Muslim women
First Part
When we see Muslim women who wear something on their head or shoulder we wonder about its name and meaning, and their thinking, first of all. This time, we got the chance to know.
Fatma Betul is a student of our university form Turkey. She came to Korea 3 years ago and is majoring economics now. We met her on Saturday morning in the café near the dormitory where she lives now. 카페는 휴일을 맞아 한가롭게 시간을 보내려는 학생들로 가득 차 있었다. 햇살이 쏟아져 들어오는 가운데 히잡을 쓴 한 여성이 걸어 들어와서 우리에게 인사했다. What surprises us first is her fluent Korean. 또한 그녀에게서는 우리가 가지고 있던 이슬람 여성에 대한 생각과는 다른 태도가 느껴졌다. Therefore we wanted to know about her before asking her of our curiosity.
When she was in high school she wanted to study abroad. That was her first aim. But she didn’t choose to go to Europe or US because there are already many international students there and the culture in the US and Europe is very familiar with Turkish culture. So she decided to try to experience a culture that is very different from Turkey. At that time, Korea was getting popular in Turkey due to “Korean wave”. “My father watches Korean dramas and I got to know that there was such country.” she explained. Korea looked quite nice and Korea was also a “brother country” to Turkey. So she decided to study in Korea.
Aspects of Korea from her point of view were very interesting. She lives in an international environment and has friends from all over the world and she can speak Korean, so she seems that having no problem here in Korea. But she has some difficulties.
Her plan after graduation is not fixed. She is in only second year right now, so she cannot sure if she should go to graduate school or start working. There is this dilemma that she doesn’t want to leave Korea but she doesn’t want to stay in Korea either because working in Korea will be so stressful because of some reasons above. But still she likes the life here. She hopes to get a job that enables her to go for long vacations to Turkey. “A traveling job would
When we see Muslim women who wear something on their head or shoulder we wonder about its name and meaning, and their thinking, first of all. This time, we got the chance to know.
Fatma Betul is a student of our university form Turkey. She came to Korea 3 years ago and is majoring economics now. We met her on Saturday morning in the café near the dormitory where she lives now. 카페는 휴일을 맞아 한가롭게 시간을 보내려는 학생들로 가득 차 있었다. 햇살이 쏟아져 들어오는 가운데 히잡을 쓴 한 여성이 걸어 들어와서 우리에게 인사했다. What surprises us first is her fluent Korean. 또한 그녀에게서는 우리가 가지고 있던 이슬람 여성에 대한 생각과는 다른 태도가 느껴졌다. Therefore we wanted to know about her before asking her of our curiosity.
When she was in high school she wanted to study abroad. That was her first aim. But she didn’t choose to go to Europe or US because there are already many international students there and the culture in the US and Europe is very familiar with Turkish culture. So she decided to try to experience a culture that is very different from Turkey. At that time, Korea was getting popular in Turkey due to “Korean wave”. “My father watches Korean dramas and I got to know that there was such country.” she explained. Korea looked quite nice and Korea was also a “brother country” to Turkey. So she decided to study in Korea.
Aspects of Korea from her point of view were very interesting. She lives in an international environment and has friends from all over the world and she can speak Korean, so she seems that having no problem here in Korea. But she has some difficulties.
Her plan after graduation is not fixed. She is in only second year right now, so she cannot sure if she should go to graduate school or start working. There is this dilemma that she doesn’t want to leave Korea but she doesn’t want to stay in Korea either because working in Korea will be so stressful because of some reasons above. But still she likes the life here. She hopes to get a job that enables her to go for long vacations to Turkey. “A traveling job would