Q1. Please introduce yourself briefly! And please fill in the blank of “I want to be a ______ volunteer”.
“Hello. I am A-hyeon Joo, and I am studying advertising. I want to be a chewy volunteer. Right now I am eating my favorite bread, a chewy sticky sesame bread. Like this sesame bread, I want to be a volunteer who is chewy, charming and a perfect match for anyone I meet.”
Q2. Please tell us about your motivation for applying to MAP.
“I first learned about MAP through Jun-a Saem, a friend from high school. Thanks to that, I got a good opportunity to build experience in publicizing the valuable work of an organization called MAP. I want to make use of my major, do a good job in PR work and help MAP achieve good results!”
Q3. When do you feel most like yourself?
“I think the moment I feel most like myself is when I pour out my passion and become immersed. What I am most into these days is night running. When I sweat while running after finishing the day’s tasks, I pat myself on the back, saying ‘You did your part wonderfully today’ and ‘Good work today’, and I enjoy the sense of achievement of finishing 5 km while focusing entirely on myself.”
Q4. Is there something you have never done before but want to try in order to discover yourself?
“In my 22 years, I have never once gone on a trip alone. I want to break away from what is familiar, travel completely on my own, talk with new people and discover a new me. I am 22, but somehow I always think of myself as still childlike, and I think that after a solo trip I might be able to put on a little bit of an adult air!”
Q5. Whether or not others recognize it, there are times when I think I am cool myself. When was the coolest moment of your life?
“When I give myself a present, and the moment I become an older sister to my younger siblings. I think I feel as cool when I give myself a meaningful present that I bought with my own money, telling myself I worked hard, as when I become a cool older sister who protects and looks after my younger brother and my cute puppy siblings.”
Q6. Finally, what kind of “change” do you want to bring about through your activities at MAP?
“I value living according to my own rules and familiar routines. Sometimes I think this personality makes me miss what is truly important or holds me back from moving on to a bigger world. Through my activities at MAP, I want to meet many people and hear new stories to expand my world, and in turn I want to grow into a person who can stimulate others and widen their world.”