{"id":2905,"date":"2020-11-21T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T23:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2020-12-28T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T23:35:13","slug":"009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/2020\/11\/21\/009\/","title":{"rendered":"#009: The Hard Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A colleague of mine once said, \u201cI know a lot of smart people, but I have never met anyone smart like you who said they would do something and actually do it.\u201d<\/p>

Well, I meant it when I said that I was going to \u201cbuild\u201d my website. What can I say, I probably got those unshakable willpower genes from my Korean parents. They never lectured me on it but rather showed me through their action what it means to be \u201cfully committed\u201d. I learned how to pour myself into the things I want to achieve and leave nothing in reservedness. Even if I don\u2019t get to achieve that exact thing, I haven\u2019t lost anything because I\u2019m stronger for having tried.<\/p>

When COVID gave me a bunch of lemons (time at home), I decided to make homemade lemonade (a website) by squeezing my brain really hard. >.<<\/p>

I started the process by drawing out each page on a piece of paper, like a storyboard, without knowing exactly \u2018how\u2019 it was going to be done. But \u2018how\u2019 was secondary; knowing \u2018what\u2019 I wanted to create wasn\u2019t easy, so I had to dig myself deeper to find the answer. After that, it was just a series of the decision-making process from A to Z, from colours to fonts to layouts to a logo. I even took a short course on Adobe Illustrator and learned just enough of the basics to create a simple logo. I didn\u2019t have a photo (and didn\u2019t know any photographer), so I reached out to a cameraman whom I met on the Kim\u2019s Convenience\u2019s set.\u00a0 Just like that, I was creating something from nothing.<\/p>

Someone asked me what the hardest part of building my website was. My answer was, \u201cno hardest part because everything was just simply hard.\u201d I\u2019m not a tech-savvy person (far from it), so it nearly killed me. I abused my arms (that were already bad from excessive typing and translating) so much to the point that it became too painful to even click!<\/p>

Long story short, I launched my website www.koreaninterpreter.ca on my birthday in September 2020. I celebrated the hard birth of my website as well as my birth (which wasn\u2019t an easy birth either, according to my mom).<\/p>

The good news is that I started getting business from it the very next day of launching it, and my clientele is growing ever since!<\/p>

Another good news is that I can maintain the website myself. I now joke that website building can be my side gig (as I have this inflated confidence that I could build another simple one easily), but the truth is, I never want to do this tedious work again! But I\u2019m glad to have finished it because I got the domain a year prior to that, so this was a long-overdue job!<\/p>

www.koreaninterpreter.ca still has a long way to go, but it is finally here to stay.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A colleague of mine once said, \u201cI know a lot of smart people, but I have never met anyone smart like you who said they would do something and actually do it.\u201d Well, I meant it when I said that I was going to \u201cbuild\u201d my website. What can I say, I probably got those … \uc790\uc138\ud788 \uc54c\uc544\ubcf4\uae30<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-journal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreaninterpreter.ca\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}