What I'm doing Here?

My job is Korean Media executive in Manchester City Football Club. 

When people got told about my job, they automatically asked 

"So, do they have any plans to buy Korean player or currently have?"

I already got used to replying 

"Nope, but this club is aiming big, and launched 11 languages including Korean."

First step of this job was translating all articles into Korean with local media.

MCFC has good quality in their own sites, so we do same thing as daily basis.

http://xn--2e0b17htvgtvj9haj53ccob62ni8d.xn--3e0b707e/News/What-the-papers-say/2014/February/What-the-media-says-about-MCFC-14-Feb

This article is combined with local contents mentioning historical part of Korea. It was not demanding to do, but it made big hit in Korea.

Before that, I also did New-year-greetings for Korean fans, according to 'Lunar' New year.

Here in UK, people uses 'Chinese' New year, so the hardest thing was to use 'Lunar New year' instead.

http://xn--2e0b17htvgtvj9haj53ccob62ni8d.xn--3e0b707e/citytv/Features/2014/January/Korea-New-year-greetings

http://xn--2e0b17htvgtvj9haj53ccob62ni8d.xn--3e0b707e/citytv/Features/2014/February/BTS-New-Year

(I was in the 2nd video ACCIDENTLY!)

I'm from small country, which has around 50k people, and only that people uses same language. In this company there's many languages used in continent, like Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese. 

Whilst working in here, I sometimes got frustrated since my country is small, thus number I could make was small as well. 

As half of the season passed, I found it got more opportunities from those reason.

1. One country

Obviously Korean has been used by one country (*N/S is originally one country, and unfortunately I don't think N.Korean people could have access to MCFC Korean amongst struggling from dictatorship) , so I don't need to consider politics within countries sharing same language.

For example, I've done SNS post about Independence day "There's no future for nation who forget their own history" or 1st of March "MCFC still remembers movement in 1919" which made big huge impact on Korea. (It covered main page of news)

2. Development of IT

If I need to choose one good point or strength of Korea, I do choose developement of IT. 
Majority of people uses smart phone (For god's sake SAMSUNG and LG!), so I have more channel to get in touch with them. 

For example Korean account on Twitter has 2,500 followers, however aspect of reaction from Korea is really dynamic like RT/ reply, speed of spreading contents.

I could do experiment on user behavior's on SNS and blog-sphere. Such as changing of condition including releasing time, length of contents, tone of voice on SNS, multi-media usage, and how to exploit 14o bites. 

Another good point is I got learned how to do multi tasking during working on various channel, and own web channel.

Fortunately I could have chance to have guest from Korea, watching match together in pressbox, doing video whilst having stadium tour, interviewing them.


http://xn--2e0b17htvgtvj9haj53ccob62ni8d.xn--3e0b707e/citytv/Interviews/2014/March/KR-Interview-Joosuc-at-MCFC

http://xn--2e0b17htvgtvj9haj53ccob62ni8d.xn--3e0b707e/citytv/Interviews/2014/March/KR-Interview-TRKim-at-MCFC

http://xn--2e0b17htvgtvj9haj53ccob62ni8d.xn--3e0b707e/citytv/Features/2014/March/KR-Behind-the-Scene

I could say I like my job, and I've learned from my job and still learning status. I never get used to tough schedule in English Premier, recently makes me bit tired. 

But as many footballer says (very cliché ) "Nothing is impossible in football", and SO DO I.

I am not sure what I will achieve in the very last day of my job, however, I do believe
the dot I made and still making in here will be connected in future. And that thread I've made in UK will connect to somewhere I cannot imagine in this time.