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The film set at Hapcheon Image Theme Park has not just one, but two, translation office facades. The top one, in green letters, is named "International Translation". The bottom one is Hanbonglim Office, and they offer English-language translation for a number of purposes, including documents, international marriage, passports, visas, general...
Koreans are particular about what goes in what glass. Don't get confused and put the wrong drink in the wrong container! A. Soju B. Beer or carbonated drinks C. Water D. Makgeolli And one that's missing here is the cup for slightly higher quality Korean traditional drinks, like Baeksaeju, Sansachoon,...
I was out in Suweon a couple weeks ago for a luncheon at which Governor Kim spoke. The theme of his speech was pretty standard stuff: "Korea's overcome all kinds of terrible adversity over the past 100 or so years to reach its current level of success". It's inspiring alright,...
With competition like this, is it any wonder the Korean restaurant industry is so inefficient? And with so few other opportunities in the economy for small businesspeople, is it any wonder so many people open chicken restaurants? All of these places serve chicken (fried, grilled or baked) and are within...
I was pretty proud of myself for coming up with the double-sided, folded business card approach. But in the end, I decided it was a bit too "in your face" and so I've innovated a new approach. I now carry two cards: one for Koreans and one for non-Koreans. This...
They just opened up a new Home Mart supermarket in the basement of the building at my office. I'm really happy about this because it means I don't have to go so far to get food to eat during working hours. I suspect they don't have the demographics in the...
One of the benefits of being a consultant to the Gyeonggi Province of Foreign Invested Companies is that they do nice things for me. Here's the latest in the form of a Chuseok gift:
This is what I was talking about in a recent column in Seoul Magazine about the ridiculously priced Chuseok gifts at the Korean department stores. We really do appreciate the present from my translation colleague, Dong-Hyeok Kim and his wife, and the price makes it all the more meaningful, but...
As best I can tell, my business card haul from the first half of 2011 is about the same as it was in the latter half of 2010… Click here to compare for yourself! Either way, it's a lot of cards. They have all been dutifully scanned, categorized and shredded.
I took this video on a recent Saturday evening at Homeplus…. Could this be why Tesco has succeeded in the Korean market while other heavyweights like Wal-Mart and Carrefour left in disgrace? Also, the following is the link to another video I took last year at our local Homeplus… How...
