C. Illies & Co.

On April 22nd Mr. Steffen Trabert, who came from Germany, visited our class. He gave us a speech about Korea Illies Engineering Co. company. He is CEO of Korea Illies Engineering company right now. (He said to us that he became CEO in 2014.)

First, Steffen Trabert explained relationship between Korea and Germany. He said that Korea industry has keep in fairly intimate touch with Germany industry and so does Germany industry. They have interacted, cooperated with each other for a long time. He showed us a distribution-chart, which is indicated clearly that machine is one of the important factors in mutual relation. Furthermore, he mentioned about difference between Korea and Germany, like working attitude. It was quite interesting point to us.

Next, He introduced his country, Germany, and then introduced Illies Engineering company. Illies Engineering company is a world-wide Germany machinery company, that produce Textile, pressure die, vacuum and so on. Illies Engineering company has 150 years history. Also, Illies has many branches (including Hamburg, Germany) all over the world like China, India, Vietnam etc, in many Asia. Although Illies is middle company, he emphasized the importance of middle company in industrial society. Because they are acting as a mediator between machine-producer (in Europe) and customer (in Korea and other Asian countries), and mediator's act is significant. That's why we can call Illies "Hidden Champion". We could realize the importance of middle company when he said that part.

After that, Mr. Steffen Trabert talked about himself briefly. How could he get a CEO position, how was his working in Korea, China and India, how were differences between Korea, China and India's working environment, and so on.

Through his presentation, we could learn many things what we didn't know like machine. After his speech, we asked him many questions and he gave a friendly reply. We could also know useful information through Q & A time. In particular, information that Incheon National University (Our university) progress Illies Korea's internship program. It was attractive information to us. We thought we have to concern ourselves with small companies and we have to have a wider perspective on company.

We wanted to thank Steffen Trabert for his great speech. It was a valuable experience, we thought.

German Language and Literature, Leehyun Kim and Boram Yu.