Have you ever seen the K-drama Startup? It’s a unique piece of K-content centering around Bae Suzy (Miss A’s Bae Suzy) as she aspires to build a virtual reality company from the ground up. In the show, she markets content, providing a unique product and winning over investors with her suave charm. Working at DIOKOS is… not like that at all. It’s the first internship I’ve ever had, and I am grateful for the opportunity to work in such a unique environment. But what does it mean to market content? I am not as talented as Bae Suzy, but to an extent, we played the same role for a while. Netflix dramas aside, this is what it means to be a content marketer at a start-up company in Seoul.
To market this content, we spread the word to our audience. I begin the day by liking posts on DIOKOS’s social media. I connect with a few people on Linkedin (potentially you: the prospective reader), connect them to DIOKOS, and go right on with my day. Advertisements must sell a product to a consumer, so we brainstorm what the consumer would want to see out of the content we create. There is no limit on what we can do, and we look to Danny for consultation and advice about how our projects should proceed. At that point, open up Premiere and get editing. Use the A-roll collected during my travels, cut up B-roll and stills, and add a professional but youthful touch to my work. I find some royalty-free music or video clips to cover the gaps in content and crank out a 30-second ad for my employer – which I will later pitch to him for revisions. This is the cycle of my work. To some degree, I feel like a YouTuber working for a startup company, but with the luxury of being an intrepid explorer and editor on the side.
Bae Suzy, I am coming for your crown. If you wondered what a content marketer does, it’s not the lavish lifestyle portrayed on TV. It’s lax, flexible, and trendy. From digital marketing to content creation and editing, leaving a content marketing internship will give you a better understanding of how to start-up your own start-up.