Day 8 in Seoul
What a day!
We had a lecture from a reporter, Ho san from 東亜日報, one of the main papers in South Korea in the morning, and that was just such a grateful experience.
She has pointed out that we must be confused by learning all the "opposite perspectives" of the history that we already know from our own county's education/media by looking at the historical sites and museums in South Korea.
She was right.
By participating in this tour, I have stepped forward from the point of just taking in information from what the government says, what the school said, what the Media says.. to the point of trying to understand what the other side(in this case, South Korea) has as an opinion, and then consider what I have as my own proposal. In order to do so, I set my mind strongly to study more about politics and history.
And at the end of the day we visited Korea University! We had a discussion with their students and talked about what we could do together for both Korea and Japan.
I was shocked when one student said "At the point somewhere after I graduated from high school, I questioned myself that what we had learned in school might be self-centered.” I respect how he was able to look at his knowledge in a objective way and reconsider it.
It was truly an honer to meet these people and visit the beautiful campus!
#日本大学生訪韓団 #jenesys2017 #韓国 #Korea #ソウル #서울 #KoreaUniversity
What a day!
We had a lecture from a reporter, Ho san from 東亜日報, one of the main papers in South Korea in the morning, and that was just such a grateful experience.
She has pointed out that we must be confused by learning all the "opposite perspectives" of the history that we already know from our own county's education/media by looking at the historical sites and museums in South Korea.
She was right.
By participating in this tour, I have stepped forward from the point of just taking in information from what the government says, what the school said, what the Media says.. to the point of trying to understand what the other side(in this case, South Korea) has as an opinion, and then consider what I have as my own proposal. In order to do so, I set my mind strongly to study more about politics and history.
And at the end of the day we visited Korea University! We had a discussion with their students and talked about what we could do together for both Korea and Japan.
I was shocked when one student said "At the point somewhere after I graduated from high school, I questioned myself that what we had learned in school might be self-centered.” I respect how he was able to look at his knowledge in a objective way and reconsider it.
It was truly an honer to meet these people and visit the beautiful campus!
#日本大学生訪韓団 #jenesys2017 #韓国 #Korea #ソウル #서울 #KoreaUniversity