Korean German Chamber of Commerce & Industry

We welcomed Dr. Roland WEIN, Director

The KGCCI (Korean-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry) began operations in Seoul in 1981. It is a nonprofit chamber for the German enterprises in Korea.
It promotes economic relations between the federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Korea and gives information and introduction to business connection, and supports general services and complete range of further services.
It has more than 350 member-companies covering all types of businesses and all fields of industry and is a well recognized service provider for the Korean and German business community in Korea and abroad.
In addition the KGCCI has various services, events and publications such as German world, German wine and Korum.

Dr. Roland Wein had visited our class 26. April. 2006. He came from Germany and works in KGCCI as the general of the marketing and economic department. He gave so humorous answers that everyone burst out laughing. Furthermore he emphasized that we should have many experience (just like Internship) and our own ideas from studying.

French Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry

We welcome Mrs. Thérèse CAZENTRE, Recruitement Manager

The FKCCI is a nonprofit chamber for the French enterprises in Korea. Concretely, it gives information and introduction to business connection, and supports general services and complete range of further services. The chamber has many kind of useful members and they support the chamber and receive good services. In addition the FKCCI often has various event. In this year is an anniversary about 120years of Korea & France establish diplomatic relations, so there are many plans to celebrate.

Mrs. Therese CAZENTRE had visited our class to explain of the FKCCI. She is from France and have lived in Korea for 5 years. Now she works in FKCCI as the chief of the personal department. She gives account of us very easily. And she has lots of wits and career. Through her advice and encouragement we could have self - confidence and look back upon the past.
Surely, her presentation meeting offers to us an incentive.

The FKCCI received 2005 about 500 resumes for job-application, from which 30% could be matched.
40% were Koreans
15% were French
30% came from France
15% were about internships

Advices from Mrs. CAZENTRE:
Don't concentrate too much on language-tests like TOEFL a.o.. Foreign companies will not ask for this test-results. They will test your real communications-skills!


From Chosun Ilbo, 20.4.2006

LG Electronics vice chairman Kim Ssang-soo was quoted as telling a FKI meeting that 70-80 percent of his job as a CEO was meeting foreigners, "and I regret that English isn't taught at an early age.” Kim pointed out that foreigners perforce account for some 70 percent of business conducted by big domestic companies, but lack of English proficiency among their staff means they miss out on continuing and additional business opportunities. The Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which remains the required test in most Korean companies when they hire staff, it is mostly written and multiple choice and DOES NOT HELP STAFF IMPROVE THEIR COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS.

Schindler Elevators

We welcome Dr. Walter Jury, Managing Director

Schindler Group is the largest supplier of escalators and the second largest manufacturer of elevators worldwide.
Schindler Lifts Ltd. was founded by Mr. Robert Schindler in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1874. In the past 130 years Schindler has concentrated in elevator and escalator/movingwalk business.
In 2003, The establishment of Schindler joint venture in South Korea
Schindler operation revenue is now exceeding 7.7 billion Swiss Francs(approx. US$ 5.44 billion) and Schindler offers jobs to around 40'000 employees and has operations spanning all 5 continents 47 nations
Schindler designs, installs, services and modernizes transport systems for almost every building type worldwide.
Schindler Elevator always thinks the safety and profit of customers and works hard to provide the best quality of products and services. Schindler Elevator also acquired ISO 9001 (the certificate of approval for quality system) and ISO 14001(the certificate of approval for environment system). Schindler Elevator continually will endeavour to provide the highest satisfaction to our customers.
Today with a global market share of more than 17%, Schindler becomes the world's number 1 in the escalator business. Globally, Schindler equipment moves more than 700 million people per day

We were so glad to meet Dr. Walter Jury, he is a Managing Director of Schindler in Korea. When we first met him, we surprise that he isn't old as we thought. He seemed to be young, warm-hearted, intelligent. He wanted to give us some advice for seeking a job to the foreign company.
We had a long talk with him. Dr. Walter Jury gave us many interesting information. When we had dinner with Dr. Walter Jury and the professors, he talked about education of Korea, 2006 World cup, his home. Dr. Walter Jury cheered us up about our job and the future.
This was an incredible experience.

Advices for job-application from Dr. Walter Jury:

Come well prepared
Know the company
Know your counterpart
Know the market
Listen well, understand the questions, and answer the questions asked
Apply to companies that interest you – don’t wait for ads
Be persistent and follow up
Look your best and make sure you still do when you get there