This grandfather uses Instagram to share drawings with his grandchildren
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15 December, 2016 @ 11:49 amby Eduardo Aranhain Digital Strategy Success Stories , Social NetworksLeave a comment
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Chan Jae Lee, a Korean man living in Brazil , is making waves on the Internet for using Instagram creatively to interact with his grandchildren. In the following paragraphs, we will tell the story of this “very forward-thinking” grandfather who, above all, liked to bring his family, scattered around the world, together.
During the first years of her retirement, Chan Jae Lee 's main occupation was taking her grandchildren to school. This routine underwent a drastic change when, one day, her daughter and her husband decided to leave Brazil to return to South Korea .
Initially, Chan Jae Lee adopted a melancholic demeanor, spending most iraq email list of his days watching television. Frustrated with her husband's behavior, Chan Jae Lee 's wife realized that something had to be done to change the situation. How? After talking to her son Ji Lee , who lives in New York, she realized that her husband's inertia could be combated through one of his hobbies: drawing.
The thing is, Chan Jae Lee didn't particularly like the idea.
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But everything changed when Ji Lee had her first child and gave her father a new grandson. While visiting the newest addition to the family, Chan Jae Lee asked his son, “What do you think your son will be when he grows up?” Ji Lee was intrigued by the question and replied with another one: “Why do you want to know that?”
It was then that Chan Jae Lee confessed what had been tormenting him so much: “Maybe I won’t be here when he grows up.” Although he was saddened by this answer, Ji Lee realized that he had an opportunity to rekindle the flame he so desperately wanted to rekindle in his father: “What if you drew pictures so that your grandchildren could get to know you better in the future, by posting them on an Instagram account?”
This is how drawings_for_my_grandchildren came about , an Instagram account with dozens of illustrations and photographs by Chan Jae Lee . The account is the digital footprint that this grandfather hopes to leave for his grandchildren when he is no longer here. The posts mainly focus on drawings of the grandfather's daily life in Brazil, but it is also possible to find images with direct references to his grandchildren, his family and even Korean traditions. The clever way in which the drawings are published allows a family scattered around the world to be united by something digital.
Chan Jae Lee 's drawings have even been exhibited and some of them are being sold to raise money so that the grandfather can visit his grandchildren more often. A new post is made every day on Instagram and, in the meantime, the number of followers, which used to be around a thousand people, has skyrocketed and continues to grow. The family, meanwhile, has kept in touch almost every day.
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Chan Jae Lee, a Korean man living in Brazil , is making waves on the Internet for using Instagram creatively to interact with his grandchildren. In the following paragraphs, we will tell the story of this “very forward-thinking” grandfather who, above all, liked to bring his family, scattered around the world, together.
During the first years of her retirement, Chan Jae Lee 's main occupation was taking her grandchildren to school. This routine underwent a drastic change when, one day, her daughter and her husband decided to leave Brazil to return to South Korea .
Initially, Chan Jae Lee adopted a melancholic demeanor, spending most iraq email list of his days watching television. Frustrated with her husband's behavior, Chan Jae Lee 's wife realized that something had to be done to change the situation. How? After talking to her son Ji Lee , who lives in New York, she realized that her husband's inertia could be combated through one of his hobbies: drawing.
The thing is, Chan Jae Lee didn't particularly like the idea.
grandpa-int
But everything changed when Ji Lee had her first child and gave her father a new grandson. While visiting the newest addition to the family, Chan Jae Lee asked his son, “What do you think your son will be when he grows up?” Ji Lee was intrigued by the question and replied with another one: “Why do you want to know that?”
It was then that Chan Jae Lee confessed what had been tormenting him so much: “Maybe I won’t be here when he grows up.” Although he was saddened by this answer, Ji Lee realized that he had an opportunity to rekindle the flame he so desperately wanted to rekindle in his father: “What if you drew pictures so that your grandchildren could get to know you better in the future, by posting them on an Instagram account?”
This is how drawings_for_my_grandchildren came about , an Instagram account with dozens of illustrations and photographs by Chan Jae Lee . The account is the digital footprint that this grandfather hopes to leave for his grandchildren when he is no longer here. The posts mainly focus on drawings of the grandfather's daily life in Brazil, but it is also possible to find images with direct references to his grandchildren, his family and even Korean traditions. The clever way in which the drawings are published allows a family scattered around the world to be united by something digital.
Chan Jae Lee 's drawings have even been exhibited and some of them are being sold to raise money so that the grandfather can visit his grandchildren more often. A new post is made every day on Instagram and, in the meantime, the number of followers, which used to be around a thousand people, has skyrocketed and continues to grow. The family, meanwhile, has kept in touch almost every day.
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