What are Strengths and Weaknesses in your personality?Everyone has particular qualities that reflect their identity. These qualities are specified into the

traits called “strengths and weaknesses”, which lead us to find out ourselves from inside. They also provoke us self-improvement so that goals and success in both professional and personal life can be attained.

After self-analysis, the main strengths I possess consist of voluntary mind, responsibility and an interest in daily learning. Firstly, I have been taught mottos to serve peoples – helping suffering people and providing them better opportunities – since the school period. At present, I still continue holding those sayings on and implementing through social activities held by the faculty and the charitable organizations. Not only could it could relieve their grief, but also encourage them for moral support. Secondly, I emphasize assignments and duty. With advisors and companions, I spend time planning, researching and discussing in details of work so that the main point could be clearly understood and the objectives can be attained. In many times, the outcomes do not happen nearly as expected. Nevertheless, I feel impressive at least that we are fully responsible. Lastly, new findings occur around us and become parts of the largest knowledge base called “the world” everyday. My power is activated to receive and process flows of information intermittently in one day. They will be sorted into my personal library as fundamentals for application in daily life and work later on. It could provide wider perspectives in both academic and social aspects.

In contrast, there are some weaknesses to be improved. I consider myself as an impatient person. In spite of paying attention, I sometimes hasten to finish working. Consequently, many mistakes can happen and affects the work progress. Past experiences have reminded me to practice mind control and learn how to plan and run the process more carefully. I also discuss with the advisors and the team in some complicated topics so that inaccurate decision could be avoided. My foreign language skills are other my disadvantages. In my opinion, my English skills are not practiced effectively, especially the speaking part. As a result, it is not quite confident to comment in English. The best way to improve is more concentration on the English practice. I’m downloading podcasts to practice native accents as well as study new vocabularies and expressions used in each situation. I am also watching English-speaking television news and programs. It would be helpful to increase my English proficiency and confidence in expressing opinions.

To sum up, the strengths and weaknesses as described above make me intention to keep on self-improvement. It could support me to achieve goals at present and in the upcoming future.

Please state the reasons why you deserve to receive this Daewoong Global scholarship.

There’re some reasons why I could be one of the selected candidates for this grant. One reason is my intention to publicize knowledge and understanding about rational drug utilization. At present, policies related to public healthcare could help people, especially low-income ones, with increased access to drugs and medical supplies. According to the scheme of universal coverage, the middle- and low-income citizens are able to receive drug therapies with the least additional expense. However, more accessibility of drugs is certain to impact the people’s behaviour towards the drug use. Someone may misunderstand about suitable drug administration so that upcoming problems could occur. For example, the control of the disease progression can be affected as well as safety concerns related to the drugs. One of the problems is poor drug compliance is because the people don’t follow the pharmacists or physicians’ instruction of the drug use. It is often found in case of antibiotics. Someone doesn’t keep on the completed does of antibiotics despite apparent signs of recovery from bacterial infections. Events of drug resistance by bacteria are likely to occur so that they might not be cured with the same types of antibiotics in case the similar patterns of infections. Therefore, it’s necessary to provide emphasis about appropriateness of the drug use to the people. The action could be taken in various ways such as interactive outdoor activities, presentation of comprehensive contents via mass communication and social networking. In my opinion, the scholarship could assist me to initialize those activities to encourage the public perception. It would be beneficial for the people as consumers to gain better understanding and enable to utilize drugs properly.

In addition, the purpose of the scholarship is focused on postgraduate education in the field of Pharmaceutics. Disadvantages related to conventional drug dosage forms - such as inconvenience, side effects, toxicities, instability - has influenced my ambition to apply basic and advanced knowledge in development of the dosage forms. Invention and application of techniques in design and production could resolve these limitations. To fulfil the intention, studying in the postgraduate level is one of the pathways to accumulate knowledge, skills and experiences in researches. This fund could partly support me opportunities in develop and improve the dosage forms that exhibit better therapeutic efficacy, more considerable stability, higher safety and easier use.

In brief, I believe my determination to help the people with better understanding about the drug use and create the more potential dosage forms could support me as one of the interesting applicants to obtain this fund.