Korean in the world : Singapore News Slinger suzanne Jung

Jung at work in a virtual studio of Channel NewsAsia.
NAME: Suzanne (Sei Eun) Jung
AGE: 28
CITY OF RESIDENCE: Singapore
COMPANY THAT YOU WORK FOR: Channel NewsAsia (CNA), MediaCorp News, based in Singapore
JOB TITLE: Presenter/Producer on “Prime Time Morning”
TIME AT YOUR PRESENT JOB: 5 years in total, 3 years with CAN
Describe what you do.
I get up at 2:30 a.m. every day from Monday to Friday. Eat breakfast, hit the showers, go online to catch up on what happened overnight, and then I do my hair and makeup. At about 3:45 a.m., I zip out of the house to catch a cab to go to work. Once in the office, I scan the wires and check the run-downs for the upcoming shows. Write scripts for the day, cut and edit pictures, then start prepping for the interviews we have for the whole morning. Our guests range from professionals, analysts, academics and celebrities and so on. By 6 a.m., I’m in the studio, recording some short news bites. 6:30 a.m. sharp, I start the day with my first “Good Morning!” After my last bulletin at about 11 a.m., I spend the rest of my time writing scores of e-mails and corresponding with people who would be coming onto our show. For a good interview to be conducted, ample time has to be invested on researching and talking on the phone with people to find out more about that particular subject, so you know you can ask questions and raise issues that viewers want to know.
Also as part of the show, I would go out for shoots to cover a story, or conduct an interview. That’s when things start to become challenging as my eyelids get heavier and heavier.
Do you consider your job a passion?
Of course! Nobody handed me this gig on a silver platter. I worked and studied hard in college to make my dream come true ever since I was bitten by the news bug during my freshman year, and then persevered to get to where I am now. So it’s got to be the passion because deep down inside I know there is nothing else in the world I would rather do.
What is your favorite aspect of work?
“Knowing things first.”
What is the most challenging aspect of your work?
Putting work aside and finding time for myself is difficult.
How do you feel about working in Singapore?
Singapore is great! The weather is fantastic! I have a low tolerance for cold, and so the climate works perfectly for me. People are just as warm and friendly, making it a very pleasant environment to be working in. It’s much more laid back than in Korea, I find. Anyone visiting Singapore would be delighted by the cleanliness, efficiency and modern features of this fine city, too. What’s best about Singapore ... it is a safe country, and it is a perfect stepping stone for exploring the rest of Asia.
What else is on your résumé?
Business Correspondent, Weathercaster, NBC Burbank Intern, National TEPS Instructor, Senior Training and Program Head of College Campus News, Tutor, Nanny, Class President.
What’s missing from your résumé?
A three-week stint at Krispy Kreme.
What are some challenges that you might not have expected at Channel NewsAsia?
Had no idea I had to wake up so early for the morning news. Also, always keeping in mind the sensitivities of a multiracial country, and the regional nuances, while striving to provide an informative entertainment news program.
What are the perks, if any?
You meet new people all the time. You get exclusive one-on-ones with high-profile personalities. And when traveling, I can usually get through customs fairly quickly at the airport, thanks to the officers who watch the morning show.
What skill of yours has proven to be one of the most useful to your job?
Being able to smile all the time, even when I have had a bad night of sleep and don’t feel like it.
What is the best euphemism you have heard for your job title?
Couch potato — I’m sitting on a couch on the morning show.
What is your favorite work-time pick-me-up?
When viewers write in to say they enjoyed the show ... and chocolates!
What is your favorite piece of advice?
Moderation is the key to everything.

Lee Myung Bak, South Korea's next President.

Lee Myung-bak, the 65-year-old South Korea's president-elect, owes much of his victory to a wildly successful project he completed as the mayor of Seoul:

1. The restoration in 2005 of a paved-over, four-mile stream in the city's downtown, over which an ugly highway had been built during the growth-at-all-cost 1970’s. The new stream became a Central Park-like gathering place here, tapped into a growing national emphasis on quality of life and immediately made the Mr. mayor, Lee Myung-bak, a top presidential contender.

Prosperity came at a cost of worsening pollution as like developing countries. A clean environment was considered an unaffordable, Western extravagance. But Lee had the courage to realize that for South Korea's newly affluent middle class, the deal needed renegotiating. "When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury," Mr. Lee told TIME last year. "But now we try to achieve a balance between function and the environment, and we try to put the environment first."
He pursuaded the city's people that he would tear out the jam-packed elevated highway that ran through the heart of Seoul and restore the buried Cheonggyecheon stream. But, His opponents insisted that the plan would cause traffic chaos and cost billions. Three years later, Cheonggyecheon was reborn, an environmentally friendly civic jewel that has changed the face of Seoul.

2. Moreover, Lee also revamped the city's transportation system, adding clean rapid-transit buses. But his lasting accomplishment was in changing the Asian political dynamic, showing that environmentalism can go hand in hand with development.

Back then, they called him the Bulldozer. As a driven young executive for Hyundai Construction in the 1970s and '80s, Lee Myung Bak helped build much of postwar South Korea, working with others to transform a bombed-out agrarian economy into one of the most dynamic industrialized nations in the world. He saw his brother and sister killed during the Korean War, and he hauled trash to pay for his university tuition, yet he rose to become CEO by age 35. Today, Lee is elected as South Korea's next President.

Barber and barber surgeon and barber pole

As we know, a barber (from the Latin barba, "beard") is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, give shaves, and trim beards. Some barbers prefer to see themselves as hairdressers or hairstylists. It is because Barbers can perform all coloring and perms as well as cut hair, trim beards, color and provide facials and shave.

In more recent times, most barbers primarily cut hair. However, in previous times, barbers also performed surgery and dentistry. The barber surgeon was one of the most common medical practitioners of medieval Europe. They often took up residence in castles where they also provided medical assistance to the rich and wealthy.

The last vestige of barber-surgeons' links with the medical side of their profession is probably the traditional red and white barber's pole which is said to represent the blood and bandages associated with their older role. The origin of the barber pole is associated with the service of bloodletting. The red and white stripes symbolize the bandages used during the procedure: red for the blood-stained and white for the clean bandages.


excerpted from From Wikipedia

Keeping Our Own Hope Strong

Hope for the future.

I like "dream giver" which means someone who can give hope to the people.

I always to keep in mind the benefits of hope.

Hope allows me to think that upcoming future is bright.

I don't want not to write my life history with a gloomy conclusion before it happens.

I will keep it mind that Stay open to opportunities to move toward your dream that God may make possible for you.