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I learned about the work life in Korea. Santiago and I went to Seoul to meet up with Kwangwoo, who is a former West Intern at the DASL lab. He had now started working and was able to open our eyes to the work culture in Korea. We learned about how he has to conform to anything that the company tells him, and that he is busy everyday with learning the specifics of his job. Luckily he is working for a Foreign company that has a branch in Korea. Thus he doesn't have to deal with the harsher side of Korean work culture. I was also able to talk to one of my dad's friends who live in Seoul. We talked about his research and his experiences as a researcher in Korea compared to America. We also talked about the type of students that he's seen and the differences between those who are in it for the money and those who enjoy research.

Earlier this week Hyunhee from DASL lab came to the KAIST lab. He will be joining Sanitago and I for a couple of weeks at the HUBO lab. We have started working together on getting tutorials for future IRES students. This is to show that our time in Korea was fruitful and to help future IRES students start at a higher point and help them make the most of their time at the HUBO lab next summer. I have been tasked with creating installation tutorials for the various software needed to work with HUBO on a computer. I have talked to the other students at the lab and have gotten their manuals, however I will need to translate them from Korean to English for our purposes. I have found been translating the manual and testing the instructions out myself on my laptop. I hope to be able to work on all of the following tutorials from my laptop so that I am not reliant on a computer that isn't mine. We plan to send Youngbum weekly reports on our progress so that he can give up feedback on how well or bad our work is and how to fix it.

This is a photo that Kwangoo, Santiago and I took together in Seoul. It was great to meet Kwangwoo again, and we had a lot of fun catching up with each other.

I learned that I simply hate humidity. It was over 50% humidity the whole time we were there and it was hard to convince myself to go outside the hotel. Living in Las Vegas has effected my resistance to humidity.

This week I met Dr. Jayhoon Lee, my father's friend. He is a professes in prosthodontics and was working on genetics in dentistry. Talking to him was very interesting and he was able to shine light on what it meant to be a professor and why he enjoys it.