Joining NANRO Next as a mentor, Song Gil-Young is one of Korea's foremost "mind miners" — a term he coined and has spent more than two decades practicing. As former Chief Strategy Officer at Daum Soft (now Vibe Company) and later its Vice President, he has read the moods of a generation through the traces people leave in daily life. His widely read books, including the "Age Forecast" series and "Don't Just Do It," have brought that data-eyed reading of society to a broad audience through his writing and talks.
He often says that what chefs need most, once they open their own dining room, is not another technique but the vantage point to ask — in society's own language — who will come, why, and at what moment. It is that vantage point he brings to NANRO Next as a mentor.
