FYI : CONOR WOODMAN IS COMING TO KOREA!
BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Who? Conor Woodman
What? ran into him / ate dinner with him
When? the day before my 16th birthday
Where? at the subway / in the small public Japanese restaurant called 'Onigiriwa Igyudong'
Why? in accident / he spilled his coffee on my back
WHO IS CONOR WOODMAN?
- famous for the documentary/book, <Around the World in 80 Trades>
- former city(market) analyst
- interviews
WHY DO I WANT TO MEET HIM?
When I was in the middle school, I wanted to major in Economics to be a fabulous fund manager. However, my interests changed, and after all, I didn't want to know any principles and laws about the economy. One day, I found the book named Around the World in 80 Trades in my shelf, and started to read the book. It was fantastic; even though I do not enjoy reading non fiction books, I finished to read the book in a day.
The book and the author of the book, Conor Woodman, changed my entire life. I planned to major in Economics again, and my life dream is to travel all around the world to trade like Conor Woodman.
There are lots of questions that I want to ask him, and I want him to give me some advice.
To say the truth, his looks nice.
SITUATION
It will be impossible to remove a memory of September 1st, 2010 during my lifetime.
It was the day before my birthday; it was my precious birthday-eve and something special had to happen. Maybe I would run into my favorite celebrity Junsu Kim in the way going to somewhere. Maybe one of my old friends would call me by chance without knowing my phone number. Maybe I would be the winner to get a cup of pistachio ice cream in Baskin-Robbins. When I was daydreaming like this while I was brushing my teeth gently, my phone rang.
Yes, it should be the number two case! I answered the phone with a big smile, but, guess what, it was a urging call from a video rental shop threatening me that I should return the Cars DVD today or pay three thousand won tomorrow. Something was going wrong. I would have expected this.
However, I got another call, and thankfully it was my best friend who called. Even though I clearly knew that she got informed about my birthday by the text message that I sent secretly removing a sender number to all of my close friends two days ago, I was happy enough to listen to her voice through the phone. We made a firm promise to meet in Myeongdong station after an hour, so I ran to the subway as quickly as I can.
When I was running up the stairs to get on the subway at 2 in the afternoon where there are no people at all which means that it is almost near zero percent possibility to run into someone, a person spilled a terribly hot cup of coffee on my back. In the first place, it was so strange that he actually spilled it on my back. Also, because the person tried to get the cup by stretching his arms to my right shoulder, the incident got much worse; the left liquid in the cup teemed to my arms as if they were heavy raindrops and flowed to my hand. I got my right arm and hand burned, which meant that I absolutely screwed up an appointment with my best pal. There was nothing that I can do except bawl him out for his blunder.
Me : So what are you going to do now? Throw a cup of ice to me?
Woodman : Oh, I am really sorry to see my coffee on your shirt. Now, you owe me five thousand four hundred and twenty won, which is the amount of money I paid for my Café Breve excluding the discount with my Shinhan card. Oh, and because I am kind of busy now, say thanks to me later for me to include the discount with my card.
Me : What? What the hell are you saying? Are you insane? You spilled your crazy hot coffee on my back, you made the situation worse by stretching out your damn flexible arm, and now, you want me to pay for your new cup of coffee! Do you know who my uncle is? He is a fabulous lawyer! You absolutely look like I-wanna-be-sued-for-this! Don’t you think so?
Woodman : ……. Actually, I guess I was kidding. I’ll give you my business card. Contact me later.
The person ran away from me after throwing his contact information to my side. I tried to catch him, but it was impossible: he had a speed of Usain Bolt. I picked up the contact card of his, and read it off. It was written, “Conor Woodman, the investor of the world”.
WHAT I WANT TO ASK
- Why did you come to Korea?
- I want to major in Economics. Based on your experiences in University of Manchester, do you have any advice to give to students like me?
- What do you want to buy/sell in Korea?
- Why did you quit your job as an market analyst?
- What do you think about 'Justice'? Do you think selling a bottle of water for $30 after a category 5 hurricane hit the place can be justified?
- What do you think about brokers?
- In your book, many different kind of your friends helped you through the travel. How do you feel about getting help from friends?
- What will be the most terrible life to you?
- Why were you interested in Economics in the first place? Why did you major in Economics?
Excellent brainstorm - great work. I only ask for a bit and this is a lot. I've never heard of this guy before so I like that you've picked out someone unique.
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