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Rendezvous
Yena
Yena
ⓒLee
ⓒLee
▲YenajumpsindelightfacingthegrandpanoramaoftheMachu
▲YenapointsatDokdoIslandbehindher.
PicchuinPeru.
returned to Korea. I was also afraid that I might grow distant
exam suggested “journalist” as my career, I deemed it right
from my friends for not being able to relate to their bustling
and acquiesced. However, during my travels, I had to worry
lives in Korea. Even now, I am uncertain if I am practicing
about what I really was without the conditions that defined
what I had learned from my travels. However, I have recently
my identity back in Korea, such as academic achievements or
realized that these types of worries have no ultimate answer
qualifications.Thankstomyjourney,Ifinallyfoundadirection
to resolve them all at once. Rather, it is something I have to
for my life. Therefore, I would like to recommend readers to
carry throughout my life. After acknowledging that, I was
leave and throw themselves out there. Spend time with people
released from the continuous distress that lurked within me.
youdonotknowandfindoutwhoyouare.Iamconfidentthat
Additionally, after my travel experiences, I have come to
this kind of [out-of-nowhere/reckless] experience will come
believethatIwilleventuallymakethedecisionstolivetheway
acrossasyourownturningpointinlife.
Iwant.
Fromthisinterview,welearnedhowYenaearnedthetitleof
“Hanbok Traveler.” Beforehand, she was no different from all
TheArgus:Whatareyourplansforthisyear?
Lee: This year, I will stay in Korea with the main focus
of us?a youth struggling to find an answer and meaning in
on ‘travel’ and ‘education.’ Although they are seemingly
life. However, her unique experience of ‘traveling in hanbok’
irrelevant,Iwanttodevelopa‘process’throughwhichtravelis
transformed her life. As a result, she has managed to steer
akindofeducation.Specifically,Iwouldliketogatherpeople
her life to a direction she now knows that she wants, and the
everymonthonthesimilarthemeoftheirtroublesandgoona
voyagetoherdestinationorherpurposeisstillunderway.
trip together and help them learn to overcome their hardships
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through traveling. In addition, I want to deliver what I learned
In fact, ‘culture’ is prevalently perceived as a supplementary
from traveling to children in schools. Ultimately, I hope to
factorthatcomplementsqualityoflifebutisnotindispensable
change this closed society where we cannot be who we really
to life. Nevertheless, as can be seen from above, Yena devised
are.Iwishtoestablishahippycommunityandaschoolwhere
her own method of partaking in cultural movements, and she
children can grow into individuals who can express their
cametotherealizationofhowtoleadherlife.Nothingexcept
identitieswithconfidence.
for her very own cultural experience has empowered her as
wellasherownlifeexperience.
With respect to the power invested in cultural experiences,
The Argus: Do you have anything to say to the
The Argus hopes the article will inspire readers to embark
readersalsointheirtwenties?
Lee: I would like to tell them to “Leave.” If they ask me
on their own mission to define themselves and their lives by
what they should look for, I would answer “Yourself.” Before
undertakinganactiveandconsciousroleasabuddingmember
my trip to South America, I was an ordinary 22-year-old girl
of society amidst the busily shifting cultural waves of their
who was stressed out about employment. I did not have a clue
twenties.
what I liked and what I should do in life. When an aptitude
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