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UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL
SPRING 2019
SPRING 2019
With midterms week finally over and supplementary week in full swing, I finally have more time to relax and work on my business. When I first heard of supplementary week, I was confused as to what it was. Supplementary week is basically a week for make-up classes. If a professor cancelled class any time during the previous weeks, this would be the week you have to come to class. Interestingly, Professor YK said this is unusual for colleges in Korea - definitely loving UoS 😉 Since my girlfriend and I have more free time, we decided to accept a challenge. As you can recall in my last post, we are fostering a Jindo pup named Mocha. Well, turns out Mocha's sister's foster family couldn't foster her any longer due to medical issues. We decided to help them out and foster her as well! Her name is now Mochi :) On another note, we also had the chance to check out the iconic Nansam Seoul Tower. Despite living so close to it, we never got a chance to visit until now. The views were amazing - you can see the vast city of Seoul stretching out all the way to the horizon. Seoul is such a big city. We also got to attach a lock to the famous love locks. Couples head to the tower to lock their "padlock of love" onto the railing and to dream that their love will last forever.
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Hello again,
This past week has been quite hectic. It was midterm week here at the University of Seoul and I spent most of my time studying. Two of my classes had midterm examinations, one had a physical performance evaluation, and one had two oral presentations. The first exam was for my derivatives, options, and securities class. It's a fourth year business finance class that includes a mixture of investment theory and technical analysis. This was by far my most difficult midterm because the professor's Korean perspective on investment theory is much different than the American perspective that l have been learning at Shidler. He discusses many things on a macro level and shares his opinions on how different countries have unique policies, regulations, and laws that influence the way investors are able to trade. However, many of the things he discusses in class don't apply to the United States investment market. For example, one of the questions on the exam was about CFD investments, which is something you don't typically learn in the US because CFD trading is illegal in the States. My second exam was for my global marketing class. I studied hard for this exam because it was covering a total of 10 chapters worth of content. All the hard work paid off because I got an A+ on this exam! I was pleasantly surprised and relieved with the results. The physical performance evaluation was for my lifestyle fitness class, which is very similar to the KRS classes at UH Manoa. Throughout the first half of the semester, we have been learning 3 different sports: ultimate frisbee, badminton, and basketball. For the performance evaluation, the professor had us play each sport and he graded us on factors such as proper form, accuracy, and communication. He also had us take a short written exam to test our knowledge of the rules and regulations for each sport. My human resource management class didn't have any midterms, but we had two group presentations instead. These presentations were based on various chapters throughout the textbook and were both expected to be 30 minutes in length. My groups opted to do our presentations first and second, so we had two weeks of presentations back-to-back. Our first presentation was on performance management and evaluation. Our second presentation was on employee benefits and compensation. I think we did well on both of the presentations because everyone on our team was comfortable with public speaking and we did our research on the topics thoroughly. Overall I'm very happy with my personal performance and my group's performances this week. The grades haven't all been released yet, but I'm confident that I did well in all of my classes. I'm glad that midterm week is finally over! |
Michael ImaiEntrepreneur, Archives
July 2019
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