[종합] Eunyoung Oh “Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, it felt like the sky was falling” (‘Lecturers’)

Pop columnist Kim Tae-hoon appeared as the second speaker. He said, “I think I am being deceived by the plausible name of a pop columnist. Let me introduce you to three secrets to becoming a pop columnist. First, enroll in a music academy and learn drums. Second, I was told by the director of the music academy that I was not good at drums. Third, I will become a pop columnist,” he said with a laugh.

He continued, “I really liked music when I was in high school. The director of the music academy came in and asked, ‘Aren’t you really going to become a drummer?’ The director said, ‘I don’t think you’re good at drums.’ My pride was so hurt that I quit right away. One thing I can only do. I listened intently. I had many jobs, including music magazine editor, radio writer, radio DJ, and movie program MC. Then a phone call comes. They say that a commentator is needed for a baduk tournament. Also, we need people who can explain surfing to people who don’t know much about it. So I became a surfing commentator. I do many things. All of this is because I didn’t become a drummer. “And he’s a handsome man,” he said, eliciting applause and once again making the crowd burst into laughter.

Taehoon Kim said, “I think being handsome is a new profession. A high school student who failed to become a drummer finds a happy ending by becoming a handsome man. When I look back on the past, nothing went as I wanted. In the interview, I knocked on the front door to live hard, but the dirty front door did not open. Just as I was about to give up, the side door slowly opened. With no choice, another side door opens. The side door keeps opening, so it turns around and ends up here. And what I realized is that life doesn’t always go the way I want it to. Philosopher Schopenhauer said, ‘There is no life without pain.’ Problems arise constantly. We have two options here. “Should we complain or find a solution?” he continued his lecture.

He said, “But life is inherently difficult. Then we will try to find a way. This man is Richard Branson. He was so dyslexic that he dropped out of high school. But his first business was managing a magazine company. I went to the airport to go on a trip with my wife, and there were a lot of people screaming. The plane cannot take off due to a defect in the airline. Branson says there are a lot of planes idle. It turned out that it was a charter flight. He counted the number of people screaming and found out that all you had to do was pay $25 per person and get on the plane. This will become a famous airline with great power in Europe. “He always found a way and never complained,” he said, quoting Richard Branson.

Taehoon Kim asked, “What is your dream? But your answer is a little strange. You talked about being an actor and an apartment. The dream is something like ‘creating an abundance of food so that there are no starving refugees.’ Talking about value. We live our lives confused between our dreams and our jobs. A job is not a dream. Life is greater than your job. At noon, we face our most profound questions. Jjajang or Jjamppong, we do this until we die. I ordered black bean noodles at a Chinese restaurant I often go to. But the staff gave me some soy sauce. Then something amazing happens. This restaurant was a famous soybean paste restaurant. From this point on, only Ganjjajang will be ordered at Chinese restaurants across the country. What I realized at that time was that the waiter’s small mistake and my small kindness led me to discover Ganjjajang. It is said that there are 12,000 registered occupations in Korea. However, when you ask college students and job seekers what kind of job they want to do, they say there are about 20 jobs. “There are so many jobs, but you’re stuck with 20 jobs and can’t see the 11,980 jobs,” he added.

He said, “If my dream is not a job and life does not go my way, what kind of life will I live? In 1936, a movie called ‘Modern Times’ came out. Charlie Chaplin releases a silent movie. His critical cinematic views led him to become a communist, and he lives and makes films in Switzerland. Nothing was going his way either. I think the last scene of this work shows his future. A wanderer and a girl who lost everything after numerous adventures and episodes. The wanderer speaks to the girl. ‘Smile! If you smile, everything is okay! Life doesn’t always go the way we want. So I just laugh because that’s what it is. ‘Then it will be a very good starting point for starting your life again.’ In the end, it’s nice to be alive. No matter how great a great person is, my living life is greater than the dead great person. He concluded his lecture by saying, “We have countless opportunities.”

Lastly, Oh Eun-young said, “I am a doctor by profession. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. It felt like the sky was falling. The thoughts I had at that time were unfair. I got this idea that bad people don’t even get cancer. I felt deeply in my heart that the whole process of life, of illness coming and going beyond expectations, was not going as I wanted. There are a few important things I felt at that time. The first is that the despair humans feel in these situations is not because they are weak, but because they are human. In times like these, I need to diagnose my current condition. “There are many times in our lives when things don’t go as we want, even if we try our best and don’t do anything wrong,” he concluded the lecture.

‘Lecturers’ airs every Sunday at 9:10 PM on MBC.

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