Monthly journal 4

[Yanran Li]

This month, in addition to continuing to concentrate on the TOPIK vocabulary list, we will also be reading news items and watching Korean movies without subtitles. Vivian showed me an interview with the five characters from the drama The Glory, who are the five antagonists that bullied the protagonist. Since we both watched The Glory and thought it was incredibly intriguing, she showed me the interview. In the video interview, they discuss the exciting things that took place during filming, and at the end of the segment, each of them creates a poster of another cast member. Kim Hieora, who played the role of Lee Sa-ra in the drama, stated that because Lee Sa-ra was a drug addict in the drama, she made it a point to study many individuals like Lee Sa-ra and discovered that they were all extremely thin, acted erratically, and had bad complexions. She also mentioned that she made it a point to observe many people like Lee Sa-ra. Consequently, during filming, she mimicked the mannerisms and appearance of drug users on purpose, engaged in physical activity, and drank less water than usual. During the portion of the activity in which they were going over the poster, each of them wrote down what it was that they wanted to say to the other, but none of them knew what the other had written. At the same time, both of them put down how much they liked the other. On the posters, each individual also estimated the mbti of the other person, and I was astonished to see that three of the five persons had "I" as the initial letter in their mbti. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI for short, categorizes individuals into one of 16 distinct "types," each of which is identified by a unique combination of psychological characteristics and a four-letter code. The first letter of the code may either be a "E" or a "I," and the letter "E" refers to extroverts while the letter "I" refers to introverts. It took me by surprise because each individual appeared to be highly talkative and articulate. Vivian asked me if I had taken the MBTI exam, and I responded that I had. I then asked her to guess my initial letter, and she guessed correctly, identifying myself as the letter "I." Although the results of this test will tell the person doing it, whenever they are accessible, what kinds of individuals with particular MBTIs are not compatible with mine, I believe that this test can only be used to provide a broad categorization of people's personalities since, after all, there can't possibly be just 16 types of people in the entire world.