I am in Asia

Don’t feel bad: back in high school, I met a girl whose parents were Portuguese working in Taiwan, was born and raised in Taiwan (she was 16 at the time), went to an international school in Taipei, and still spoke no more than 10 words of Mandarin. She lived and got around just fine.

one-word-plastics ; There are different spellings for just about every word in Mandarin. Both your spelling and mine are correct.

davidhu: Hong Kong is trying to be trilingual but as their Mandarin goes up their English goes down.

I live, work and design in Singapore. I run my boutique Strategic industrial design agency of 3 there. Hit me up if you are in town?

I am in Beijing. Jet lagged, but not as bad as usual.

Hey what about South Korea? I am a professor of design here in Seoul. Anyone in Korea?

Motorcycledog…I’m in Seoul. Industrial Design Teaching and consulting.

designbreathing & motocycledog:

I’m in Seoul. I’m actully not here following the design career path. I’ve moved here for taekwondo, but I’m teaching English to get by. I would love to get design work here, but the closest I found was working at Hongik University.

If something came up, I’d be interested.

Nice to meet both of you
oh hey I teach at Hongik in the Digital Media Department. @epic Where are you studying Taekwondo? @designbreathing where are you teaching and how is the ID consulting going? I am at motocycledog at yahoo.com.

mcd: I am training near Gangnam stations - private lessons through someone I met back home. I got told that I’m going to be turned into “Taekwondo robot, like terminator”.

I can’t wait.

Regarding work, what’s the process like to get work at Hongik? I don’t have a masters or any university teaching experience.

I’m on the faculty at SNUST and have worked with a number of consumer product and telecom firms in and around Seoul.

Have either of you been here long? I’m finding it a very big change from back home…I think in a good way though…

I have been here about 2 years.
Sorry to say if you don’t have a terminal degree or are totally famous your chances of getting a full time gig at Hongik are pretty slim. But there are lots of resources in seoul for making things, like cheonggyecheon area for materials and fabrication and yongsan for electronics. How long have you guys been here?

@deisgnbreathing I didn’t know SNU have a ID department. are you teaching ID?

SNUST (aka Seoul National University of Science and Technology) is one of the oldest and more established National University Industrial Design programs in the nation, and is well known for its industry-university cooperation. I’ve taught ID studio and Concept Design classes since 2008.

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100420000586

If anyone finds themselves in Hangzhou 杭州 40 minutes out of Shanghai Hongqiao station feel free to message me. We are awash in loughborough and Brunel undergrads in this city (not necessarily a good thing :wink: ) and would welcome any other designers out here.

Thanks for the heads up, and sorry for the late reply. I kind of thought that would be the case. I wouldn’t mind being able to network with the Korean ID community though - are there any opportunities for this?

I’m doing a little bit of graphics work on the side while I’m here, but not really keeping up with the ID stream

I only arrived in late April.

I will be in Beijing for 11 months from late August.

Will any designers be about? I am hoping to network out there as well as meet people who love design!

Liam

Product Design Graduate from London

Will be in Huizhou for the next 3 months on placement

keen to network

Oops, forgot to post early.

Leaving today. One Night in Hong Kong. Two nights in Shenzhen. One night in Guangzhou and then five nights in Beijing.

Off to catch my plane :slight_smile:

That reminds me…

Oct 5 - Oct 22 in Shenzhen (with a week’s vacation in the middle to travel Tibet - anyone in Lhasa then?).