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The climax of my life,Gap year
I feel that each person's life story is like a book.
I haven't lived that long yet, so I think my life story might be no more than an easily readable short story. I don't know much yet, but I do know one thing: the ways to live life are as numerous as the world's population. That means there are countless different life stories, and the diversity of life itself carries great meaning. However, at some point the young generation in our country began to lose that diversity. I began to think that they might be chasing only the coolest-sounding stories or wanting only the most plausible ones. Things have become increasingly standardized, with people running while conscious only of others' eyes. What is clear is that in a person's life story there is nothing inherently better or worse than anyone else's.
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The concept of a gap year may not have been something we thought about in our heads, but it was surely something everyone felt in their hearts. That each person creates their own story and carves out their life with their own individuality is something our instincts know and have always reminded us of. We have only ignored it for various reasons—for example, to gain a more respectable reputation, a higher salary, or a higher status, people would say there was really no choice.
Those of us who had been running like that may now be coming back to our essence. One by one people are giving up high salaries to travel the world, leaving jobs that don't suit them, and beginning to discover aptitudes they had never considered before. They slowly look back on their lives and start writing down what they want to do next. Everyone begins to talk about dreams and puts finding their individuality and value above all else, traveling across the country or the world. Yes. This is the gap year.
The climax of the life story called 'me' was the moment I took a gap year. After adding the element of a gap year to my story, which had been dull and boring from the start, it became a comedy that makes me laugh just thinking about it, a suspense that makes your palms sweat, a sci-fi where imagination becomes reality, and a bittersweet romance. My story, which had been boring and similar to others', transformed through the gap year into a unique story that belongs only to me.
You also want to have your own story. You know that better than anyone.
However, either you don't know how to do it, or you know the way but lack the courage.
Korea Gap Year wants to give you a way for your story to become special through a gap year and the courage to take the first step.
Now reach out your hands to us. We'll hold them.
Lee Seong-won
Policy Advisory Committee Member for the Blue House G20 Volunteer Sector
Former President of the University Student Volunteer Association, UNICEF Korea Committee
Former President of Sonjit Sarang (sign language volunteer organization)
Led elementary education volunteer activities in Pong Ro Village, Cambodia