Scholarship / I would like to be a connection between Korean and western world market [7]

kgsp 2019 Personal statement

Hi guys, I'll be applying for the KGSP next year. I would appreciate any comments and suggestions about my statement down here. Thanks in advance to everybody!

I graduated university with a bachelor degree in Human Biology in 2011 and I received a master's in Human Nutrition in 2013 both at University of Rome Tor Vergata. Besides attending classes, I carried out a part-time job in Social Media Marketing at Leapforce that allowed me to learn a job and develop a new interest in my life in digital marketing. Thanks to this work experience I was able to build up my professional Facebook fan page about Nutrition and Food with the purpose of promoting my activity as Nutritionist and disclosing an healthy lifestyle.

During my Master's degree courses I worked as trainee at the Clinical Nutrition department of Tor Vergata Hospital as Nutritionist and after having completed my studies, I passed the Biologist qualification State exam in order to practice the profession of Biologist in Italy.

In 2014, I opened my own private practice and I started my professional career as a freelance nutritionist which focused on food supplements: during this experience I improved my knowledge of Nutrition and I became an expert of food supplements.

In 2015 I decided to follow my passion to travel, confident that this passion of mine would have helped me to expand my professional horizons. Thus I moved to Dublin where not only I improved my English but I found an internship with Medtronic, a medical device company, in New York City after almost 1 year.

As a consequence I started my internship in February 2016 and then I gained a 12 months contract as Inside Sales Executive. At the end of the internship I was offered a new contract but I refused it motivated by the desire to move on a country that could offered me a new stimulus in subject of nutritional styles and culture and I strongly believe that Korea could satisfy this desire. I would like to have a professional experience in Seoul and learn more about Korean market, with the target to improve my knowledge about Koreans social media, Korean culture and Hangul as well. That's why, in order to get myself ready for this scholarship, I attended an Hangul course at the Korean Cultural Centre in Rome. During this course I learned Hangul alphabet, basic vocabulary, Korean language structure and basic communication skills.

That time spent abroad will support me in having an important life experience in South Korea.
The reason why I aim at Korea as my next educational destination is because Korea is one of the countries that has one of the best educational system in the world. Furthermore, Korea is one of the most popular developed countries due to its K-wave and its economical-technological development and Korean consumer's pattern - consumers that are very responsive to a new trend. The rapid pace of business makes Korea as an appealing target to observe and learn consumer habits.

After having finished this study, I would like to be a connection between Korean and western world market as well as promote the Korean Culture to foreign country by the use of the social media.