Sungwoo Bae
Before this class, I thought a good writing has to be well
thought of and should not attract counter arguments. When writing, I always
though beforehand the oppositions that could be argued against my writing and
tried to counter the counter argument or just got rid of the whole material in
the first place. However, seeing how my somewhat mindless writing of philosophy
and robotics making a controversy which lead to a good source of debate, showed
me that sometimes it’s good to be bold and without thought. Although I had no
purpose to be so provocative, I was, and it was good see how it spurred many
excellent opinions and thoughts from others.
To my Hubaes, I would like to recommend them to sometimes
free write however they want on a piece of paper. None stop writing and just
pour down all the words and thoughts in your head. Not only does it enhance
your writing skills but you can really grasp some very creative thoughts inside
your head. Most of us are too used to brain storming and sculpting a form before
writing, sometimes we need to break all of those to kick our writing up a
notch.
If the English
speaking society has ever listened to a Korean song, it’s most likely that
it’ll be K-pop. I always thought most of K-pop songs were without meaning and
was concentrated on commercializing the song and artists rather than creating a
‘good song’. However, after going through the course of creative writing, I was
able to listen to many varieties of songs in K-pop that I usually passed by and
found out there were some very good songs to be heard. So for the English
speaking society, I’ll try to filter some Korean songs good for the ear and
also good for the soul.
Who is driving
the bus in our society? Where is that person or group driving us and should we
do something about it? These were the questions we talked about during our
classes. If the Korean music industry were like free market, I’m with the idea
of leaving as it is, letting it go where it wants to go. However, as we went on
through our course, I learned that there could be some powerful people controlling
the whole industry for their own uses. Now our problem is, can we stop them? And
should we stop them?
It’s been such an
enjoyable and meaningful class Mr. Johnson. You let the class explore many
ideas that we’ve never thought of and let us talk about the things that could
really affect our lives in the future. For the question about the driving bus…
I think I’ll have to think more on that.
