Participated in busy and exciting business trips to California
2018-2020 | Grey Worldwide Korea, Cupertino, CA, USA
While working at Grey Worldwide Korea, I worked on marketing localization for Apple including the Apple Korea’s websites. During my two years of work, I have been on three business trips to Cupertino where I have participated in four important events. On the second trip, I took the lead in two major events, and on the third trip, I participated as a manager by training and managing new team members. It was very exciting that my first business trip in my life was California, and the experience of communicating and helping each other with people from all over the world was a valuable experience for me. Also, by conducting training and management, it was a great opportunity for me to redefine the process for the overall work and to minimize unnecessary work to improve productivity.
Making my grandmother's picture book
2019 | Seoul, South Korea
My grandmother's childhood dream was to become an artist, but she gave up going to art school because of her family's financial difficulties. Ever since then, my grandmother has never lost her dream of painting and continues to paint. Whenever I saw her paintings piled up in boxes, I felt how passionate she was about painting. In addition, she was so talented in painting that it was unfortunate that the paintings were piled up in the warehouse. So I made her paintings into a book to make her dream come true. My grandmother, who received the book, was very happy with her tears, and she is drawing more diverse pictures. So far, we have produced two books, but we haven't even compiled 10 percent of our grandmother's paintings. I plan to continue editing whenever I have time to make all of my grandmother's works into books.
Operate Facebook group ‘Mupocham’, Photoshop tips sharing community
2017-2018 | Seoul, South Korea
I run a group called 'Unauthorized Photoshop Reference Book' and 'Mupocham' on Facebook with a friend of the same major. We have produced various contents such as introducing hidden skills of Photoshop that we learned while studying design, sharing reference sites that are good for motivation, introducing theoretical knowledge of design, and providing examples that beginners can easily follow. Our group's posts were very popular with design students across the country, and the total number of posts shared was in the tens of thousands. Like this, I hope to be helpful to someone and I want to have a positive impact in the industry.
2017 D2B Design Fair entry and design-related intellectual property education
Jan - July, 2017 | Korean Intellectual Property Office x Korea International Trade Association, Gangwon-do, South Korea
The D2B Design Fair provides young designers with opportunities to license and commercialize designs, and supply creative designs to domestic small and medium-sized businesses. More than 5,000 works are submitted to the D2B Design Fair every year, and selected participants participate in the Summer Camp, which provides design-related intellectual property education and mentoring with experts. I participated in the 2017 D2B Summer Camp and completed training on design rights and patent rights. Through this experience, I was able to study in-depth on the importance of design rights to designers, how to use design intellectual property rights, and commercialization strategies.
Participated in VR content production education using UNITY
Mar - Jun, 2016 | Korea Radio Promotion Association, Seoul, Korea
I was selected as a trainee in a VR content education program supported by the Ministry of Science and the Korea Radio Promotion Association and received intensive education for 4 months. I learned about the overview and trends of VR, content development, and planning, and studied C# programming to utilize the Unity engine. As a personal project, I proposed shopping content in a VR environment, and as a team project, I proposed content to produce the Behance website as a VR website. Behance is a platform that allows many people to showcase their portfolios. With my team members, I was able to create VR content that allows users to experience Behance's visual, industry, space, and other works in a more realistic way.
Finalist in the 2016 Spark International Design Awards
June, 2016 | Spark Design Awards
Spark Design Awards is multi-discipline, multi-cultural and aspirational design competition and community. I was a Finalist in Concept Design. I suggested a home powder compressor that improves portability by compressing powdery powders that are difficult to carry into pill form. ComPowder can compress water-based powders such as milk powder, coffee, protein powder, etc., and it can be conveniently carried anytime, anywhere by putting the compressed powder in a certain amount in a special case. The special case also includes a mini mixer that allows the powder to dissolve easily in the water.
Won the 2015 Korea Reunification Award and gave a speech
Oct, 2015 | Ministry of Unification,  DMZ, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Our team won the top prize for graphic artworks under the theme of 'Rail of Unification' at the 2015 Unification Design Competition. To mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation, the Ministry of Unification held a unification culture event to create a space for peaceful unification in the DMZ area, which symbolizes war and division. Our team was invited as young creators and conducted various activities for 3 days to develop the Unification Art Space and Dorasan Station area into a cultural and artistic space. I conducted various ideations with other creators, and mine was selected as a notable idea and got a chance to present it. I was a little nervous since it was my first time presenting at a big event, but I was able to learn a lot while preparing the presentation.
Third place in 2015 KSDS Undergraduate Design Conference
Oct, 2015 | Korean Society of Design Science x Asia Digital and Design Association, Cumulus Association, Gwangju, South Korea
In the 2015 Interaction Design class, my team conducted a project to improve the usability of the 'Study Helper' application through the usability test. Our team came in 3rd at the KSDS undergraduate thesis conference with this project. ‘Study Helper’ is an application that solves the problem of poor academic concentration due to smartphone addiction. We increased usability by identifying the advantages and disadvantages of various functions, improved insufficient functions, and added new necessary functions. We confirmed the result that the usability of the app was improved by 100% on the usability test.
Third place in 2015 Samsung Theme Service Contest
Dec, 2015 | Samsung Electronics Co., Seoul, South Korea
Galaxy Themes is a premium decorative content service available on Samsung Galaxy device all around the world. Galaxy Themes Studio is Samsung’s UI design tool, available to approved designers, for creating and selling mobile device UI themes, wallpapers, and icon packs. I passed the preliminary round with the theme of 'Dreamy' with a dreamy and simple concept, and I was given the authority of a theme service producer and was able to came in third place in the finals. My theme has been downloaded more than 7,000 times worldwide. It was a great experience to design Galaxy's mobile environment without coding.
Art education volunteering for Sunmyung special elementary school
2011-2012 | Gurimuro Design Club at Keisung Highschool, Daegu, South Korea
When I was in high school, I made an art club called 'Gurimuro' with my friends who were interested in art. For two years, Gurimuro members regularly served as teachers of art guidance for disabled children's schools. We organized a curriculum that children can easily follow and participate in interesting activities such as drawing with food materials, decalcomanie, coloring painting book, card making, folding paper, face painting, etc. Children's concentration was higher than anyone else in art activities. I could feel that we were united through art activities together, and I wanted to contribute to improving awareness of children with disabilities. As all the members volunteered in areas of interest, it was a meaningful experience to feel proud that they could contribute to our society.