About me, my past years since 2007, and my thoughts. Will be presented in 2012 Yonsei Global Seminar for freshmen over the world.

1. Lifelog 2007-2011
Dongwook Lee
Political Science & International Studies,
Information & Industrial Engineering,
Yonsei University
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2. philosophy
• Laotzu (老子) follower
• enjoy life despite 空手來空手去(life comes and goes with our hands empty)
• check @Laotzu_bot (really good twitter bot of his book, Tao As A Moral
Principle, in Korean btw)
• ARTISTRY, CREATIVITY, FAME > MONEY → chose Political Science over
Business
• roughly FRENCH lifestyle (just guessing)
• emphasis on community and good decision for all
• antique > new
• do what I want except good decision for all
• Believe that there should be no dichotomy between liberal arts background and
natural sciences background

4. role model
LEE JAEWOONG (이재웅)
Cofounder of Daum Communications,
Current president of Korea Creative Content Agency
Neelie Kroes
Vice President of the
European Commission,
responsible for the Digital
Agenda for Europe
YUL KWON
Winner of the reality TV show Survivor: Cook Islands,
Former deputy chief of the Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau for the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC)

5. youth

6. I am not genius

8. 2007spring AAAAA
May 2007 ~ May 2008 Yonsei University Student Advisory Group A
•Served as chief of staff
•Annual student activities report on 1st year school policy monitoring and consulting
•Annual Guidebook publication for freshmen, named Click Yonsei
• I skipped Go Sam (3rd year of high school, which is a death valley for Korean
students) so I had residual energy.
• Since I was 19, I could not comfortably go to pubs, bars, and clubs.
• 5 years ago, it was a piece of cake to get a GPA of over 4.00/4.30 in the first
semester of freshmen year. However, I’m not sure whether that is true for now.
• I got a scholarship after this semester.
• Networking for future career starts to outline from the second year
• Meet as many people as you can, and be friendly to everybody
• Play, drink, have a deep talk, but do not assure you will keep them in touch after 2
years
• What you should get is not friends themselves, but things you like most to do with
friends (am I too sarcastic?)

9. 2007fall ACAABA
Mar 2007 ~ Nov 2008 A
EULIM BAND, College of Social Sciences Band Club
•Served as class leader in 2007-2008
Mar 2007 ~ Nov 2008 SO WHAT, Yonsei University Central Jazz Community
•Director of public affairs team, along with drummer
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10. Let’s talk about
your culture

11. 2008spring
http://chunchu.yonsei.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=10529
AAACAA
Dear
Freshmen,
Groom
Yourselves.
Get out of consumerism,
Find your specialty which
makes you smart and edgy.

12. 2008fall ACAABA
A
• Started taking classes in information & industrial engineering
• Project for Probabilistic Operations Research was really fun
• I do not regret choosing the second major
• study -> stress -> music -> study -> stress -> music -> study
• interest in Korean indie rock – making a band score, writing a review
• I’ve always had one C in every semester
• analysis: I screw classes I don’t like. And when I start to hate the
professor, I screw that class.
• so: find your trend in your grades, and make a strategy for choosing
well-fit classes in the next semester. And, don’t hate professors.
• People like I should take classes that go deeper in academic terms
but is also enjoyable.
• This semester was a bit tough, but THE REAL GAME BEGINS FROM
THE JUNIOR YEAR

14. 2009
Apr 2009 The 1st Mobile OpenNet Service Idea & Essay Competition, Sponsored by
SK Telecom and KTF
•2nd prize in the service planning track(Hanwoomul, ‘big well’in English, which helps short-period
mobile(2G PCS) survey, data gathering and analysis with basic HTML form style survey-related
functions)
Just do the military service.
However, in my resume,
Apr 2009 ~ May 2011 Technical soldier in information systems management, entitled
translation-interpretation duty (ROK Air Force)
•Management of United States Air Force operational information system(ACC-COIN), ROK Air Force
operational information system(AFCCS), and the internet
•Server maintenance, log analysis and network devices maintenance for data security
•Intermittent translation and interpretation missions in the communications sector and for visiting guests
overseas

15. 2010
Mar 2010 ~ Mar 2011 Reviewer, English translation team (Globalization and Poverty Public
Awareness Project, NGO)
•Reviewing translated material of UN publications, treatises by economists and political analysts, and
magazine articles in Newsweek/TIME/National Geographic
• Started meeting people working in IT startups
• found a group of people in the military to keep in close contact with
• ‘You lack a business mind’ was a shock
• and time flied really fast – no more comments about the military. You will not
experience it 

16. 2011
May 2011 ~ Aug 2011 Research Assistant (Ipsos Korea)
•Submitted the final report on LG Electronics global mystery shopping of 3D, 2D and Smart TV,
conducted in 20 countries and 120 retailers
•Checked progress of men’s menopause epidemiology study by Bayer, 1-year project with gross margin of
90 million KRW
A French Market Research Company

17. 2011
Nov 2011 ~ Now Yonsei-Keio-Rikkyo-Fudan Leadership Forum Organizing Committee
•Building an official forum website ykrf.asia
2012 @ Yonsei
The website will open in end
of May

18. 2011
• Applied for Sciences Po Paris, France (results will be announced on Feb 3rd)
• Hope to do programming and international cooperation at the same time in France
and other European countries
• If there is a chance, I will visit Tunisia (origin of the Arab Spring) and Rwanda
(which has the best IT infrastructure in Africa)
College of current two French candidates for the
next presidential election

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21. flatlens
• preparing an IT startup
• initial team members are always
connected by personal network (in Korea
and worldwide, school tie is the No.1
factor)
• making a political process of gathering
responses bottom-up in a systematic way
with the help of smartphones and
websites
• planning to make money based on stats
from those responses, like a market
research company
• for me as a developer and co-founder,
this project is really meaningful because it
is an obvious example of
POLITICS + IT

22. I want to tell you
about
accumulation

23. accumulation
• Make a folder to store these, and continue accumulating
• resume in English and your native language (or Korean) – one for part timers,
one for internship or external activities. Use different format and different
content. I will give you my format if you want.
• final material submitted to contests or competitions
• application forms with your content written
• I use Dropbox or Naver Ndrive, whatever ‘cloud’
• Make several lists showing these, and continue accumulating
• who you are
• what you like
• who do you want to contact in the near future
• personal experiences, lessons, and tips while doing things using the above
folder
• manual of specific field you are going to master, which consists of URL links
and excerpts from the website
• I use Evernote, whatever ‘sync’
• To make this presentation, I just scraped texts from those lists. + data
uploaded in my social media + a little bit of googling. Nothing new.

24. continue accumulating

26. I go on a trip to
Fukuoka from Feb 10
to 15.
I want to make some
Japanese friends.

27. Thank you.
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