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2019 Winter Personal Essay

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2018 Summer Personal Essay

'2018 Global Forum Camp Essay Writing'

topic: Educational institution of Goryeo and current educational institution

As It was my second participation for global camp, I was on seventh heaven to think about what we are gonna do in this time camp. But also a bit worried to meet our new team members and new teacher. But soon after meeting them I realized that my worries are foolish; especially since I saw our team teacher with big smile and also when team members introducing each other, I got to know that our team will have the best achievement among all other teams.

As this year is 1100th anniversary of Goryeo Kingdom, I have been curious about how Goryeo higher education have been organized itself. What was the management system, or people of which status could enter that school,....and what is more important, whether there were also typical math test which made students get sick of it.

So I suggested to team what if we investigate about Goryeo Education policies and university, and thankfully our team has accepted this idea. So after short discussion we decided on the topic; to compare the Education of Goryeo with Modern Education.

The part that I was in charge of in the team was a vice leader. My responsibility was to help leader and other students with research and try to answer all the questions that other members were confused about. And I was also in charge of entire steps with team leader so I tried to work hard until late night checking wrong information from other members’reports with leader. Well, even though It was very hard to stay late night(seriously, my eyes became red like a vampire.) But I could handle it as there were some funny weird translation from other members' reports. For example, someone translated team leader into 'sister-in-law'! what a weird translation system she used.

I also tried to be more responsible with my research. I looked for some information about Goryeo non-public education foundation ‘Mun hun gong do’ established by scholar Choi-chong and some major education policies related with them.

If I explain 'Mun hun gong do' easily, It could be called 'private academy'. what we normally could see on the street in Korea. Korean students mostly like to call it 'the place that we most hate to go after school.'. And during research, I started to get interested in this private academy's education system more and more.

I also conducted an investigation into how‘Mun hun gong do’ was operated, the educational system management, and the reputation of this education business at that time. And also some policies that Goryeo government operated to bring 'Guk ja gam' into life as‘Mun hun gong do’ became much popular than national school ’Guk ja gam’.

And I also wrote about the limitations of Goryeo education system during that age. It was quite difficult to find and compare each education policies. There are some differences between modern and past but it was very worthy to learn strengths and weaknesses of Goryeo Education system. it was also happy to imagine if I was a student of Goryeo to write those parts.

The most hard part was to translate old books and metaphysical subjects. As there were some old books which Goryeo students studied at 'Guk ja-gam' As I wasn’t an expert about old studies, it took long time to investigate all studies and organize my writing to make others to understand easily.

While doing this research I could learn there was also well-settled education system during Goryeo dynasty and it was very interesting to compare with today’s education system. For me it was very unique to see each Goryeo kings’ Education policies, especially king Seong-jong who established Guk-ja-gam, and this fact made me to respect them for their effort. In order to raise Confucian scholars and fine lieges’s support for the king was able to reign through this education system. And I was very lucky to compare two big education systems and it also amazed me that Goryeo which was a kingdom existed more than thousand years ago, has lots of coincidences with today advanced education system. Through this I could learn our ancestors’ knowledge. Also I started to think that I should keep working on for my dream to become the one who also invent creative education system for students and contribute to the future of Korean Education.