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2018 Global Forum Camp Essay Writing Topic : A comparison of Korea’s education and current education 1708 Kim Jeong

After the vacation on July 24th, I was supposed to participate in global forum camp. When I arrived at my house and lied down on the bed to sleep, I was a little bit anxious but on the other hand, I eagerly looked forward to communicating with foreigners. And the next day, I got up earlier than usual and packed things that I needed. It took over 2 hours to go to school. What I saw first was a foreign woman in purple whose name was Kate. And she said she took on my team. For some reason, I felt good on the first day. Our team went into a school dormitory’s computer room and started to plan how to write a report. Our team topic is ‘A comparison of Goryeo’s education and current education’. We had to do so many things about this topic, but we diveded into groups and sorted our affairs one by one.
As a member of this team I  worked on writing introduction and conclusion, and my groupmate also did so. Then we were comparing the two versions and translating them with my friends on the data that seniors researched about educational institutions of Goryeo and modern times. The volume of data was larger than I thought, and it took me a long time to compare the Goryeo and the present. However, as I saw the results of my long study and translation of materials, I found out the information of Goryeo which I wanted to know and did not need to know. Actually, I did not try to memorize the information, but as I kept reading it, I felt as if it had entered my head. In addition the most memorable thing is that after three years of study, the Gookjagam’s students were exempted from the preliminary examination regardless of their grades, and the students having excellent result were exempted not only the basic test but the exam 1 and 2. Before I searched about this subject, I only knew that there was Gookjagam which teached student, but During this activity, I learned new information and a lot of thought came to mind. The fact that there was a similar system in the Goryeo Dynasty was interesting, and I wondered that there was no anger or uprising against it in the past.
While doing this activity, there were many hard things but I felt proud and interested as well. The process of researching in more detail than usual and translating the results into English seems fresh and helpful to me. I am happy because I felt like I had the necessary experience in my high school days.