JCK #4

  Overall I would say this Japan Korea China Trilateral Youth Forum has been a great experience. The people I met, including the participants from the three countries, student staffs were just the most wonderful people. They were super motivated, talented people who had  the drive to lead our generation to create a better future. I could see that they had faced many failures but through hardship have emerged as a figure stronger ever than before. 
  The actual planned discussion platforms were very fruitful,  despite the  rather strict time constraint, but what was most meaningful I believe were the personal interactions outside those frames, such as the late night talks, the clapping on the back after the performances from each country, the tasting of the Hokkaido delicacies in the food festivals. They were sincere interactions, personal gestures and thoughts that were shown to anyone who you wished to have good relations with. These one on one interactions are what you don`t see when you talk about the relations between Japan, China, Korea. I personally was able to talk about some sensitive issues such as the perception of war, information regulations in China, plastic surgery and so on. The issues that surround us are so deeply rooted that they are indeed no where near being resolved, but watching these friendly exchanges where one was really caring, listening to the others with all ears showed me that the reality proved wrong from the image that the media has instilled in us. It certainly gave me hope for the partnership of the  future East Asia.
 It gave me a lot of faith learning that there were so many young individuals out there trying to do their vey best in whatever they do, but at the same time never forgetting that what is most important is to not keep them for oneself  but to share their hard work and benefit others. There are countless lessons the Korean, Chinese, Japanese students have taught me this time. I hope I can repay them someday, motivate or inspire  people the way they did. 

  Life comes with so many opportunities. I have realised that with constant hard work, enough faith for what you do, and compassion for others these opportunities do come around. And each time they come around you would have more competence to make most out of it . I hope not to  leave this experience as just a one time excursion, but to absorb all I have learnt throughout this five days and project it to a stepping stone for the future.

That is all for the JCK posts.

Thanks for reading:))