REFLECTIVE

It was really meaningful to me that I live alone in a different culture for the first time. In particular, as a student, I have more opportunities to interact with people. When I first chatted with my friends in an online class, I introduced myself to a few friends in a breakout group, and it was my first time meeting friends from other languages, so I wondered if we were able to talk to each other even using different language. Also, it really touched me that friends were listening to the class in a different environment at the same time as I saw the photos posted in various places in real time especially when I put the work on a shared site during the class. Also, through my education at UAL, I felt more free. For example, I felt that education in Korea has a clear line between students and teachers and it is authoritative, but the tutors in here seem to be giving the best possible support to each student’s situation rather than authoritative feeling. When I took a tutorial on my first project, I was worried about starting over because my work process was too abstract, but when my tutor introduced me to works and writers to refer to and suggested what should I do in my situation. In this part, in the environment where I grew up, there are forcing students to follow the standards of tutors, But in here, tutors would conversely give students advice based on the standards of the students. In this respect, I used to try to create my own work passively to other people’s standards before, but now I create my own work independently of my own standards. When I try to create my own work, also I work on it with a sense of fun.