Monthly Archive: December 2009

Web 2.0 Asia :: Google Korea Unveils New Homepage

Web 2.0 Asia :: Google Korea Unveils New Homepage

Original article: www.web20asia.com[EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.web20asia.com/411#] This is a huge departure for Google. It demonstrates yet again how the Korean market is stimulating global innovation by being a test-bed for new ideas.

Visit to a Korean Traditional Tea House

There aren't too many places with more "atmosphere" than the inside of a cozy Korean tea house on a cold day. "Bukkugi Doongji" is such a location about fifteen minutes by car from our home in Ansan. We'd driven by several times in the past, but today Myunghee and I...

A Very Helpful Explanation about Korean Grammar from Linguist Yongjoon Cho

A Very Helpful Explanation about Korean Grammar from Linguist Yongjoon Cho

I just posted an announcement [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: /2009/12/korean-language-skills-research-project-novices-welcome] on my Nojeok Hill blog regarding a survey of learners of Korean. Having completed the survey myself, I emailed the author, Yongjoon Cho, with a Korean grammatical question that’s been on my mind for awhile. My message to Mr. Cho: Hi...

Chang W. Kim’s Presentation at TEDxSeoul Got Me Thinking

Two events in the past week have conspired to sharpen my perspective on an issue of Korean business that’s been on my mind for awhile. It is the question of why Korea seems somewhat isolated from the mainstream of global online trends even though the country was first out of the block for high-speed and wireless Internet a decade ago and development of the Korean IT industry is a top national priority.

Tracked Down Information about Life Insurance (Korea)

Tracked Down Information about Life Insurance (Korea)

An associate of mine at Korea Business Central needed information about a life insurance policy in Korea on a relative. Through a deep understanding of and following the Korean way of handling these matters in a sensitive way, we were able to get the information required for my associate (and...