The phone rang suddenly and Jeon Hyong Jun picked it up. “Please help me! I cannot put up with my husband anymore.” It was a cry for help from a Vietnamese woman.Working as a volunteer interpreter for BBB Korea, a consulting service for foreigners in South Korea, the undergraduate student of Sogang University (Seoul) was familiar with such situations.He immediately understood that this was a newly wedded Korean-Vietnamese couple having a fight, not the least because of their language barrier.For the next three hours, Hyong Jun, who goes by his Vietnamese moniker, Tuan Jeon, was both an interpreter and a cultural mediator, explaining and bridging differences between South Korean and Vietnamese cultures. In the end, both wife and husband expressed their appreciation in tears.”I just wanted to cry listening to their whole story,” he said.The couple are among 2,000 people who has benefited from the free interpretation service provided by Tuan Jeon over several years.But Tuan Jeon had not really planned to learn Vietnamese. It was a default incident. In 2011, the young boy failed to enroll in a specialized English class at the Chungnam Foreign Language High School in Asan City because his score was too low. One thing… Read full this story
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