Cho Hyun-woo (GBA 15) Student Interview_Interview on winning the Dean's Award for Student Success Award
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- Hit465
- 2022-12-21
1. Hello, please introduce yourself first.
Hello! I'm Cho Hyun-woo, majoring in Global Business Administration at Sungkyunkwan University. I finished my bachelor's degree this August
(A photo of the graduation ceremony in the background of Myeongnyundang.)
2. I heard that you won the Dean Award in the Student Success Award at the degree ceremony in 20222. Please give us a brief acceptance speech.
Thank you to the school officials and the professors for teaching for four years. It's an honor o receive a big award at the end of college. I don't think 'success' itself can be evaluated relatively because it's invisible. I think everyone who attended this summer's degree ceremony has succeeded because true 'success' is about achieving their dreams and goals. I hope all alumni with fulfill their responsibilities from all walks of life and succeed. I will also work hard to become a talented person suitable for he dean's award and contribute to Sungkyunkwan again.
3. Are there any internal and external activities that you participated in when you were an undergraduate? Please introduce the most memorable activity.
I participated in volunteer work. During the winter vacation of the second grade, I worked as a staff member of the International Youth Real Start-up Competition at Junior Achievement and served as an interpreter and protocol for VIPs in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for the first and second grades. Junior Achievement is an organization that provides free economic education to teenagers from all over the world. As a UN-recognized NGO with over 100 years of tradition, it was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. When I was a high school student, I won the first place in a domestic competition under the theme of 'Sell vending machines to India', and it is also an organization that has a deep relationship with me.
In the end, it is the same for any discipline but I thought that business administration, in particular, had limitations in studying only books. There are many industries, more companies than that, and there are various jobs, but a person's body is one, right? I think experience and reflection on what I am good at and what I like are important in career exploration, and I think it is a big experience to challenge start-ups. This is because you can devise a business model through ideas and organically consider various aspects from logistics to business strategies. Although I participated as a volunteer, it was a meaningful time to interact with teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region. Junior Achievement is sponsored by some of the world's leading companies, opening up opportunities to gain insight from a wide range of current employees.
I also remember the activities of the Korean Culture and Diplomacy Corps. Interpreters and protocol were performed at various cultural and diplomatic events attended by foreign VIPs. I've never been to a language training program, so I especially had a strong desire for language skills. I improved my language skills to a professional and formal degree beyond everyday conversation. It was a meaningful experience to promote Korean culture through various activities such as interpreting inside and outside the Argentina ambassador to Korea at the World Costume Festival.
(Diplomatic Mission to Korea Visits Daegu. The cultural expert in front of me explained it in Korean, and I interpreted it in English.)
(This is the poster of the competition that I participated in as a volunteer.)
4. You graduated with excellent grades, do you have your own know-how?
I tried to participate in all classes with a sense of purpose. I'm ashamed, but I'm a very lazy person. I work hard on activities that I like and am interested in, but if I am not interested, I don' invest time at all. In fact, in the first semester of the first grade, I received low grades by taking school-designated subjects and department-designated subjects one after another. After receiving my report card for the first time, I invested more time in my studies because I thought, 'I need to study a little.'
I put my heart and soul into which course to take in the course registration. I read the syllabus carefully and thought about what I could learn by completing the class. Let me give you an example of a finance class that I studied with the most interest. Finance assumes reasonable users with sufficient knowledge, but it's doubtful whether humans make reasonable economic decisions. After completing <Intermediate Investments>, <Intermediate Finance>, <Financial Management>, I learned classical valuation techniques, and observed the volatility of the real market based on incomplete rationality through <Behavioral Finance & Fintech> and <Venture Financing>. In order to learn mathematical methodology, I also took math subjects such as <Discrete Mathematics>, <Different Integration Calculus 1>, and <Linear Algebra>. In the case of parts that cannot be solved through the class plan, I actively asked the professors through e-mail.
I carefully considered which professor was teaching even if it was the same class. I took the classes of Professor Choi Kwan and Professor Jeon Dae-seok, respectively. In the case of <Intermediate Accounting 2>, I took the class because the professor said that he deals with the accounting for redeemable convertible preferred stocks that I was interested in, In the case of <Academic Writing>, I took the class because the professor said that I could receive more than three corrections in a value-neutral manner.
For good grades, I recommend taking the initiative in designing courses rather than taking courses with a high average credit ratio.
5. What are your future career paths and goals?
I want to break away from 'eating&livingism' and create a society where we can live well together. Based on my major, global business administration, my dream is to think about the company's challenges together, present solutions, and become an expert in corporate finance. In the second round of the CPA exam, I got a first postponement of the audit and for the time being, I plan to finish the exam by experiencing internship in M&A and the audit department. The more I study, the more clear I become about what I know and what I don't know. I'm such greedy personality, so I have a lot of possibilities about what kind of career I will choose. However, no matter what career path I choose, I plan to make various efforts to become a person with expertise in one hand and a sense of field work in the other.
6. Lastly, please give us some advice for the classmates of the business school.
I hope you're not afraid of trying and falling. I think college students are the marginal people between students and members of society. You learn your major, and at the same time, you encounter relationship problems that most students haven't experienced before. I think the spirit of challenge and the experience that comes with it can be a solution for you. When I reflected on my past college life, I learned more by encountering a new society, environment, and people than by thinking and exploring with my head alone. It's okay to make mistakes. Even the stroke of a young day is fine. There is no perfect life without mistakes, no life where everything goes according to plan. I want you to grow yourself through various experiences.
(This is a picture of Annapurna base camp in the Himalayas. I've tried it since I got an ankle injury.)