1314T2g1 South Korea/Participant Information/Ian Clarence Chan

Ian Clarence Chan

Academic Year: 3 Degree: Information Systems Management Second Major: Advanced Business Technology(No Track) Activities: Hostel Management Team of SMU Prinsep Hostel (Current), SMU Muay Thai Work Experience: Data Remediation Team Leader - Credit Suisse (2011), Digital Projects Coordinator - Standard Chartered Bank (2012, 2013)

Why TSM South Korea?

• What motivates you to join TSM?

Having worked in a corporate environment in the my last few contract stints, I have been exposed much of the culture and the technology that kind of environment requires. However, I have always been drawn to starting up a business of my own and I understand that the kind of skills, technology and the thinking process required by start ups are entirely different. I am joining TSM because I want to use all the experience i have learnt working in banks and to be able to apply them in an entrepreneurship environment and hopefully pick up enough skills (and courage) to start up my own business.

• Why pick South Korea?

South Korea houses many of the world leaders in technology. I want to be able to experience and hopefully understand what makes such a country so different in that it can cultivate such cutting edge technology. There must be something that South Korea has that Singapore does not that could enable a company to into a multinational organization. Is it the education? or the government? Or is it really just the culture? I would like to experience first hand how South Korea enables this. South Korea's culture has also always intrigued me. Staying in an international hostel, I live and work with South Koreans and I always enjoy learning from them.

Internship Opportunities

• What types of internship opportunities interest you?

I am interested in opportunities that can allow me to explore different technologies or to combine many different technologies into an effective working product that people would want to use. Now in the age of social media, I feel that it's full potential have not been comprehended, let alone exploited and I am also interested in internships that allow me to explore how social media technology can be used to connect people to people or people to software.

Past Experiences

• Describe your past experience (entrepreneurship, or works in start ups etc)

Coming from mostly a corporate background, I have minimal experience working in start ups. But that is why I am so excited to be able to work or be part of one and be able to hopefully use the experience I learnt working in a corporate environment in an entrepreneurship environment. Working in Banks have really