Is it possible that South Koreans received a memo to descend upon Stone Mountain in the last 24 hours? In less than a day, I not only met a family from Seoul (more soon) and Chang Hun the opera singer from Gwangju, but I also met an ebullient 21 year-old, Minjeong Kim, from the city of Pusan. In Korea she's actually 22, because there you're already age 1 when you're born. For the past 8 weeks, Minjeong, who's never been to the U.S. before (or Stone Mountain), has been secluded in the woods at the Robert W. Woodruff Scout Reservation in Blairsville, GA, where she is the International Camp Staff Coordinator (she proudly sports her camp water bottle) representing the KSA, Korea Scout Association. She's been sharing her country's history and culture with other camp members from around the world. Before talking with her, I never really thought much about scouts being in other countries. It's humbling and refreshing to test my own latent ethnocentricity when learning about other cultures.

I caught her on her very first day off to explore and sightsee in Atlanta, beyond the forest, before she flies home Tuesday. And the college student majoring in broadcast journalism was most excited about touring CNN, as her dream is to literally one day be a producer there. South Korea's major TV network is the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS).