“Feminism” in Korea has taken on a different meaning sadly. I’ve commented in HN before at how abhorrent women’s right has been in Korea, especially up to my mother’s generation. It really has drastically improved last 20 years. However, many young men feel like the pendulum has swung too much to the other direction. Society still expects men to do “manly things” (mandatory army service, physical labour etc) but girls around their age get policy benefits instead. I’m not going to into whether this feeling is justified or not. But wanted to point out most don’t want women’s right to regress to their mom’s generation. They just want to feel like they are treated equally in society.

I didn't DM anyone, and I didn't run the campaign, but there happened to be the John Edwards campaign HQ near me so I walked inside and said I could help do their IT, next day I was a full-on volunteer.

They took me to Charleston for a rally (which was cool cuz I never been) and even got me a jacket with my name and the campaign logo on it. Was pretty nifty at the time.

Few months later they hired me and sent me to New Hampshire for the primary.

Wasn't long after that that we were no longer in the running, but was great experience.

Highly recommend more young people attempt cold walk-ins/calls/DMs like this article mentions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jun-seok

Commentors here are not from Korea, so maybe we should refrain from commenting about policy of a given candidate?

I really enjoyed your story, about how much tech can achieve. Technology really is a multiplier of effort. Amazing story.

Thank you for sharing this short time of your (development) life, including all the reasons and logic on why and how.

With those little takeaways in between like talking to users first to understand their requirements, building an mvp and shipping it as early as possible I was half expecting the article ending with the kind of startup lessons/wisdom you typically see here on HN.

But I'm really glad it wasnt. Not everything has to have a grand lesson or takeaway. I enjoyed reading your once in a lifetime experience.