30 Things about Me
1. Lee Jiyin, Lee Soomin, Lee Jiyoon My Korean name is Lee Jiyin. I love my name a lot, because it has a good meaning: 'ji' means wise, and 'yin' means benevolent. But my parents didn't think of that name at first; they thought of 'Soomin' and 'Jiyoon' because they have same syllables with my brother's name 'Sooyoon'. Fortunately, my grandfather insisted on 'Jiyin' that my name became Jiyin. 2. Chinese I first learned Chinese at Chinese hagwon (academy). I attended there to prepare for mandatory Chinese class at middle school, but I found Chinese very attractive. First, it was familiar because I had taken Chinese character course at middle school. Second, it has diacritics that indicate tone. This was something that was different from Korean. Chinese characters have Romanized Pinyins spelled in English but pronounciated slightly differently from their English pronounciations. Because there are so many words with same spelli
