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Kim,
Seok
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Year of Birth: 1952 (51 yrs)
2. Profession : Overseas tour
conductor at a travel agency.
Translation World Interpretation Land (Japanese Translation)
A member of KST
(Korean Society of
Translators)
3. Motto : When in Rome, do as the
Romans do. - (had paid a huge(?) amount of fine because of my
habitual gesture of taking photos in camera forbidden area...)
4. Major visiting spots : Asia,
South Pacific, Europe, American continent.
5. Recent visit : Maple road in
Quebec, Canada.
6. Future travel plan : Hainan
Island in China, New Zealand, Western Europe.
7. Memorable place : Jang Ga Ge
National Park in China. (paint-brushed landscape painting)
8. Favorite foreign food : Chewy
and fresh Large crab meat 'n caviar of Alaska.
9. Favorite souvenir : all
souvenirs from visiting places.
10. e-mail : goldstn@hanmail.net
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To me, traveling is a duty ; if I lose this
job, I'll starve(?); rather than to freely enjoy the
sightseeing. So I fill in the "Purpose of Trip"
blank of Embarkation Card of ROK, Commercial trip, T/C(Tour
Conductor), or tour guide. It is mere continuity of rigid
travels which always makes me nervous concerning the
travelers' conveniences from getting prepared to leave to
arriving home after the whole trip. These are, of course,
natural routines for T/C like me, but when moving with my
travel customers, I find myself easily being assimilated into
them with intimacy, rather than a rigidity. Being happy when
they are happy and giving comforts when they feel
uncomfortable, my long journey has come to an end so soon.
Then, I already am folding up a trip putting myself into
writing a travel report paper in a airplane going home,
feeling like the departing was mere a yesterday. T/C work is
so simple, easily comes to some difficulties at the same time,
but when you are in for a while, you enjoy the work and become
an expert. I have 20 years of traveling experience, but always
face the traveling work with a beginner's mind, and try to
manage things carefully and smoothly, keeping in mind not to
make any conflict with the Local Guide. And I take my
camcorder carefully out of a bag, and start putting the very
vivid scenery into 8mm recording tape, as if leaving memories
of overseas travel, which never promise me if there's another
to come, into a few number of pictures taken. I move quickly
jumping over back and forth to take care of travelers and not
to miss good sceneries without noticing any hardships. So it
is said.."all that's left are photos."....??
Travel on the fixed schedule isn't
so pleasant, but playing the recorded tape, seeing all those
travel customers' impressed faces looking at beautiful
sceneries at home, gives me a little smile of memory. |
