An Essay About A Trip To Korea

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When I visited the US to attend my cousin’s wedding ceremony, I felt something different thing from I had felt before. The world is so huge, and there are different people in other countries. I did not have travel other countries for sightseeing, excluding that I visited China because of the work. It was first experience to meet and communication with other countries people and, it was so refreshing for me. Before I visited the US, the foreign people were like characters in a fantasy novel. I just had to imagine them; I could not meet and communicate with them. After I came back to South Korea, I started to consider quitting my job, and studying in the US in earnest. Before that, I just had had a vague plan to study in any MBA degree course …show more content…
And it was an excellent choice for me because I could focus on watching this movie. This movie was amazing for me because I could feel the life of ordinary American people. The family in the movie was very normal and ordinary that we can find easily in Korea …show more content…
He wanted to show normal American boy’s boyhood with his family’s normal life. For this, he decided to take this movie for 12 years. He casted actors, and called them every year to take the scenes of the year. Every year, they took about 15 minutes of scenes, and after 12 years this movie was finally released to audience. The first shooting started in 2002, and the last shooting finished in 2014. Honestly, it was a brilliant idea, but at the same time, it was an impractical idea. However, the director and actors finished this movie without any problem. I really respect their patience and endurance. The boy lived with his elder sister and single mother. Sometimes, he and his sister could meet their father, but he was so lazy and thus he could not remarry with his ex-wife. The boy’s mother decided to remarry with an old professor rather than her ex-husband, but her second marriage was so terrible. Her new husband was an alcoholic and she and her young children were exposed to domestic violence by him. Finally, she decided to divorce with

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