Tuesday, October 14, 2008

KAIST letter

Dear whom it may concern,

My name is Han, my friends know me as Ken. Ever since an early age, I have always had an adventurous nature and have been exposed to many worlds and cultures. I was born in Shanghai, China and I call 3 countries home. In 2009 I hope to be able to add Korea to China, New Zealand and Australia.

Korean culture and history has been closely connected with that of China, both nations have suffered and triumphed together in the last few decades. From the atrocities of World War Two to the Korean War and the recent economic boom in Asia. Economics aside, Korea has caught the eye of the world with its pop culture, but of course I do not want to see the Korea portrayed in the soap dramas or movies, I want to experience the real Korea, I want to meet Korean people, dine in Korean restaurants and learn the culture first hand. Studying at KAIST will give me a great insight into business conduct in Korea and Asia whilst also giving me access to the rich Korean culture.

KAIST has a high reputation in the field of research and development amongst other things and this was a main attraction for me as I like to experience new and fresh things first hand. KAIST also has a huge wealth of information from abroad accumulated by its staff and of course its students from all the corners of the world, I look forward to participating and adding to the wealth of knowledge by actively participating in school activities both apart of my curriculum and outside. I hope the exchange in knowledge happens both ways and I am able to leave a good mark on KAIST and its students.

The city of Daejeon itself is home to many R&D facilities of global businesses, which comes at no surprise. The “silicon valley of Korea” contains not only the research and development facilities of Samsung and LG, but also to the Yuseong-gu district known for its high tech industries. With new technologies comes new and innovating marketing and business structures which I definitely look forward to learning about and seeing first hand.

With that said I hope there is a position for me at KAIST and I look forward to studying in the Republic of Korea.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

apologies

apologies to nick bracks, steve bracks and gary morgan for whatever grief i have caused. the information of van's dismissal was inaccurate and was sourced from a casual conversation and was misunderstood by me and possibly misrepresented by van at the time.

i should not have posted unverified information into the public domain, and my supervisors are not a trustworthy source of information.

let me say again, that everything i have stated in the previous post was completely untrue according to roy morgan management, and this present time there is no other reliable source so thus i will presume that this is truth, as far as i know.

as a result, my employment has been put on hiatus, there will be 24 hours before i am notified in regards to my future at roy morgan research.

i have explained myself to management and attempted to justify how and why i would genuinely believe such matters and had also genuinely believed that the matters were indeed fact due to my belief of the source's reliability, but as you should be aware by now, this was a mistake.

again, i would like to state that i do not want you to think negatively of gary morgan, steve bracks or nick bracks based on those events i described earlier as they are inaccurate and unreliable as far as i know at this present time.