I went to the KIEEME (Korean Institute of Electrical, Electronic, and Materials Engineers) Conference and Muju, South Korea. The conference took place at a ski resort and I know you are all dying to know how Korean conferences are like compared to American conferences. I am happy to report that they are just as boring and long, with the added non-excitement of not being able to read any posters or understand any presentations since most everything was in Korean. The only minor difference was that at the beginning of the conference, they had every person who was presenting a poster give a short presentation about what their poster was about, 1 minute long and usually less than that. While that may seems short, if you ever attended a conference there are a lot of posters during each day. It was interesting I guess and it gives a little more incentive/responsibility to poster people rather than just standing by their poster and hoping that someone cares. The only part I enjoyed was reading some posters with English on them:
Past that, we chilled and played some poker while watching Spain lose to the Swedes. Then we went to a national park and rode some bikes around. Their bikes are really small, kinda like trying to ride a kid’s bike with dual shocks. Not only is the crank arm damn small so you feel like you’re riding a trike, the dual shocks absorb some energy you put into peddling. Needless to say, the hills did not treat me well. We also wading in a crik for a little and splashed each other, though I wasn’t expecting the splashing part so I didn’t take off my shirt.
It was tittly nipply, then ridiculously humid for the rest of the day. Good times, good times.
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