In the last issue of Channel 823, we discussed the “new normal” amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. The third wave of the pandemic caught everyone off guard shortly after that and caused a huge blow to the economy. Many corporates have frozen graduate recruitment.

“You are all a lost generation,” said Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway to describe young people who felt lost in the post-World War I period. To some extent, there are parallels between the young people a century ago with those today.

Using Link’s

summer internship programme

as a start, this issue explores how young people have adapted to change from the perspectives of current and past

summer interns

, including one who has since become a successful entrepreneur. We are proud to see how they have been navigating and pursuing their goals, striving to become rising stars in their careers.