Tae-Young Kang
MA work
MA work
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Current Samsung CSR, Samsung Smart Class, Jaffarpur Kalan, New Delhi, India
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Current Samsung CSR, Interview, Gurbreet Singl, A teacher of Samsung Smart Class, Jaffarpur Kalan, New Delhi, India
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Samsung CSR, Interview, Monika Thakur, A student of Samsung Smart Class, Jaffarpur Kalan, New Delhi, India
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Local NGO, Observation, Mrs Muadi, a solar engineering trainee from Congo at the Barefoot College, Tiloniya, India ...Continue
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Local NGO, Interview, Bunker Roy, the founder of the Barefoot College, Tiloniya, India ...Continue
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Local NGO, Interview, Caron Rawnsley, a volunteer at the Barefoot College, Tiloniya, India ...Continue
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Meeting with the vice president and senior manager of Corporate Relationship in Samsung India, Gurugaon, India
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Design research and innovation firm, Interview, Ayush Chauhan, Co-Founder, Quick Sand, New Delhi, India ...Continue
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University, co-creation with professors and students from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi and designers from Samsung Design Delhi, Briefing, New Delhi, India
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University, co-creation with professors and students from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi and designers from Samsung Design Delhi, Group Activity, New Delhi, India
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Social entrepreneur & research fellow at Yale University, Priyanka Kanwar, Interview & co-creation, New Delhi, India
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Organize insights, rebuild service structure, Dana Centre, London
EMPACT : ENGAGE, EMPATHIZE, EMPOWER COMMUNITIES
EMPACT is Samsung Electronics' Corporate Social Responsibility initiative that is based on empowering disadvantaged communities.Â
The project was conceived in reaction to the lack of public awareness and distrust around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The majority of customers, including those of the electronics market, remain indifferent to any CSR initiatives because many companies have widely exaggerated their contributions to the society in their marketing campaigns. As a result, positive awareness continues to dwindle and trust is lost.
Due to this vicious cycle, many companies find themselves in a state of anxiety over excessive increase in costs for the upkeep of such initiatives and the public distrust that continues to dampen their efforts. To address the need to change current situation, our project is defined as follows:
'How might we facilitate Samsung Electronics’ desire to create meaningful and long lived social impacts, as well as strengthening their long-term competitiveness?'
EMPACT facilitates the talented employees of Samsung Electronics and the public to team up with the impoverished people in the remote villages to co-create solutions which would enable the locals to become self-sustaining.Â
The goal is to enable Samsung Electronics to provide meaningful and sustainable social impacts as a contribution to creating a better global society, as well as strengthen their long-term competitiveness.
The theme of this project originated from my dissertation ‘'The Green Storm Strategy', a study on ways to build a competitive advantage strategy for CSR, and also my colleague Matt Myong-Hwan Han's 'Contagion effect on social networks', a study of how to improve the efficiency of fundraising utilising on-offline social network.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Design
Programme
MA Service Design, 2014
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Contact
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+821 072939390
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I aim to become a service designer who is able to create solutions that would bring shared values across business, society and the environment.
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Degrees
- BA Visual Communication Design, Hongik University, South Korea, 2002
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Experience
- Service Designer, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea, 2010-14; UX Designer, Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea, 2007-10; GUI Designer, Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea, 2002-7
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Publications
- In Between, April Snow Press, 2013