My Korea

I have a Korean Friend who worked in Istanbul as an intern in 2014. I met him in Korea in 2013. We worked together for KITA(Korea International Trade Association) as student marketers. I went to Istanbul as an exchange student and he went as an intern. What a coincidence! We hung out there together sometimes. After a while he went back to Korea and graduated from his university.
He is two years older than I am and he is looking for a job in Korea at the moment. However, since it is becoming extremely difficult to find a job in Korea as time goes on, he has been unemployed since last January. I personally think he has the right qualifications to find a nice job, but he is having trouble finding one.
This is not only a problem for him but for most young Koreans. Nowadays, the unemployment rate in Korea is rapidly increasing. Politicians always say: "There are a lot of job opportunities, but the young generation only want to have a decent job, they are lazy". They seem to blame us by saying that. However, the young generation thinks differently. The working environment, wages and many other aspects are very poor in small companies in comparison to large ones.
It is becoming a huge problem and the Korean government expects it to last for the next 5 years. I am a bit worried as well, but I will try to figure it out myself somehow.

My First Post:

Hello everybody,

This is my first post in Italki and I don't know what to write about. I guess talking about my reasons to join this community would be a good start.

I live in Spain and I love English but it's not so easy to find someone to practice with. I passed the First English Certificate exam of Cambridge almost two years ago, but since then I have barely spoken or written in English. Listening is easier cause there are plenty of podcasts and audios to listen to, and it's really easy to watch a film in its original language (not so easy to underdstand it,hehehe). But when it comes to creating real English by speaking or writing you need someone to help you. So for that reason I joined Italki. I think it's going to be easier to keep on improving if I am part of a big team.

I will try to write something every week.
Thanks for reading.

Miguel

Hi friends, 

I would like to study English in Australia next year. Why this country? I would like to visit Australia because of the lifestyle and Kangaroo Island (it's amazing). The people are friendly and happy, just like Brazilians. Every day I see pictures of this country.
I like to run and play soccer. I hope will make a lot of friends around the world. Today in Brazil it is nice and sunny.

A hug,

Maicon

First day

This is my first day on Italki, I worry that no one's going to help me but I hope to find some good teachers and friends..
I'm here to learn something not to be alone on a website, please help me, pleaseeee! 

My everyday activities:

Well, my day starts at 5.20am when my cellphone plays an alarm with the song "La voz dormida" from Mägo de Oz...I like to listen to that kind of music (Fölk, Gothic and Symphonic Metal). Then I prepare my breakfast which is always just a cup of milk and coffee. After that I take a shower, get dressed, brush my teeth and go to the bus station to catch the bus to work. My work begins at 7am and ends at 5pm. After I finish work, sometimes I hang out with friends, other times I go directly to buy some dinner and then I return home to study using my PC.


I usually go to bed at 11pm, but sometimes at 12pm or other times 10pm. At weekends I travel to my home city to visit my parents and on Sunday afternoon I come back to the Capital to get ready for another week of work. 

So, these are my daily activities!