Interview with 2012 Australs ESL Break team Solbridge
Invigorating Speaker,
JuSeung Yi’s dream
Interviewed by JyaHyun Albert Lee
Edited by Hyo Jeong Kim
2012 Victoria University Australs was a feast for Solbridge Debating Society with their ESL Breakout news. It is no wonder that they have risen to London Debating Olympic caliber (if it had existed) and we can expect another ESL Champion in 2013 Berlin WUDC following the last year's WUDC EFL champion from DAE(Debate Association of Ewha). KIDA TALKS had an e-mail interview with one of the Solbridge Australs members, JuSeung Daniel Yi, who is a dandy guy and easily noticeable with his splendid Harry Potter glasses even from 10m away.
JuSueng is a Chief
Adjudicator for the upcoming Fall KNC that it might be intriguing to peep into
his personal profile.
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| 2012 Solbridge Australs, MJ, Seoyoon, JuSeung from left |
Hello, my name is JuSeung Yi, 25 from SolBridge Debate Society. I’m currently studying International Business at SolBridge International School of Business. I love talking overnight with people over soju, taking a random walk, and killing my time in bookstores and shops. When it comes to debating, I usually work as a Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) or Leader of Opposition (LO), but the roles often change to Prime Minister (PM) and Deputy Leader of Opposition (DLO) based on our team cases.
2. This might be what future wannabe ESL Champion hang on your every word. How did you practice for Australs 2012?
Most of our practice focused on building up the matter file. As soon as the summer vacation started, we divided research work into different themes based on the past Australs motions: social, education, health, children and families, religion, media, pop culture, feminism, developing world, 1st World, politics and international organizations, democracy, Asia, economy & business, immigration, wars and drugs, sports, environment, indigenous people, law and order, tax and equality.
At the same time, we also made a separate matter file from Economist Debates. After that, we arrived in New Zealand a week earlier to participate in Pre-Australs, which is a preparation tournament. During Pre-Australs, we were able to practice debating and get used to Australs debating and judging style.
3. How did you make up 2012 Australs team?
Unlike other schools which go through a tryout for team selection, teams are selected by our coaches in our society. For 2012 Australs, without exception, our team was also selected by our coaches based on their evaluations.
The road for Infinite Challenge (Moohan-Dojeon in Korean)
4. What is the most memorable episode that you want to share with our KIDA Talks readers during the 2012 Australs Tournament?
What happened at Australs stays in Australs. I will say that much. :)
5. Did you expect that you would break out as an ESL Team?
No, I didn’t expect to break this time. You might know as a debater that as you debate on and on, you sometimes have a weird periodic feeling about yourself that you are not ready for the certain tournament or something is not working out in the way you wish to be. Also, I felt that we did not practice enough as a team for Australs. MJ and I have debated as a team for a while but it was the first time to team up with SeoYoon
6. What was your team’s overall goal for the 2012 Australs?
Of course, we wanted to break as an ESL team and win the ESL cup. Our realistic goal, however, was just to learn from the tournament as much as possible in preparation for other tournaments in the 2nd half of the year such as NEAO and Worlds.
7. Would you evaluate your two other team-mates individually?
SeoYoon is a great team player. Like sports, team work is very important in determining team performance in every round. She is a type of person that puts her teammates before her. She is also very focused during the preparation time. Sometimes, when you have a long tournament like Australs, you get exhausted and have a hard time keeping yourself focusing on debating. But, she was always focused on fulfilling her role in every round.
MJ, on the other side, is the best person to cover our back as a whip speaker. He is very good at connecting missing dots we failed to make in the first two speeches and brings easy-to-understand analysis to debate. He is also good at logically linking ideas and arguments into one.
The background of the photo is a beautiful Wellington Ocean
8. How did you feel after the Semi-Finals of the ESL round?
Just mixed feelings like “I hate myself”… And as always, “I felt I should’ve done it better…”Especially, when I found out that I didn’t take one of my notes with me to the podium, I was really embarrassed in the middle of speech and had a silent, awkward 5 seconds that felt like 50 minutes to me.
9. Would you vividly describe the Semi-Final round?
Our opposition team was Macau A and the motion was that “THBT media should not report private lives of politicians”. We basically talked about how the media is not fulfilling its role and right of politicians is being undermined. However, we could not prove the links clearly and did not go further to explain why that is bad on a societal and individual level. On the other side, the opposition did a better job of defending the status quo and cutting the linkage of our arguments.
10. I heard your coach (professor) supported your team a lot. How did he assist your team during the tournament?
He supported us a lot throughout the Pre-Australs and Australs. He watched every round we were in and gave us feedback on how we could improve for next round. The feedback helped us a lot to fix our bad habits and mistakes we often make.
11. What did you feel after participating in Australs 2012?
I feel participating in Australs 2012 was a great learning experience for me. I was happy with the feedback the judges in Australs provided. The feedbacks helped me find my weaknesses as a debater and have a better idea of how I need to work on them. Also, watching some of the world-renowned debaters’ speech was a great motivator.
Personally, with all good memories with friends who were with us in NZ and KIDA members who cheered our breaking from Korea, the tournament was a valuable time to look back and appreciate what I have around me.
Good memories unforgettable with friends in NZ
12. Will you participate in Australs 2013 again?
Sadly, No. .
I’m graduating after fall semester. But who knows I might participate as an adjudicator.
13. Your goal as a debater?
For now, I want to make it to the Finals in the upcoming NEAO and to break as an ESL (or EFL) team in WUDC Berlin 2013.
14. What kind of a person do you want to be in future?
In broad terms, I want to become a person who can inspire others through my actions, lectures and books, whether in the education field or business field, like Seth Godin and Daniel Pink do (though I still have a long way to go). In the short term, I want to study business further in terms of the organizational behavior, motivation, and NGO management, and run a social enterprise. In that sense, I think debating is a great step forward to that end.
In every single his word, KIDA Talks could feel how much he cares his team members and fell in love with debating. KIDA Talks will be always there rooting for JuSeung with all might for his bright future as an inspiriting dream maker.
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Hello, my name is JuSeung Yi, 25 from SolBridge Debate Society. I’m currently studying International Business at SolBridge International School of Business. I love talking overnight with people over soju, taking a random walk, and killing my time in bookstores and shops. When it comes to debating, I usually work as a Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) or Leader of Opposition (LO), but the roles often change to Prime Minister (PM) and Deputy Leader of Opposition (DLO) based on our team cases.
2. This might be what future wannabe ESL Champion hang on your every word. How did you practice for Australs 2012?
Most of our practice focused on building up the matter file. As soon as the summer vacation started, we divided research work into different themes based on the past Australs motions: social, education, health, children and families, religion, media, pop culture, feminism, developing world, 1st World, politics and international organizations, democracy, Asia, economy & business, immigration, wars and drugs, sports, environment, indigenous people, law and order, tax and equality.
At the same time, we also made a separate matter file from Economist Debates. After that, we arrived in New Zealand a week earlier to participate in Pre-Australs, which is a preparation tournament. During Pre-Australs, we were able to practice debating and get used to Australs debating and judging style.
3. How did you make up 2012 Australs team?
Unlike other schools which go through a tryout for team selection, teams are selected by our coaches in our society. For 2012 Australs, without exception, our team was also selected by our coaches based on their evaluations.
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| The road for Infinite Challenge (Moohan-Dojeon in Korean) |
4. What is the most memorable episode that you want to share with our KIDA Talks readers during the 2012 Australs Tournament?
What happened at Australs stays in Australs. I will say that much. :)
5. Did you expect that you would break out as an ESL Team?
No, I didn’t expect to break this time. You might know as a debater that as you debate on and on, you sometimes have a weird periodic feeling about yourself that you are not ready for the certain tournament or something is not working out in the way you wish to be. Also, I felt that we did not practice enough as a team for Australs. MJ and I have debated as a team for a while but it was the first time to team up with SeoYoon
6. What was your team’s overall goal for the 2012 Australs?
Of course, we wanted to break as an ESL team and win the ESL cup. Our realistic goal, however, was just to learn from the tournament as much as possible in preparation for other tournaments in the 2nd half of the year such as NEAO and Worlds.
7. Would you evaluate your two other team-mates individually?
SeoYoon is a great team player. Like sports, team work is very important in determining team performance in every round. She is a type of person that puts her teammates before her. She is also very focused during the preparation time. Sometimes, when you have a long tournament like Australs, you get exhausted and have a hard time keeping yourself focusing on debating. But, she was always focused on fulfilling her role in every round.
MJ, on the other side, is the best person to cover our back as a whip speaker. He is very good at connecting missing dots we failed to make in the first two speeches and brings easy-to-understand analysis to debate. He is also good at logically linking ideas and arguments into one.
 |
| The background of the photo is a beautiful Wellington Ocean |
8. How did you feel after the Semi-Finals of the ESL round?
Just mixed feelings like “I hate myself”… And as always, “I felt I should’ve done it better…”Especially, when I found out that I didn’t take one of my notes with me to the podium, I was really embarrassed in the middle of speech and had a silent, awkward 5 seconds that felt like 50 minutes to me.
9. Would you vividly describe the Semi-Final round?
Our opposition team was Macau A and the motion was that “THBT media should not report private lives of politicians”. We basically talked about how the media is not fulfilling its role and right of politicians is being undermined. However, we could not prove the links clearly and did not go further to explain why that is bad on a societal and individual level. On the other side, the opposition did a better job of defending the status quo and cutting the linkage of our arguments.
10. I heard your coach (professor) supported your team a lot. How did he assist your team during the tournament?
He supported us a lot throughout the Pre-Australs and Australs. He watched every round we were in and gave us feedback on how we could improve for next round. The feedback helped us a lot to fix our bad habits and mistakes we often make.
11. What did you feel after participating in Australs 2012?
I feel participating in Australs 2012 was a great learning experience for me. I was happy with the feedback the judges in Australs provided. The feedbacks helped me find my weaknesses as a debater and have a better idea of how I need to work on them. Also, watching some of the world-renowned debaters’ speech was a great motivator.
Personally, with all good memories with friends who were with us in NZ and KIDA members who cheered our breaking from Korea, the tournament was a valuable time to look back and appreciate what I have around me.
 |
| Good memories unforgettable with friends in NZ |
12. Will you participate in Australs 2013 again?
Sadly, No. .
I’m graduating after fall semester. But who knows I might participate as an adjudicator.
13. Your goal as a debater?
For now, I want to make it to the Finals in the upcoming NEAO and to break as an ESL (or EFL) team in WUDC Berlin 2013.
14. What kind of a person do you want to be in future?
In broad terms, I want to become a person who can inspire others through my actions, lectures and books, whether in the education field or business field, like Seth Godin and Daniel Pink do (though I still have a long way to go). In the short term, I want to study business further in terms of the organizational behavior, motivation, and NGO management, and run a social enterprise. In that sense, I think debating is a great step forward to that end.
In every single his word, KIDA Talks could feel how much he cares his team members and fell in love with debating. KIDA Talks will be always there rooting for JuSeung with all might for his bright future as an inspiriting dream maker.
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