Seoul Life: Hyundai Music Library

 

Hyundai Card has been active to differentiate its brand from other companies. Libraries, offering exquisite art journals or glass of whisky, are the exclusive destinations where cardholders are allowed to visit.

I was fortunate to visit the music library, which was built a few months ago in Itaewon. The space displays thousands of Rolling Stones magazines and books from all over the worlds. There are seats where visitors can listen to music on LP record albums. If you want the music that contains lossless format, you're at the right place.

http://library.hyundaicard.com/music/index.hdc

New York Fashion Week

Fashion is one of areas I am fascinated by. Unlike the majority of fashionistas, I am interested in how businesses team up with them and how designers and technology marry up.

The following article http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/fashion/fashion-week-spring-2016-reinvented.html, written by Vanessa Friedman, caught my attention to learn about WME/IMG, a company reigning sports and entertainment businesses. Starting from this season, the company operates or represents 13 fashion weeks, including New York and Milan.

Emerging designers, like Prabal Gurung and Public School, meet great opportunities. WME/IMG will bring prospective sales opportunities and enhance their global brand presences. Simultaneously it expands its own presence to control the industry. Possibly the fashion week will be an arena for brands, just like the International CES for tech companies.

Perhaps WME/IMG is a new emerging designer bringing new style to the fashion week.

Job seeker

Sometimes it is quite time-consuming to edit resumes to apply for multiple jobs. Because you want to impress the hiring manager, selecting proper terms (e.g. the term "IT", referring to information technology, is quite popular in Korea, not tech) is a crucial step to follow.

However, it is a good practice to see what I really like and don't. If you're applying for a job that you seriously like, you are willing to spend more time to make edits. Otherwise, you'll submit the application with no review.

Today I submitted an application to the company I have kept my eyes on. It took more than a day to confirm both resume and cover letter. What is more, I was even serious to send a work portfolio to prove my qualifications. That was the time I noticed how excited I was about the opportunity.

One of my professors from Emerson College told me job seeker is another type of part-time job: you spend days and days to search for jobs and re-write hundreds of applications. Your mailbox may be filled with unwelcoming emails from companies, but those are part of the journey to embrace.

Hard work will pay off. I am sure the day will come to shine.