We as social creatures love to talk about ourselves... and yet, here is my severely lacking introduction.

Name and Origins

Hi Steemit and all you lovely Steemizens (Steemit + Citizens). My full legal name is Woolim L. Lee as written in official government documents, but I go mainly by my more easier-to-say and easier-to-pronounce English names: Light Lee. Why did I choose the name Light for my English name? There's more depth to it than it would seem.

My given name comes from the Old Testament of the Jewish and Christian Bible. Therefore, my name is multi-translatable but I don't like going by those names. Woolim is the Korean version. Urim is the official English version found in most English-Bibles. I did some digging around and found out that my name meant one of two things: "light of God" and "revelation of God". Thus is how I came to choose Light as my official English name. It's not legalized yet, but I have plans to make it legal one day.

For now, you can call me Light or Urim. Urim, by the way is pronounced as Ooh-Rim (kinda like the U in Uber).

Am I named after a historical/biblical person? Nope. I'm named after a precious gemstone. One of two gems on the High Priest's breastplate. My parents initially had thought of naming me Thummim, but thought it might be too feminine of a name and decided ultimately on Urim as my name.

How my parents came to name me that is also tied to a mysterious event that happened about 2-3 weeks before my birth. On March 8th, my parents had avoided a possible car accident. That night, my mother had flipped the Bible open and came upon this passage in Leviticus 8:8, "And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim."

In Chinese characters, my name means "Second Coming" derived from Woo (Again) and Lim/Im (coming, happening). Being born of Christian Missionaries, I couldn't avoid being given a name of religious origins.

At least I'm thankful for the fact that my name doesn't sound like a religious name. I mean, if I had been named Moses or Judah or David, it would have been more obvious. Though nowadays there are a lot of atheists and agnostics who name their kids with those kinds of names so I shouldn't really assume that a name defines a person.

I was born in South Korea. Not the North. I may have ancestors who were born in the Northern part of Joseon/Korea before the two Koreas were separated, but that does not in any way make me a North Korean. My hometown is Chuncheon, the capital city of the province of Gangwon. This city is about 1 hour away to the east of Seoul by train, and 3 hours by car. My province is the largest in South Korea, and most of the border between the North and South is in my province. It's an important province when you look at it from a military viewpoint.

Born in 1992, on April 1st at around 4:30pm (Yes, I am not an April Fools kid), and immigrated to Canada on October 10th, 1996, I am a Korean-born, Canadian citizen. No, I am not a dual-citizen. I had to revoke my Korean citizenship before I turned 18 years of age in order to avoid the compulsory military service that applies to all Korean males born in Korea and outside of Korea (down to the 3rd generation).

And I have been living in Canada since 1996 and haven't moved out.

Random Facts about myself that I think are interesting but may bore the heck out of you readers.

Favourite Authors

• Clive Staples Lewis (C.S.Lewis, most famous for his radio talks and his Christian fantasy series, "The Chronicles of Narnia")
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (J.R.R.Tolkien, probably more famous than his best friend Lewis for his Christian Fantasy books on the Middle-Earth such as Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, etc)
• Jose Saramago (Nobel Prize for Literature for his book, Blindness)
• Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (most famous for his Sherlock Holmes books)
• King Solomon, son of David (most famous for his book of Proverbs, Song of Songs, etc)

Favourite Movies and Why

• Inception
  • As a fellow human who has experienced the dreaming inside a dream inside a dream, and the worlds of multi-dream dimensions, it was the first movie I was able to fully enjoy and relate to.
• Lion King
  • Who doesn't like Timon and Pumba?

I won't count the other animation films that I loved on this list, since I don't want to overcrowd my introduction with unnecessary information so I'll make a separate post later on these sub-topics.

About Me Trivia

• I'm 6ft2in in height (187cm)
• My ethnicity is Korean (but then, you probably figured that out by now if you didn't skip anything)
• I'm in my mid-20s (again, simple mental math should have told you this as well)
• I live in Canada (for the readers who skipped the part where I wrote that I immigrated to and am a citizen of Canada)
• I'm a casual gamer (I don't relate to being on the level of a stereotypical pro-korean-gamer; I'm not competitive enough)
• I'm a polygot (I'll reveal which languages later via dlive/dtube or some other post)

How did I get to Steemit? What are my current and future plans here?

My mother owns a business, and she has gotten into the habit of keeping up to date with the latest news of cyber-tech and business. She found out about Steemit through a Korean app that keeps its users updated about the latest fad or trend online or in technology and finance. Immediately, she studied about block-chain, steemit, cryptocurrency, bitcoins, and whatnot... and even gave a 40 minute lecture on what she learned to others including my own family.

I wasn't there for the lecture, so I found out about Steemit through her on a later date, namely about two weeks ago. I've always loved finding good content online and loved the voting systems of forums, discussion boards like disqus and social media. Hearing about another platform piqued my interest. After one day of scouring through the steemit feed, I made my decision to join, and after about 10 days, I finally got approved. Here I am, 6 days after the approval, making my first official post.

I'm not anyone famous, nor am I new to the online world. There are more people in real life who know me than there are people online who know me (my facebook accounts have more friends/fans than I do on other social media, despite the fact that I hardly use facebook as my social media base).

But here I am now, and have thoroughly convinced my entire family to register and join; including my dear mother who took the initiative to let me know, but didn't join. I am spreading the news to my friends and colleagues and any acquaintances met via work, school, and social gatherings.

I'm here to share my poetry, my original stories, occasionally some fan-fiction, but my main purpose is to be on the watch for other individuals with hidden potential in order to uplift and encourage them towards their success. Whatever success means to each person may differ, but I wish the best of luck to everyone reading this post.

I'm not here to profit from others, and I know steemit isn't a place for doing that sort of thing. I'm here to find and make new friends of similar interests, learn and gain new interests/hobbies, and most of all to have fun. I'll do my best to bring original content as I really detest copy-pasting other people's work (even if I'm giving credit to them by including the source link/name). Well all you readers can keep me accountable on that; I will "Decline Payout" on a post if 25% or more of it contains other people's work or content.

Well, hope you didn't pull a TLDR on me and hope you enjoyed reading this :D.

Well, this is me, a picture just taken today March 7th, 2018 between 6 and 7 am (EST). :D