Saturday, December 04, 2004

Golden Thursday!

Golden Thursday!

I make a rule to get up late and go to bed late! I know It's one of my bad habits, though. That's not the point of what I want to say by the way.

In the morning of the day, I've got a call from KTF, a Korean mobile communication service provider, to let me know about the fact that I've had a good opportunity to experience its service for free and it will pay me a reward-250,000 Won (around 240 US$).

In the afternoon of the day, I've got a call from LGT, another Korean mobile communication service provider, to let me know about the fact that my simple marketing proposal could be accepted so I will have to visit its office with my full proposal the following day.

What a wonderful Thursday it was!

In addition, there have arrived 5 bottles of expensive "brand new yogurt" in my workplace. They all were freebies. I played a game on the Internet to get the freebies a few weeks ago. Eventually I've got the 5 bottles as a prize.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Rbaht!

A close ex-coworker of mine flew to Sao Paulo in Brazil a few days ago without notice. You know he is the very man that went to a Turkish restaurant in Itaewon with me almost 2 weeks ago. We celebrated the event that he just got out of his unemployed life. And finally he advanced into the new world Brazil, the opposite side of Korea.

Of course I have no idea of what exactly he's gonna do there and how long he plans to stay there for. Because, as mentioned above, he's never told me about his business trip to Sao Paulo. And I got to know of his trip thru an entry of his blog.

He added in his blog that he will give a presentation regarding KMS(Knowledge Management System) and, afterwards, stop by HOOTERS I'm interested in around there.

"Hey, Rbaht! Do you hear me?
Anyhow, in the depression of Korean economy,
I hope that you earn lots of US$ there, post funny and weird stories about Sao Paulo in your blog, and buy me a good souvenir."

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Animation Magazine

I met with Jean, president of Animation Magazine last week when she participated in BCWW. One of my friends, Amber referred her to me so that she may meet a proper person who can help her to publish the Korean edition of Animation Magazine. Anyhow, thanks a million, Amber!

Actually I don't like animation stuff too much except in my childhood. Why? Well, since almost 30 years ago, I've seen a lot of animation movies produced by Hollywood like "The Lion King", "The Little Mermaid" and the like. I know the animation movies are almost perfect and fantastic in terms of their storylines and cutting edge techniques. However, I doubt whether there would be intentionally hidden messages like pro-Capitalism, pro-Americanism and pro-Neo Conservatism in their movies. Plus, I easily feel bored as soon as I start to watch one. I suppose I already got adapted to Hollywood styles and I ended up failing to find out anything intriguing from it.

Back to my work!

Then We talked a lot about how to publish the Korean edition of it. Yet we couldn't find any good solution to do that. In the depression of Korean economy, nobody wants to invest into any risky projects. I emphasized that we would have to find a proper publishing house at first. Alas, it seemed to me that she didn't completely agree with me and she got an interest in how to translate, audit and distribute her future Korean magazines. Okay, I already realized how much different two cultures are. Accordingly one of my work is to be a bridge between two.

A tip:
You should know that, if you want to penetrate your product or service into a Korean market, don't regard it an easy job.