Day Three: Orientation at Suwon

We were asked to come to the central gate of the Samsung electronics at 8:00Am. Me, a lazy bird, and Rohit got woke up late. Got ready and rushed towards office. On the way hired a taxi and tried to go to office. The central gate in Korean is called ‘Chaung Moon’ and only chau knows it, as it is almost same in Chinese language. The diver took around and left us there at central gate. We made a call to Cris from the central gate, he came after few minutes and received us. He guided us to Samsung Digital Complex Gallery.

At the entrance of the gallery a wonderful lady welcomed us with a group snap. We asked here what she will do with that, she just flashed a wonderful smile. She took us around the gallery and shown us event and achievement by Samsung year wise. At the end we enjoyed the movie clip on 80in HDTV with a superb sound system. When we reached the main entrance to the gallery the beautiful girl / Lady (don’t know) came with a bag consists of Samsung annual report and a DVD with our group picture graphically framed. This was the most valuable and wonderful thing we had in our internship.

At 11:30Am we moved to catch Cris at Digital Media building, which is near to Gallery. We called Cris, he came down stairs and took us to Digital Media Gallery. This was lunch time and we walked down to a cafeteria, were we had our food and then moved out. In the next phase we were about to visit Samsung’s Semiconductor Division.

Moved to Semiconductor Division and an HR person received us there. He was the same who guided us in Seoul palace and tower, wonderful man.

A presentation by a foreigner (US citizen) and then we were guided to Samsung Semiconductor’s Gallery. It is really a wonderful gallery. A must see for an Electronics Engineer. We were displayed to the whole backend electronic technology, right from clean room, wafer carriers to the final chip and its products. At the end of the exhibition, a prototype of the campus is displayed. After this we were taken to the production line and it really looked like a tough job there were doing inside the production line.

The HR left us there for going back to our home.

Within 20 minutes we were there at the Samsung’s central gate. It was just 4:20Pm and the next bus to our home was only at 5:20Pm. Instead of paying for taxi we decided to wait for company’s bus. After sitting for 15 minutes Shau (a girl intern from china) suggested us to go to home by taxi instead of wasting time there. We accepted it and moved out to hire a taxi. There were two taxies waiting for customers. The first taxi in the queue had a luxury look so decided not board in to that. But the second taxi driver refused to come until the first is standing there. We decided to go in the first taxi, and thought better we confirm the price first. Asked him the price but he was not able to tell that, rather shown one using his fingers. At the instance we could not understand anything but after few minutes other Chinese intern told that he ids afraid that the taxi driver may ask 10,000 Won. This happen after reaching the apartment the driver simply asked for 10,000 Won. We have to pay it.

At the end of the day, it turned out to be an expensive day for all of us. We learned ‘Never ever try to travel in taxies that look expensive’.