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7 Advantages of a Gap Year – What are the benefits of taking a gap year?

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Gap Year

A gap year is a time to take a break from school and spend time creating. It is a time to experience activities such as volunteer work, travel, career exploration, education, internships, and starting a business, and to set a direction for the future through these experiences.

Time for Creation, Gap Year
People from all walks of life, from students to working people, talk about and emphasize the need for a gap year.

So why on earth,
What are the benefits of taking a gap year,
Why do we need a gap year?

Let’s take a look at what is good about taking a gap year.
A gap year has different meanings for each person depending on how they spend it.
Even if some friends spend a gap year at the same time and place,
the meaning they feel can be different for each person.

In other words, the meaning and value of a gap year period for an individual are very different.
There are such differences, but there are many common advantages of a gap year that people talk about.
Let’s find out the core advantages of a gap year that gappers who have taken a gap year mainly talk about.

1 Opportunity to speak and improve and learn various second foreign languages such as English, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish that you usually only focused on grammar

Friends who take a gap year get to travel and experience different fields of work to get away from their existing reality and meet various friends in new fields.
In particular, friends who take a gap year abroad get the opportunity to talk to various friends of different nationalities while traveling or doing internships or volunteer work.
It will be a time to learn a real foreign language that you can speak and listen to, not just memorize it 🙂

2 A chance to look back on what kind of future I dream of, what I am interested in and value, think about my life once more, and find out about myself that I didn’t know about.

Generally, Korean students have heard that the set course of middle school, high school, and college is the final mandatory course, and
they make a hasty choice without time to think about themselves, and they believe that it is the right course without time to look back.

In the process, they don’t even know what they are good at or what they are interested in, and they end up hiding themselves in the shadows.

This makes them doubt themselves and at some point, they fall into a slump.
‘Is this right?’ ‘Is this the right way to win?’
No one knows the answer.
Only they know and have to decide for themselves.
To make decisions for themselves, shouldn’t they first know themselves?
That time will never be wasted. Gap year, a creative time for me

3 A chance to meet new friends in a new environment, and broaden your horizons by talking about new fields with them

While taking a gap year, gappers get to do new things and meet new people in a new environment.
Meeting people is not just about getting to know people, it can also be an opportunity to get to know yourself through communication.
It will be an opportunity to meet various people in various fields, listen to their stories, and broaden your horizons.

You can gain new perspectives on how wide the world is and in fields you didn’t know about.

4 A chance to broaden your horizons and gain professional knowledge and hands-on experience in the field by participating in various activities such as internships and volunteer work during the gap year, as well as encounter and experience new cultures and customs.

In reality, students try to seize internship opportunities as a preparatory step for employment and also gain internship experience. However, since internships are considered a means and a way to build up specs rather than learning something, what is left after completing the internship is not an experience for myself, but mainly a career or resume.

Rather than simply limiting internships to office work, shouldn’t it be an opportunity to work in a company or field that you want to work in and solidify your dreams and goals while working to see if this is the right job for you and if you can do it well?

If you think that working at a large company would be a good fit for you,
apply for a large company internship and gain experience to solidify your dreams,
and if you have dreams in other fields, try to learn and experience them directly as an intern in that field. It will help solidify your dreams 🙂

5 An opportunity to learn about other fields for a short period or experience them through an internship in addition to the field you want to do or are interested in.

6 An opportunity to get out of the confined school classroom and discover and learn things that you couldn’t learn at school.
Usually, the things we can learn at school are limited. Things that teachers teach, and the set textbook courses and theories… However, there is so much to learn in the world outside of school.

You can get out of the classroom and discover and learn things that you couldn’t learn at school during your gap year. Participate in various activities and do things you haven’t been able to do before, things you’ve always wanted to do. And see and learn about the world.

7 Opportunity to create your own unique and unique story, your own story, in your self-introduction or resume that society asks about

Generally, companies ask for resumes and self-introductions to recruit talent.
They give you a few topics in your self-introduction and judge how you’ve lived and what kind of person you are based on those topics. However, many students worry and hesitate about that issue.

Job seekers worry about various things such as ‘I have nothing to write in my self-introduction…’, ‘What did I do when I was a freshman in college?’, etc.

And in the end, they end up only talking about abstract things about their lives, not their own stories.
If you spend your gap year doing things you’re passionate about, things you want to do, rather than simply taking a break to build up your resume,
we can create our own stories, our own stories.

Appeal with your own stories, you can be with anyone.