[Joyful Hub] ๐ Small Group Korean Exchange: The Politics of Appearance
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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. ๐
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. ๐ก
- Who: Foreign residents (students, professionals) in Seoul seeking authentic Korean conversations. ๐๐ผ
- Type: Korean Language Immersion / Interactive Discussion / Culture & Society Talk. ๐ฃ๏ธ๐ค
##### 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' ๐ 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 ๐ฃ๏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 โจ 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 '๊พธ์๊พธ' (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 โ
- A creative 'Signature Keyword' activity to share and celebrate personal style. ๐
- Honest, thoughtful conversations about beauty and confidence in a 100% Korean environment. ๐ฃ๏ธ
- Dynamic partner rotation every 40 minutes for diverse interactions. ๐
- A safe and respectful space to discuss personal experiences with beauty standards and self-esteem. ๐ซ
- Valuable cultural insights from our dedicated Korean Crew. ๐งโ๐ซ
- Comfortable meetup space with snacks and drinks included. โ๐ช
##### What's Not Included โ
- Personal transportation/meals. ๐๐
- Professional beauty consultations or products. ๐ซ
- Interpretation services. ๐ซ
##### 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. ๐ฌ
- Real Cultural Insights: Understand the social context of appearance in Korea and concepts like '๊พธ์๊พธ' directly from local Korean friends. ๐งโ๐คโ๐ง
- 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. ๐ค
##### Start Your Real Korean Journey with This Session!โจ
๐ Inquiries: Instagram @joyful.hub
๐ฉ Email: langexko@gmail.com
๐ Website: joyfulhub.kr
๐ Spots are limited for each session! RSVP now to secure your place! โก๏ธ
#### ์ฃ ์ดํ ํ๋ธ: 5์ฃผ์ฐจ - ์๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ก์ ๋
#### ์ธ๋ชจ์ ์์กด๊ฐ์ ๋ํ์ฌ
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##### ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ ๋ชจ์ ์๊ฐ
์ฃ ์ดํ ํ๋ธ์ ๋ค์ฏ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ธ์
์ ์ค์ ๊ฑธ ํ์ํด์! ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ์๋ ํ์ฅํ ๊ทธ ๋๋จธ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๋ฌธํ์ ํ์ ์ง๋ ์ฃผ์ , **'K-๋ทฐํฐ, ์ธ๋ชจ์ ๋ํ ๋ฌธํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์กด๊ฐ'**์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๋๋๋๋ค. ์ธ๋ชจ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด๋ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ง๋ ์ฌํ ์์์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํธ๋ ๋์ ์๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ง์ ์คํ์ผ ์ฌ์ด์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ๊น์? ์ด๋ฒ ์ธ์
์ ๋ฏธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค, ์๊ธฐํํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ด ๋ชจ์ต ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ฏธ์ ๋ํด 100% ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๊น์ด ์๊ณ ์์งํ๊ฒ ๋ํํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
- ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฉ์ธ ํ ํฝ: K-๋ทฐํฐ, ๋ฏธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ธ๋ชจ์ ๋ํ ๋ฌธํ ๐ก
- ์ฐธ๊ฐ ๋์: ์ง์ํ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ํ๋ฅผ ์ํ๋ ์์ธ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ (ํ์, ์ง์ฅ์ธ ๋ฑ) ๐๐ผ
- ๋ชจ์ ์ข ๋ฅ: ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ชฐ์ / ์ฐธ์ฌํ ํ ๋ก / ๋ฌธํ ๋ฐ ์ฌํ ํ ํฌ ๐ฃ๏ธ๐ค
##### 5์ฃผ์ฐจ์ ์ฌ์ :
##### '์ธ๋ชจ'์ ๋ํ ํน๋ณํ ์๊ฐ
์ด๋ฒ ์ธ์
์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ ์ค์ํ ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋ํด, ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์กด์คํ๋ฉฐ ํต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ ์๋ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ์ ์๋๋ก ํน๋ณํ ํ๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค.
- ํํธ 1: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฏธ์ - '๋์ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ํค์๋' ๐ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ด๊ณ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋น์ ์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ์คํ์ผ์ ๋ํํ๊ฑฐ๋, ๋น์ ์๊ฒ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ ์์ดํ ์ '์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ํค์๋' ํ๋๋ก ํํํด๋ณด๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. 'ํธ์ํ ํ๋ํฐ', '๊ฐ๋ ฌํ ๋ ๋ ๋ฆฝ์คํฑ', ํน์ '๋ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ํ๋ ํฅ์' ๋ฑ์ด ๋ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ฃ . ์ด ํค์๋๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ธ์์ ์์ ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์์ง์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ ๋ฉ์ง ์์์ด ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
- ํํธ 2: ๊น์ด ์๋ ๋ํ - ํ๊ตญ์์์ ๋ฆฌ์ผ ํ ํฌ ๐ฃ๏ธ ํค์๋ ์๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์์์ผ๋ก K-๋ทฐํฐ ํ์์ ๋ํด ํ ๋ก ํด๋ด ๋๋ค. ๋น์ ์ '์ธ์ํ '์ด๋ '๋ทฐํฐ ๊ฟํ'์ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์? ๋ ๋์๊ฐ, ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋น์ ์ ๋๋ผ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅธ๊ฐ์? ์ค๋๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ง๋ํ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ์์ ๋ฏธ๋์ด์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ ์.
- ํํธ 3: ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์ง๋ฌธ - ๋๋ง์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ธฐ โจ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ๋ ๊น์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋๋ค. ๋น์ ์๊ฒ '์๋ฆ๋ค์'์ด๋ ์ง์ ๋ฌด์์ ์๋ฏธํ๋์? ๋ ์์ ์๊ฒ ์์งํด์ง๋ฉด์ ์ฌํ์ ์๋ฐ์ ๋์ฒํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ฌด์์ผ๊น์? '๊พธ์๊พธ(๊พธ๋ฏผ ๋ฏ ์ ๊พธ๋ฏผ ๋ฏ)' ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ๋ํด ํ ๋ก ํ๊ณ , ์ธ๋ชจ์ ๋๋ฌด ์ง์ค๋ ์ธ์ ์์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ง์ ํ ์์กด๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ ์์์ง ํ๊ตฌํด๋ด์.
##### ์ด๋ฒ ์ธ์
์์ ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฑธ
##### ๊ฒฝํํ ์ ์์ด์ โ
- ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์คํ์ผ์ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ณ ์ถํํ๋ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ '์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ํค์๋' ํ๋ ๐
- 100% ํ๊ตญ์ด ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ๋๋๋ ์๋ฆ๋ค์๊ณผ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ์์งํ๊ณ ๊น์ ๋ํ ๐ฃ๏ธ
- 40๋ถ๋ง๋ค ํํธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ๋ค์ํ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๊ต๋ฅํ๋ ์ญ๋์ ์ธ ์์คํ ๐
- ๋ฏธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค๊ณผ ์์กด๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์กด์คํ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ ์ ์๋ ์์ ํ ๊ณต๊ฐ ๐ซ
- ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํ๊ตญ์ธ ํฌ๋ฃจ์๊ฒ์๋ง ๋ค์ ์ ์๋ ์ง์ง ๋ฌธํ์ ํต์ฐฐ ๐งโ๐ซ
- ์๋ฃ์ ๊ฐ์์ด ํฌํจ๋ ํธ์ํ ๋ชจ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ โ๐ช
##### ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฑด ์์ด์ โ
- ๊ฐ์ธ ๊ตํต๋น/์์ฌ๋น ๐๐
- ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ธ ๋ทฐํฐ ์ปจ์คํ ์ด๋ ํ์ฅํ ์ ๊ณต ๐ซ
- ํต์ญ ์๋น์ค ๐ซ
##### ์ด๋ฒ ์ธ์
, ์ ์์ผ ํ ๊น์?
- ์ผํ ๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ฅผ ๋์ด์: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋จ์ํ ์ ํ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ทฐํฐ ์ ํ ๋ค์ ์๋ ๋ฌธํ, ์ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋๋ค. ๐ฌ
- ์ง์ง ๋ฌธํ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ: ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ์์ ์ธ๋ชจ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฌํ์ ๋งฅ๋ฝ๊ณผ '๊พธ์๊พธ' ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ํ์ง ํ๊ตญ์ธ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ง์ ๋ค์ด๋ณด์ธ์. ๐งโ๐คโ๐ง
- ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์งํ๋ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ: ์์กด๊ฐ๊ณผ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ํด ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ณ , ๋ด๋ฉด๊ณผ ์ธ๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊พธ๋๋ก ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ๐ค
