Interview with Korean Student, Dowoon Kim
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Dowoon Kim is a junior at Cal Poly majoring in Journalism. He was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and began learning English when he was ten years old. In order to attend a university in the United States he had to pass the TOEFL exam, where he achieved near-perfect scores on the reading and writing sections (the third section is a speaking test). As Dowoon notes in the interview, the Korean education system emphasize writing and reading above speaking English in conversation, and this was one of the biggest challenges he encountered when coming to California.
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