1. Hello, please introduce yourself first.
  Hello, I'm Jihoon Lim, majoring in global business administration, and I graduated from school after about 7 years of school. It's a sincere honor to meet you all at this place.

2. I heard that you won the Dean of Excellence Award for your degree acceptance ceremony in the summer of 2024. Please give me a brief acceptance speech.
  First of all, it is very meaningful and rewarding to be able to present such an honorable award. I was half-hearted when I received a call from the administration office of the business school on the subway and told them that I was going to receive an award. In fact, I didn't think it was a good enough grade to receive an award, and I felt awkward because I didn't have much experience in receiving an award on behalf of everyone. I didn't do my school life with the mindset of receiving an award, but I think I was able to get a big award because I worked hard to take classes every semester and prepare for exams.

3. I heard you graduated with excellent grades! What's your secret or know-how to achieve a good result?
  I tried not to lose the following 2 habits, and I think I was able to improve my grades a lot through this.
First, it's called "Stillness." And the way I wrote it was to gradually expand the scope. For example, if there are seven chapters in total, the first is to study only one chapter per day. Next, I studied the chapters "1,2," "3,4," "5,6,7" one day at a time, followed by the chapters "1,2,3," "4,5,6,7," and finally, the whole chapter of "1,2,3,4,5,6,7" on a daily basis. This is how I learned each chapter a little bit more from the beginning than I did when I studied many chapters at once, and I was able to learn some parts that I didn't understand, and I was able to get some realization from it.
  The second is "simulation." I think it is necessary to anticipate and prepare for problems on your own, rather than just reading what is written in the textbook. For problem-solving subjects like finance and accounting, I studied by solving as many problems as possible in the class or the problems in the textbook, and for subjects that study various theories and cases like marketing and strategies, I studied by applying these theories to the company's status, rather than simply memorizing the meaning of the concepts of the teaching plan.

4. Are there any activities you participated in during your undergraduate years? Please introduce the most memorable activities.
  I was a "start-up intern" with school in the spring semester of 2022. It was the "I-core" semester of the Global Management Department, and the CEO of the startup took great care of the commute time and place, so I went to school when there was a school class and worked at the company or from home for any time other than study. At that time, my duties were "user management" and "business expansion," but I remember working very happily because I felt like a real company was applying I-core's marketing and strategic subjects at the same time.
  Even after the end of the semester, I went on a business trip to New York to introduce our business to professors at American universities, and conducted business consulting with government agencies promoting Korean startups in the U.S., such as KOTRA and KIC. I was able to experience the field of global business beyond Korea. It is a very enjoyable and meaningful experience that I can still think of as an experience that made me who I am and reflected on myself the best.

5. Do you have any memorable subjects in your undergraduate class?
Professor Kang Hee-joon's "Introduction to Microeconomics" class, which I took in the second semester after I entered the school, was the most memorable. I remember that the professor asked the students a lot of questions every day and sometimes took a note test, so I went into the classroom with tension in every class. (I suddenly miss the group chat room where I used to get scared and noisy whenever this class approached.)
At that time, I was busy studying just because I had to answer well and do well on my exams, but as I went up in grade and got a job, I realized a lot how important the field of "economy" is to business students. Of course, the actual economic activities are not exactly consistent with the theories of economics courses taken by undergraduate students, but I think understanding the overall economy will be a good foundation for understanding various fields of business administration, so of course it is a very difficult study, but I hope you can study hard and understand the business system in a broader perspective than I am!

6. What are your future career paths and goals?
  Currently, I am working at the company as a financial and management accounting job. I started working in July, so it is awkward because I am still very inexperienced and have a lot of things I do not know, but I am feeling more and more familiar with the job I am in charge of. Most of the accounting courses I took when I was a student are related to financial accounting, so the field of management accounting is unfamiliar at first, but I think it is very attractive because it is a job that directly participates in the company's decision-making.
  I am currently in charge of management accounting, but I want to work for a variety of teams for a long time and have an even experience in various fields. My goal and dream is to become a finance expert who can make more correct decisions with balanced experience when I take on the core role of the department over time while also in charge of traditional finance duties such as accounting and tax teams.

7. Lastly, if you have anything you would like to talk about for your classmates at the business school, please.
  What I really want to say is, "I hope you are faithful to each day."
Someone said, "Life is a long-term battle. Don't let your days go by, just keep your pace tirelessly, and look far away." But I kind of disagree. I think life is "hundreds of thousands of sprints every day." There is no single day that can go by meaninglessly, and I think what you have accomplished is the result of combining every single day, not the memories of a few special days. I don't just want you to study hard, but I just want you to live your life faithfully so that no matter what you do, a single day doesn't go by meaninglessly.
   When you are in the senior year preparing for a job, you may feel anxious about your motives. I hear a lot of people around me saying, "You have to do this much, you have to do at least these activities," such as my English grades, the number of interns, and the awards at the contest, but I hope you don't get nervous and swayed by these stories. I have been through these concerns and fully agree with them, but the time I spent thinking about how to live to have more special people and people curious about my life rather than being the same as others has helped me a lot. Of course, you have to prepare for the prerequisites to apply, but I hope you will live a college life that truly protects the core of your life and not be bound by the same qualifications as others in a life without correct answers.
   The answers were long, but thank you for reading them. I sincerely hope you all will be full of happiness in the future. Way to go, Sungkyunkwan University Business School students!