As soon as the morning session ended, I headed to Jongno. At the Youngpoong Building near Jonggak Station, I gave a special lecture on 'B2B Branding and Digital Marketing' to marketing staff at Hitachi Korea. I opened with a story about asking my family what they knew about the 'HITACHI' brand. My 12-year-old son said, "Oh! I know that, Dad. The Daegu Line 2 monorail was built by Hitachi." I asked, "Isn't that a Siemens one from Germany?" He replied, "No, Hitachi built that monorail. I looked it up." Starting with a story about my train-enthusiast son caught everyone by surprise.
The B2B market is driven mainly by quantifiable value: ‘lifespan, performance, efficiency, reliability.’ So it is not simply a matter of a great logo or slogan. Everything starts with ‘Which industry, which application, which company, which department, and which person are we offering specific value to?’ Building emotional resonance in a rational market is seriously hard work. That was today’s lesson.



5 Nov 2025
[ Instructor: John Kim ]