Introducing Myself and Why I am Starting Medium
Hello, everyone!
My name is Pauline, and this is my very first article that I post on Medium. Here, I am going to share thoughts and dreams I am having in my daily life.
A Short Self-Intro
I am 23 years old, turning 24 in April. I live in Seoul, South Korea with my parents, and my younger brother is in Airforce to finish the country’s mandatory military service.
I love reading, writing and sleeping. I am a person who gets energized when having my own time. But I also like to be with my best friends. I am far from being a chef. I love eating healthy.
Following my Daddy’s resident employee appointment to the US, my family lived in Virginia, near Washington D.C. for about three years. I spent my 8th to the 10th grade in Fairfax, VA since 2009. Then coming back to my home country in 2012, I finished high school here and went to Hanyang University until last June.
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About My Job
Freshly got out of university last year, I am currently working as an associate at LG electronics, Inc. in South Korea. Majoring in business administration, I am under financial planning division of Home entertainment Department. Some of the products and services that my department covers are OLED TVs, monitors, laptop computers, convergence audio/videos, basically display-based products, and Pra.L is a newly launched beauty device. (Many of which you may already know, right…?) My job area covers financial closing and managerial accounting parts for Cine-beam, a projector.
Why I am starting Medium
Back in college, I was one of many business major students who are pursuing to build a career in finance and accounting. Those are the study area that I could feel the highest interest among all the subjects offered by my school for bachelor’s degree in business. So I applied for those jobs related to managing numbers, and though it wasn’t the best of best plan, I got in.
Working at a manufacturing-based IT company for six months, I have experienced a huge change in my thoughts on work and life. (There are many episodes, and some of them are really shocking. I will write about what it is like to work at a typical Korean Chaebol company later if I have a chance.) One of the big changes that I have been going through is that I got interested in product design. There might be many detailed reasons and influences behind this, but the thing is “yes, I want to start a new career!”
Medium is one of the channels that I found while searching for information on product design. If I can dream to the highest level, I would like to learn UX or HCI for Master’s Degree, either in Korea, or in the US ( if an opportunity is given).
On Medium, I am going to share my daily experience both at work, and studies. If any of you have similar experience of changing career to product design/planning, and reading this journal, please press the clap button and leave a comment on steps needed to become closer to my new career goal!
Thanks for reading, and I hope to visit myself again with some fruitful accomplishments next time!
