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.
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 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?
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.
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 ) 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
@Designbreathing
Amazing! I’m good friends with quite a few of the students from the SNUT industrial design department. Met them through the Seoul design festival in 2010 and started studying transport design through their study group “Clotho”. They helped spark my interest in automotive design! I added you on Linkedin, hope to talk to you more soon.
@motorcycledog
I’m interested in some of the programs Hongik are offering. Anyway to contact you for some inside info?
Cool to see that foreign designers are doing well in Korea. I’m in New Zealand at the moment, hope to be back in “sparkling Seoul” by December.^^