Day 4 in Korea for the study tour!
Sorry about the long posts lately😛
As my college friends know, I tend to write a lot (especially when it comes to English) so this time I wanted to make it shorter but didn't work🙂
We went to 大邱(Daegu)!
At first it looked like a big city like 釜山(Busan), but when you get into a deeper street, you can feel a quiet and rather old atmosphere. I loved it! I highly recommend this place to visit when you travel to South Korea.
大邱(Daegu) used to be a town gn which many Japanese residents used to live. Now, Daegu-haru, a cafe that helds various events and works on projects to connect Daegu and Japan has resently started an interesting project; peeling off the walls of the remaining buildings. They do that because when you reveal the outside of the buildings, old Japanese style houses will expose. They made one old Japanese-style house turn into a fashionable cafe, and named it as Daegu-haru. They do events that you can experience Japanese culture and they also offer jobs for Japanese people living in Korea.
However, some older Korean residents in Daegu did not have a positive attitude towards the project of Daegu haru. They were uncomfortable with looking at anything about Japan. Yet, because of the strong faith that the representative of Daegu-haru had, which is; "To reveal and to face the negative history is the most essensial thing that we have to do", now the street that used to be covering up the negative history, that once Korea was ruled by Japan, now has many Japanese visitors and also those residents who were against the project came to have coffee here!
I was moved by this decision of Daegu-haru, and I also thought that "revealing and facing the history" is a crucial factor to make Japan and Korea's relationship better. Not only in tems of houses, but I thought that we shouldn't be afraid of confronting an opposite opinion or a negative history. I t is natural that our recognition of the history and of the current political issues are different. But what I want to do is not only think in my own perspective but also listen to the other side’s story.
I still have a lot more to think about, but all I can say now is that Korean students are just so nice to us and it is truly fun to get to know them better. It makes me think that we can overcome political and historical difficulties with the help of friendly interacions and sometimes serious (but not hostile) conversion about each other's country's relationship. In that way, I believe that we can figure out what makes our country's argument disagree with each other, and how we can overcome it. When we can do that, I think that that's when we can finally understand each other.
We have about a week left fir this program, and I really hope that I can find answers to the questions that I have been piling up through the discussions with the Korean students!
And I also can't forget the delicious 찜닭(Jimdak) and 설빙(Sulbing) we ate with オンくん 이성원, ユルくん 이한율, and えっちゃん Yechan Kim !❤️😍 Thank you again for taking us to an awesome adventure in Daegu! 반갑습니다〜☺️✨
#日本大学生訪韓団 #jenesys2017 #大邱 #Daegu #韓国
Sorry about the long posts lately😛
As my college friends know, I tend to write a lot (especially when it comes to English) so this time I wanted to make it shorter but didn't work🙂
We went to 大邱(Daegu)!
At first it looked like a big city like 釜山(Busan), but when you get into a deeper street, you can feel a quiet and rather old atmosphere. I loved it! I highly recommend this place to visit when you travel to South Korea.
大邱(Daegu) used to be a town gn which many Japanese residents used to live. Now, Daegu-haru, a cafe that helds various events and works on projects to connect Daegu and Japan has resently started an interesting project; peeling off the walls of the remaining buildings. They do that because when you reveal the outside of the buildings, old Japanese style houses will expose. They made one old Japanese-style house turn into a fashionable cafe, and named it as Daegu-haru. They do events that you can experience Japanese culture and they also offer jobs for Japanese people living in Korea.
However, some older Korean residents in Daegu did not have a positive attitude towards the project of Daegu haru. They were uncomfortable with looking at anything about Japan. Yet, because of the strong faith that the representative of Daegu-haru had, which is; "To reveal and to face the negative history is the most essensial thing that we have to do", now the street that used to be covering up the negative history, that once Korea was ruled by Japan, now has many Japanese visitors and also those residents who were against the project came to have coffee here!
I was moved by this decision of Daegu-haru, and I also thought that "revealing and facing the history" is a crucial factor to make Japan and Korea's relationship better. Not only in tems of houses, but I thought that we shouldn't be afraid of confronting an opposite opinion or a negative history. I t is natural that our recognition of the history and of the current political issues are different. But what I want to do is not only think in my own perspective but also listen to the other side’s story.
I still have a lot more to think about, but all I can say now is that Korean students are just so nice to us and it is truly fun to get to know them better. It makes me think that we can overcome political and historical difficulties with the help of friendly interacions and sometimes serious (but not hostile) conversion about each other's country's relationship. In that way, I believe that we can figure out what makes our country's argument disagree with each other, and how we can overcome it. When we can do that, I think that that's when we can finally understand each other.
We have about a week left fir this program, and I really hope that I can find answers to the questions that I have been piling up through the discussions with the Korean students!
And I also can't forget the delicious 찜닭(Jimdak) and 설빙(Sulbing) we ate with オンくん 이성원, ユルくん 이한율, and えっちゃん Yechan Kim !❤️😍 Thank you again for taking us to an awesome adventure in Daegu! 반갑습니다〜☺️✨
#日本大学生訪韓団 #jenesys2017 #大邱 #Daegu #韓国