My friend at my school (University of Utah) told me he would introduce me to some Koreans that were visiting from Seoul National University (SNU) which made me REALLY excited (as I’ll be studying there all next year, assuming I’m accepted). I had heard that the Dokdo Racers were doing a world tour and that they were mostly all from SNU but I didn’t really put the two together at first. Later right before we met, they told me over the phone that they would be wearing Korean T-shirts (so I could recognize them), so I randomly asked them if the T-Shirts would be about Dokdo which he said yes. Okay! Cool, so I knew who they were now. We introduced ourselves and talked for about an hour (maybe a little more) in Korean, which was really fun for me. They all seemed really nice and that they were having a good time promoting Korea. They invited me to a session where they ran through their presentation and asked for feedback from the Utah Korean Student Association and myself, so I talked a little bit about where Americans will come from when seeing the presentation (not really knowing Korea, etc.). Overall they had a pretty nice presentation put together well which I enjoyed. They used some sort of presentation software which looked really interesting (I have to find out what it is…) which seemed like it ran inside a web browser. After they make any changes, tomorrow I’m going to meet with them and help edit the English on the presentation material so that it’s all correct. They’ll be doing a promotional thing on campus tomorrow and will talk about Dokdo and do some traditional performances on Saturday, so you can expect my follow-up after that.
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