K-Colors of Korea April 2014 | Page 63

Reader Check For our Reader Check our team chooses one K reader for every issue - based on feedback, leters to the editor and the interaction on our social media sites. Here we‘ll introduce our chosen reader to you. January - April: Vanessa me sometimes to think that I’ve been interested in Korea for almost half my life. It started seven years ago through a bit of a coincidence. When I was eleven, I started being interested in Japan. Like many children I used to watch anime series; that’s how it all started. Litle by litle my interest in knowing where the series and mangas come from grew and so I started paying atention to the country. Later I also listened to Japanese music and so at one point I discovered a Korean group which released a song together with one of my favorite Japanese singers. Excited by the good looking young men I started to look them up and suddenly I liked Korean music even more than Japanese. So one could say that everything started with K-pop, but that’s not where it stopped. From the very beginning I was fascinated by the language and then gradually I became interested in the culture, the country and the history. Before I knew it seven years passed and I’ve never goten away from Korea. To be honest I really don’t want to. What are you most interested in about Korea? Please introduce yourself to our readers. Annyeong dear K readers~ I’m very happy to be able to present myself in my favorite magazine. First of all thank you very much for that! My name is Vanessa and I’m 20 years old. It startles It would be a lie to say K-pop wasn’t the start of my love for Korea. As I already said, everything started with one song, more precisely with the band Dong Bank Shin Ki. At that time Korea was completely new to me and through the music I