
So when there's any sick or hurt animal
I took them to the hospital and cured it
I wanted to take care of it while I was working
I was looking for a job which I can be with the animals, and aquarist wanted to be it
I was more attractive to marine animal
I thought I wonderful it would be if I could work in the sea
So I thought of aquarist
Q0. What kind of fields are there?
There are fish part and marine mammal part.
There are people who take care of monkey and birds
People who take care of aquariam
It's called the LSS part, and there are many kinds of people like this
Q1. How do you know if they are sick?
We usually observe them at a regular basis
But if they behave abnormally
Or they show weird behavior when feeding them
Or the tentacle of jellyfish is cut
Or the jellyfish's head is crooked
Or they swim in a weird way. We just notice it
Or there are times when they fake as if they aren't in pain
(Then) we use our senses
If we think they are sick , we collaborate with the veteran
We take test for culturing bacteria
And we take virus test
We try to catch what kind of disease it is, or how it is infected
We take appropriate measures and medicine
To cure the animals
We can mix it with their favorite food
(for the fish) we mix the medicine with water
Then we put the fish in and try a medicated bath
For the marine mammals when we have to draw blood
We stay low when they have to stay low
And if they have to stay still during training or getting diagnosed
We practice medical training for them to be comfortable with stethoscope
Then veteran can come and we can diagnose more precisely and quickly
Q2. Do you have occupational disease?
We have to give fish to the marine mammal
For the animals, we give them the best ones
The freshest ones
So we know what the bad ones and the good ones are
When we go to the market and see the fishes
'That looks old'
We naturally think like that
We know the price well too
Squids are really expensive these days so we can't eat them
When we go to the fish market
We notice their condition
And see if they're healty
When the aquarium equipment is like stairs, we know that it's trustworthy.
When we went to the port,
This man brought a gray mullet
And said it's really fresh
But for me 'It's barely breathing'
These are kind of symptoms that we see
They say it's fresh because it's alive
We get really tired when we go to Noriyangjin (fish market)
Their eyes are screaming, 'I'm sick!'
Q. Do you interact with the fish?
When I feel like I'm communicating with them
Is when I go under the water and see them
(under the water) it's very quiet and so many fish are there
When I make eye contact with them, then I feel as if it's interaction
Like mammals or higher organisms
We can't interact with them by a certain behavior but,
We can interact with them in that environment
Marine mammals interact during the medical training
For example, for an otter training,
We make plans by stage 1, stage , stage 3
If the animal is sick, we have to take care of it
and we should help them to do it immediately.
Also, we make big gestures to prevent them from getting bored,
We do Animal Enrichment for them
PD: What is the Animal Enrichment?
'animal welfare' is
For the animals to maintain good life
We have to be an assistant for them
They are here everyday
So for them to live happily and differently.
When we give them toys and food, we think of all sorts of ways
We want the animals to be free from stress. We are studying and trying new things everyday
Q4. Can fish trained? (Do you train fish?)
Fish?
Maybe?
When we give them food, they come up just by raising a hand. Don't you think that's training?
It's probably an instinct
(fish) brain is very small and is a lower animal
They aren't trained in high level like dogs or cats
They just try to survive by repeating
The sea elephants, water seals are all clever
They all understand our signals
They are very smart
They are not as smart as dolphins
But they have very high intellectual
Penguins are not as clever as the mammals
And they have low training ability but not so bad
Q5. DO you have to have some kind of certificate?
That's the most frequent question I am asked
I go in the water and do a lot of things
So I have a certificate for that
As a basic
Or if you get a certificate for the marine disease manager,
You learn how you can cure the fish
And we learn about how we can acknowledge the cause of the disease
While we prepare to become an aquarist or a zookeeper
There are engineer livestock or trainer
There's nursing part
When you prepare for all these things, I think it's useful someday. And foreign language too
There are limits to study about animals when you're only in Korea
There are almost no Korean books at all
That's why you have to look into research papers
So when you have to look over the foreign research papers
You have to be proficient at foreign language
You have to manage the animals as well as
Showing the animals to the customers
And explain
So I think it would be helpful to study Chinese, English, and Japanese
Q6. What do you have to major in?
I think most of the employees are from animal-related majors
I'm from marine science major
I studied marine organisms
I majored in marine medical major
How do we cure sick fish
What kind of disease is this
Was the main subject we studied
Stock breeding for the mammals
And pet related major
There are people who are from non-animal related majors
And most of the things that we learn at school
Is from the eatable organisms
The way that they are bred in fish farms
And the way they we take care of them in aquarium is whole different story
The medicine for the cure
Or the way we treat them is the difference
(Now) the part where animals live in the better environment
Is the part that we study
Q7. Are there any dangerous moments?
Unless we pick on them or give them stress
When they attack us, we don't display them at all
Animals don't bite off of people without any reason
But we want to cure them
Or want to give them diagnosis
Then they think we want to hurt them
So they try their best to hurt us
we get bitten sometimes
Then it's really painful. And if it's a big animal, then it leads to a big accident
Security equipment from head to toe
Is meant to be worn
When you go in the water, going in alone is forbidden
So we go in and protect each other
When we are hurt, they are often the times when
We feed them
Because when we
Decide we want to feed them
We concentrate on them
They get food from the dead zone
And get hurt
But when we're hurt, it's not like we are hurt badly
For the sea elephants, they weigh 700kg each
So you don't go in the water with them
People get used to it
Even if I get hurt from the jelly fish
And I still feed them
'Oh I need to be careful'
'I'm sorry if I gave you stress'
PD: When you watch an animation, penguins are really smart
Pororo?
Pingu?
I haven't watched it
PD: Do you feel any different when you see Pororo?
I've never seen it
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