Janghee Kim

Artist, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist

I'm a passionate educator in Korea, who have been teaching students over 10 years. I lead various kinds of program in a highschool I'm working in for students, such as cultural exchange programs with Australian and Chinese students, or holding contests on learning English. Not only about teaching of learning English, I'm also eager to spread precious ideas from quotes or lesson from my experience. After I joined a lecture of a passionate Googler, I recently got interested in spreading creative ideas to students, which matches with a moto of TED.

I'm passionate about Education, Environment, and Art. These are what I care about most, and the biggest field I being influenced.

I think an idea worth spreading comes from various kind of people. People have different backgrounds, views, and interest, so there can't be a perfectly matching idea with others. That's why I think idea, especially ones which worth to be spread, come from not only a specfic person but lots kind of people. If a particular subject being given to various people, the idea can be thought in different views and fileds by each special person, so that it can be better idea than it was at first, so can be an idea worth spreading.

Communicatiion, English Literature, International Relations, Teaching & Learning

The first moment I got to know about TED was in a educational workshop for highschool English teachers. TED was introduced as a conference which spreads creative thinkings, and I thought it was perfectly good for me to know that because it seemed as a perfect tool to help the students with thinking in creative ways. For me, TED.com was an amazing treasure island for that reason. I got to know various cultures and articles, and could be put with various and creative notions and views. And my eagerness in spreading valuable lessons and ideas has set in.

People don't know that I'm good at cooking! People think that I'm so busy that there would be not enough time for me to spend for cooking, so I would bad at it, but I'm pretty good at it actually!