Brief story of how I became interested in Southeast Asia including Indonesia
I spent most of my early days in the society at a newspaper company after finishing my bachelor's degree of business administration at Seoul National University. Starting from the industrial section followed by the social section, the corporate section and the real estate section at Maeil Business Daily, I worked hard for about 6.5 years as a journalist.
Though I was still young, I could broaden my horizon by interviewing various leaders in the Korean society such as CEOs and university presidents. In addition, I went business trips to more than 30 countries to navigate new articles outside South Korea.
Flights to Americas, Northern Europe and Oceania surely enlarged my global insight. Memories of visiting member countries of Southeast Asia including Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia and writing stories on Korean companies in the region are vivid as ever.
Essay for EWKLP(East-West Knowledge Leaders Program) application
Before joining Maeil Business Newspaper in 2004, I majored in business administration at Seoul National University. Further, since 2007, I have taken legal classes at the graduate school of law at Yonsei University at night time. Though I still have a lot to learn, I suppose I have been getting familiar with business and law step by step.
As a journalist of a business daily, I have been involved in corporate, legal and educational sectors over the past four and half years. However, in spite of abundant hands-on-business-related-experience at home and abroad for my age, it is true that I have a long way to go for systematic approach to my articles.
Time to time, I had a hard time in making articles on what I saw and felt in the business field in order. It is partly attributed to lack of time to step back and organize hands-on experience into stories.
