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The self-employment sector is often seen as a driver of innovation and economic growth where entrepreneurs incubate and develop new ideas into lucrative businesses. Indeed, virtually every company begins life through an entrepreneurial process and many are born within a framework of self-employment. However, not every self-employed business grows to...
An American acquaintance in Taiwan recently asked me for my thoughts on whether to bring his daughter to the US for high school. The following is most of my response to him. When we returned to Korea in 2008, we only planned to stay for a couple years, and two...
HS, Thanks for the “Last Two, I mean, Three Weeks in Korea” newsletter today. But do you really not understand why Koreans are demanding answers from the government over the Sewol tragedy? If you object to the government protests like that, your readers who don’t have a full understanding of...
President Park just declared Ansan a disaster zone in order to make the city eligible for various federal assistance. I’m sure the mood is amplified for me because I’m so close to ground zero in terms of the school that the missing kids attended, but it feels in Korea just...
I had previously looked into getting an F-5 visa through the points system, but though I had enough points, I was on a student visa at the time, and there is no way to transition from that to an F-5. However, I’ve been on an F-6 (Spouse Visa) for a...
I enjoyed Dominion from Sea to Sea [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003BNZJ0E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003BNZJ0E&linkCode=as2&tag=korcontraseri-20] , though I would have liked to find more specifically Asia/Korea historical content. This is just a personal preference though and knowing US history interpreted through a Pacific lens is good. I can’t say my reading level is as advanced...
Over the last couple years, I’ve watched three Korean TV series set mainly in the 1970s. Light and Shadows (빛과 그림자 [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%9B%EA%B3%BC_%EA%B7%B8%EB%A6%BC%EC%9E%90_(MBC_%EB%93%9C%EB%9D%BC%EB%A7%88)], MBC) (64 episodes at 70 minutes each) Samsaengi (삼생이, KBS) (120 episodes at 35 minutes each) Eun-Hee (은희 [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED:https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%80%ED%9D%AC], KBS) (140 episodes at 35...
** Visit the related discussion on Korea Business Central. One of the appeals of the Far East to many Westerners is the mysteriousness of these cultures that we are told have been around for so long and developed independently of Western influences. With all the yin-yang thinking, concepts of body...
I had an interesting email exchange this week with an acquaintance in academia about the role of foreigners in leadership positions in Korea. I made the following comment: Are there really any long-term successful cases [of foreigners in leadership positions in Korea] that are more than objects of curiosity? We've...
Japan is a popular topic of discussion among Koreans. The themes used to focus mainly on a) how bad the Japanese were during their 34-year colonization of Korea and b) how advanced they are and that it would really be nice to catch up. Today, the tone is much different....
