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Korea and Japan visit – Recap, Thank You and Impressions!

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Travel 0

A week ago, Roy and I returned from a 1+ week trip to Korea and Japan. It was wonderful but of course strenuous (as always). As today is a public holiday in many European countries including Germany I’d like to take the chance and write a non-technical short article about our Korea and Japan visit – Recap and Thank You!

Korea and Japan visit – Recap and Thank You!

I love both countries. Not only the countries, the food and the things to see, but of course the people. It’s such a pleasure to work with colleagues and customers in …

Some Seoul Impressions – 09/2015

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Travel 0

A very intense week in Seoul, Korea, is over – and Roy and I both returned a bit sick 😉 The pleasures of traveling …

But thanks to all our colleagues who did all the orga work, to everybody who traveled from near and far to our 2 day internal workshop (and I still remember many names 🙂 – it was great fun to spend those two days with all of you) – and of course the the customers and partners we’ve had the pleasure either to visit or come to our workshop. Upgrade is in your hands …

Beijing, Seoul – and OTN Tour Tokyo – just in one week

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Travel Workshop 0

Uhhh … next week will be a tough traveling experience. 19870 km (12347 mi), all in cattle class on 4 different airlines.

I tried to avoid Lufthansa as they canceled recently flights I heavily relied on – with no reason! And there’s still a huge risk of announcing just their 9th strike within a year and a bit.

But I’m really looking forward to the workshops, to see all the colleagues, customers and of course some great friends. Roy and I will do two internal two-day workshops in Beijing and Seoul with each more than 50 participants – and …

Hurry up!
The next round of workshops is almost fully booked!

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

We’ve had a short email exchange today with the organizers of the following round of workshops in Australia and Asia – and you should really hurry up in case you plan to attend as some locations are already overbooked.

12-FEB-2014 – Melbourne/Australia
- Register here!!!

See you there 🙂

–Mike…

Where’s Gangnam?

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Mike.Dietrich Travel 1

When somebody did mention “PSY” during a dinner at OOW this year with customers and colleagues from Korea I was completely clueless. I even didn’t understand correctly who or what “PSY” is. I did forget about that until last week as a German online magazine did report on over 500 mio youtube hits for “Gangnam Style“. Well … I didn’t know that I’ve almost missed a global phenomenon. And now I’ve learned that the song is omnipresent in Korea (and not only here) – and Gangnam is a really nice (and expensive) quarter of Seoul …

Some impressions from Seoul and Beijing

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Mike.Dietrich Travel 0

There was not much time left to walk around and take some pictures during our fully packed workshop week in Seoul and Beijing. But as I have my camera almost always in my pocket I took some pictures … 🙂

Seoul View

Seoul Food … yes … BEEF … wonderfully thin sliced beef on the barbecue grid

Tumbling Seoul
(that’s exactly how I felt in the morning after our night at Peter, Paul and Mary’s (see below)).

Modern Beijing … very modern

Well … or even more modern …

There’s always a traffic jam … simply too many cars … …

The best Bar on the globe is … in Seoul/Korea

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Mike.Dietrich Music & HiFi Travel 3

As you know already sometimes I write about things which really don’t have to do anything with a database upgrade. So if you are looking for tips and tricks and articles about that topic please stop reading now 🙂

Actually I’m not a lets-go-to-a-bar person. I enjoy good food and a fine dessert wine afterwards. But last week in Seoul/Korea Ryan, our local host, did ask us after a wonderful dinner at a Korean Barbecue place if we’d like to visit a bar. I was really tired as I flew into Seoul overnight from Sunday to Monday arriving Monday early …

Seoul

Some Seoul Impressions – 09/2015

Beijing, Seoul – and OTN Tour Tokyo – just in one week

Hurry up!
The next round of workshops is almost fully booked!

Where’s Gangnam?

Some impressions from Seoul and Beijing

The best Bar on the globe is … in Seoul/Korea

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