Rebeca Hwang: The power of diversity within yourself
레베카 황 (Rebeca Hwang): '내 안의 다양성'이 가지는 힘
Rebeca Hwang is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, investing in solutions for women and empowering their choices. Full bio
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for my mother to come back
기다리고 있었어요.
had cancer surgery that day.
암 수술을 받으신 날이었거든요.
곧이어 말했습니다.
was to be buried back home in Korea."
묻어달라는 유언을 남기셨단다."
and when the shock wore off,
충격이 가시자
to be buried back home.
싶어하셨다니요.
to Argentina six years prior,
아르헨티나로 이민을 왔고
or how we were going to make a living.
생계를 꾸릴 방법도 모르는 상황이었죠.
who had lost everything,
잃은 이민자가 되어 있었어요.
to rebuild our lives.
아주 열심히 일해야만 했습니다.
that after all these years,
to be buried someday,
생각해보게 되었습니다.
어디가 나에게 고향처럼 느껴질지를요.
a lifelong quest for my identity.
찾기 위한 여정이 시작되었습니다.
김치의 땅이죠.
that I'm probably 80 percent cow by now;
아마 제 몸의 80%가 소고기일 걸요.
I felt very much Argentinian,
꽤나 아르헨티나인 같다고 느꼈습니다.
of middle school,
중학교에 간 첫 날,
came into the room.
교실에 들어오셔서
수업을 따라갈 수 없을 거야."
in Spanish already,
유창하게 말할 수 있었어요.
either Korean or Argentinian,
아르헨티나인도 될 수 있지만
I decided to go to Korea,
한국에 가기로 마음먹었습니다.
a place to call home.
곳을 찾고 싶었죠.
이런 질문들을 받았습니다.
with a Spanish accent?"
스페인 억양으로 말하세요?"
because of your big eyes
too Korean to be Argentinian,
너무 한국적이고
너무 아르헨티나인 같았던 거죠.
in the world to call home.
찾는 데 실패했으니까요.
who speak with a Spanish accent --
스페인 억양으로 말하는 한국인,
Argentinian accent --
아르헨티나 억양으로 말하는 한국인이
새로운 기술이 나올 만큼
that was rapidly changing,
obsolete overnight.
for that 100 percent commonality
사람들을 찾는 일을
I was the only overlap
걸쳐져 있을 뿐이라는 거였습니다.
usually in conflict with each other.
of the different versions of myself --
포용하기로 마음먹었어요.
to reinvent myself at times.
괜찮다고 여겼어요.
thick glasses, simple hairstyle --
평범한 헤어스타일이었죠.
because I shared my homework.
숙제를 보여줬기 때문인 것 같아요.
a new identity for myself,
스스로 발견했습니다.
'인기 많은 여자애'가 됐죠.
인기는 딱히 믿을만한 게 못 되죠.
too much credit for that.
that my advisors joked
따게 생겼다고 농담을 하실 정도였어요.
in "random studies."
a lot of different identities.
저는 다양한 정체성을 갖게 됐습니다.
entrepreneur, social innovator.
드러내는 건 어려울 수 있습니다.
많은 저항들을 마주하기도 하죠.
didn't seem as interesting
traditional Korean parents,
제 부모님에게 가서,
작정이라고 말하려 했어요.
from my PhD program.
generation to go to university,
처음으로 대학에 간 세대였는데요.
this was kind of a big deal.
중요한 문제였어요.
this conversation was going to go.
충분히 예상하시겠죠?
a secret weapon with me,
비장의 무기가 있었죠.
the average income of all of the graduates
of all the dropouts
was definitely skewed
구글 설립자들에 의해
이렇게 말씀하셨어요.
네 가슴이 시키는 일을 하렴."
is no longer to find my tribe.
제 '동족'을 찾는 일이 아닙니다.
스스로 받아들이는 것에 가깝고
permutations of myself
제 안의 다양성을 키우는 거예요.
and five months old today,
아들이 있는데요.
with three nationalities
모국어를 가지고 있습니다.
is actually from Denmark --
culture shocks in my life,
will be the first Vikings
growing a beard when they become older.
최초의 바이킹이 될 거 같아요.
that their multiplicity
아이들이 자신의 다양성을 찾고
for them in their lives,
활짝 열어놓고
to find commonality
공통분모를 찾는 데에
increasingly global today.
anxious and worried
받아들여지지 않는다고 해도
irrelevant someday,
않았으면 좋겠습니다.
narrative and identity.
만들어나가면 좋겠어요.
their unique combination
독특한 조합을 통해서
and cultures and skills
to alienate what looks different,
사람들을 소외시키지 않고
that they find tremendous joy
미지의 땅을 마음껏 누비면서
uncharted territories,
her last lesson to me.
제겐 마지막 깨달음이기도 했습니다.
about going back to Korea
아니라는 것을 알게 되었어요.
오래 전에 죽은
she moved to Argentina.
바다가 아니었습니다.
공통분모를 찾는 것이었습니다.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rebeca Hwang - InvestorRebeca Hwang is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, investing in solutions for women and empowering their choices.
Why you should listen
Rebeca Hwang is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, which invests in companies in women-led markets where female usage, decision-making and purchasing are crucial to company growth. Hwang is also co-founder of the San Francisco-based startup YouNoodle, which connects top startups with opportunities for growth. She also co-founded Kalei Ventures, a venture fund focused in Latin American startups.
With a background in chemical and civil and environmental engineering from MIT and Stanford, Hwang's work has garnered three US patents, and she has 17 pending patent applications in her portfolio. She has been recognized as one of MIT Tech Review's "Top 35 Global Innovators under 35" and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Hwang serves in the Board of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which annually runs GEW in 170 countries and gathers 10 million participants. As the co-founder of Cleantech Open, she has helped more than 1,000 cleantech startups raise in excess of $1 billion in external funding. In addition, Hwang is a lecturer at Stanford University and teaches technology entrepreneurship.
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