John Hong completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia before completing his master’s degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is very accomplished in his field and has gone on to win multiple international awards and recognitions for his work including 17 American Institute of Architecture(AIA) awards, […]

  Kang Hyunseok is the co-founder of the Seoul-based architecture office, SGHS. He completed his undergrad at Sungkyunkwan University and received his M.Arch at Cornell University. Before starting his firm, he practiced in Studio THEM, SO-IL in New York as well as Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. He is a registered member of […]

Jason Chan is a British architect and has worked on projects in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Seoul. Before founding his studio, Studio POPPOP, he was a Partner/Project architect at the London-based firm Make Architects and was a project leader at MADA s.p.a.m. in Los Angeles and Shanghai. He has taught at Central […]

2/28 Hello hello everyone and welcome to my fourth networking interview! This time, I was able to interview 신효필 교수님 or Professor Hyo-Pil Shin, a professor of computational linguistics and NLP at Seoul National University! Similarly to my previous interviewee Wonik Cho, I found out about Professor Shin through research he’d done previously. In 2018, […]

2/12 안녕하세요~~~! Welcome back to my Networking Interviews! For my third interview, I will be talking with 조원익 or Wonik Cho!   Wonik is a recent Seoul National University grad, where he studied Electrical Engineering (EE) and Mathematics for his undergraduate and EE again for his graduate degree. Now for those of you who know […]

2/1 Hello hello everyone! Welcome to my second networking interview!! This time, I’m interviewing the endlessly talented (and endlessly busy) Professor David Tizzard! Professor Tizzard is currently an assistant professor of Korean Studies at Seoul Women’s University and a visiting professor of Korean Studies at Hanyang University. He was actually my first professor in Korea […]

1/26 When I started my search for people to interview, I thought of people I had already met during my previous visits that had impacted/helped me during my time in Korea. So, I decided to start with my program teacher from my internship in Korea last summer, Mark (마크) Brazeal, or as we know him, […]

For my next interview, I decided to reach out beyond the Wellesley network of alums and speak with Ms. Chloe (Jaegyeong) Chung, a member of Columbia University’s Class of 2016. During my winter internship with Shinhan Bank’s Global Business Group, Chloe was my mentor figure and closest supervisor. We stayed in touch even after the […]

안녕, 여러분–정말 오랜만이죠~ At the end of a long, hectic semester (during which I unfortunately contracted COVID), I’m in the process of wrapping up my interview series with our next interviewee, Dr. Karin JeeEun Nam, Class of 2006. Out of all my interviewees thus far, Dr. Nam is certainly the most well-traveled! She spent her […]

~ Posted retroactively ~  My third interview was with Ms. Haiyoung Yun, Class of 1993. While we were unfortunately unable to lock in a time for both of us to meet, I was able to conduct a very in-depth written interview with her discussing localizations of international work culture. Following her graduation, Ms. Yun pursued […]