Hello all and welcome to the first post of Infinitely Yours, Korea. As stated above the purpose of this blog is for me to share some of my thoughts on contemporary Korean pop culture and what it is about the country that has made me fall in love with it over the past couple years. Hopefully through these posts you'll be able to learn something new and if you walk away with even a tiny new interest in Korea or Korean culture that didn't exist before then I'm all the more happier.
A little more detailed information about myself: I was adopted from South Korea when I was six months old and was raised in Rhode Island my whole life. Growing up my parents never hid the fact that both me and my older sister were adopted from Korea (my sister was adopted six years prior to my own arrival). Despite growing up in an overwhelmingly Caucasian town and community (as far I can recall I was the only minority in my elementary school and the number of minorities in my relatively small high school could be counted on two hands) no one really drew a lot of attention to the fact that I was Korean and so my different ethnicity had a pretty low impact on my youth.
It wasn't until through the end of high school and into college that I matured to a point where I recognized being Korean was a significant part of my life and something that differentiated me (not necessarily in a good or bad way) from most of the people around me and, because of that, had a cultural heritage that I knew nearly nothing about, but had a renewed interest in, and it took off from there.
Lastly, the influence for this blogs title "Infinitely Yours, Korea" is a reference to the global promotion campaign "Infinitely Yours, Seoul". The aim of the promotion campaign was to promote Seoul, South Korea's capital, as a warm and welcoming city with endless possibility and opportunity. The title resembles the traditional closing of a letter, reconciling a sense of limitless offerings with a feeling of sincere and genuine warmth. In that same spirit "Infinitely Yours, Korea" is a platform by which I wish to share with everyone what it is I love about Korea and hopefully inspire some of the same feelings in others.
