Monthly Archive: June 2013

The New Ansan City Unmanned Bike Rental System

I love this new system they’ve set up in the city. There are 47 of these bicycle stations located around Ansan and for W20,000/year, any resident can sign up at www.pedalro.kr [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.pedalro.kr/index.do] to use the bicycles as much as they want. The only condition is that the...

Expanding on the Korean Business Etiquette Guide, Chapter 1 – “Understanding and Correctly Using Names and Titles in Korean Business”

Once again, I have the privilege of sharing feedback from Rich DeBourke, principal consultant at SBF Consulting, about a lesson in the Korean Business Etiquette Guide (back when it was the Business Culture Fundamentals Specialization of the KBC Professional Certification Program). Rich's comments and questions about the materials give me...

Eight (More) Tips for Handling Your Korean Translation Projects

Eight (More) Tips for Handling Your Korean Translation Projects

It’s hard to believe I’ve already written sixteen tips to help clients and other readers improve their Korean translations.   Anyway, here are the last eight tips in one place: Why I'll Never Be Able to Translate to English All the Implied Respect in a Korean Document What It Means...