LIN Bin
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About LIN Bin
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Why TSM South Korea?
What motivates you to join TSM?
Information age has already come. In nowadays, almost every business has related to information technology to a certain degree, and technology has resolved into human's daily life. The development of society has required a more detailed segmentation of services. Potentially there is still much of technology/service area for us to dig out. Hence, I would like to seize this opportunity to get to know how other technology companies started up and operated, and hope that this journal experience could be useful for my future entrepreneurship.
Why pick South Korea?
As with the rising popularity of Samsung, South Korea has again proved its strong competency on electronic science and technology industry. Integration of hardware and software will be the key for our future electronic products. Meanwhile, I am also interested in the future moves of South Korea's large companies like Samsung, as South Korea is neighbour of China and recently has just open a free trade area - Shang Hai. Hence, I would like to take a deep look into how the previous "Asian Tiger" conduct its business, as well as experience the local culture.
Internship Opportunities
What types of internship opportunities interest you?
- Project Management
- Market research
- Management consultancy
Any ideal firms (based in South Korea) that you wishes to join?
Samsung I guess, haha :)
Starting a business
What types of business interest you?
- Business that provide platform for people to express their professions
- Business that provide platform for people to express their interests (like drawing, travelling, photography)
- Business that helps improve people's daily lives (design mobile device, or health monitor device which are for elder people)
What plan do you have in starting a business?
I had a engineering diploma with 2nd major in material science, and now I'm studying information technology in SMU. During these few years' of study, I accumulated certain knowledge and development sufficient software skills. I have been trying to tap into different areas of knowledge. And I also have been attending technology related event, like cyber security exhibition(RSA 2013 Singapore) and different talks host in SMU. Besides, I am also sourcing for friends who are in same/different majors and have same entrepreneurship interest with me to form up a team. The next step will be participating business events where we could propose our ideas.
Past Experiences
MGMT221: Entreprise Development
Just last semester AY2012/2013 Term 2, I was very privileged to take an entrepreneurship module - MGMT221 Enterprise Development under Professor Soon Loo - a serial entrepreneur who was recently awarded the Top 10 Most Outstanding Person of the Year Award. In this module, as part of the term project, I had the chance to get my hands dirty to try start a business. Although the social enterprise business did not take off in its entirety due to the lack of traction and time constraint, we did get secure 90% of the resources required get it up and running. After all as Prof Soon Loo mention, "entreprenurship is not an easy journey" and thus there were many lessons learnt through this process. I would say one of the most important lessons learnt was to ensure that for any kind of business, the make up of the team was right and balanced.
SMU Ventures
After the experience from MGMT221: Enterprise Development, I realized that as a student in SMU, there are many avenues for students who have a great business idea to pursue. However many-a-times, these avenues tend to be hidden away. That is why, I decided to put myself forward to serve in SMU Ventures. As part of my responsibilities, I am in-charge of maintaining the social media and web presence of the club as well as to provide technical advise to the best of my abilities on technology related business should the need arise.
In addition, apart from my responsibilities, I actively keep a lookout for possible mentors and speakers (usually technology related) to bring in to the club so that fellow students can learn from them.
