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.