Finally I started my own blog! 🎉

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🥳 Starting my blog

October 26, my birthday, is now also the birthday of my own blog.
I thought a lot about what I should write on the first posting of the blog that I’ve worked hard on, and I finally decided to post about my plans and thoughts at the start of this blog.

✨ Why I started blogging

I decided to start the blog for three main reasons:

👦 To express myself to others

  First of all, I wanted to show others what I’ve done and who I am effectively using the blog.

  This August, I participated in 2021 Military Open Source Online Hackathon organized by OSAM. During the team building period, I applied to several teams and received some reply mails, one of which was “Is there any website or portfolio where we can see your works?”.

 Since I’ve never participated in any hackathon, and I haven’t organized projects that I’ve done, I couldn’t answer properly to the mail. Only after receiving this mail, I realized that people take a look into applicant’s portfolio when looking for a team member(…). I was upset that I couldn’t express what I’ve done properly to others even if I have worked so hard. So I decided to start my own blog to show what I’ve done to others effectively.
 This blog will be used to record what I’ve done, and show others what I can do effectively.

🤝 To share information

 I have received so much help from the Internet. Now, I wanted to help others through blogs and pay off the debt to the Internet.

 I started studying about Frontend web development for the first time to participate in the hackathon. While studying many topics like HTML, CSS, JS, React, Redux, I could get as much information as I wanted for free. The questions people exchanged in Stack Overflow also helped me a lot.
 I thought that the way to repay those who gave me information was to use it well and grow up, and then share what I learned with others just like them. Since I thought that starting a blog was the most easiest way to share information, I decided to start my own blog.
 From now on, I’m going to organize what I’ve learned and post it so that it can help others.

✍ To organize my thoughts

 Writing is difficult. It takes a long time to think, a lot of effort. This process is difficult, but you can get valuable learning. I want to write regularly and learn by blogging.

 I think I’m not a deep thinker. I just write what comes to mind when I write a diary, and sometimes I give up on thinking just saying I don’t know~ It will be fine~ 🙄. However, when writing something that others will read, I get to think more deeply than usual to show better writing to readers. To show better writing, I have the process of refining tangled thoughts to explain my thoughts well enough for others to easily understand. Also, when I write some posts sharing information that I know, I will go through the process of knowing more clearly what I know.
 I thought I would be able to have this experience of organizing my thoughts often if I started my blog.

🌐 Running a bilingual blog

 All posts on this blog will be written in Korean and English, respectively. It won’t be easy, but following two reasons made me to decide like this.

🙌 Beyond the limit of langauges

 I didn’t want to make a limit of my blog using only Korean.

 If I ran my blog only in Korean, my blog would get a clear limit. To people who can’t speak Korean, my blog will be left as a page written in Alien languages 👽 , and I wouldn’t be able to communicate with people who can’t speak Korean.
 However, If a run my blog in two languages, even though I have to work harder, my posts can reach to much more people, and I would be able to help much more people. I thought the possibility of helping more people around the world was more valuable than the effort in writing in English, so I decided to write a blog in English too.

🔥 To study English

 English is hard.. I can read documents in English pretty well, but it is still hard for me to write or speak in English. I thought writing posts in English on my blog would make me get to be friendlier with English .
 Writing a blog in English would help more people in world, and improve my English skills, so there was no reason for me to run my blog only in Korean.

🎉 What’s next?

 Thinking about writing on the blog in the future is already full of excitement! I’m going to organize what I learned, and upload the projects I participated in on this blog. 🤗