Yeon Duk Woo-Student Keynote Speech at EARCOS 2008-Malaysia

Yeon Duk Woo -- Student Keynote Speech at EARCOS 2008 -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He gave a very powerful speech on humanitarianism -- moving teachers in the audience to a rousing standing ovation.

Biography:
Yeon Duk Woo was born in Korea, where he lived until he was 10 years old, when his family relocated to Vietnam. He entered Grade 7 at Saigon South International School as basically a non-speaker of the English language. By the end of grade 8 he was moving to the top of his class, where he has since remained. As a senior at Saigon South International School, Yeon Duk expects to complete 9 AP Exams and to achieve the AP International Diploma. Yeon Duk speaks 4 languages ˆ English, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese fluently.

Yeon Duk has been an elected leader throughout his high school career, he was captain of his basketball team, and this year is President of the student body. He is a yearly winner of academic awards, achieved a perfect score on the Math SAT, won the yearly Science Fair Competition and wasnominated as our Global Citizen for 2007.

Yeon Duk has a passion that is unequaled in most adolescents. He plans to dedicate his life to helping others by becoming the best doctor that he can be. Yeon Duk plans to be at university in the United States next year, where he hopes to complete a double major in Pre-medicine and Physics.

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[Starcraftking1]

His english is pretty good. Damn smart dude. Wish him the best of luck in the future.

Peace, from a fellow future doctor

[lucirz]

did he live in the united states a one point? his english is perfect, just like an american, his accent that is. this kid is amazing

[billobong120]

I know his sister! x3

[Joey2Tube]

WOW Hope he changes the world