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Publications
Hyok Kim, Building Educational Information Network and
Accessing World Wide Internet on Ethiopian Telecommunication
Environment, Proceeding of Institute of Educational
Research National Conference 2001, Addis Ababa University and USAID, November
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Master Thesis (only in Korean) Performance Analysis of TCP/IP Data
Send/Receive Processing Under UNIX Operating Systems [
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H. Kim, H. Sung, and H. Lee Performance Analysis of the TCP/IP Protocol
Under UNIX Operating Systems for High Performance Computing and
Communications High Performance Computing ASIA '97, Spring, 1997 [
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H. Kim, H. Sung, and H. Lee, Performance Analysis and Feasibility Study
of a Parallelized TCP/IP Implementation Conf. of Korean Institute of
Communication Sciences, Fall, 1996 [
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Note switchover completed by spending considerable amount of time in transcribing action items undone in the year of 2008 from handy paper bound note in white color to small ring binder wrapped with leather folder.
I don't believe in jinx. However, recollecting memories of over the last ten years, I was on right track with that small ring binder whenever I challenged something; getting an admission to Ph.D. course in USA, passing KOV screening, and joining Siemens. It stayed six years inside a carton at home. Then, January 2009 welcomed it again.
That's one of graduation presents from one of best friends. That's, at the same time, the only thing still available with me out of what I got from friends.
In the year of 2000, the second year of my stay in Ethiopia, I had been there with colleague Korea Overseas Volunteers (KOV). I never dreamed of such a great experience until the arrival there. My story from that place, thereafter, became one of big topics to speak about Ethiopia's nature.
Today, I came across official web pages of the trekking program. Get excited with information and enjoy photos by visiting this link. Photos below show eco-friendly slaughter that I performed with the help of guides and colleague volunteers. :-)
Uploaded by jangmimadokoro, these two videos show how atmosphere of local language instruction prepared by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is. The class is for called Korea Overseas Volunteers (KOV) passed intensive screening in language and specialization.
Once admitted as KOV, they will take orientation trainings including local language learning course as if they stay in University environment. Instructors invited come from various fields of expertise. Local language instructors are, in most cases, from respective countries to which KOICA dispatches KOVs. Language of local language instruction is English. :-(
I attended an Amharic course at the same place, nine years ago!
As we, all the ex-KOVs, had rendered private volunteering in addition to designated duties upon bilateral agreement between Korean Government and respective countries, successors are doing the same with the spirit of "cooperation for a better world" in grass root level. Today, I could locate one article visualizing the virtue of helping the needy in Rwanda.
Visiting a certain project site or organization in person, we were not visitors anymore but family members or relatives for its residents as if we have known one another since our birth. Mutual joy from such a visit would come from washing, cooking, playing, sharing, feeling, and doing whatever all together!
It's nearly a decade ago that I used to commute from and to the Ministry during work days and would visit NGO sites for weekend. There was neither intention nor consideration as long as we were volunteers. We had just done it.
It is an annual event to welcome successors returned back to Korea this season from overseas where they served as a KOV. Predecessors join together to speak high of their sacrifice as well as to congratulate on safe return with invaluable experience accumulated during their voluntary operations. In this way, the party can give us a great chance to understand diversified cultures one another simply by saying which county they were dispatched to, what they did as a volunteer, how they survived harsh living condition, whoever they collaborated with, and more.
Of course, everybody could feel great joy from the party. In addition to that happiness generated from an ordinary party organization, regional music performances triggered the rise of homesickness to attendance. African music performance out of them (I could not get the synopsis of the dance, the origin of the song, and the theme as a whole, however) aroused remembrance in Ethiopia. Regardless of my feeling based on affinity with African continent, everybody could be absorbed in dynamic and powerful rhythm from the performance. The more exposed to another culture like this, we can expand our life view wider. It's one of virtues of diversity!
Recollecting what I had done as a Korea Overseas Volunteer (KOV) in Ethiopia,
I still wonder what the true volunteerism is.
I redefined my volunteerism into "technical cooperation" in the article
from KOV category of this blog because spiritual understanding
in grass root level was missing.
Specifically speaking, I was always busy in preparation of network with cutting edge technology, training materials,
reports to the Ministry and KOICA regional office,
and any other tangible matters only.
At the end of stay in Ethiopia, only thing that I could do was just to keep unforgettable memory with Ethiopian around my residence.
If I revisit Ethiopia as a volunteer, I will be able to behave in different way by devoting myself
to understanding existing Ethiopian cultures as they are now.
However, will my revisit happen? Of course, not!
Whenever I read articles from "One Love Theater/Blog",
I can imagine what and how the volunteers there are doing in Awassa with the spirits that I should have shared with colleagues from the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia. Look up article from this link!
I am far away off international society in Ethiopia where I cooperated with so many volunteers,
advisors to Ethiopian governmental organizations, NGO staffs from over the world.
However, even though I am staying in Korea I have several chances, fortunately,
to travel abroad in business and/or for private matters every year.
In addition to direct overseas experience above, I can hear something from
whoever visited overseas. Of them, returned Korea Overseas Volunteers (KOVs) revisiting
where they stayed with a certain purpose, deliver interesting stories all the time.
Storied told are heartwarming anecdotes, funny happenings, cultural shocks,
mythical allegation, and whatever.
Surprising fact heard from my junior recently was that the Ukraine is one of cognac producers!
Cognac in the small bottle next to Ukraine doll is what I received from junior as a souvenir.
We had no idea when, why, and how the Ukraine started to produce it.
However, further curiosity is non-sense; one bottle of cognac is already at my hand.
Something new always makes me open eyes toward all directions across the globe.
Whenever I come to know one thing, I can add one more topic in story pool and life memory.
Existence of Ukraine cognac can be the latest topic. :)
At last, we've got together in Seoul! I and junior Korea Overseas Volunteers (KOVs) had a good time by talking about something Ethiopian and their experience from there. It passed nearly six years since my return to Korea. What I had known about Ethiopia varied from what they told me. According to their comments, Ethiopia is growing in its economy. The sign of economic expansion was the boom of construction and civil engineering. Regardless of what is going on in Ethiopia, gathering together made me very happy by itself!
During my stay in Ethiopia as Korea Overseas Volunteer, we KOV and Japan Overseas Cooperative Volunteer (JOCV) members had a regular sports event apart from daily and private friendship exchange in their duty stations. Staffs from Embassies and regional offices were also welcomed. We approached one another by playing bowling and softball game. However, I have no more contact with them upon my return to Korea. Maybe, others, either. :( I wonder what they are doing in Korea, in Japan, or overseas where they live.
The word "volunteer" from Korea Overseas Volunteer, itself, implies sacrifice innately. When it comes to engineering, my volunteering should be considered as technical cooperation, I think. Enumerating what I did at that time, I repeated introducing new technology, persuading its implementation, making MOE staffs understood from training, following up progress, and discussing issues to escape from stalemate that most of KOVs were prone to encounter in the middle of cooperation. That's it! Interacting with local staffs was the very virtue of volunteerism.
I returned back to Korea, November 2001. My juniors took over duties and are still managing their KOV operations very well. Refer to this link for more details. Photos below are snapshots taken while staying there (years of 1999 ~ 2001)
Alphabet of Ethiopian language (hereinafter, called Amharic) consist of numerous characters as shown in this link.
As a part of KOV orientation training prior to departure to Ethiopia, I had a chance to learn Amharic from native speaker. Unlike the appearance of typical Amharic typeface above, my handwriting for simple Amharic sentences visualize practical use of Amharic characters.
This is scanned copy of handwriting written by native Ethiopian.
