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As you noticed, we always like to customize things around our working environment. And yes, we made our own LAN Cables! We actually had fun while working on our 2nd DIY Project. (At least I did.)

Before I begin this post... I must confess that I owe a big apology to my team members. I almost lost all of these photos! Thanks to Jay’s big help, we could recover deleted image files.

Thank you very much for your help again, and I promise it won’t happen again! T^T



























Our DIY Project 02 turned out to be very successful.
We'll be back with more DIY Projects! :)

If you are an iMac user, you‘ve probably seen these smudges inside the screen. These spots bothered us so much, and we finally decided to clean them up with our own hands!

Well, if you are struggling with similar problems, feel free to ask us any questions. (hopefully we have the answers...)






































It wasn't easy, but it wasn't too hard!
If we did it, you can do it, too. (maybe not... :p)

We supported a very exciting event, the 33th Education Exhibition at COEX with Yuhak Net in September. Yuhak Net is an overseas educational institute, and we built a quest trip especially for them in PlaceTab! We created 6 POIs for their booths, and each booth had a special quest. We also offered PlaceTab QR codes (both iPhone and Android) for the participants. All they needed to do was to scan the code with their smart phones, download PlaceTab application, and play quests on PlaceTab!

Once the users completed all of the special quests, they could win a badge. All they needed to do was to show that badge to the event organizers with a ‘big’ pride! Lots of prizes were waiting for you, and PlaceTab Quest Markers were one of them.:)

Well, this event is over, but we’ll be back with more events for sure!

















The event was pretty successful. We met a lot of passionate participants at the exhibition. We ran out of Quest Markers, and people were wondering if they could actually purchase them.

My answer is... yes, you can buy them soon, and thank you very much for loving our products! :)

It’s always nice to have some plants around the working space. Well, it’s not very easy to keep indoor plants alive (right!?). But the ones at our office seem quite healty and happy. Although it might be a little bit late, we’d like to thank our visitors who gave us beautiful plants as gifts. Thanks to your thoughtful gifts, our office is getting greener and greener!

We have lots of big windows which let enough lights in. I’m in charge of watering the plants, and sometimes I hear them ask for water. (So don't worry! They'll never get dried out.)


















Most pictures were taken during heavy rainy season. I’ll show you how our plants are doing during this fall very soon!

P.S.
I'm just letting you know that we always welcome more leaves! :)

We’ve been working on this project for a while, and here they are!
As you noticed, PlaceTab Quest Marker is a little hat that Tabi is wearing. Now, you can mark your ‘territory’ with them. We’ll also start selling them very soon!

Well, there are probably tons of ways to play with Quest Marker, and I’ll show you just a few today.
























And of course, this is not it!
We’ll come back with more interesting and fun ways to play with Quest Marker! :)

We participated 'Open Recruiting Day' event hosted by Venture@Square on July 16th!
It was held in SK Department of Business Administration in Seoul National University.
Unfortunately, it rained quite a lot from the morning. Nevertheless, a lot of enthusiastic young people came to this event for the chance of a lifetime! :)







You’ve probably noticed by now that we'd like to set up something very fun with everything we do.
Of course, this event couldn’t be an exception because it was our chance to meet PlaceTab users!

Few weeks before the event, we asked all the start-up companies (including us) to come up with interesting / funny / company-related questions, and we created special quests with those questions for all of us! The beauty of this project was that most of the start-ups were very glad to be a part of this event without any hesitation. Again! Big thanks to all of participating start-up companies! :)





If you've been wondering... This is how 'Open Recruiting Day' event worked out! :)

As PlaceTab users are visiting one of the start-up booths, they can choose a quest card of that particular company.The users can figure out the answers on the quest card by asking the team members, taking photos of specific activities that were asked to do, or reviewing the company catalogues. Once the users get the answer, they just need to type it on the quest cards and submit it. They will be asked to complete at least 5 quest card questions to earn the 'Open Recruiting Day' badge!

Now, all you need to do is go back to the booths that you've completed the quests from, and show your special badge with confidence! You’ll get the gifts from participating companies!








Before the event started, Jay and I walked around each participating booth to explain 'Open Recruiting Day' event. We also handed out display easels to each team, which would help the users with completing quests.









Well! We’ve all been waiting for the the most important part of the event...
Each start-up had a presentation session! Actually we were very worried about Jay before the presentation, because he almost lost his voice due to cold...But guess what happened! As he started his 15-minute speech, his voice went back to (close to) normal! It was quite amazing! :)








A lot of people came to our booth to ask questions and drop their resumes. 
All of our members thank those who visited our booth and completed our special quest of the day! We hope to talk to our users again!


Oh, wait... Why don't we see each other on PlaceTab!? :)

It was our great pleasure to meet our PlaceTab users during SuperStar M, Open IR last month!

As we promised, we're going to send PlaceTab Paper Cups to the SuperStar M badge winners from that day. Unfortunately, it was delayed because we had spent a lot of time on designing the gorgeous cup. We are very very sorry for making you wait... T^T

We have prepared one more present, PlaceTab Cup Coasters, as an apology to our special badge winners. So each person will get both cup and cup coster. We hope you are happy with our small presents!

Oh, are you not sure if you got the SuperStar M badge...?
You can find it out by checking your PlaceTab badge album! :)











 


If you just missed our SuperStar M event or want more cups... Don't worry, here's the good news. You can also get PlaceTab Paper Cups and Cup Coasters from our brand shop. It's coming very very soon! :)

Our team was nominated for 'SuperStar M, Open IR' hosted by MK and MBN, which is a very well-known business newspaper and their cable channel in Korea. We had a very busy week to get prepared for this event, and we KNEW this would be a great chance to promote PlaceTab to the people at the conference!

For this special event, I planned to design a T-shirt for all members. It was also something our team really wanted to do for a very long time!

The POI icon pattern with our main character Tabi is placed on the front of the T-shirt. As you noticed, it is just like the design on the default screen from PlaceTab. You also can see our service logo in the back, "play x step, placetab", which we made more playful!

We couldn’t wait until we show off our shirts at SuperStar M. :)


(As I expected, we got a lot of compliments on the shirt design from people. We also plan to make PlaceTab shirts in orange with white patterns!)







We also created one-day event for SuperStar M. If you completed 4 basic quests on PlaceTab at the Plaza Hotel, you could earn SuperStar M badge! In addition, we’ll send mug cups to those who earned SuperStar M badge that day!

Although you didn’t get a chance to earn this special badge and the cup, don’t get too sad yet. Keep your eyes on PlaceTab and play, because we’ll come up with more fun events for sure! :)





We displayed iPads and iPhones at the booth to demonstrate PlaceTab to the conference participants.

A lof of people were interested in PlaceTab, and they wanted to download to play it. Our members were very pleased to answer any questions from them. There was a huge banner right next to our booth which briefly explains the main concept of our service!








Some of the dream bakers were busy with baking Waffles.

Especially Min, our intern in design unit, was a big help with Waffles.
(Unfortunately, we didn’t get to take a lot of pictures of her. Her waffles were very tasty!)







The busiest person during the event was Jay without a doubt... He had a big presentation and QnA session at the conference room. He also demonstrated PlaceTab and answered a lot of questions to people before and after the event.






All the participating teams at SuperStar M had a chance to show their products to a very special guest, Saul Singer. Saul Singer is the columnist at the Jerusalem Post and a co-author of Start-Up Nation. His books were sold throughout the event. Jay had a short presentation of PlaceTab to him!






By the time SuperStar M was over, we were completely exhausted! However, we learned a lot while explaining our service, answering questions, and listening thoughts and opinions of the actual users. It was amazing to see how people reacted to PlaceTab face to face.

We did our very best to show sincerity to our users, and that was all we needed to do at SuperStar M!

Dream bakers, you rock! :)

Our members do their very best to create a fun atmosphere at work to boost our creativity. After we decided to move to Seoul, we planned to do something memorable. I think one of them was designing Waplestore ID badges!

I researched ID badges from various companies, and most of them looked like plain photo IDs. I thought we should come up with something much more interesting!

I wanted to reflect the concept of our service "PlaceTab" in the front view. Instead of taking photos of 'awkward' smiling faces, we decided to create badges of faces for all the members! As you know, we have badges at PlaceTab, which are unlocked by the users as they complete quests.





I did my very best to illustrate the characteristic of each member, and I hope it worked! Can you imagine how they would look only by these illustrations?







You can see a silhouette of a city in the lower bottom of the card in which Tabi's flag is hidden.

What about the names? All the members already have names in Enlgish at Waplestore. We also added fun nicknames that went well with the characteristic of each member. We came up with humorous and creative ones.





On the other hand, the design on the back is the same. As you noticed, the color red represents Waplestore's corporate identity. We wanted to include and remember a very important message from the founders! This will remind us of Three values of Waplestore, which are sincerity, openness, and pride.




Are you planning on a visit to Waplestore? We have ID badges for the visitors with Tabi and Poi's faces, and you are welcome to use them at anytime! :)




We never miss a chance to include our identity in everything we do, and company's ID badge couldn't be an exception! We love the word, 'customized'.

As an illustrator, I felt very pleased when members got happy with new ID badges. Every member at Waplestore will get one-of-a-kind badge from now on!

As it is mentioned in the previous post, we moved to Seoul last weekend.

We didn't want to ruin the bright atmosphere of the space. It is so bright that we don't need desk lamps anymore. So we ended up doing just a few interior works! :)




Now, I'd like to share some pictures of our new Dream Bakery interior.
First, we decided to add a glass wall to create a conference room. All the members liked how simple it was!









If you are wondering what the orange wall is for... I'll show you more about it later on in this post. :)

We also needed something to entertain us. Here are some photos of the mini racing cars and the track which were kindly donated by Jay. We enjoy racing during our break time. It's a lot fun!





The following pictures show how the Dream Bakery looks now.

Our visitors often get amazed by the way our office looks as they walk in, but we didn't do anything crazy. It is just very bright during the daytime, and we threw in some colorful pillows and a couch. You need just a little bit of creativity to set a bright tone in the space!










If you are still wondering what we were doing with the orange wall, here is the answer!













Probably our last mission! (crossing fingers...)
We had to assemble 3 sets of DIY locker, and again, it was a lot of work! T^T









All of our team members had done a lot of works for our new office. None of this would have been possible without their help!

Great job, Waplestore dream bakers! :)