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Hello, Joyful Hub community! We hope you all had a wonderful and restful Chuseok holiday filled with delicious food and happy moments. ๐ŸŒ•
After a refreshing break, we're back for our fifth meetup! This week, we're moving beyond K-beauty products to have a deep and honest conversation about a topic that affects us all, especially while living in Korea: The Politics of Appearance & Self-Esteem.
Korea is famous for its high beauty standards, and the pressure to look a certain way can be intense. How does this focus on appearance affect our daily lives, our confidence, and our sense of self-worth? This session is a safe and judgment-free space to share our personal experiences, discuss different cultural beauty standards, and explore what true beauty and confidence mean to us.

##### Event Overview

Welcome to our fifth session at Joyful Hub! This week, we're looking beyond the products to explore a powerful cultural force: K-Beauty, the culture of appearance, and our sense of self-esteem. In a society where appearance can feel so important, how do we navigate the trends, pressures, and our own personal style? This session is a thoughtful and honest space to discuss beauty standards, self-expression, and what it means to feel confident in our own skin, all in 100% Korean.

  • Main Topic of the Week: K-Beauty, Beauty Standards, and the Culture of Appearance. ๐Ÿ’ก
  • Who: Foreign residents (students, professionals) in Seoul seeking authentic Korean conversations. ๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ’ผ
  • Type: Korean Language Immersion / Interactive Discussion / Culture & Society Talk. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿค

##### This Week's Journey: Our Special Session on 'Appearance'

We've designed a special flow for this session to foster a respectful and insightful conversation about this personal and important topic.

  • Part 1: The Mission - 'My Signature Keyword' ๐Ÿ”‘ We'll start with a personal and positive mission. You'll think of one "Signature Keyword" that represents your personal style or an item that makes you feel confident. It could be 'a comfy hoodie', 'bold red lipstick', or 'my favorite scent'. Sharing this keyword is a great way to talk about how we choose to present ourselves to the world.
  • Part 2: The Deep Dive - Real Talk in Korea ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ From there, we'll discuss the K-Beauty phenomenon. What are your holy-grail products or secret tips? More importantly, how do the beauty standards in Korea compare to your home country? We'll also talk about the powerful influence of social media on how we perceive beauty today.
  • Part 3: The Big Question - Beauty On My Own Terms โœจ Finally, we'll delve into the deeper questions. What does "beauty" truly mean to you, personally? How do we deal with societal pressures while staying true to ourselves? Let's discuss concepts like '๊พธ์•ˆ๊พธ' (effortless chic) and explore how we can build genuine self-esteem in a world so focused on appearance.

##### What You'll Experience in This Session โœ…

  • A creative 'Signature Keyword' activity to share and celebrate personal style. ๐Ÿ”‘
  • Honest, thoughtful conversations about beauty and confidence in a 100% Korean environment. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
  • Dynamic partner rotation every 40 minutes for diverse interactions. ๐Ÿ”„
  • A safe and respectful space to discuss personal experiences with beauty standards and self-esteem. ๐Ÿซ‚
  • Valuable cultural insights from our dedicated Korean Crew. ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ
  • Comfortable meetup space with snacks and drinks included. โ˜•๐Ÿช

##### What's Not Included โŒ

  • Personal transportation/meals. ๐ŸšŒ๐Ÿœ
  • Professional beauty consultations or products. ๐Ÿšซ
  • Interpretation services. ๐Ÿšซ

##### Why You Should Join This Session

  • Go Beyond a Shopping List: We don't just talk about products; we discuss the culture, psychology, and personal stories behind our beauty choices. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
  • Real Cultural Insights: Understand the social context of appearance in Korea and concepts like '๊พธ์•ˆ๊พธ' directly from local Korean friends. ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘
  • A Community of Support: This is a space to have a meaningful conversation about self-esteem and confidence, supporting each other in feeling good, inside and out. ๐Ÿค—

##### Start Your Real Korean Journey with This Session!โœจ

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๐Ÿš€ Spots are limited for each session! RSVP now to secure your place! โžก๏ธ

#### ์ฃ ์ดํ’€ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ: 5์ฃผ์ฐจ - ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์˜ ๋‚˜

#### ์™ธ๋ชจ์™€ ์ž์กด๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ

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##### ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ๋ชจ์ž„ ์†Œ๊ฐœ

์ฃ ์ดํ’€ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์˜ ๋‹ค์„ฏ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์„ธ์…˜์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฑธ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ด์š”! ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ์—๋Š” ํ™”์žฅํ’ˆ ๊ทธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ํž˜์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์ฃผ์ œ, **'K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ, ์™ธ๋ชจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž์กด๊ฐ'**์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๋‚˜๋ˆ•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ ์†์—์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ์••๋ฐ•, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐˆ๊นŒ์š”? ์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ธ์…˜์€ ๋ฏธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€, ์ž๊ธฐํ‘œํ˜„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด ๋ชจ์Šต ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋‚€๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด 100% ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

  • ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฉ”์ธ ํ† ํ”ฝ: K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ, ๋ฏธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™ธ๋ชจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™” ๐Ÿ’ก
  • ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€์ƒ: ์ง„์†”ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์„œ์šธ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ (ํ•™์ƒ, ์ง์žฅ์ธ ๋“ฑ) ๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ’ผ
  • ๋ชจ์ž„ ์ข…๋ฅ˜: ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ชฐ์ž… / ์ฐธ์—ฌํ˜• ํ† ๋ก  / ๋ฌธํ™” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌํšŒ ํ† ํฌ ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿค

##### 5์ฃผ์ฐจ์˜ ์—ฌ์ •:

##### '์™ธ๋ชจ'์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„

์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ธ์…˜์€ ์ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ฃผ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด, ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ํ๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ํŒŒํŠธ 1: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฏธ์…˜ - '๋‚˜์˜ ์‹œ๊ทธ๋‹ˆ์ฒ˜ ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ' ๐Ÿ”‘ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ์…˜์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์•„์ดํ…œ์„ '์‹œ๊ทธ๋‹ˆ์ฒ˜ ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ' ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. 'ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ํ›„๋“œํ‹ฐ', '๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•œ ๋ ˆ๋“œ ๋ฆฝ์Šคํ‹ฑ', ํ˜น์€ '๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–ฅ์ˆ˜' ๋“ฑ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ฃ . ์ด ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ์ž์‹ ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ์‹œ์ž‘์ด ๋  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
  • ํŒŒํŠธ 2: ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ™” - ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๋ฆฌ์–ผ ํ† ํฌ ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ํ˜„์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ† ๋ก ํ•ด๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ '์ธ์ƒํ…œ'์ด๋‚˜ '๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ๊ฟ€ํŒ'์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€, ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฏธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋‚˜๋ผ์™€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฏธ์  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์— ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์š”.
  • ํŒŒํŠธ 3: ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์งˆ๋ฌธ - ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ธฐ โœจ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ '์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€'์ด๋ž€ ์ง„์ • ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์†”์งํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์••๋ฐ•์— ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ผ๊นŒ์š”? '๊พธ์•ˆ๊พธ(๊พธ๋ฏผ ๋“ฏ ์•ˆ ๊พธ๋ฏผ ๋“ฏ)' ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐœ๋…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ† ๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ , ์™ธ๋ชจ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ง‘์ค‘๋œ ์„ธ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ž์กด๊ฐ์„ ์Œ“์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•ด๋ด์š”.

##### ์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ธ์…˜์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑธ

##### ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š” โœ…

  • ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ '์‹œ๊ทธ๋‹ˆ์ฒ˜ ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ' ํ™œ๋™ ๐Ÿ”‘
  • 100% ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€๊ณผ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ณ  ๊นŠ์€ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
  • 40๋ถ„๋งˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๐Ÿ”„
  • ๋ฏธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ณผ ์ž์กด๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๐Ÿซ‚
  • ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ํฌ๋ฃจ์—๊ฒŒ์„œ๋งŒ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง„์งœ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ํ†ต์ฐฐ ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ
  • ์Œ๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ฐ„์‹์ด ํฌํ•จ๋œ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ๋ชจ์ž„ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ โ˜•๐Ÿช

##### ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑด ์—†์–ด์š” โŒ

  • ๊ฐœ์ธ ๊ตํ†ต๋น„/์‹์‚ฌ๋น„ ๐ŸšŒ๐Ÿœ
  • ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์ธ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์ปจ์„คํŒ…์ด๋‚˜ ํ™”์žฅํ’ˆ ์ œ๊ณต ๐Ÿšซ
  • ํ†ต์—ญ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๐Ÿšซ

##### ์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ธ์…˜, ์™œ ์™€์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

  • ์‡ผํ•‘ ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์„ ํƒ ๋’ค์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™”, ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
  • ์ง„์งœ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ: ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์™ธ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋งฅ๋ฝ๊ณผ '๊พธ์•ˆ๊พธ' ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ํ˜„์ง€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ง์ ‘ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘
  • ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ: ์ž์กด๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ , ๋‚ด๋ฉด๊ณผ ์™ธ๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊พธ๋„๋ก ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์‘์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿค—
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