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This I Pledge To Do by Ban Ki-Moon
Last December, the former foreign Minister of Republic of Korea was elected to be an eighth Secretary General of United Nations. Currently, there are many international problems that need the help of big organizations and Ban is trying his best to solve those problems. Such tragedies which now occur from not just the Middle East but also everywhere on the Earth are waiting for the care of Ban.
As my dream is to work for international organizations like UN or to become a diplomat, I have been admired Ban long before he became the Secretary General. Moreover, he knows how to be a model for everyone, which is one of the reasons why I like him. Now, he's positioned as a leader of UN but still works really hard and tries to motivate others to be a good standard. Not only being an adept negotiator of many countries, but also being able to exert his very merits made me very nervous about my future and admire him even more.
There is a Korean proverb that goes, "THe more one become dexterous, the more one becomes humble." and I believe that this proverb just fits to the characteristics of Ban. He tries his every potential to lead everything to success and turns around to see of there is anything left to be carried by him. He always carries the worn scrap of paper charting the phases of life. In that patper, it says at 60, you possess the wisdom of "soft ear". "Soft Ear" is the mind that makes one to embrace all the things one heard. As Ban is now 62, he tries to have "soft ear" and apply it to the workforce now he is working at. All this work he is now doing may not be as easy as it seems but he will do his best because this is what he had pledged to do.