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| |name = Matt Strum
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| |avatar = [[Image:mstrum.jpg|200px]]
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| |gender = Male
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| |age = 24
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| |bloodtype = A+
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| |hometown = Anchorage, AK, USA
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| |location = Seoul, South Korea
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| |languages = English
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| |job =
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| |university = University of Utah
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| |major = Computer Engineering
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| |korlangschool=
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| |studysince = October 2005
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| |favmusic = Big Bang, 2NE1, Epik High
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| |favmovies = Soulmate, Classic
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| |favfood = Kimbap and Spicy rice cake
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| |hobbies = Programming, photography, ukulele
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| |homepageurl = http://www.mstrum.com/
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| |homepagetitle = Mstrum.com
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| |blogurl = http://www.mstrum.com/onmywaytokorea
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| |blogtitle = On My Way To Korea
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| |twitterurl = http://www.twitter.com/mstrum
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| |twittertitle = Mstrum
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| |me2dayurl = http://me2day.net/mstrum
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| |me2daytitle = Mstrum
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| |linkedinurl = http://www.linkedin.com/in/mstrum
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| |linkedintitle = Mstrum
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| |youtubeurl = http://www.youtube.com/user/mattstrum
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| |youtubetitle = mattstrum
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| |myspaceurl = http://www.myspace.com/mstrum
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| |myspacetitle = Mstrum
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| |facebookurl = http://www.facebook.com/mstrum
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| |facebooktitle = Mstrum
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| |cyworldurl = http://cyworld.com/mstrum
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| |cyworldtitle = Mstrum
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| |below = 화이팅!
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| ==Korean Projects==
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| * [[Hangeul Assistant]]
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| * [[Main Page|Korean Wiki Project (co-founder)]]
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| ==How, Where and Why I Learned Korean==
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| I have always loved studying languages. I studied French for one year in middle school, German for two years in high school and one year of Chinese (including traditional characters) in university. I had thought I would settle on Chinese, but fate has something different in store for me. Although I am no longer LDS/Mormon, I did serve two years as a full-time volunteer as a missionary. My church told me to learn Korean and teach the Korean people in Vancouver, Canada. I was so surprised, I had thought they would send me to Taiwan because of the recent language study I had taken. Sadly, I couldn't even tell you where Korea was on a map let alone anything about the culture or people. In October 2005, I entered the missionary training center where I studied Korean (along with missionary stuff) everyday for twelve weeks before being sent out on my own. All of my fellow missionaries (except one) were being sent to Korea, so I knew I would have to study extra hard to master the language without being immersed in it.
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| Once I arrived in Vancouver in January 2006, I finally got to use the Korean I had learned in the classroom. For two years strait, I was constantly street contacting and meeting with Koreans every day. I was always going through whatever study material I could get my hands on. I kept a notepad on me where I would write about ten words to study every day. I immediately fell in love with everything, the culture, the food, and the people. As missionaries we weren't allowed to listen to music or watch TV or movies so I never got to experience Korean dramas or K-pop the whole time (or even anything English). Missionaries are also not allowed to date or be in relationships, so I kept everything professional. Better than anything I can listen to or watch, I was able to build 정 with the wonderful Koreans I met and that was enough.
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| When I returned home in October 2007, I immediately started to watch some Korean dramas and listen to music which I absolutely loved. I went back to my university in January 2008 and took some extra Korean classes for personal interest. Ever since then I have been continually watching movies and dramas (I have a HUGE collection now) and listening to new music. I'm currently studying at Seoul National University and will be here for all of 2010. My long-term dream is that I can involve Korea in my job in the future.
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| ==Hobbies==
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| *Playing the ukulele
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| *Taking pictures
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| *Programming (see [[Hangeul Assistant]])
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| ==To-do List==
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| *Learning Hangeul
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| **Flesh out the Jamo pages
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| *Chinese roots
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| **More roots
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| **Connect pages to the roots
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| **Chinese character redirects
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| *Work on and release another minor version of [[Hangeul Assistant]]
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| **Work on virtual cellphone input method
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| **Add ALT button method to be able to type english letters
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| *Learn the MediaWiki extension engine
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| *Section with songs and vocab lists
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