December 16, 2015
Our Buzzvillian Story series features our outstanding team members on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team!
December 11, 2015
t’s already been two years since Buzzvil first launched HoneyScreen in the Japanese market. At Buzzvil whose overseas expansion policy is to have minimal local human resources, a small number of local members deal with almost the same set of jobs as in the headquarter only excluding product development. So rather than opening an independent office where Buzzvillians should take care of every maintenance and administrative work, Buzzvil, as a pragmatist startup, decided to settle down at local shared offices(co-working space) in Tokyo and Taipei.
November 5, 2015
When you think of an office, you would probably imagine an office with cubicles of different departments with assigned seats. To go against this idea, Buzzvil has been changing seats bi-monthly with the intent of invigorating the office ambience and understanding what other teams’ members do. At its early stage, Buzzvil used to seat together members from the same team as most of other companies do. But not long after did we realize that simply seating each team together did not necessarily lead to higher work efficiency and rather hindering deeper understanding about different roles, adopting this new random seating […]
October 8, 2015
Our Buzzvillian Story series features our outstanding team members on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team! Arata Yoshizawa, Business Manager, Japan From Gunma, Japan What’s your story? In 2002 when Korea and Japan were co-hosting the World Cup, I stayed in Busan as an exchange student. I hoped to learn about digital content, and at that time Korea was a leading country in the industry. So I asked a Korean professor in my university with whom I had had no acquaintances before […]
January 16, 2015
Our Buzzvillian Story series features our outstanding team members on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team! Joshua Ohsu Kwon, Head of Global Business FROM Seoul, Korea WHAT’S YOUR STORY? Originally, up until high school, I was a “sciences” student, but after taking the college admissions exam and contemplating my career path, I had the vague idea of wanting to get into business, so I requested to change programs and entered the school of business administration at Seoul National University. As I’m now […]
October 24, 2014
Every two weeks, we feature one of our outstanding Buzzvillians on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team! Zune Jueun Seo, Software Engineer & Co-founder FROM Geochang, Korea WHAT’S YOUR STORY? I’ve enjoyed games since I was young, so my goal was to study computer science. Around the time I graduated from my undergraduate program, I discovered the appeal of hardware, so I was studying soldering and chip design in graduate school while considering to pursue a path in hardware. Those were the […]
October 10, 2014
Every two weeks, we feature one of our outstanding Buzzvillians on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team! Anna Sungmi Yang, Operations & CS Manager FROM The town of taste and affection, Buan of Jeollabuk-do, Korea WHAT’S YOUR STORY? I majored in Korean literature in university and stayed for quite a while at my first full-time job. At Unitas BRAND, a company that produces marketing brand magazines, I worked in communications and education program planning for over 5 years. I then wanted to try […]
August 1, 2014
Every two weeks, we feature one of our outstanding Buzzvillians on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team! Patrick Bongchul Kim, Software Engineer FROM Beautiful Jeju Island, Korea WHAT’S YOUR STORY? My school years were exceedingly normal and uneventful, and just before I was about to enter graduate school like so many of my peers, I started to have doubts about the path I was taking. Did I truly want to choose the path that everyone else chose? In order to find the […]
June 19, 2014
Every two weeks, we feature one of our outstanding Buzzvillians on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team! Young Lee, CEO & Co-founder FROM Geochang, Korea WHAT’S YOUR STORY? Before I started my military service, my life was very normal. I lived a typical kind of life, and if you copied and pasted my life story, it was more or less the same as that of the friend next to me. However, after being discharged from the military, for the first time in my […]
June 5, 2014
Every two weeks, we feature one of our outstanding Buzzvillians on our blog. Get to know us, hear our stories, and find out how we came to be part of this dream team! John Gwanwoo Lee, CEO & Co-founder FROM Busan, Korea WHAT’S YOUR STORY? Ever since I was young, I was deeply interested in making new things, so my childhood hobby was to bring home thrown-away monitors and remote control cars to disassemble. In the fifth grade of elementary school, I received a presidential award for my idea of a door lock device, and with the scholarship I […]