Why I chose to become a journalist

It's actually very sudden. I was not interested in becoming a journalist at all, but now I want it.

When I first thought about my career when I was very young, like in high school, I wanted to become a developer, and I still am; I just think it's not the right time to work on. My first major was Computer Science when I first came to OSU. But on winter term, my professor was teaching Java, and I couldn't catch up the material she was teaching. Actually, she taught material that wasn't on the book and expected every single person in that class to know. Since I didn't have any knowledge in CS, I failed that class and regret my choice of choosing CS. Therefore, now I am studying New Media and Communication.

New Media and Communication…is very uncommon. Most people don't know what the hell this major is all about. Interestingly, this major is freaking broad. I can learn so many things. It's basically every stuff relating with New Media like film, news, reporting, SNS, photography, movie editing, etc. And I thought this major was very interesting since I have been interested in Public Relations, and I can learn not only PR, but other materials like SNS, movie editing, etc. So I changed my major on Winter 2011.

And my college life became boredom. New media classes were boring, I didn't make many friends, not even Korean friends, I didn't participate in any club or other activities, and I was lonely. I didn't enjoy my college life at all. Honestly, I still don't, but much better than at this time. I spent boring Spring term, and came back to South Korea. It was a lot of fun for me. I love walking around in the big city like Seoul, and I don't have to be lonely. Furthermore, I got an opportunity to do an intern. It was one of my best experience ever. I organize and designed Mobile apps(Since I am running blogs for reviewing iOS and Android apps for years, I believe I an pretty good at these materials).

After coming back to my boring reality in US, I really wanted go back to South Korea for studying. US, I mean Corvallis, OR, is too boring for me. So I suffered with my parents arguing about this issue for whole fall term. As a result, I chose to stay in America. At first, I had to; I realized it's freaking hard for me to transfer to college in South Korea.

Then I went to a workshop, and Julia Sandidge, a director of Student Media in OSU, helped me to reach current goal. Honestly, her workshop was sort of boring at the beginning. However, when she started talking about what she had done as a reporter, and told "Give voice to voiceless", I wanted to become a journalist. Now my goal is becoming IT tech journalist in US. This is pretty common now, but I believe there are not many journalists who are from South Korea, or know Korea's IT industry, which is very interesting in a positive way. Therefore, I want to become a Tech writer who understand both South Korea and US's IT industry and give my voice to someone who doesn't know either of them.

I can talk not only IT, but skincare, music, or anything related with Korea. I realized I have such an amazing environment in US for what I want to do. I will be able to get better opportunities in US than in Korea. Now I am going to try my best to stuck in US. I am even thinking of becoming a US citizen. I believe I have a lot of potential. I am going to do not only journalism, but also designing app and PR. I am going to try to achieve my goal, and becoming a journalist is going to be my first step.