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A Gift from South Korea Finally, I remember... (The continuation of the first part ...) Hearing this news, my parents and I were wondering throughout as to who would send a package to us through the post as we had not even ordered anything online. Yet the thought of the gift from the competition never crossed my mind as I had completely forgotten that I even participated to such an online competition. Once arriving at the post office, a person working in the office handed me over the so called package they were talking about. I could understand nothing on that bubbled package as most of the things were written in Korean. As soon as I saw that Korean written text, I had a slight feeling that this might be the gift sent to me, meaning, I had become a winner of that competition. So I opened the package to find out an original album of the boy band EXO all well packaged and sent all the way to Sri Lanka from South Korea. After all, I have been selected as a winner of th

A Gift from South Korea First, I wondered what it was... Have you ever encountered a moment when you receive a gift from another country and, that too, the day before your birthday? Well, I did come across such a moment in January. Although I wanted to share this experience with you for the past months, I couldn’t do so due to my university finals. But now, since it is done and dusted, I found a peace of mind to share this wonderful surprising experience that came up early this year. Last December, while surfing the internet, I came across a competition which was organized by one of the governmental Ministries of South Korea. It was not that of a hard online competition, but was more of writing skills. I just kept on typing on the topic they had asked the participants of the competition to write on. At the end of the page which the competition was loaded, a series of gift options were displayed to be selected in case I win the competition. This was an opportunity given