LG Innotek CEO shares career insights with KAIST students

LG Innotek CEO Moon Hyuk-soo shared his career journey from starting as an engineer to becoming CEO to students at his alma mater, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), the auto parts company said Sunday. Moon gave a lecture at KAIST’s Daejeon campus on Friday, discussing his experiences and ideas on career transitioning with more than 200 master’s students in attendance. Moon earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at KAIST and joined LG Cable — now LS Cable — in 1998, before moving to LG Innotek in 2009. At LG Innotek, he led the optical solutions business as a camera module expert. In 2023, he was appointed chief strategy officer and later that year became CEO. “You may think making good products is the ultimate goal for an engineer, but I believed it means little if you can’t sell them properly to customers,” Moon said. “I found it fascinating to meet customers in person, understand their needs and create added value for our products. My experience as an engineer helped me quickly grasp what customers wanted as a business leadWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times