Social Innovation Internship with Peachmarket (Winter 2018)

About Social Innovation Internship

Yonsei Center for Social Innovation provides diverse programs including social innovation related career opportunities. Students interested in social innovation and career development are strongly encouraged to apply.

About Peachmarket

Peachmarket is a Non Profit Organization based in Seoul that “translates” Korean texts to simpler Korean to make it understandable to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities(IDD).

With a slower learning curve than most people, people with IDD struggle in a society where the most critical rights such as voting require them to understand complex texts.

Peachmarket vows to fight the virtual illiteracy of people with IDD in the name of equality of all before information by translating existing critical textual materials into simple Korean.

It was in that spirit that during the 2017 Korean Presidential Elections, Peachmarket translated the pledge of each candidate to enable People with IDD to vote responsibly.  Currently,  Peachmarket continues translating and creating new literary contents in simple Korean, such as short stories, novels, and motivational books. November 2017, Peachmarket launched a simple Korean news website, NEWSCONTAC. NEWSCONTAC retranscribes complex news into simple Korean, and help people with IDD to understand what is happening in the world around them.

Simple Korean material has the potential of appealing to beginner level Korean-learners, and Peachmarket aims to create simple Korean contents for those people as well.

Homepage : http://www.peachmarket.kr

E-mail : peachmarket@peachmarket.kr              

Eligibility

The program is open to all students in Techno-Art Division and Integrated Social Sciences Division. However, students have to satisfy the following conditions to be eligible to apply:

1. Being a TAD/ISSD Major or Double Majoring in one of these Majors

        CAUTION: Only Students who already have declared their Major on Yonsei Portal are recognized as such.

                          Taking classes in a Major or planning to take a Major does not count.  

   2. Having completed at least 2 semesters before applying for the internship

   3. Having taken classes during 17-2 Semester(not on leave)

   4. 17-2 semester not being their final semester

   5.  In the Social Innovator Certificate Program

(Register to the Social Innovator Certificate Program now at:

https://uic.yonsei.ac.kr/ycsi/connect.asp?act=view&mid=n05%5F01&cmid=n05%5F01&bid=4&sOpt=&pact=&hSel=&hYear=&page=2&keyword=&uid=&idx=91&ddx=0&sdx=0)

   6. Scholarship Recipients must declare how much scholarship they received during 17-2 Semester(Refer to the Payment Section below)

Payment

YCSI will pay the interns instead of Peachmarket, payment being in the form of Scholarship transferred to the student’s account on Yonsei Portal at the end of the internship.

CAUTION

Laws prohibit the payment of scholarship that exceeds the recipient’s college tuition fees. It is critical that you mention whether you receive or not any scholarship in your resume, whatever its type, amount, and source.

Yonsei University, UIC, and YCSI will take no responsibility should the candidate provide false or incomplete information that would put himself/herself in a situation in which scholarship cannot be granted. It is the candidate’s responsibility to check one’s own eligibility and notify any inconsistencies to YCSI.

Job Description: Marketing Intern

Position Available: No restriction

Period of Work: Winter 2018 (Jan 2 – Feb 28)                           

- 8 hours per day, 5 days per week

- Flexible Working Hours

Location: Peachmarket 401, 517, Dosan-daero, Gangnam District, Seoul

Job Nature:

- Development of an international marketing Strategy.

- Registration of NEWSCONTAC to overseas portal sites(Mainly Southeast Asian countries)

- Operate NEWSCONTAC social media for foreigners

- Research international/foreign news and translate it to simple Korean(not required)

Your main point of contact will be NEWSCONTAC Team members and will receive most of your assignments from the team. You will be tasked with optimizing our news articles by testing and improving them. You will be the bridge between NEWSCONTAC and potential readers abroad. In the end, your goal is extending NEWSCONTAC abroad. This requires you to be a junior supervisor who can make our simple Korean contents be easily read by foreigners.

This internship will challenge you and help you grow professionally and personally. It will not be an easy, “bring us coffee” kind of internship. Your work will be of immediate use to help Korean news be read all over the world. You will be expected to learn fast, show initiative, and bring forth ideas. Show us what you can do because you’re now part of NEWSCONTAC team that will change the lives of people with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities people and learners worldwide.

Desired Skills and Profile:

- Interest in propagating literacy for all

- Understanding of Search Engine Optimization(techniques that help one’s website rank high in search results)

- Great communication and teamwork 

- Eye for detail and creativity

- Taking initiatives

Post-Internship Requirements

Interns will be required to submit at the end of their internship:

-          A short Internship Report Form

-          “Internship Results”, a free format production that best describes the Intern’s experience and/or achievement

Application

Please send these to ycsi_pr@yonsei.ac.kr by December 27, 24:00

 1) Resume (Include information on any scholarship you will receive this semester, type and percentage of coverage)

 2) Letter of motivation

• Results will be individually notified by December 29
• Peachmarket may conduct interviews

Contact

For more information, please contact Yonsei Center for Social Innovation, at
ycsi_pr@yonsei.ac.kr (032-749-3100).

About Social Impact Initiative for Global Creative Talent

Funded by University for Creative Korea, the Social Impact Initiative for Global Creative Talent
(SIIGCT) aims at fostering social innovators by providing diverse curricular and extracurricular
programs within the Underwood International College Techno-Art Division and
Integrated Social Sciences Division.