KAPS News, Mar 2nd

Welcome to the March 2nd, 2010 edition of the KAPS Newsletter.

In this issue:
*The Entrepreneurship FAQs Panel: Why it matters now more than ever!
*March Kappy Hour
*KAPS Ski Trip!
*KAPS: Co-presenting for the Asian American Film Festival
*Wooden Fish Ensemble Event: Celebrating the Music of Hyo-shin Na

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The Entrepreneurship FAQs Panel: Why it matters now more than ever!

Whether you have a job or are looking for one, starting your own company should always be an option. You may have a completely novel idea or an existing one, but with a passionate belief that you can do it better. However, an idea by itself gets you no where... you are still at your old job or perhaps still looking for a new one. Come to The Entreprenurship FAQs and learn how turn that something into a new product, a new service -- a new Company!

Date: Wednesday, March 3rd
Time:
Reception: 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Panel: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Computer History Museum in the Noyce Room, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043
Ticket: $10 for General Public, Free for KAPS members
Refreshments will be served.

Event sponsored by Royse Law Firm

Panelist Bios:

Charles Mi
Before Opinmind, Charles spent several years working at the IBM Almaden Research Group focusing on information extraction, data modeling, and text analytics. Charles earned an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Paul Kim
Paul Kim is a passionate entrepreneur and founding CEO of Danal, Inc. who orchestrated the company’s $9.5 million Series-A fundraising in May 2007 in a rare transaction that married top-tier U.S. venture capital with a public, Asian company that pioneered the business of charging online transactions to the mobile phone bill. As chief executive, Paul strives to instill the company with his passion for success and vision for innovating the payment industry.

Prior to founding Danal in the U.S., Paul worked at Samsung’s corporate venture capital group where he performed technology business development and investments on behalf of Samsung in the digital media, telecom, semiconductor, and internet sectors. Before Samsung, Paul worked in various capacities as a management consultant, consulting to both Fortune 100 companies in the high-tech and energy sectors, as well as for technology startups in the U.S. and Asia focusing on online gaming, eCommerce, and the internet. He also worked directly at several U.S. technology startups in eCommerce, online payments, and VOIP. Paul received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth as an Edward Tuck Scholar. Prior to that, he earned dual B.A. degrees in Economics and Political Science with honors from the University of California at Los Angeles as an Alumni Scholar. Paul is a member of American Mensa.

Paul has a unique background: he was raised in three countries (South Korea, Philippines, and the U.S.), and his father was a prominent opposition leader who fought for South Korean democracy during the country’s military rule in the 1960’s. He enjoys traveling to exotic countries and experiencing different world cultures, and he is an avid sports enthusiast who has been involved with soccer & martial arts since childhood and was once runner-up in the Mr. Korea Bodybuilding Competition. Paul has deep humanitarian ambitions and has been involved with numerous volunteer activities, including spending time in schools & refugee camps in post-war Afghanistan. He lives by the motto, “I would rather live one day and change the world than 100 years anonymously."

Ken Ryu
Ken Ryu is CEO and Founder of GetQuik. GetQuik, www.getquik.com, is a leading online marketplace for restaurant ordering with over 500 participating restaurants. Prior to GetQuik, Ken served as Division Director for Robert Half Technology, a division of Robert Half International, a Fortune 1000 Staffing and Consulting Firm (NYSE: RHI). Ken earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Dan Yoo
Dan Yoo is currently the Director of Business Operations at LinkedIn where he helps support the monetization efforts of the company. He was previously SVP of Corporate Development and Finance at Rhythm NewMedia, the leader in ad supported mobile videos, which is backed by Morgenthaler and Lightspeed Ventures . Dan was also the CFO at Parature, an Inc. 5000 Software-as-a-Service company, which is backed by Accel Parters, Sierra Ventures and Valhalla Partners. Prior to Parature, Dan co-founded ReliaQuote, a leading Internet insurance brokerage firm, which was acquired by Fiserv Inc. in 2003. ReliaQuote was ranked as the #1 life insurance site on the web by Forbes and SmartMoney, and named "One of the Top 50 Financial Websites" by Money Magazine. Dan has also worked on numerous technology financings and acquisitions as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch's Technology Investment Banking Group and with Epoch Partners, a technology focused investment bank that was acquired by Goldman Sachs. Dan also recently opened a Korean restaurant in San Francisco called Stone Korean Kitchen.

Dan earned his M.B.A. at The Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, and graduated with a Business Administration degree from Georgetown University.

March Kappy Hour

It's Kappy time and you know what that means; we're bringing you another awesome Kappy Hour at another awesome location! Join us at John Colins in San Francisco (138 Minna St.) on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7pm. John Colins has moved from its previous 90 Natoma St. location, so come check out the new digs. Kappy Hours are always a great place to meet new people and catch up with old friends.

We also have our 2010 KAPS t-shirts available. So sign up or renew your membership to get the new shirt.

See you there!

Date: Thursday, March 4th from 7pm-10pm

Location:
John Colins
138 Minna St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.johncolins.com/

KAPS Ski Trip!

Come hit the slopes with KAPS!

KAPS is having another EPIC ski trip that you don’t want to miss out on! We will be staying in a luxurious cabin complete with washer/dryer, high-speed access internet, 3 TVs, and a Nintendo Wii located close to the gorgeous Kirkwood ski resort. The stay is going to be 3-days and 2-nights, on March 19th - 21st. Pricing is now set at $80 for members and $90 for nonmembers (not including lift tickets and gas reimbursement). Based on number of sign-ups we may be able to get a group discount on lift tickets, so bring along some friends (even if they want to be lame and miss out on the awesome cabin, at least they can still be semi-cool and hang with us on the slopes)

Attention drivers! You get a sweet deal, if you plan on driving others up. But since we only need 4-6 drivers make sure you let us know asap if you want in on the driver discount. This is going to be legen…wait for it…DARY, so come join us in all the fun-filled glory only KAPS and Tahoe can bring to you!

When: March 19-21
Where: South Lake Tahoe, Kirkwood Ski Resort
Cost: $80 for members, $90 for non-members
Why: Because it'll be legendary
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=322800909016&ref=nf

For more information, please contact Jinuk at: jinuk@kaps.org

KAPS: Co-presenting for the Asian American Film Festival

Show your support for Asian-American films and filmmakers by attending the 28th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. KAPS will be sponsoring two films, so if you’d like to find out more about them click on the links below!

1. God Is D_ad:
http://filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org/tixSYS/2010/xslguide/ev...

2. The Housemaid:
http://filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org/tixSYS/2010/xslguide/ev...

*These are just two of the many films being showcased. The link at the bottom will direct you to their website where you can find out the schedule and also buy tickets for these and other films.

The 28th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), which showcases the best Asian and Asian American films from around the globe takes place March 11-21, 2010 in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Festival’s presenting organization the Center for Asian America Media (CAAM). SFIAAFF is the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, annually presenting approximately 120 works featuring thrilling films from the United States, Philippines, Japan, Thailand, China, and more.

SFIAAFF will again feature a dynamic and forward-looking selection of the best in new Asian and Asian American cinema. From comedic love stories to award-winning documentaries, the Festival’s program is the largest showcase of its kind in the world. At the heart of the
Festival are its two Competitions, for Asian American Narrative and Documentary Features, as well as diverse selections of films from around the world, both short and feature-length.

Film screenings, filmmaker tributes, and panel discussions take place at the Castro Theatre, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, Clay Theatre, and VIZ Cinema in San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, and the Camera 12 Cinemas in San Jose.

For more information or tickets please visit
http://festival.asianamericanmedia.org/2010

For those of you interested in volunteering for this event please visit
http://festival.asianamericanmedia.org/2009/festival/volunteer/

Wooden Fish Ensemble Event: Celebrating the Music of Hyo-shin Na

Shoko Hikage, koto; Noriko Tsuboi, koto; Kanoko Nishi, koto; Thomas Schultz, piano; Peter Josheff, clarinet; Terrie Baune, violin; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Daniel Reiter, 'cello

Koto Ninano, Koto Music, Night Procession of the Hundred Demons, Ocean/Shore 2 and Walking, Walking by Hyo-shin Na

The Wooden Fish Ensemble celebrates the music of Hyo-shin Na with performances of a selection of her works for mixed instruments. After studying piano and composition in her native Korea, Hyo-shin Na came to the US in 1983 to do graduate work at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Colorado, where she received her doctorate. After moving to San Francisco in 1988, she met Cage, Rzewski, Wolff and Takahashi, and encountered the music of Nancarrow. At the same time, she made return trips to Korea to hear and study traditional Korean music while also taking a broad interest in the music of other regions of Asia. Her writing for combinations of western and eastern instruments is unusual in its refusal to compromise the integrity of differing sounds and ideas; she prefers to let them interact, coexist and conflict in the music.

March 7, 2010 @ Old First Concerts
1751 Sacramento Street @ Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.474.1608
4PM
$14-17
http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/tickets
http://hyo-shinna.com

Wooden Fish: the large wooden fish-shaped percussion instrument hanging in Buddhist temples in Korea, struck to announce meal times and to encourage temple residents and visitors to be always awake and mindful, following the example of the open-eyed fish.

Projects of the Wooden Fish Ensemble:
2003 - 65th birthday concerts for Yuji Takahashi; music for koto, shamisen, shakuhachi and piano
2005 - anti-war music for Korean instruments and dancer; Japanese and Korean folk songs
2006 - visiting Korean traditional musicians JeongGaAkHoe; a 60-minute-long piece from 15th century Korea and Hyo-shin Na's All the Noises in the World
2008 - concerts with Korean piri virtuoso Chi-wan Park; court and folk music of Korea, Hyo-shin Na's PIA and Frederic Rzewski's Coming Together

Hyo-shin Na's Biography:
After studying piano and composition in her native Korea, Hyo-shin Na came to the U.S. in 1983 to do graduate work at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Colorado, where she received her doctorate. After moving to San Francisco in 1988, she met Cage, Rzewski, Wolff and Takahashi, and encountered the music of Nancarrow. At the same time, she made return trips to Korea to hear and study traditional Korean music while also taking a broad interest in the music of other regions of Asia.

Hyo-shin Na has written for western instruments, for traditional Korean instruments and has written music that combines western and Asian (Korean and Japanese) instruments and ways of playing. Her music for traditional Korean instruments is recognized by both composers and performers in Korea (particularly by the younger generation) as being uniquely innovative. Her writing for combinations of western and eastern instruments is unusual in its refusal to compromise the integrity of differing sounds and ideas; she prefers to let them interact, coexist and conflict in the music.

In Korea, she has twice been awarded the Korean National Composers Prize, and in the west she has been commissioned by the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations among many others. Her music has been played worldwide by ensembles as varied as the Barton Workshop, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Kronos Quartet, and the Korean Traditional Orchestra of the National Theatre. Portrait concerts, consisting solely of her music, have been presented in Amsterdam by the Barton Workshop (2006), in Seoul by JeonGaAkHoe (2009) and Buam Arts (2009), and at Texas A&M University (2007).

She is the author of the bilingual book Conversations with Kayageum Master Byung-ki Hwang (Pulbit Press, 2001) and the translator into Korean of Christian Wolff's article Experiments in Music around 1950 and Some Consequences and Causes Social-political and Musical (Soomoon-dang Press, 2011). Her music has been recorded on the Fontec (Japan), Top Arts (Korea),Seoul (Korea) and New World Records (US) labels and has been published in Korea and Australia. Since 2006 her music has been published exclusively by Lantro Music (Belgium).

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