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We participated ' Open Recruiting Day' event hosted by Venture@Square on July 16th!
It was held in SK Department of Business Administration in Seoul National University.
Unfortunately, it rained quite a lot from the morning. Nevertheless, a lot of enthusiastic young people came to this event for the chance of a lifetime! :)







You’ve probably noticed by now that we'd like to set up something very fun with everything we do.
Of course, this event couldn’t be an exception because it was our chance to meet PlaceTab users!

Few weeks before the event, we asked all the start-up companies (including us) to come up with interesting / funny / company-related questions, and we created special quests with those questions for all of us! The beauty of this project was that most of the start-ups were very glad to be a part of this event without any hesitation. Again! Big thanks to all of participating start-up companies! :)





If you've been wondering... This is how 'Open Recruiting Day' event worked out! :)

As PlaceTab users are visiting one of the start-up booths, they can choose a quest card of that particular company.The users can figure out the answers on the quest card by asking the team members, taking photos of specific activities that were asked to do, or reviewing the company catalogues. Once the users get the answer, they just need to type it on the quest cards and submit it. They will be asked to complete at least 5 quest card questions to earn the 'Open Recruiting Day' badge!

Now, all you need to do is go back to the booths that you've completed the quests from, and show your special badge with confidence! You’ll get the gifts from participating companies!







Before the event started, Jay and I walked around each participating booth to explain 'Open Recruiting Day' event. We also handed out display easels to each team, which would help the users with completing quests.








Well! We’ve all been waiting for the the most important part of the event...
Each start-up had a presentation session! Actually we were very worried about Jay before the presentation, because he almost lost his voice due to cold...But guess what happened! As he started his 15-minute speech, his voice went back to (close to) normal! It was quite amazing! :)








A lot of people came to our booth to ask questions and drop their resumes. 
All of our members thank those who visited our booth and completed our special quest of the day! We hope to talk to our users again!


Oh, wait... Why don't we see each other on PlaceTab!? :)

Our team was nominated for 'SuperStar M, Open IR' hosted by MK and MBN, which is a very well-known business newspaper and their cable channel in Korea. We had a very busy week to get prepared for this event, and we KNEW this would be a great chance to promote PlaceTab to the people at the conference!

For this special event, I planned to design a T-shirt for all members. It was also something our team really wanted to do for a very long time!

The POI icon pattern with our main character Tabi is placed on the front of the T-shirt. As you noticed, it is just like the design on the default screen from PlaceTab. You also can see our service logo in the back, "play x step, placetab", which we made more playful!

We couldn’t wait until we show off our shirts at SuperStar M. :)


(As I expected, we got a lot of compliments on the shirt design from people. We also plan to make PlaceTab shirts in orange with white patterns!)







We also created one-day event for SuperStar M. If you completed 4 basic quests on PlaceTab at the Plaza Hotel, you could earn SuperStar M badge! In addition, we’ll send mug cups to those who earned SuperStar M badge that day!

Although you didn’t get a chance to earn this special badge and the cup, don’t get too sad yet. Keep your eyes on PlaceTab and play, because we’ll come up with more fun events for sure! :)





We displayed iPads and iPhones at the booth to demonstrate PlaceTab to the conference participants.

A lof of people were interested in PlaceTab, and they wanted to download to play it. Our members were very pleased to answer any questions from them. There was a huge banner right next to our booth which briefly explains the main concept of our service!

Some of the dream bakers were busy with baking Waffles.

Especially Min, our intern in design unit, was a big help with Waffles.
(Unfortunately, we didn’t get to take a lot of pictures of her. Her waffles were very tasty!)

The busiest person during the event was Jay without a doubt... He had a big presentation and QnA session at the conference room. He also demonstrated PlaceTab and answered a lot of questions to people before and after the event.

All the participating teams at SuperStar M had a chance to show their products to a very special guest, Saul Singer. Saul Singer is the columnist at the Jerusalem Post and a co-author of Start-Up Nation. His books were sold throughout the event. Jay had a short presentation of PlaceTab to him!

Last December, we had participated in  Social Game Party, Korea.
It was very meaningful day for us, because we had introduced our main services to the world at the day.

Today was the first event day of the party in 2011, we had invited and participated the party again!

We announced the different viewpoints toward the game as the title, 'Gamification - dynamize the real world activities', and we had chances to talk about our services and visions to more people. :)

As mobile application market is being spotlighted in Korea, the largest telecom firm, KT(Korea Telecom), built an open ecosystem titled " Econovation Center" to support and promote mobile content developers.

Jay had invited to be one of the guest speakers at their first open conference, so Jay and I participated in the conference on Monday.




The conference held in KT Olleh Square at weekday afternoon, but almost two hundreds of audiences attended!

There were three key subjects of the conference, which were 'How to get a good idea', 'How to develop it as a storyboard' and 'How to balance planning and development'. Each subject was very helpful to developers, because they are usually not familiar with "the planning".






I become nervous whenever I have to share my experience and knowledge with others, but I think it also make me feel happy. I really appreciate the chances which makes me to be passionate in my field again! :)



(+) Jay told me he was a little bit nervous on the stage, because he have gained a little weight recently and his suit was too fit for him, however, I felt really great about good audience response after his lecture! :p