Reason for applying for EWKLP(East-West Knowledge Leaders Program)
By being away from work for three months, I hope EWKLP will allow me to have up-to-date and balanced view on actual business practices.
I am supposed to be back to corporate-related department of Maeil Business Newspaper early next year. In that regard, what I will study in Hawaii will play crucial roles in my future articles. I have no doubt I can make more credible and attractive articles due to EWKLP.
Also, it is unclear whether I will transfer my job into the corporate sector or not in the future. However, if that really happens, I will appreciate EWKLP for not only refreshing myself but also delivering timely ideas of business and economy for my next career.
Reason for applying for EWKLP(East-West Knowledge Leaders Program)
In doing so, I learned how textbook theories, such as marketing, human resource management and global strategy are put into reality in the fierce business world.
Sometimes, professors are incorrect because they fail to catch up with fast-changing business trends. For example, most textbooks teach related diversification is good while non-related diversification is wrong.
However, based on my on-the-spot-experience, some companies succeeded in expanding their business into non-related field. TAIHAN electric wire in Korea is a proper example. Although wire and cable are its core products, TAIHAN electric wire managed to make profits in the leisure and textile field through aggressive M&As.
Reason for applying for EWKLP(East-West Knowledge Leaders Program)
In most of 2008, I mainly wrote articles about legal circles, which broadened my horizon on the importance of legal issues in the corporate side. Since late 2008, I have been engaged in the educational field, focusing on universities.
By covering both demand and supply side of education, I realized education has many things to do with business. In this time of financial crisis, universities are under the pressure of change and innovation just like companies.
So far, I spent most of my career in covering corporate sectors. I had more than 20 opportunities to look at how companies operate their business for global competition.
Reason for applying for EWKLP(East-West Knowledge Leaders Program)
It has been four and half years since I took the job of a journalist. In that 4.5-year-long-work-experience requires managerial responsibilities in the corporate sector, it is high time I need skills and capabilities for managerial positions.
Because I have developed communication skills by interviewing all kinds of people from the bottom to the top, I will be an eligible candidate for EWKLP.
During 2004~2007, when I worked at the industrial news desk of Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea’s No.1 business daily, I covered various kinds of companies and their activities at home and abroad, which helped me understand what companies are.
