하여 자기결정권을 행사하는 것으로 인정되는 경우에는 특별한 사정이 없는 한 연명치료중단이 허용 될 수 있다"는 판결을 내렸습니다.
이와 같은 판례는 내년 2월부터 본격적으로 시행될 연명의료결정법의 발판이 되었습니다.
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The Life-sustaining Treatment Determination Act will take effect from February 4th of 2018, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that the corresponding demonstration and implementation project will begin from October 23, 2017 until January 15, 2018.
What is the Life-sustaining Treatment Determination Act, which has been such a controversial issue over the years?
This is a law that allows patients without any possibility of recovery (or their family) to decide not to continue with life-sustaining treatment for a patient. Its full title is "The Life-sustaining Treatment Determination Act for Near-death Patients Under Hospice and Palliative Care."
This law is also referred as the "Death with Dignity Act," because it deals with procedures that allow patients who are receiving life-sustaining treatment to face their deaths with dignity.
Life-sustaining treatment is defined as medical treatment with the purpose of delaying death, but which does not improve patients' condition. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemodialysis, chemotherapy, and ventilator treatment are the four types of treatment mentioned in the Life-sustaining Treatment Determination Act.
So there is a stark contrast between life-sustaining treatment termination and euthanasia (assisted suicide), which denotes the practice of intentionally ending a life.
When we look back to the events that led to passing of the Law, there is a fundamental incident which laid the foundation of this law - Ms. Kim's 2009 Case.
This is how the case developed. Ms. Kim was in coma and had no possibility of recovery, so her family requested the hospital to discontinue her life-sustaining treatment, which they considered pointless.
However, the hospital rejected their request, and Ms. Kim's family sued the hospital.
In 2009, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ms. Kim's family with this significant remark: "Life-sustaining treatment can be discontinued if it is approved that such decision is made by a patient on the basis of human dignity and worth and the right to pursue happiness, except under special circumstances."
Such a precedent played the role as a crucial stepping stone to the enactment of the Life-sustaining Treatment Determination Act, which will be implemented in earnest starting from February 2018.
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hoesaengganeunkseongi eopsneun hwanjaga jagiui gyeoljeongina gajogui dong [...]
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