Wesley's Official Bio
Posted by Wesley onMy name is Wesley Woo-Duk Hwang-Chung (officially Woo-Duk Chung / ์ ์ฐ๋) - an inventor, researcher, and an amateur astronomer in Korea. I am best known for developing a wearable computer, and my smartphone app about the real-time power grid information was the first of its kind in the country. My current interests include posting web toons, studying the electric vehicles, and photographing celestial objects.
I was interested in computers since the 2nd grade, and programming was a childhood hobby. This led to creating a one-man software company called WDSoft.com during high school years that sold utility programs such as MultiWin, a multi-booting solution for Windows. While attending university, I was focused in making portable high-performance computers that could be used anywhere. The result of this was the wearable computing project, which has been showcased thoroughly since 2001.
I then tried my hands at making a tablet PC before shifting my interests elsewhere, such as PDA phones, UMPCs, Macs, and iPhones. That's how I got around to making that power grid information app. Nowadays I'm having fun monitoring my electric vehicle and taking photos of the sky with a superzoom camera.
Social Media
Languages
- Native: English, Korean
- Intermediate: French, Japanese
Education
- Haksung High School (1999)
- B.S. Agricultural Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University (2003)
- M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (2006)
Employment
- Translation Advisor, Zalman Tech (2000-2005)
- Assistant Manager, Korea Power Exchange (2006-2015)
- Senior Manager, Korea Power Exchange (2016-Present)
Awards
- KGGTF Green Connector Award (Korea Green Innovation Days 2018, World Bank Group)
- Commendation from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (13th Electricity Market Workshop in 2018)
- ISGAN Awards of Excellence 2024 Winner (as Head Delegate of KPX)
Identifiers
- International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI): 0000 0005 0181 2454
- National Library of Korea - Control Number: KAC202106656
- Google Knowledge Graph ID: /g/11n7fmsj6j (Short)
- K-Scholar ID: 2191100600000022
- NTIS Researcher #: 11428304
- ORCID: 0000-0001-7083-9766
TV Appearances
Date | Channel | Show | Ep. | Section | Reference |
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2000-02 | Arirang TV | Company Close-Up | 31 | V3 Pro-2000 EnDe | YouTube |
2002-01-03 | MBC | Web2Night ์นํฌ๋์ |
78 | Exotic PC - Walking PC ์ด์PC - ๊ฑธ์ด๋ค๋๋ PC |
Website |
2002-01-24 | KBS 1TV | News Plaza ๋ด์ค๊ด์ฅ |
- | PCs Get Personal! PC๋ ๊ฐ์ฑ์๋! |
Website |
2002-02-19 | E Channel E์ฑ๋ |
Early Adopter ์ผ๋ฆฌ์ด๋ตํฐ |
8 | EA Choice - Computer-wearing Man ์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ ํ - ์ปดํจํฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ ๋จ์ |
YT, Website |
2002-02-28 | SBS | What on Earth! ์๊ฐํฌ์ฐฉ ์ธ์์ ์ด๋ฐ ์ผ์ด |
187 | Guy that Wears a Computer ์ปดํจํฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด |
YT, News |
2002-03-21 | MBC | Web2Night ์นํฌ๋์ |
89 | Web Focus - All About Mobile PC ์นํฌ์ปค์ค - ๋ชจ๋ฐ์ผPC์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ |
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2005-08-21 | SBS | SBS Special SBS ์คํ์ |
7 | Made in Korea #5 ๋ฉ์ด๋ ์ธ ์ฝ๋ฆฌ์ 5๋ถ |
Website |
2005-08-28 | EBS | EBS Special EBS ํน์ง |
- | 2nd Trade War - Catch the EMR ์ 2์ ๋ฌด์ญ์ ์, ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ก์๋ผ |
YT, News |
2008-11-26 | SBS | Live Today ์๋ฐฉ์ก ํฌ๋ฐ์ด |
S1 1345 | Today People - Cyborg Husband? ํฌ๋ฐ์ด ์ฌ๋๋ค - ๋จํธ์ ์ฌ์ด๋ณด๊ทธ? |
Website |
2019-02-03 | KBS 1TV | News9 Daegu ๋ด์ค9 ๋๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ๋ถ |
- | 2nd Day of Seollal Holidays ์ค ์ฐํด ์ดํ์งธ |
YouTube |
2020-10-13 | SBS | What on Earth! ์๊ฐํฌ์ฐฉ ์ธ์์ ์ด๋ฐ ์ผ์ด |
1104 | Nerds Ahead of Time ๋๋๋ฏธ, ์๋๋ฅผ ์์๊ฐ ๊ดด์ง |
YT, Website |
2021-03-03 | tvN | You Quiz on the Block ์ ํด์ฆ ์จ ๋ ๋ธ๋ญ |
96 | Born in the Wrong Era ์๋๋ฅผ ์ ๋ชป ํ๊ณ ๋ ํน์ง |
YT, Website |
2022-03-10 | YTN Science | Docu S Prime ๋คํSํ๋ผ์ |
243 | Science Ahead of Time โOver-Technologyโ ์๋๋ฅผ ์์ ๊ณผํ โ์ค๋ฒ ํ ํฌ๋๋ก์งโ |
YT, Website |
2023-02-17 | TV Chosun | News 9 ๋ด์ค 9 |
- | Era of 400 Thousand EVs, Yet Battery is Excluded from Periodic Inspection 40๋ง ์ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ ์๋์ธ๋ฐโฆ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ๊ฒ ์ ์ธ |
YT, Website |
2023-03-29 | TV Chosun | News 9 ๋ด์ค 9 |
- | 1 out of 2 EVs Recalled - Faulty Battery, Losing Propulsion, etc. ์ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ 2๋ ์ค 1๋ '๋ฆฌ์ฝ'โฆ"๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ๋, ์๋ ๊บผ์ง๊ธฐ๋" |
YT, Website |
2023-09-12 | SBS | Morning Wide Part 3 ๋ชจ๋์์ด๋ 3๋ถ |
8189 | EVs Eyed in Times of High Oil Prices ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ |
Website (43:14-44:12) |
Radio Appearances
Date | Station | Show | Ep. | Section | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022-08-24 | TBS FM | Mobility Talk Show | 3 | Freeway | Website |
2022-08-31 | TBS FM | Mobility Talk Show | 8 | Freeway | Website |
Notable News Articles
Books
Date | Publisher | Title | ISBN | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|
1999-11-10 | YoungJin.com ์์ง๋ท์ปด |
Hardware Mook Vol.2 ํ๋์จ์ด ๋ฌดํฌ์ง Vol.2 |
9788931413205 8931413203 |
Co-Author |
2000 | InfoPub Group ์ ๋ณด๋ฌธํ์ฌ |
Internet Homepage Build Guide For Beginners ์ด๋ณด์๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ธํฐ๋ท ํํ์ด์ง ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ ๊ธธ๋ผ์ก์ด |
9788976277039 8976277031 |
Co-Author |
2002-07-20 | YoungJin.com ์์ง๋ท์ปด |
Relearning PC: HowPC Special PC ๅ ์ ๋ฌธ: ํ์ฐํผ์จ ํน๋ณํ |
9788931444247 8931444249 |
Co-Author |
2021-08-25 | Nexus Books ๋ฅ์์ค๋ถ |
Electric Car: Common Sense Dictionary ์ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ ์์์ฌ์ |
9791166831331 |
Articles
Year(s) | Publisher | Title | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|
2009 | Korea Power Exchange ์ ๋ ฅ๊ฑฐ๋์ |
Overseas Electrical Industry Trends ํด์ธ์ ๋ ฅ์ฐ์ ๋ํฅ |
Contributor |
2018, 2020-2023 | Korea Electric Association ๋ํ์ ๊ธฐํํ |
Electricity Almanac ์ ๊ธฐ์ฐ๊ฐ |
Vol.5, Ch.1 |
2021-2022 | DailyCar ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ์นด |
Columns by Woo-Duk Chung ์ ์ฐ๋ ์นผ๋ผ |
Theses (Lead Author)
Citations
- Young Jin Lee, Seungkeun Song, Joohyeon Lee, "Design and Implementation of a Wearable Computer based on a Technology of Image-based Sensor", Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference, Pages 23-28, 2003-05-01
- Jae Hee Kim, "Semiological Analysis about Wearable Computer - a point of view of Computer and Clothes -", Journal of Korea Design Forum, Korea Society of Design Trend, No. 12, Pages 387-396, 2005-05-01
- Young-Jin Lee, Joo-Hyeon Lee, "Design and Implementation of an intelligent Clothing for Ski Patrols on the Basis of Electronics/Image Tagging Technology", Korean Journal of the Science of Emotion & Sensibility, Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility, Vol. 9, No. 2, Pages 151-158, 2006-06-01
- YTN Science, "The Steve Jobs of Korea that Developed the Wearable PC (์จ์ด๋ฌ๋ธ PC๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ ํ๊ตญ์ ์คํฐ๋ธ ์ก์ค)", The Science of Almost Everything (๊ฑฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ณผํ), Pages 28-33, 2022-10-24