{"id":18567,"date":"2018-11-07T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=18567"},"modified":"2022-08-22T17:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:45:46","slug":"its-a-wrap-hello-maker-korea-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/its-a-wrap-hello-maker-korea-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Wrap: Hello Maker Korea 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a super awesome experience to attend Hello Maker Korea<\/a> with Violet on October 26-28th in Busan. It\u2019s the first time for us LV Duo (Lily & Violet of Seeed<\/a> Community Team) to participate in a maker event as an exhibitor in Korea (enabling us to have plenty of time to mingle around instead of being busy as organizer of our very own Maker Faire Shenzhen<\/a>), and we were thrilled to meet so many local & international makers, see and experience their projects and make connections with so many local communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello Maker is a national maker event with the aim to build up a global network for makers and to introduce maker movement in Korea. Since the first Hello Maker event took place in Busan in November 2017, it spreads quickly to 7 other cities in Korea, and the one we\u2019ve been invited to is the national event organized by Fab Monster<\/a>, which is also the company behind Fab Lab Busan<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The organizing team was awesome. They helped us with the travel schedule (we got our Visa the day before we headed off to Busan, meaning all bookings in the last minute.) As the event was mainly in Korean, the team even arranged Chinese\/Japanese\/English translator volunteers for all global exhibitors, which is a great help for us who could not understand Korean. A huge THANK YOU to the organizers and all the volunteers who made our visit full of nice and memorable memories.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello Maker Korea 2018 took place in the Busan National Science Museum where is a local science education base, which also underscores the event\u2019s roots in education and learning. That also explains the great percentage of maker education exhibits participated in the event as schools, learning communities, teachers, and students. It was so touching to see the kids who couldn\u2019t speak English try so hard to explain how their projects worked when we visited their booths. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019ll never make a great recap without sharing the highlights or spotlights of the event. Hope you could enjoy them as much as we did in Busan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Maker Shuttle made by Fab Lab Busan is equipped with all tools and stem kits enough for 120 students!!! It is a moving Fab Lab in a small trunk, traveling around to empower whoever wants to make!!! Really love the idea!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also, there is another kind-of-similar-but-still-awesome project Making Cargo made by another maker space exhibiting just nearby, with even more making tools and swags equipped in a cargo. They also had a workshop in front of the cargo to invite kids and parents to get involved in making. According to the maker behind the this Making Cargo program, they had put over 20 cargos in different schools and campus.<\/p>\n

There\u2019re plenty of workshops that led kids to innovate with cardboard, paper, straws, and other regular materials. Our #tinybutstrong Violet Su dressing up as a cardboard-made #Godzilla, but she failed in the battle.<\/span><\/p>\n