The story of Eddy

I got a task from my teacher to write something about your classmate. My partner was Eddy, who is a young sporty Korean guy. I mention sports because, all the hobbies that he told me are related to sport; table tennis, soccer; and basketball, etc...

However, we went to library after school and had an interview for each other. We had to find out more details before writing. From now on, I would like to introduce this nice guy Eddy as I have known.

KIM DAE SUB is the Korean name of Eddy. He was born on 1 Jun 1984 in Seoul city, by the time there were seven members in his family, included grand-grandmother, grandparents, parents, and his brother. His family had ever transferred three times, but he couldn't remember the detail things because he was very young.

During the interview, I could feel he treasured his family very much, and always kept good relationship with all family members. He has a nice brother who older than Eddy just one year, Eddy learned lots of things from his brother. Seemed it's a really nice family. Unfortunately, his grand-grandmother passed away by the time he was sixth grades at elementary school. Eddy got shocked and felt upset, because his grand-grandmother took care of him carefully and nicely, even he slept with his grand-grandmother until she gone. However, Eddy was aware of how precious the family to him! He said that was the first turning point of his life.

Let's talk about his career of studied. Eddy got good grades when he studied at elementary and junior high school, because his mother is an elementary school teacher and always pushed him study hard. Pressures and punishments are the only things he could remember during that period.

After Eddy graduated from junior high school, he went to senior high school smoothly. But he didn't study very well, because he spent lots of time to hang out with friends. The grade of senior high school would influence which level of university you could go, so his parents worried about that.

However, he felt happy and had lots of beautiful memories during this period, even the grade is not very well. To deserve to be mentioned, by the time Eddy studied at third grade of senior high school, he was interested in a new subject named commercial trade. He liked to do research of the subject and always got high grades in this class. Furthermore, he found out the direction of his major in university. I thought this could be the second turning point.

Eddy also had a great time after he entered university to study commercial trade, although he didn't get the scholarship because of he played too hard. However, he made a lot of best friends in the beginning of university.

By the time he finished the courses of sophomore, he paused the semester and entered Military service to finish his duty. He didn't want to go to Military service after he graduated from university, just like the most Korean man did. Luckily, Eddy was assigned to a rear-service department of the Army and had responsibility to manage a warehouse, the task just matched with his major things. He learned lots of things from it, for instance: how to manage goods, materials, and equipment. Therefore, he thought it's a very useful and great period. Of course, this is the third turning point for him.

After Eddy discharged from Army, he met some classmates who had already graduated from university. Even they studied very hard during four years of university, but found out a good and suitable job still was very difficult to them because of the poor English ability. After that, Eddy was just aware of the importance of English. So he didn't go back to university directly but getting started his English learning journey. He went to the Philippines for three months , after that he arrived Toronto to continue his English learning. The forth turning point of his career.

Eddy want to enhance English ability and enlarges his horizon during the time he stayed in Canada, because that could help him to get job in a trade company after goes back to Korea. Just like most of man wanted, Eddy hopes someday he could become a CEO of big corporation. Good luck to him!

--Written by Richard.