"For that summer, I ate a lot of Korean food. She put me on K-dramas,"
"It was like the best news and almost the worst news at the same time. Best because finally I get to do this. But of course, the anxiety, how do we start planning now?"
"It required faith, sacrifice, structure, and for both of us to really imagine a life that looked very different from what we had planned,"
"How many of her peers would ever say, 'Oh, I took a gap year in Korea'?"
Motolani Adedipe relocated from Oklahoma to Seoul in August with her 6-year-old daughter, newborn baby, and mother. She grew up in Nigeria and moved to the United States for graduate school in Texas. Curiosity about Korea began during a biotech internship in Boston while sharing an apartment with a Korean roommate, prompting interest in Korean food, K-dramas, and language. She started learning Korean online nine years ago and later became an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. In September 2024 she applied for a Fulbright to extend research in prostate cancer survivorship; initial review occurred in December and final acceptance arrived in April. The acceptance brought excitement and planning challenges, and her husband supported the move even though he could not accompany the family for the one-year scholarship.
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