Applying for KGSP 2018 - 1st round Interview.

I guess this will be my first official post related to KGSP application. As an introduction, this year is my second time applying. Phew. Both have never been an easy journey. I passed through completing all the documents required and it arrived safely in the University that I'm applying.

I'm going to share about my experience of going through the 1st round interview. Before and after the process, I will share it next time.

Yes, it's a miracle for me that I received the interview invitation compare to my first application - no news at all 😆 anyway it's a whole new experience for me. A day before they announce official interview schedule, the admin sent me an email informed me that I will go through Skype interview on 28th March 2018 and they're asking for my skype ID and so on.

The next day when they post the interview schedule I found out that I was the only participants out of 17 people that need to go through skype interview (the others are through phone interview) and I was like, "Why am I the only one?" Cliche but yes I  did. Turned out the skype interview was requested by the department that I'm applying which is Library and Information Science at Sookmyung Women's University.

Of course I was so nervous and luckily an acquaintance of mine remind me to wear something proper or else I would've wear a very casual clothes. I just grabbed whatever available in my house to give a good impression. Since I need to wear something formal, I need to put on a blazer which i never have and ended up borrow my sister's one lol. So this how i looked like on the interview day. Since i woke up so early, look at my eyebag lol.

So I waited an hour early for the interview on 28th and here what happened. I'v prepared a lot of predictable questions that they might asked as what have been shared by other participants in FB group. They have a list which contains around 20 questions and I work so hard practising and memorize the answers in a very simple but in an impressive way - which I believe that I did lol.

During the interview the first question that they ( 2 professors) asked was to introduce myself. I have prepare my own sentence and it goes well as I planned. Typical first question. So I did introduce myself but it doesnt seems enough for them and they asked me the question from statement of purpose (included in the application form but i forgot about it and dont think that they will ask ㅡ.ㅡ) thank god I do still remember some points. It's very important to read it all over again right before the interview take place. Dont be like me ㅠㅠ

Things seems wrong starting from here. They started talking about korean language and test my korean language ability. It goes on until the end of interview and at the same time they talked/introduce about the major that I'm applying (different major than my bachelor degree) which is VERY UNPREDICTABLE but the professors are so nice, friendly and so informative.

There was a little bit of pressure especially when they asked me to speak korean but I think it doesn't go well since I was so nervous and seems like those korean words that I know are blocked ㅠㅠ As my korean is getting worst day by day I feel so lacking phew. They asked me something like this 무슨 한식 좋아해요? Or maybe the sentence is a little bit more difficult since I couldnt catch a word that they're saying and ended up they translate the whole sentence for me. At this moment i felt quite down. Why why why why did I forgot!

Anyway it was a good experience. The professors seems like they liked me and offers for support if anything goes wrong with my application for KGSP lol at that moment I had a mixed feelings. "Are they accepting me or not?" is what I thought. They also said that they're very delighted to have me in their department and so on. But at the same time they're quite worry for my korean language skills because it wasn't as good as they expected, maybe. I forgot to mentioned that KGSP include a year of korean language class which they might not know of - some of professors didn't know about this - so this is the only point that I regret of during the interview.

That's it.

I guess it went very well. I got to know from last year successful applicant that Sookmyung Women's University didn't announce the 1st round result - not sure how it goes this year - so they waited until 2nd round result which for this year application it will be on 1st May. I really hope that they could announce it for this year but if they don't then I have no choice but to wait until 1st May.

So, let's wait for it and pray harder! 화이팅! 레일리 할수있어!!