Let's vote for ourselves!

02/12/2015

From today, the voting began at Busan University of Foreign Studies.

I can exercise the right to vote for 'Europe and North America Department' and 'English Department' which belongs to ENAD as one of its major. For tomorrow, long-waited vote for the student body will be conducted.

(Candidate number 2, candidate number 1, Candidate number 3)

Not many people know that they have gotten this election be possible because of  candidate number 3. This brave female candidate felt that the current president of the student council is active for his own interest. So she demanded the detailed statement of student union fee during almost this entire semester, but no response came out from him yet. He even planned to cancel this biggest election so that he could work until next year as a president. So the supporters of candidate 3 gathered the students to gymnasium where the council is held if more than one tenth of students (about 730) assemble to make this election be held.

It felt like I was in a movie. The council was scheduled to open at 6:00pm. It was so crowd inside of it. Everyone in there must have thought this assembly would unfold smoothly. Well, if not, at least, he should have feared of strong interest of BUFS students toward the student body. We were so relaxed meeting long time no see friends until we got a bolt from the blue.

"I really did my best. We were supposed to have at least 730 students in this gym, but we only got to have 689. I am afraid that this can not be held"

Every student was greatly surprised. You didn't promote this council at all. You exactly placed these plastic chairs for 730 expecting these would't be filled. You didnt even include dozens of executives of the student body who were in there and you are saying 'you did your best'??

At 6:45 pm. The place became stormy. I could recognize all the agitator, mere normal students expressing their opinions and the others summoning their friends. The final count started in totally clear silence where nobody would believe that there were hundreds of people in there if they closed their eyes. The number was announced.

718 including all the executives and the president himself. Shit. I thought the democracy was dead. You dumb BUFS students, you shall never demand nor ask for what you want from now on. You just calmly attend the school and get a degree then vas t'en!

All of a sudden, one guy shouted pointing at the auditorium (totally in a dead zone for us) "Look there!! Aren't they BUFS students???" All the heads turned to them. Yes, they were. They gave me literally goose bumps. We made this! The president was under extreme tension. He immediately started the council emphasizing we don't have enough time to get to know the candidates properly.

Don't worry about that mate.. 

Well, need less to say, the most students in there voted yes to have the election this year. This is how we got to have the right to vote today. Not many people know this especially for the fresh men. I saw how the democracy is made, how the real politicians ascend the stairs step by step and how wide awake people change the world in just this little university.

Therefore, I outrightly support the candidate number 3 for making the students be awake. Regardless of the result, I wish I could give her a dinner to listen to her life story. LOL Girl crush!