<p>Sooyeon Lim from South Korea has come to Manipal to do hotel management course at Welcomegroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration.<br /><br /></p>.<p> Sooyeon always had crush for doing something new, as a result of which she decided to try with hotel management besides she was convinced by her friends over the plenty of opportunities offered in the area.<br /><br />Sooyeon says, “My friends told me about this school and as I wanted to go out from the mainstream of medicine and engineering, I decided to go ahead with hotel management course”. She continues, “however, I am disappointed with the way of acquiring skills here. The quality of education depends on the college and here the horizon of acquiring knowledge in an intellectual approach is somewhere struck in between. <br /><br />Students take everything lightly and lack of seriousness in grabbing ideas hinders the education process. While in Korea the scenario is totally different. We have usual school and college hours. However, after the college, we are made to go for extra hours of self studying under the supervision of the faculty. I find it very unusual here,” she says.<br /><br />Sooyeon was absolutely in surprise when she came here for the first time. She was going through an alien culture and tradition and she was surprised to see people wearing traditional outfits almost everyday.<br /><br /> “I wonder how Indians are still not affected by the idea of westernisation. I respect the fact that they do still have lots of culture and their enthusiasm in celebrating every small festival in a bigger way is really awesome. Korean culture is entirely modernised. We back at home do not celebrate much festivals and the few celebrations we have is on the occasions of New Year and thanks giving”. <br /><br /> Coming from a place where the cuisines are spicier than Indian food, Sooyeon feels Indian, especially south Indian dishes are blunt. She tells, “these dishes do not have salt and also they are not spicy. Some of the north Indian cuisines are similar to Korean food. However, I have to eat three to four green chilies along with my food”.<br /><br />All of Sooyeon friends are in USA and Canada and she doesn’t want to recommend them to come to India to take up their studies. She tells “they are in a place far better than me. I really do not want them to come to India as they are already having lots of fun during their study”. Briefing on her future plans, Sooyeon says she has not decided yet.<br /><br /> “I am eagerly waiting to finish off my bachelor course and decide later. At present, I just want to concentrate on my studies and take it seriously unlike the students here,” she smiles. <br /><br /></p>
<p>Sooyeon Lim from South Korea has come to Manipal to do hotel management course at Welcomegroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration.<br /><br /></p>.<p> Sooyeon always had crush for doing something new, as a result of which she decided to try with hotel management besides she was convinced by her friends over the plenty of opportunities offered in the area.<br /><br />Sooyeon says, “My friends told me about this school and as I wanted to go out from the mainstream of medicine and engineering, I decided to go ahead with hotel management course”. She continues, “however, I am disappointed with the way of acquiring skills here. The quality of education depends on the college and here the horizon of acquiring knowledge in an intellectual approach is somewhere struck in between. <br /><br />Students take everything lightly and lack of seriousness in grabbing ideas hinders the education process. While in Korea the scenario is totally different. We have usual school and college hours. However, after the college, we are made to go for extra hours of self studying under the supervision of the faculty. I find it very unusual here,” she says.<br /><br />Sooyeon was absolutely in surprise when she came here for the first time. She was going through an alien culture and tradition and she was surprised to see people wearing traditional outfits almost everyday.<br /><br /> “I wonder how Indians are still not affected by the idea of westernisation. I respect the fact that they do still have lots of culture and their enthusiasm in celebrating every small festival in a bigger way is really awesome. Korean culture is entirely modernised. We back at home do not celebrate much festivals and the few celebrations we have is on the occasions of New Year and thanks giving”. <br /><br /> Coming from a place where the cuisines are spicier than Indian food, Sooyeon feels Indian, especially south Indian dishes are blunt. She tells, “these dishes do not have salt and also they are not spicy. Some of the north Indian cuisines are similar to Korean food. However, I have to eat three to four green chilies along with my food”.<br /><br />All of Sooyeon friends are in USA and Canada and she doesn’t want to recommend them to come to India to take up their studies. She tells “they are in a place far better than me. I really do not want them to come to India as they are already having lots of fun during their study”. Briefing on her future plans, Sooyeon says she has not decided yet.<br /><br /> “I am eagerly waiting to finish off my bachelor course and decide later. At present, I just want to concentrate on my studies and take it seriously unlike the students here,” she smiles. <br /><br /></p>
