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Leveraging Big Data, AI, and Patents for Business Growth

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The Korea Society and Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) are delighted to present Leveraging Big Data, AI, and Patents for Business Growth on November 10th, 2020 from 6pm to 8pm EST.

Our first session will feature Tim Hwang, CEO of FiscalNote. FiscalNote is a global technology and media company that Tim co-founded in 2013 at the age of 21. FiscalNote feeds big data to a powerful machine learning algorithm to provide its clients with the right policy information and AI-driven insights to better navigate market risk and uncertainty and maximize new opportunities. In 2016, the World Economic Forum announced FiscalNote as Technology Pioneers, and Forbes named Tim in its annual 30 Under 30 list. TaeSoo Sean Kim, Partner at Ice Miller LLP, will leverage his own expertise in IP and technology licensing while moderating the talk with Tim. You will expect to hear Tim’s personal journey as a tech entrepreneur, FiscalNote’s business and growth strategy, IP portfolio management strategy, and Tim’s vision in running a successful and socially responsible data analytics company in today’s politically tumultuous times.

The second session will be a lecture led by two prominent patent attorneys based in Washington, D.C. Michael Dzwonczyk and Hyunseok Park at Sughrue Mion, PLLC will enlighten us on patent challenge proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. A patent clearance search may reveal certain patents held by others that your company needs to consider in the product development process. You wish to proceed with your proposed design concept, but also want to minimize any risk potential for patent infringement claims. What options do you have? Michael and Hyunseok will explain key differences among Ex Parte Reexamination (EPR), Inter Partes Review (IPR), and Post-Grant Review (PGR), and offer guidance on invalidation grounds, standards, cost, time, and likelihood of success. The audience will gain a solid understanding of how each patent challenge avenue best meets client priorities and circumstances.

Please join us for an intellectually stimulating and inspirational evening.

Program Agenda

Time Program Speakers
6:00 – 6:10 PM Opening Remarks The Korea Society | KOTRA
6:10 – 7:05 PM Session 1:
Conversation with Tim Hwang: How He Revolutionized Access to Government Information and Advocacy Using Big Data and AI 		Tim Hwang, FiscalNote
Moderated by TaeSoo Sean Kim, Ice Miller LLP
7:05 – 8:00 PM Session 2:
Challenging Patents at the U.S. Patent Office		 Michael R. Dzwonczyk and Hyunseok Park, Sughrue Mion, PLLC

 


Speakers

  Tim Hwang
CEO & Co-Founder
FiscalNote

Tim is currently the Founder and CEO of FiscalNote. The company owns media and news company CQ Roll Call Group, which it acquired from The Economist Group in 2018 and creates a technology platform that combines award-winning journalism along with products and services that provide access to large quantities of data, news, and analysis for all levels of government. The global company with offices across DC, NYC, Baton Rouge, Seoul, India and Brussels is the largest privately held company in the legal analytics and regtech space and powers over 4,000 of the world’s largest and most influential corporations, associations, non-profits, and law firms, creating a more open and transparent society through data. With Hwang’s technology and capital partners from the likes of Mark Cuban, Jerry Yang, Steve Case, NEA, Renren and others, FiscalNote is revolutionizing access to legislation, regulations, and court cases for organizations around the world.

 

  Michael R. Dzwonczyk
Partner
Sughrue Mion, PLLC

For 30 years, Michael has successfully represented multinational companies as lead counsel in trials and appeals of patent cases in District Courts and at the Federal Circuit, as well as Section 337 cases at the International Trade Commission. His experience has encompassed technical areas that include recombinantly produced hormones, pharmaceuticals, protein synthesis and expression products, fibers, films, polymers, plastics and medical devices. Michael also counsels clients on intellectual property issues, including validity and infringement of intellectual property rights, licensing and contract matters and Hatch-Waxman issues.
  Hyunseok Park
Associate
Sughrue Mion, PLLC

As both a Korean patent attorney and a U.S. patent attorney, Hyunseok has been involved in a diverse intellectual property practice encompassing world-wide patent prosecution, client counseling, rendering opinions, FTO analysis, post-grant patent challenges and patent litigation. Hyunseok has experience in various fields including small molecule drugs, protein drugs, siRNAs, microRNAs, transgenic animals, methods of treating (diagnosing) human and animal disease, microbiome, virology, vaccines, drug delivery, food compositions, chromatography, display materials, battery materials, and fuel cells.

  Moderator
TaeSoo Sean Kim
Partner
Ice Miller LLP

TaeSoo Sean Kim is a partner in Ice Miller’s Business Group. His practice encompasses a wide range of commercial transactions for both established and emerging bio-pharmaceutical, digital health and technology companies, as well as leading academic and research institutions. Sean drafts and negotiates intellectual property licenses, joint development, collaboration and strategic alliance agreements for platform technologies, drug delivery systems and therapeutic candidates. He also advises clients on technology licenses, including software license and service agreements, content license agreements, and master services agreements. As part of his broader corporate practice, Sean also works closely with Korea-based clients doing business in the U.S. on vital cross-border transactional matters, including corporate formation and financing, real estate investments and joint venture agreements.

An active member of the startup community in New York and Los Angeles, Sean has served as a board member of Korean Startups and Entrepreneurs, a non-profit organization with over 1,000 members in New York, Los Angeles and South Korea. He currently serves as an outside general counsel to startups in various stages of growth, from pre-funding to multiple venture capital financing.

 

 

  

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[K-Move] A webinar: Developing Your Career with Mentorship

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The Korea Society is pleased to join KOTRA in presenting valuable lessons on career development through the K-Move program series. K-Move is a project that KOTRA has been organizing for younger Korean audiences abroad, while inviting leading professionals from different fields to share their stories on employment and settlement in the U.S.

In this meaningful program, the Society and KOTRA, as co-hosts, will offer words of hope and encouragement to the young Korean professionals of today with their life and career experiences.

The recent pandemic and its enormous impact on the global economy have led to unfortunate and difficult situations for Korean job seekers in the U.S. The experienced group of mentors invited will provide useful advice and directions on how we could overcome those challenges in this unprecedented time.

[K-Move] Developing Your Career with Mentorship will consist of two separate sessions. In the first part, a renowned guest speaker, Soonkyu Shin, will talk about his success as a 22-year veteran of Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) as well as a writer despite the challenges as a blind person. Mr. Shin will share his life experiences on how he immigrated to the United States, chose his career, overcame challenges, and set up his life mottos and plans.   

In the second part, we will provide practical employment tips that could be immediately applicable to the real-life situation. This will be held in a form of ‘panel discussion’, which will be led by a moderator, William Juhn, Attorney at Eisenberg & Baum’s Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing and with two successful Korean American mentors: Esther Ahn, Head of User Experience for YouTube TV, and Ye Jin Kim, Senior Vice President, Global Creative at IT Cosmetics. They will not only share the episodes of their employment process, their employment strategies, but also will prospect potential limitations and solutions in the current job market. The discussion will be followed by a 10 minute Q&A session.

 

Program Agenda

Time Program Note
6:00 – 6:10 PM Opening Remarks The Korea Society | KOTRA
6:10 – 6:40 PM Session 1:
For an Easier Walk, Expect Stumbling Blocks		 Keynote speaker: Soonkyu Shin

Moderator: William Juhn
6:45 – 7:25 PM Session 2:
Career Talk with Professionals		 Panelists: Esther Ahn, Ye Jin Kim 

Moderator: William Juhn

 


Mentor’s Bio 

  Soonkyu (SK) Shin, CFA
Fixed Income Research Analyst for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Board Chair of YANA (You Are Not Alone) Ministry

As a Fixed Income Research Analyst for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., SK is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities in the healthcare and consumer products sectors. He joined BBH in 1998 and has covered multiple asset classes, including equities, municipal bonds, and corporate credits. SK’s professional investing career began in 1994 as an analyst conducting credit research on high-tech issuers at JP Morgan & Co.

SK received an AB degree from Harvard College and was PhD candidate at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a CFA charterholder.

SK serves as the Board Chair of YANA (You Are Not Alone) Ministry, a not-for-profit organization committed to helping orphaned and abandoned children. Also, he is a semi-professional writer with one published book, “Things You See with Your Eyes Closed: A Blind Wall Street Analyst’s Stories of Everyday Miracles,” as well as regular newspaper and magazine columns.

 

  Esther Ahn
Head of User Experience for YouTube TV

Esther is the Head of User Experience for YouTube TV. She has been at YouTube for over four years focused on building the subscription products experiences for both YouTube Music and YouTube TV. Prior to YouTube, she was Creative Director at frog design leading consumer and enterprise product design programs. She also held the role of Director of Design at Stanford Health Care where she partnered with start-ups to innovate on digital health initiatives. Esther has worked at design innovation companies including IDEO and Smart Design.

Esther holds a BA in Architecture from the UC Berkeley and a Masters in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. Her areas of expertise are in UX design for TV, mobile and web along with service design. Her passion lies in envisioning the future of media experiences and designing for health care. She lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband and two children.

  Ye Jin Kim
Senior Vice President, Global Creative at IT Cosmetics

Ye Jin Kim is a Korean American creative director currently working and living in New York. As Senior Vice President, Global Creative at IT Cosmetics, part of L’Oreal’s Luxe division, she drives creative strategy and leads the development and creation of the brand as well as creative and creative operations department management.

Ye Jin was born and raised in South Korea and studied in the U.K. at Marymount School in London and the U.S. receiving a Bachelor’s degree from ArtCenter College of Design. Previous to IT Cosmetics, Ye Jin was Global Creative Director at Blissworld and Design Director at La Prairie & Shiseido.

  Moderator: William Juhn
Attorney at Eisenberg & Baum’s Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

William Juhn is an attorney at Eisenberg & Baum’s Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, where he represents deaf and hard of hearing clients in anti-discrimination cases. Before, William was a staff attorney at MinKwon Center, a non-profit organization serving low-income New York City immigrants. He also worked at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. William received his J.D. from Georgetown Law, his M.A. from Fudan University, and his B.A. from the University of Michigan.

 

 

  

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Building and Protecting Your K-Brand in the YouTube Era

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The Korea Society and Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) are delighted to present Building and Protecting Your K-Brand in the YouTube Era on July 22, 2020. Over the last two decades, YouTube has demonstrated its versatility, achieving far more than the launch of successful careers for the likes of Justin Bieber and BTS. Businesses of all sizes increasingly adopt this highly effective yet affordable advertising platform as part of their marketing strategy to attract audiences and drive sales. With this backdrop, our upcoming seminar will explore various legal and business aspects of managing content on YouTube while building your K-brand on this rapidly expanding channel.

Keri S. Bruce, Partner at Reed Smith LLP will lead our first session by examining relevant copyright, trademark and advertising law issues. She will also offer practical guidance on minimizing potential risks and seeking infringement remedies. In the second session, you will hear insightful perspectives and first-hand experiences from three prominent K-brand YouTuber panelists – (1) MJ Choi, founder of I Love Dance, a popular K-pop dance studio which also creates K-pop content featuring various groups of dancers; (2) Seonkyoung Longest, a prolific producer of K-food cooking videos; and (3) Liah Yoo, founder of KraveBeauty, who shares her makeup tutorials and product guides. Zena Kim, Director of Litigation & Legal Operations at A&E Networks, will be moderating the panel discussion.

Please join us for an intellectually stimulating and inspirational evening.

Program Agenda

Time Program Speakers
6:00 – 6:10 PM Opening Remarks Korea Society | KOTRA
6:10 – 7:00 PM Session 1:
YouTube Marketing: Navigating Legal Pitfalls 		Keynote speaker: Keri S. Bruce
7:00 – 8:00 PM Session 2:
Practical Insights from K-Brand YouTubers		 Panelists: MJ Choi, Seonkyoung Longest, and Liah Yoo
Moderator: Zena Kim

 


Speakers & Moderator

SESSION 1SESSION 2
  Keri S. Bruce
Partner
Reed Smith LLP

Keri is a Partner in the Entertainment and Media Industry Group. Keri represents national and multi-national clients and trade organizations in matters relating to advertising, marketing, media, promotions, trade practices, intellectual property and technology. She provides clients with transactional support, practical advice and training to develop policies and programs and make decisions to effectively market their products and services, while reducing risk and remaining competitive in today’s business world.

She is a legal advisor to the Association of National Advertisers and also represents clients in a wide array of industries, including beauty, fashion, luxury-goods, retail, consumer packaged goods, restaurants, financial services, advertising, media, publishing, automotive, technology and sports. Keri’s experience covers a broad array of areas, including, talent agreements and celebrity endorsements; advertising and media agency agreements; vendor agreements; technology, sponsorship, licensing, and strategic alliance agreements; emerging technology platforms; intellectual property issues, including copyright, trademark and right of privacy and publicity; social media compliance; rights of advertisers pursuant to collective bargaining agreements with performing unions; commercial co-ventures and other charitable sales promotions; loyalty programs; claim substantiation; sweepstakes; contests; promotional incentives, such as gift cards, rebates and coupons; and general advertising review.

Additionally, she has experience working with local counsel around the world to defend foreign false advertising investigations.

Keri is a frequent speaker on advertising and marketing issues.

 

  MJ Choi
Director & Founder
I Love Dance

MJ Choi is the founder of I LOVE DANCE, the biggest and K-pop dance school in East Coast U.S.

MJ was born and raised in South Korea, and came to the U.S. when she was 22 to study English and later she received her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design. Dance was always her passion, but due to heavy push back from her father, she wasn’t able to pursue dance as a profession until at a late age of 28. Starting late in life, sharing classrooms with peers half her age was mentally and physically draining. But undeterred, within a year and half of daily training, MJ opened the first class of her own to help beginners which she named I LOVE DANCE.

Since its founding in 2006, I LOVE DANCE has expanded from its roots in Manhattan to Queens and New Jersey where more than 500 students come to dance together. It has become a vehicle for sharing the growing popularity of K-POP while exemplifying the unifying characteristic of dance as an art form. Despite the K-POP focus, over 90% of its membership is non-Korean. The classmates of various backgrounds meet not only to learn dance, but also to socialize and to embrace one another’s uniqueness. MJ’s passion has also extended into creating dance cover videos, organizing flash mobs, teaching workshops, and actively interacting within followers on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. I LOVE DANCE has garnered international recognition. MJ has conducted numerous workshops and performances at various venues in the U.S. and in Europe. She continues to extend its reach and influence today.

MJ hopes that her experiences of overcoming fear and challenges serves as an inspiration to all that walks through the studio.

  Seonkyoung Longest
Asian at Home

The Queen of Asian cuisine and self-made social media entrepreneur, Seonkyoung Longest is the founder of internet business Seonkyoung Longest Network. Her Network has 3.3M Facebook followers, 1.45M YouTube subscribers, 432K Instagram followers and 1M monthly website visits.

Seonkyoung was born and raised in South Korea and has been living in the U.S. since 2009. She is an artist and expresses her creativity in the kitchen on a plate. This YouTube celebrity chef has been recognized by multiple world famous chefs for her talent, skill and authenticity. She was a top 40 competitor of Fox’s “Master Chef Season 4” hosted by Gordon Ramsay and the winner of Food Network’s “Restaurant Express” hosted by Rover Irvine. She launched her first restaurant at The M Resort Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas in 2013.

She is a Taste Maker of a global entertainment company “Tastemade”, with 2B monthly views and 300M monthly user engagements.

Seonkyoung proved that if you have passion and love for what you do, no matter what the circumstances, you can make it happen. She inspires people to live life to the fullest by following their dreams and spreading love while educating them on the importance of feeding their body and soul.

  Liah Yoo
CEO
KraveBeauty

Liah is a beauty influencer and the founder/CEO of KraveBeauty that’s disrupting the beauty industry by bringing a refreshingly honest point of view by telling people to cleanse less. She’s known on YouTube for sharing skincare tips with the knowledge and experience she gained while working at Korea’s largest beauty conglomerate, AmorePacific, and beyond. She has a social media reach of over 1 million people across the globe and has built her credibility by helping hundreds of other women who have tried every other conventional regime to clearer and healthier skin through sharing her unconventional acne-fighting tips based on her own skincare journey.

  Zena Kim
Director of Litigation & Legal Operations
A&E Networks

Zena Kim is an in-house attorney specialized in Litigation and Legal Operations at A+E Networks—formerly known as A&E Television Networks, the home of The History Channel, A&E, Lifetime and Vice TV. As part of her entertainment practice, she manages claims and litigation matters and spearheads optimization of legal operations. In a prior role, she oversaw the rights management of programming and advised various internal business units on global exploitation and distribution strategies. In particular, she was integral in lining up A+E Networks for TV Everywhere and Over-the-Top initiatives in the changing television landscape. On the side, she also empowers the voice of the employees by heading up passion groups with a focus on wellness, inclusion and diversity.

Prior to joining A+E, Zena dedicated her time to developing and spearheading the Foreclosure Prevention Project at the MinKwon Center for Community Action in Flushing. She worked closely with the Asian American community by representing homeowners in active foreclosure proceedings and advising them on foreclosure prevention measures through counseling and advocacy.

Zena received her undergraduate degree in psychology at University of Washington (UW) and went on to earn her J.D. at UW School of Law—William H. Gates Hall—located in Seattle, Washington. She is happily married to her husband who owns Now or Never Coffee in SoHo supporting the first responders during this pandemic and promoting a time of reflection on racial equality. Through the lens of her three-year old son, she strives to find the right balance between serving a greater purpose in life, parenting and learning from her son.

  

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Marketing in a Digital World

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As consumers continue to cut the cord, how will we define the future of TV? How does this paradigm shift change the future of advertising? Join us July 16th as Cathy Oh, Global Head of Marketing & Analytics at Samsung Ads, explores these topics in conversation with CeFaan Kim, reporter at WABC-TV Eyewitness News.

Throughout her career, Cathy has worked at some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies including Samsung, Apple and NBC Universal. If you are a tech aficionado, or would like to learn about what it’s like to be a woman in tech and media, join us for this intimate fireside chat.

The Young Professionals’ Night program consists of industry professionals who share their career experiences and advice with the audience. All professionals seeking to expand their careers are encouraged to tune in.

 

 

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Young Professionals’ Night
Marketing in a Digital World
 with
Cathy Oh

Thursday, July 16, 2020 | 6 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Cathy Oh
Global Head of Marketing & Analytics
Samsung Ads

Capitalizing on more than 15 years of global marketing experience with Fortune 500 companies, Cathy Oh serves as Global Head of Marketing and Analytics for Samsung Ads. As one of the founding members of Samsung Ads, Cathy has played a critical role in establishing the Samsung Ads brand, and her leadership has been integral to the organization as it redefines the Advanced TV landscape.

Since joining the Company in 2015, Samsung Ads has transformed from a single product offering into the Advanced TV advertising platform with the largest and most powerful source of TV data. During this time, Cathy has positioned Samsung Ads as a global enterprise, overseeing efforts across the US, EU, APAC and Latin America regions. The collective efforts of the entire team resulted in Samsung Ads being named one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2020, as well as recognition across numerous industry associations as a leader in the Advanced TV space.

Throughout her career, Cathy has established a track record of developing global brands, large-scale marketing strategies and activations, sales initiatives, and marketing programs for global sales teams. Cathy brings to bear a unique entrepreneurial spirit and love for innovation to multi-national, enterprise organizations, working in lockstep with sales and product development to build brands, grow revenue and move businesses forward. Prior to joining Samsung Ads, Cathy served as Head of Marketing for iAd, Global Brands & Agencies (a division of Apple). In addition to Apple, where Cathy managed a global team, she has held marketing positions at companies that include WebMD and NBC Universal.

Cathy received a Master’s Degree in Integrated Marketing from New York University and a Bachelor’s of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a member of ARF’s Women in Analytics (WIA), where she works to inspire and motivate women in the industry. Cathy is also a member of Ad Age Collective, where she is asked to contribute thought leadership as a Marketing Executive and has served as a key spokesperson across numerous trades. When she isn’t traveling the globe for both work and pleasure, Cathy also serves on the board of the Korean American Community Foundation and sits on the advisory board for Conscious Step. Cathy lives in Gramercy, NY with her husband and husky.

 

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

CeFaan Kim
Reporter
WABC-TV Eyewitness News

CeFaan Kim joined the Eyewitness News team as a reporter in September 2015. Since then, CeFaan has covered major national breaking news, including the Chelsea terrorist bombing in September of 2016, where he was the first TV reporter on scene. In 2017 he covered the massive spontaneous protest at JFK Airport in response to President Trump’s travel ban executive order. CeFaan has also reported extensively on poverty in the Asian-American community in New York.

Prior to joining Eyewitness News, he was a reporter for News 12 Westchester/Hudson Valley, where he lead the station’s coverage of the January 2015 Metro-North train crash that killed 6 people, the deadliest in its history.

CeFaan launched his career in 2003 as a photographer and field producer at NY1 News in New York City. In 2008, he traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire to cover the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Rudolph Giuliani, and Barack Obama. He also co-produced Eliot Spitzer’s 2006 gubernatorial general election debate, Andrew Cuomo’s primary debate in his run for State Attorney General, and Hillary Clinton’s 2006 senatorial debate.

His exclusive story about a woman who died while waiting for EMTs during the “Christmas Blizzard” of 2010 forced the Bloomberg administration to admit the city’s response to the storm had been inadequate.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, CeFaan graduated from New York University where he majored in Broadcast Journalism. He is a former sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves; he graduated from Non-Commissioned Officer’s Academy on the Commandant’s List. In addition, CeFaan is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and serves as co-chair of its Media Watch Committee.

 

 

Young Professionals’ Night with Timothy Martin

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Over the months journalists have worked tirelessly to provide reliable and up to date information on COVID-19. Timothy Martin, Korea bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, is among these journalists. His reporting has shed light on the outbreak in South Korea, giving U.S. readers an in-depth account of the situation in the country and the actions taken to stem the spread of the virus. In this webcast, Timothy speaks with AAJA – NY chapter president, Frank Bi, on his experience covering the coronavirus pandemic in South Korea. He also gives us a look into his career in journalism, and shares his advice for journalists entering the field.

  The Korea Society is excited to present this Young Professionals’ Night webcast in partnership with the Asian American Journalists Association’s New York chapter. AAJA’s New York chapter is the largest chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association with more than 770 members in New York and the surrounding region. Its mission is to advance the representation of Asian American and Pacific Islanders in newsrooms as well as in the fair and accurate coverage of AAPI issues.

 

Young Professionals’ Night with Timothy Martin

PREMIERES: Monday, June 15, 2020 | 6 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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About the Speaker:

Timothy Martin is the Korea bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, where he oversees coverage of Kim Jong Un, Samsung and anything else happening on the Korean Peninsula. He has worked at the Journal for more than a decade with prior stints in its Chicago, Atlanta and New York offices. Tim has covered the U.S. painkiller epidemic, Wall Street’s biggest buyers, global business and once wrote a story about extreme couponing that inspired a TV show. He has been posted in Seoul since 2017. Born in Gwangju, South Korea, Tim was adopted to American parents, growing up in a small town in Illinois. He first lived in Seoul after graduating college in the mid-2000s, when he taught English at a hagwon in Gangnam and studied Korean at Seoul National University.

 

 

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

Frank Bi is a senior storytelling engineer at Vox Media in New York City where he works on innovative storytelling projects for the web. He also teaches data literacy and visualization at Fordham University and is a Google News Initiative trainer, teaching journalists at newsrooms and conferences across the country on utilizing free journalism tools. Frank is the president of Asian American Journalists Association’s New York chapter.

 

Korean Inspired Glow

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In these uncertain times, we regard self-care as a way to manage anxiety and alleviate stress. Often, skincare comprises an essential part of many self-care routines. Tune in to see how Glow Recipe co-founders, Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, are adapting content during this time to align with a self-care centric beauty philosophy, and how they continue to lead Glow Recipe with a K-Beauty inspired approach for every product and campaign. Furthermore, discover how Sarah and Christine have transformed Glow Recipe, which began as a Korean skincare curation brand in 2014, into a successful skincare line of their own, with products such as the cult-favorite Watermelon Sleeping Mask.

Aspiring entrepreneurs will not want to miss this program! Sarah and Christine’s success in creating and leading Glow Recipe will undoubtedly offer valuable insight for starting a business.

The Young Professionals’ Night program consists of industry professionals who share their career experiences and advice with the audience. It provides a wonderful opportunity for networking, and all professionals seeking to expand their careers are encouraged to come.

 

 

Korean Inspired Glow:
Young Professionals’ Night
with Glow Recipe Co-Founders Christine and Sarah

Thursday, May 14, 2020 | 6 PM

 

The Korea Society 
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, NYC

 

 

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ABOUT GLOW RECIPE:


Glow Recipe is a clean, fruit-powered, unapologetically fun skin care line inspired by Korean beauty. Co-founded by beauty industry veterans Sarah Lee and Christine Chang in 2014, Glow Recipe was launched as a specially curated destination for natural, cruelty-free beauty products and a platform to introduce the latest skin-care innovations from South Korea to beauty lovers across the world. Sarah and Christine vetted each brand to ensure sustainable practices and no harsh ingredients were used in any products. In 2015, Sarah and Christine were featured on ABC’s Shark Tank, where they received three investment offers.

Glow Recipe Skincare was born in 2017 with the debut of the best-selling Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask and Blueberry Bounce Gentle Cleanser. At launch, the Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask sold out over seven times on both glowrecipe.com and at Sephora, generating a waitlist that exceeded 8,000 people. To date, the brand has expanded its cult-favorite Watermelon franchise, while expanding to other fruit products that feature Avocado, Pineapple, and Banana, which are all available online and in Sephora stores throughout the United States and Canada.

In 2018, Glow Recipe had the honor of being chosen for CNBC’s Upstart 100 List, highlighting the top start-up companies to watch. Sarah and Christine have been featured as speakers at WWD Digital Forum, Conde Nast Intl Forum, CEW, Decoded Beauty Forum, Glossy Forum and have also guest lectured at Yonsei University, Purdue University Business School, and NYU Stern Business School.

 

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

 
Jenny Jin is the Beauty Director and on-camera host at PureWow. After starting her career in the nonprofit and finance sectors, she made a pivot into the media industry as the beauty editor at Real Simple magazine. She currently hosts a weekly YouTube series called “The Glow Up,” where she gives insider access into the latest beauty and wellness trends and an Instagram Live series called “Outside In,” where she shares the backstories of beauty and wellness entrepreneurs. In her spare time, she loves to read, dance and eat her way through new destinations. You can find her on Instagram @jyjin.

A Conversation with Jihoon Rim, former CEO of Kakao

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Mr. Jihoon Rim, executive advisor and former CEO at Kakao and Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, shared his experiences as the leader of Kakao, the most widely used mobile platform in Korea. This engaging discussion was moderated by Ms. Minnie Roh, CUNY TV’s news correspondent on Asian American Life.

The Korea Society Young Professionals’ Night program consists of industry professionals who share their career experiences and advice with the audience. It provides a wonderful opportunity for networking, and all professionals seeking to expand their careers are encouraged to come.


Young Professionals’ Night
A Conversation with Jihoon Rim, former CEO of Kakao   

Thursday, September 19, 2019 | 6 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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SpeakerModerator

Jihoon Rim is executive advisor and former CEO of Kakao (KRX:035720), a top-tier technology company in South Korea that is well known for its mobile messenger Kakao Talk, music streaming service Melon, and ride hailing service Kakao Taxi among many successful Internet products the company services. After finishing his term, Jihoon moved to New York City and teaches a newly created course “Managing a High-tech company” at NYU Stern.” While he was leading the company, Kakao successfully expanded its business into finance, contents, and mobility: disrupting the market and delivering services praised by users. Jihoon also heavily invested in Artificial Intelligence and technology, making Kakao the best mobile platform in Korea. The company’s revenue and operating profit doubled during his two and a half years term and acquisition of $1.6B LOEN Entertainment was evaluated as one of the best M&As in Korean tech industry. In recognition of his stellar performance, Jihoon was ranked No.1 in “2017 Korea’s Best CEO” survey, and also was selected as “2018 Korea’s Top 10 Hero” by the biggest business media group, MBN. In academia, he received the “AIS leadership award”, a prize presented to one person a year who demonstrated exemplary leadership and innovation by the Association for Information Systems. Prior to Kakao, Jihoon founded an early stage venture capital, KCube Ventures in 2012. The firm quickly grew to become one of the most reputable VC firms in Korea and was also ranked #7 by CBInsights in the category of ‘2017, The most active corporate venture’ in the world. (KCube Ventures was acquired by Kakao in 2015 and became a CVC.) Jihoon also worked at Softbank Ventures, The Boston Consulting Group, Naver, and Accenture. He has an engineering degree from KAIST.

Minnie Roh is an award-winning veteran journalist. Her career has spanned both network and local television as an investigative producer, reporter and anchor. Currently, she is a correspondent on the syndicated show Asian American Life and was nominated for a NY Emmy award for her story on the Comfort Women of World War II. She covers stories that are important to the Asian American community, from human and sex trafficking exploitation, affirmative action and deportation of undocumented immigrants to profiles of Olympic medalists, Broadway stars and NASA astronauts. Roh started her career in network news, working on shows like the Today Show, Nightly News and Dateline NBC where she specialized in investigative/hidden camera stories and received two Edward R. Murrow awards for her investigative reporting. Roh is also a media and communications consultant. Her company Minnie Media and Productions specializes in thoughtful profile pieces and impactful marketing segments for her clients – nonprofit organizations, international businesses and politicians. She has served as a senior advisor to the President of Arirang TV, South Korea’s only English news and entertainment channel, during its rebranding process and trained the reporters and anchors in the “western style” of broadcast journalism. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Lessons Learned with In Seon Hwang

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The Korea Society and The Korea Finance Society hosted another Lessons Learned program in the summer of 2019. Mr. In Seon Hwang, managing director of Warburg Pincus, shared his experiences and insights gained through his career in finance. This program will be moderated by KFS President Andrew Kim.

The Lessons Learned program consists of senior level finance professionals sharing their career stories and advice with the audience. It is a perfect opportunity for networking and every young professional in New York looking to further develop their career is encouraged to come.

 


Lessons Learned

with

In Seon Hwang

 

Thursday, July 18, 2019 | 6:30 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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In Seon Hwang

In Seon Hwang is based in New York, joined Warburg Pincus in 2004 and led the firm’s investment activities in the global healthcare, consumer and retail sectors. In Seon was also a member of the firm’s Executive Management Group. He began his career at WP in the energy group. He has led the firm’s investments in CityMD, Modernizing Medicine, Vertice Pharma, Outset Medical, SOC Telemed, Targa Resources (NYSE: TRGP), Navitas Midstream, Zenith Energy, Venari Resources, Competitive Power Ventures and APT Power.

Previously, he worked at a middle market private equity firm GSC Partners in New York, the M&A group at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and the Boston Consulting Group in Seoul. In Seon serves on the boards of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, The Gillen Brewer School, and Hope for New York. He received a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Passion in Entrepreneurship – Aligning Vision and Passion

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The path of becoming an entrepreneur is not an easy one. Sang Lee, CEO of Darc Matter and President of KSE, hears from entrepreneurs and founders who have created a business around their passions and dreams. Robert Lee from Rescuing Leftover Cuisine and Celina Lee from Give One Dream joined the session and shared their experience in turning personal visions into businesses. The session was followed by a happy hour on our rooftop.


Passion in Entrepreneurship – Aligning Vision and Passion

Sang Lee, CEO & President at DarcMatter, President of KSE
Robert Lee, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine
Celina Lee, Give One Dream / Live Your Dream Podcast

 

Thursday, June 27th, 2019 | 6 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
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SpeakersModeratorAbout Korean Startups & Entrepreneurs: KSE

Robert Lee

Dan Kraut leads Robert Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. Robert was a Gates Millennium Scholar who graduated cum laude from New York University. At NYU, Mr. Lee worked on a club called that delivered leftover dining hall food to homeless shelters. Over the four years that Mr. Lee was a part of this organization, he learned best practices of operations in delivering food, fostered relationships within the industry, and honed volunteer management skills. After graduating, Mr. Lee worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. before resigning in 2014 to continue his passion of helping the hungry and reducing food waste by working full-time at Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Inc. Mr. Lee has been honored as a CNN Hero, Forbes 30 Under 30 for Social Entrepreneurship, NYC Food Policy 40 Under 40, and Youth Action Net Fellow.


Celina Lee

Celina Lee is a career coach, podcast host, and lawyer, and is passionate about helping people to pursue their dreams and live a life doing what they love. She coaches many professionals on their career development, and has given speeches and delivered workshops in many countries.

On her podcast, Live Your Dream with Celina Lee, she interviews inspirational people from diverse industries about what they have learned in their journeys in life and career. The podcast has listeners from 80 countries around the world, Celina is the founder Give One Dream, a global movement that inspires people to pursue and achieve their dreams.

She started her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and worked as a corporate lawyer at a law firm, Ropes & Gray LLP in NYC. She is an author of an award- wining book in South Korea, “꿈을 이뤄드립니다” (“Live Your Dream”), a collection of life stories of people who overcame failures to achieve success in diverse industries. Celina received her undergraduate degree from MIT and law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She is a certified professional coach and is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). www.celinalee.co

Joseph Juhn

Joseph directs and produces a film, Jeronimo, a feature-length documentary that highlights the history and current state of Koreans living in Cuba. Prior to working on Jeronimo full-time, Joseph was an in-house counsel at the Manhattan-based South Korean government agency (KOTRA) for 4 years where I advised Korean companies and entrepreneurs on US intellectual property and corporate law. Here, his job revolved primarily around soft IP law, assisting companies draft business strategies around their IP assets while implementing mechanisms to avoid potential IP disputes with competitors.

Passionate about causes pertinent to the Korean-American community, Joseph also serves on the steering committee of KSE (Korean Startups & Entrepreneurs), a non-profit with an aim to empower entrepreneurs of Korean descent in New York.

 

Korean Startups & Entrepreneurs: KSE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization seeking to cultivate and develop the technology startup ecosystem in the United States, particularly involving Korean-American and South Korean founded companies. Headquartered in New York City’s Silicon Alley, KSE was originally founded as a Meetup amongst Korean-American technology entrepreneurs in 2012 and with growing demand has expanded to include hundreds of entrepreneurs, affiliated partners/advisors, and investors. KSE fosters this tech community by providing unique opportunities for prominent entrepreneurs to share their experiences in fire-side chats, startup pitch events, educational seminars and scholarships, and exclusive networking and social events. Visit us at www.KoreanSE.org

Young Professionals’ Network: Insider’s Look, Global Development

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Young Professionals working in the field of International Development will share their exciting industry experiences with members of The Korea Society. This will be a great opportunity for our community to learn more about how big leading organizations, such as the UN and World Bank, are trying to end poverty and build shared prosperity around the globe. Come join us at 6:30 PM on May 23rd.

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Young Professionals’ Network: Insider’s Look, Global Development

John Hosung Lee, Operations Officer at Korea Green Growth Trust Fund at World Bank Group 
Rose Chung, Associate Policy Officer, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, The United Nations
Jennifer Kwack, Designer at the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs at USAID

 

Thursday, May 23, 2019 | 6:30 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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