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Shin Seon Hae

Date: 3 July 2010

 

My Best Cousin

 

Does it have to be a friend to be a best friend? Well, for me my cousin is one of my best friends, who help me whenever I am in trouble. Out of my 13 cousins my favorite and closest one is Ji-Min who’s just two years older than me. We weren’t very close when we were young because we did not have many chances to meet each other. However as we grew older, and as we both started to live in Seoul we became a real support to each other. Whenever I go through a trouble or have a concern that’s even too difficult to discuss it with my friends I call her up and ask for her help. Then she helps me with all her efforts to solve my problems with me. For example, once I had a health problem but it was kind of hard to discuss it with my friends so the only choice, since my parents weren’t next to me, I had was to ask for her help. I asked if she could come with me to the hospital and guess what the answer was. Of course it was yes without any second of hesitation. Also last winter, when the weather was freezing cold, my house’s boiler had burst which made me feel like I was standing on the ice on a bare foot. Not just the floor, water made me feel as if my fingers were going to chop off, it was like an inside of an igloo. To spend the night safely my only hope was my cousin. Even though I hadn’t met her for the whole semester her first words were “come quickly.” These days it’s not easy for both of us to meet frequently because of my school and her work. But whenever I need her help or she needs mine we call each other at anytime and ask for it because we are family and in the same time best friends to each other.

 

Let’s get a Driver License

 

Achieving a driver license is not the most important thing in our life, but it’s a convenience license if we have one. To achieve the driver license in Korea you have to go though several steps. First, you have to decide which kind of license you are going to aim for. In Korea there are three kinds: 1jong bo-tong (a license for driving both automatic and stick), 1jong dae-hyeong (a license for driving big trucks or buses) and 2 jong bo-tong (a license for driving only automatic cars). Second, you have to do checkups like eyesight test to find out whether you are appropriate for driving or not. For example, color blinds can’t drive because it’s harder for them to distinguish the colors of the traffic lights. Then you try out for the written test, after you figured out that you are the most perfect person to drive. It’s done by few clicks on the computer so the result (congratulations or try again sign) pops out on the screen the minute you submit the test. In order to pass the test you must pass 60 points for the 2 jong bo-tong and 70 points for 1 jong bo-tong. Next, you should pay a visit to a near academy and must get three hours compulsory education and have to pass another test called functional test. The functional test is a test done inside the academy where it looks like a real road in a small version and test you on all the fundamental things about driving. Lastly, you schedule yourself for ten hours of driving practice on a real road for the driving test. When you are through these five steps without any failures you can proudly achieve a driver license with your picture and name on it. Money and time is needed in achieving a driving license but your effort is the most importantly required aspect to go through several steps and tests to live a convenient life.