One of Korea’s leading venture busines- ses, Ahnlab came to POSTECH with POSTECH graduates to provide a mentorship opportunity to students along with a special lecture delivered by the CEO Hongsun Kim on Mar. 20.
As part of its commitment to contribute to the society, employees offered to be the mentors for problems such as being an employee in a company, career paths of engineers, and other such advice for successful college life. The mentors also made a commitment to continue the mentorship.
The lecture by the CEO Kim was titled, “How to Live in an Era of Convergence.” He analyzed and gave insight to today’s ever-changing world. The two key words he emphasized were individual and convergence. In today’s global world he pointed out that technology and idea are the medium of exchange, not money. The traditional concepts are collapsing and industries are focusing on individuals.
He also urged the engineering students to learn to find joy from what they make, and cultivate better communication skills, in both language and culture which can be developed from various experiences. He concluded his lecture with the following message, “Challenges and failures are ostentation of youth. Only those who challenge can taste failure.”