Reflecting on the past, I found the personal statement I had written when applying to the Undeclared Major program at Seoul National University. At that time, I was deeply fascinated by the concept of OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) and created the concept of “Object-Oriented Management.”
12 years later, I realize that I have achieved quite a lot of what I aimed for. Being at Seoul Science High School and seeing really outstanding friends made me feel my limits, and instead of becoming the best in each field, I have dreamed of coordinating them to produce results. And for high-level coordination, I thought it was necessary to have the knowledge to understand what they are saying.
“My dream is to standardize the knowledge that humanity has accumulated over thousands of years into classes, and to establish the concept of object-oriented management, which understands experts in various fields as objects. This will show the possibility of easily finding and learning the vast knowledge humanity possesses for specific goals, and freely combining it for use. I want to become a CEO and actually apply the concept of object-oriented management to create something new that benefits humanity and design the optimal solution for the given problem.”
“For this purpose, through the ‘Student-Designed Major’ and dual major systems, I wanted to study integrating knowledge from IT, which I am most interested in, with mathematics, science, engineering, philosophy, and humanities, and to broaden my perspective by mingling with people from different majors. That’s why I applied to the Undeclared Major program.”
Originally, I planned to just compile introductory courses from all majors to easily graduate with a broad but shallow understanding, but I couldn’t even bear that and left after just one year. However, I feel grateful to those at Seoul National University’s Undeclared Major program who viewed such a personal statement favorably and selected me.
I realize that I have always loved creating new concepts by combining entirely different fields, such as “object-oriented management,” since I was young. Even recently, I find great joy in helping execute ideas that combine two completely unrelated fields.
