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1. WHO AM I ?
This is about my personal stories
with SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat)
and key words that are represented myself.
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Im an energetic young and brave girl
who is not afraid of traveling all over
the world to discover the true meaning
of happiness in my life by stretching
out from my comfort zone.
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SWOT
Strength Weakness
- Fluent in foreign languages. - Loosing energy when I get really
- Lots of multicultural and dynamic team stressed out.
experiences. - A little too ambitious.
- Organizing time and work very well. - Easily bored with routine work.
- Suggesting an alternative solution when I - Pushing myself beyond own limits to
am faced with certain problems. accomplish my goals.
- Always willing to learn something.
Opportunity Threat
- Young and creative. - Strong competition.
- Matching my studying fields (Global - Some changes in society.
business management and International - People with better knowledge and
trade and communication) with my experience do better than me.
current applied job position. - Only have experience in short term
- Living in the globalized 21st century. work.
- Big target group/segmentation.
WORDS TO DESCRIBE MYSELF.
Open-minded Friendly
Positive
Loyal
Humorous Sociable
MUYOUNG
Energetic Dedicated
YE
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VISION / DREAM / VALUE MAP
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VISION / DREAM / VALUE
Current Age 30s Age 40s Age 50s
Personally, I usually forget my hardest moment pretty easily especially, whenever I am faced
with new problems and worries. However, Ive experienced extremely hard and intensive moment
in my life recently which turned into miscommunication with my roommate.
The nightmare happened last semester in my dormitory. Currently, Im attending the University
that is quite far away from my hometown so, Ive lived in dormitory since I was a freshman.
Every new semester, I always make a whish that I hope I could make great memory with my
roommate for this semester! and even it has come true so far.
However, my wish didnt come true this time. My new roommate was completely different from
previous roommates and she was intense person to live with.
All the stories began with a miscommunication. The very first day when I met her, she just said that I
always make friends whenever, I need either her or his help in my life. which was extremely shocking
for myself because it sounds like she is treating her friends as a tool. So, I got a really bad first
impression about her after I heard about sloppy and nonsense opinion about her friendship, relationship
and judgment.
Since that time we barely talk to each other because I was really scared that she might be judging me
by her weird standards all the time. Literally, my blissful dormitory life was destroyed and ruined. I
really did my best even though she wasnt my cup of tea, I tried to talk with her about school life,
cleaning and house meeting systems and so on as much as I can but, she just ignored me and even didnt
answer my ideas and suggestions. Moreover, her bad behavior, for example, talking on the phone very
loudly in our room and never cleaning the sharing spaces like the toilet and floor kept bothering me all
the time.
I really didnt know how to handle this situation because I did all my best to try to talk with her but, I
couldnt understand her. I couldnt see any progress at all. In other words, my hands are behind my back.
As a result, I got stressed from all the housework I did and I was extremely frustrated about why do I
have to put my energy, time and effort that I could use it for my assignment or test instead for this
meaningless problem.
Finally, all my concerns and worries ended when she left dormitory in earlier than I.
3. Campus Life
This is my campus life which is showing what kind of
school activities I did during my college years.
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Freshman
2012.03.01 ~ 2013.12.31
Move to Sweden for an year Youth Initiative Program
(2012.08.31~2013.08.31)
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Freshman
As a Korean college student who graduated from typical Korean high school, freshman
year in college was totally fresh and exciting for myself because that was my first
time to make my own decision for everything as an adult. Especially, Being president
(representative) of my major(International studies) and dormitory life was pretty
helpful to myself to become more sociable, independent and responsible person.
Because leading and communicating with such a big number of people as one group
was challenging but also, lots of fun and a great experience.
UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE DURING MY FRESHMAN YEAR.
LATU (Learning And Teaching in University of Ulsan)
March.10.2012 June.20.2012
UIP(Ulsan International Program)
July.2.2012 July.27.2012
YIP(Youth Initiative Program)
August.26.2012 June.21.2013
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LATU March.10.2012 June.20.2012
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YIP Youth Initiative Program / INTERNSHIP @ SATTYA IN NEPAL
YIP is an year of holistic educational program that strengthens young peoples capacity
to take initiative in the face of current global challenges and become a social
entrepreneur in Sweden - http://yip.se/
More specifically, youth 18 to 28 years old work with international experts, doers and
innovators, in one week intensive courses that give an overview of current global issues,
the challenges faced in society, and encourage an active role in the big picture. The
participants learn the skills and knowledge needed to recognize social challenges and use
entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage an initiative for social change.
The theory is combined with practical exercises, projects and engagements with the
community, to make sure the participants get hands-on knowledge. In attempting to
balance Doing, Feeling and Thinking, the more theoretical and practical aspects of the
program, there are also artistic courses and workshops throughout the year. As well as
the previously mentioned engagements at local organizations and initiatives, the
curriculum includes a six-week internship abroad.
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INTERNSHIP @ SATTYA IN NEPAL http://sattya.org/
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Sophomore
2014.03.01~2014.12.31
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Sophomore
Its my toughest year during my college life because my perspective toward Korean
society was completely changed after finish my study in YIP and internship in Nepal.
Therefore, I felt extremely isolated and lonely from school curriculums and my
closed friends.
To overcome this slump, I did my best to make myself feel alive by participating
lots of activities such as SIM, volunteering team, and The butterfly book club and
working at international affairs and education department in my college to help
foreign exchange student as a work-study student.
UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE DURING MY SOPHOMRE YEAR.
The butterfly (Book club)
February.20.2014 December.20.2014
SIM (Social Impact Makers)
March.3.2014 November.29.2014
Work-study student at International affairs and education
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THE BUTTERFLY February. 20, 2014 December. 20, 2014
The butterfly is a name of book club what me and my closed friends made to
share and discuss each ones opinion and ideas after reading a book.
First of all, one of the main reasons why we create this club was that we dont
have enough time to read a book while we are attending school but, actually if we
want, we could read as many books as we want. So, my friends suggested a great
idea that why dont we start to make a place for not only to read books but also to
talk with other people about some thought and feeling after reading book.
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After we made some simple platform of this reading
club, we decided to recruit students and young adults
who want to join our reading squad.
Surprisingly, many people applied
to the butterfly, book club, and
they were willing to share their
own thought as well.
Later, the member of the
butterfly was getting bigger and
bigger, so that we had to rent a
really huge classroom for the
discussing.
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I was so proud of myself that I was one of the founders of this book club. The most
amazing part was that we got lots of support from others so that we were able to invite
a writer who wrote DID and made small forum for book lovers!
I still couldnt really describe my feeling at that moment but, I was super happy and
excited that we as a team made a small book forum for many young adult and student,
since we wanted to gather all together to share our thought and feeling about book and
discussed certain theme for bettering community and society.
For myself, the most impressive and interesting fact was that even though we read the
same book, every persons thought and feeling was extremely different.
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SIM March.3.2014 November.29.2014 https://www.facebook.com/socialimpactmakers/
SIM is the Social Impact Makers and I was one of the leaders who created a new platform of
the volunteer system and its entire process with my friends.
The birth of SIM went back to the first day of school. My best friends and I were
complaining about the volunteer credit system that even we are doing volunteer work
without our own willingness, why do we have to do 30 hours of volunteer work as a
mandatory course for graduation.
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Beautiful steps we walked on in the past...
#1. 1:1 sharing a lunch box with the orphans.
(January.18.2014)
Copying the concept of TOMS to celebrate happy lunar new
year with the orphans.
#2. Traffic safety campaign (March.3.2014)
Teaching young kids how to across the pedestrian crossing by
walking together on the first day of school.
#3. One day pub (March.15.2014)
Inviting foreign students who came from all different
countries especially from Asia, Africa, Middle east and South
America where most Korean people dont have enough
opportunity to be friends with to celebrate T.G.I.F!
#4. Handmade Lip balm (March.16.2014~)
Selling a handmade lip balm what we made for multi-cultural
family.
#5. Bubble gum art (March.30.2014)
Drawing pictures on the Bubble gum where on the street.
Dirty stack bubble gum turns into to street art.
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#6. Donating by walking (May.10.2014)
One of the biggest volunteer works that we held. Simply,
participants pay for the team walking game fee then entire
team have to walk all together in certain distance then all the
fee goes to single mom family.
#7. A day of street sweeper (May.30.2014)
Cleaning the main street of University of Ulsan where is full of
trash as a street sweeper.
#8. One day pub (July.18.2014)
Inviting foreign students who came from all different countries
especially from Asia, Africa, Middle east and South America
where most Korean people dont have enough opportunity to be
friends with to celebrate T.G.I.F!
#9. Public transportation
campaign(August.8.2014~August.9.2014)
Encouraging people to use public transportation more frequently
by making a day trip route with Korean transportation card
corporation.
#10. Sharing a coal briquette (November.29.2014)
Buying 500 of coal briquettes by the fundraising and sharing coal
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Work-study student - International affairs and education at University of Ulsan
February.20.2014 December.20.2014
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Next, I had to manage international program such as
LATU(language exchange program), Korean classes for
foreign exchange students and all different kind of
international programs and workshops for college student,
professors and staff members of my school.
It required high responsibility and speed work process
because if Im late or forget the class, then many students
and trainees have to wait for me to start.
It was extremely high pressure in the beginning so, I
wanted to quite my job position so bad since sometimes I
had to stay up late night to finish and clean up the mess
after program.
However, I started to think in positive ways because this is
the work that I chose and I wanted to be a person who is
doing my own work with responsibility.
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And the last, I had to assist exchange students
in various ways because, foreigner assistant
students were not really good at English, so I
usually had to manage exchange students
instead of them.
Looking back to this period, the last task was
the most exciting and joyful work that I loved
the most.
As a person who has an experience to live
abroad, I could understand their circumstances
better than anyone else and I could all my best
to help them from small things to big things.
Most of task I had to was that translating
Korean into English and solving some system
problems whenever they apply for classes and
dormitory.
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Junior
2015.03.01~2015.12.31
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Junior
Last year, Ive got so many experiences and memories throughout school activities
and work-study student term. So, I decided to apply a national exchange student
program that will help me to out of my comfort zone and stretch myself toward
higher level of education of my major.
Thanks to my GPA and less competition, I could get admitted to attend the
SungKyunKwan University where is one of the top 5 universities in Korea for an
semester.
SungKyunKwan University is well known for its oldest history that its founded in
1398 by the Josen Dynasty located in the heart of central Seoul. Also, my major
Global Business Management was the highest level among the other academic
colleges.
UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE DURING MY FRESHMAN YEAR.
Exchange student in SKKU (SungKyunKwan University)
March.2.2015 June.19.2015 (One semester)
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Exchange student in SKKU (SungKyunKwan University)
I still remember the very first day of school.
I was confident enough to moved to Seoul, the
capital of Korea to study in SungKyunKwan
University as a national exchange student.
I thought that I could get not only good grades
but also unforgettable memories with as many
friends as possible.
However, everything was destroyed unlike my
expectation on the first day of school!
The University was huge that I was late for the
class and competition was enormous so that no
one really want to be friends with each others.
Also, the distance from my dormitory to college
took around 3 hours in round trip because of
heavy Seoul traffic.
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What makes the matter worse, I couldnt
really follow up the classes because most
of students already knew that what
topics, theme and theories they are going
to learn.
Even worse part was that professors
gave tons of assignment that I had to
finish within a short due date.
I was extremely frustrated, discouraged
and lonely from school and study so, I
couldnt really enjoy my college life over
there.
Every time Im on the phone with my
parents, I cried so bad because I got the
feeling that I made a wrong decision and I
regretted it.
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However, my college life was completely changed at the end of spring.
Finally, I could make friends throughout labor-management relations ,marketing mix and
current English classes while my team and I were preparing team reports for case studies,
marketing project and team debating respectively.
Students and professors there, were so eagle
to learn and teach, they wanted to everything
to be perfect. Therefore, I beat my brains
whenever I take on certain role as a team. I did
not only my own task but also did some extra
researches and analysis. Also, I did my best try
to not be late for meeting and wrote down
every notes and advices that could improve my
works better.
Soon, my teammates admired me and accepted
me as a teammate leaving their prejudice
toward me as a newcomer. And then, we were
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Senior
2016.03.01~2016.12.31
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Senior
I still cannot believe that this year is going to be my last year at
college. I thought that Im still freshman who just graduated high
school and got into my new life at the college with my new friends
from different cities in Korea.
Probably, thats the reason why my parents are always saying
that time flies like an arrow! as me and my brother
are growing.
Honestly, Im extremely afraid of jumping into real society
as a young adult because it will be completely different from
college. Also, I already expected that I will get to know
the bitter taste of failure while Im getting challenged.
However, I will think myself as a lucky as I have a good
health and I dont need to worry about failures or let downs.
All I have to do is just keep standing up as if nothing had
happened for the next level of challenge because thats me!
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4. Talent show
This is my abilities, skills and talents that are better
than anyone else.
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I CAN DO THIS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE.
Adapting to
A new environment
Managing Do It Myself
Time & Plan
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LAST SENTENCE TO DESCRIBE MYSELF.
Personally, I believe that knowing myself is one of the most important things to do as a
young adult.
Throughout many years of traveling alone, I find myself as independent, determined and
sociable. Also, I turned into responsible, generous and positive person by challenging
myself especially, I got inspired about society, community, world, sustainable life,
responsible business and so on by talking with people who have completely different
cultures, backgrounds and languages.
So, I think that it is the right time to put myself into this wonderful workplace
where I can Challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone.
NOMAD
MUYOUNG YE IS A ___________. 54
REFERENCE LETTERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I met Muyoung in 2015 when she exchanged to my University in
Seoul. We registered in the same class named 'Marketing Mix',
more specifically, we were assigned in the same group.
First, She is a very friendly girl. I remembered I was the only
foreigner in our group, because of the language barrier, it was a
tough experience for me to discuss with other teammates. She
always asked me whether I understood the content or repeated
to me directly. I was very appreciated for her.
Secondly, she has strong team-work spirit. She is responsible for
her task and try her best to accomplish it.
In addition, she is also a positive girl. Sometimes there were
some work we thought we cannot finish it in time, but she
always encouraged us we can do it!
LU ZHAO FROM CHINA - susan2013520@gmail.com 55
REFERENCE LETTERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I met Ms. Ye as a student at University of Ulsans Ulsan
International Program in 2012. Studying abroad, Muyoungs spirit
and excitement instantly appealed to mine, we then began a
friendship.
Over the years, Ive watched her develop into lovely young lady
with a solid head on her shoulders. From what Ive witnessed, she
has many of the characteristics and qualities that will make her a
productive adult. She is very dedicated, hard working, a good
listener and loves to work with others whenever possible.
She is diligent, committed, and devoted. Ms. Ye has been a part of
many international programs, studying different cultures. She is
adapts well with her surroundings and has a drive to understand
cultures.
KENECIA L. STREETER FROM USA - kstreeter85@gmail.com 56
REFERENCE LETTERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Ive known Muyoung since my early teens. I got to know her
though a pen pal page where you could find friends all over the
world; exchanging letters and languages.
What struck me early was her curiosity and willingness to explore
and learn new things. She showed me a great interest in not only
about Swedish culture but language and also, she didnt hesitate to
discuss matters where I could provide my own experience and
knowledge. Moreover, she was always straightforward and able to
express herself in a very clear way with fluent English in early age.
I, personally believed and will always believe that Muyoung will go
far in life thanks to her wiliness to learn and debate. Im very
positive that she keeps growing as a person and Im really proud of
her.
TEA SOURI FROM SWEDEN souri@kth.se 57
THANK YOU!
Any questions?
Feel free to contact me.
Mobile : +821033639004
Email : whatsupyoung@hotmail.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/MuyoungYe
Instagram : @whatsupyoung 58