A Journey To Realize Dreams

Nowadays, with the development of globalization, there has been a sweeping flow of migrant workers in the world. Focusing on this phenomenon, this paper traces migrant workers'journey of"migration—adaptation—return", explains their motivation, describes their special experiences of exotic life and adaptation, and discusses their changes and problems they face after returning home.Based on case studies, the writer focuses on the migrant workers from Jiangcheng, a city in the northeast of China. Hired by Hong Kong investors, those workers entered the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with wonderful dreams. They worked as waiters and waitresses in a hotel in Pyongyang. Going to work in the DPRK, which is underdeveloped, is beyond usual. And what's more, when they were working in Pyongyang, there was always invisible isolation between them and the Korean society. The environment they lived in everyday is a special kind of small Chinese environment made by themselves. How does this environment take shape? Does it have any influence on the workers'life in the DPRK and the choices they made after returning home? This paper tries to explain the problems.The writer believes that dreaming of making money, these workers pursued their own values in terms of working abroad. When they returned home, they thought of the past deeply. But the reality does not always come up to one's expectation. Although they were paid properly in the DPRK, they were led into isolated surroundings unexpectedly. They worked abroad indeed, however they still lived in a cycle of their own fellow workers. That is to say, the dream of living abroad is realized in a way of living in a closed small circle of their own rather than a real foreign environment. Due to the differences between their dreams and the realities, they felt regretful for the goal they had set up before, and finally they decided to go back home. They wanted to make up what they had lost by means of setting up a new goal. Realizing his dreams can excite one, but one can be greatly motivated by his failed dreams. The experiences of those migrant workers from Jiangcheng to the DPRK just show the persistent efforts they made to realize their own dreams.