 they will always tell me like oh you're from a country like that right but this time the taxi driver told me like oh you're from Pakistan do you know Zahid Hussain oh my god hello guys hello I would like to thank you to invite me you know I've been following you on YouTube and Instagram it was really fun you know I mean yeah I mean as you said you were watching Pijong Sanghaedam and you're my fan yeah right I'm really honored I was your fan too you know I've been watching your Instagram it's really fun and you're talking about like really good things and you got a lot of fans in Pakistan and Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India you know this is great so I always wanted to meet you and today we finally met yeah there you go and this place that we're sitting right now is Korea University guys it's beautiful right yeah this is the university that I graduated from so yeah my name is Zahid Hussain and I came from Pakistan I came in 2008 as a Korean government scholarship student and I studied here for five years and then I started working in a Korean company I worked there for four years and while I was working I also started doing TV shows and the reason why I started doing TV shows I will tell you later and at the same time I was also doing professional MBA so from 96 I would go to work and then from 7 to 10 I would go to school for my professional MBA and on weekends I would go do TV shows so that was my life for a couple of years yeah really busy life but yeah I mean you know everything you do has always a lot of things to learn from and there's always a good result if you do it with a big objective in your life so so what I've been doing is you know after I graduated while I was living in Korea lots of people that I met in the university or outside the university they didn't know much about Pakistan and I also knew that a lot of Pakistani people didn't know much about Korea when I was coming to Korea I told my relatives and my friends that oh I'm going to Korea and one person told me like why are you going to Korea there's a war man so you know people think that Korea is only the North Korea nuclear yeah so but when I came to Korea I knew the same that a lot of Korean people didn't know about Pakistan so I decided to do things that could introduce Pakistani culture in Korea and Korean culture somehow in Pakistan it's like a two-way information sharing and you know that was my plan and that's why I in 2010 we made a Pakistan Student Association Korea also called PSAK we made this student association with some of my other friends with the objective that introducing culture Korean culture in Pakistan and Pakistani culture in Korea and learn from each other and make Pakistani students have a good time in Korea so when they go back they could help the Pakistani society to grow also learning a lot of things from Korean society but you know my audience was very small you know only students and or some government organizations and stuff like that so I always needed a bigger audience that's why I started looking for opportunities in the media so my first show that I did maybe a lot of your Malaysian and Indonesian fans would know first show that I did in Korea was on Arirang TV it was called bring it on so I was there in season three and there were 18 countries in total I was representing Pakistan that was my first show and luckily I won that show I became the champion of that show out of 18 countries that was my start of media that's how I started reaching a bigger audience to tell about my culture to talk about my country you know when I talk about my culture you know Islam is my the religion of my country so I started introducing a lot of different aspects that is related to my country and at the same time people start through me people started looking at Korea like oh Zahid is on a TV show in in Korea so people started taking interest in Korean media also in Korea so this is how the journey started and after this show after I won this show I was contacted by Pijong Sanghaedam and then I went to Pijong Sanghaedam for two years and you know what happened after Pijong Sanghaedam it was a really good show I'm really thankful to the TV channel which run that show and it was a good show to educate a lot of people not only in Korea but all around the world because that show is now you can watch on Netflix and you know all over the world and that show was a very educational show with entertainment some foreigners coming there and talking about their country their culture and everything a lot of stereotypes were broken in Korea thanks to that I can assure a lot of image of Pakistan changed a lot right right I'm really thankful yeah not only Pakistan all of the countries that were on that show people started thinking differently about that in those countries and being the representative of Pakistan it was you know big for me I was really proud of what I was doing for my country and I was really happy and at the same time I was really thankful to Allah and everybody who was who were involved in that thing you know so it was a good show I will tell you a story the level of mind changing in Korea from that show I got a phone call one day from somebody that I didn't know and then he says I'm from Pakistan and then he said like oh I took a taxi you know in Korea when you take taxis the taxi drivers try to be friendly with you and they talk to you and things like that they always ask where are you from if you're a foreigner so this this person he told me like I always tell them that I'm from Pakistan so they will always tell me like oh you're from a country like that right like a some something that doesn't represent us right but he always see on the news there's some problems like on conflicts and stuff but this time the taxi driver told me like oh you're from Pakistan do you know Zahid Hussein and I was like oh my god this is great and he was like really thankful and he called me like I was surprised to hear that so this journey from these kind of things in people's mind to Zahid Hussein was a big achievement for me and I was really happy to hear that so yeah this show changed a lot of things about Pakistan about all of the other countries in Korea and at the same time through this show a lot of people in our country started watching this show with English subtitles and then they started knowing about Korea too so this is this was a very two-way directional information sharing and awareness sharing and educational program both so it was really great and after that show I'm doing TV shows all around and I also do lectures in different places so just trying to contribute in the growth of this entire world by telling people what I know and by learning from them what they know this is what I'm doing man and today thank you that you invited me so that I could learn a lot of things from you you could learn a few things from me and our audience learn from us and we can learn from them so guys thank you for watching us I love you everybody or it's a professional actually I'm so proud of you thank you man you change a lot thank you thank you very much and oh I'm so surprised at the power of media oh it's big man it's really big it's really right especially not only conventional media you know we used to have conventional media like tv or newspaper but now social media yeah youtube yeah youtube or all other social media change the world you know I mean the world has become really a small place because you can share information for free you know this is free information everybody is getting free information and this is changing the world so yeah the power of media is really great that's why I was telling you earlier that you should keep doing your youtube this is going great and you are helping a lot of people getting to know about korea and you know yeah yeah man so I wish you good luck I'm always here to help you bro inshallah inshallah inshallah so that's your job like doing media things doing more events to pakistani people and Korean people true exchange of culture true true my main job is not media I'm an engineer by profession I graduated this university korea university as an electrical engineer six years ago and then I did my MBA so I have my profession in I was working in energy but then right now I'm working on a startup and I think your audience will be happy to hear that we are going to make a online retail shop in korea because you know in korea every year a lot of foreigners are coming and we're trying to help foreigners to make their life easier in korea with the help of korean government with the help of everybody around us so what we're doing is we're making an online shop for selling international food grocery so foreigners they come to korea but they want to sometimes they want to cook their own food for example I want to cook pakistani food sometimes I need grocery right so all those groceries are available in the market but they're not online yet so what we're trying to do is like me and some of my friends we're working on a startup we're making it we're making a platform where people can buy these international grocery things online not only international grocery but also halal food and food from different countries we're all all of them we're trying to make them available on our website which will hopefully help everybody especially foreigners to get grocery from their country very easily online on one click our company's name is dukan.kr that's our company we're going to launch it in september hopefully that is my main job but yeah I do as you said like I do media and I do lectures in different universities or different organizations just to contribute a little more in the growth of south korea in the growth of pakistan and ultimately in the growth of the entire world because we learn from each other and we grow together that's what we need to do so yeah that is why I'm in media that's a side job yeah you're doing great thank you very much thank you because we are trying to make a difference you know so yeah we'll do our best thanks for sharing your Korean experience oh yeah it was really amazing I have a lot to talk sorry guys I talked too much but I'm sure you guys have fun I will edit it's okay so thank you for coming it was really good to talk with you sure man and I hope this video can motivate or informative to you I hope it will help you guys yeah for sure to see you guys again and Jay and I are going to sing a Pakistani song very soon for the Pakistani national day it's on 14th august so please try to listen to our song please come to Korea for traveling for studying it's a beautiful country it's a beautiful place and if you are not Pakistani please also visit Pakistan it's a beautiful country beautiful culture awesome food very hospitable and kind people same as Korea very beautiful country you know so please come to Korea and follow our Instagram too thank you thank you thank you