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Q&A with American Businessperson about Gift-Giving in Korea
Having published my executive report “The Top Ten Gifts to Give in Korea to Make a Great Impression”, I get a steady flow of questions asking me for advice in specific gift-giving situations. Here’s a question I received recently: “I am an American businessman meeting with a Korean company Chungbuk...
Email Interview with Reporter from the Donga Ilbo Newspaper
I much prefer email interviews to verbal ones; that’s because I can keep and post my exact answers here even if the reporter ends up using only bits and pieces of what I provide. This is from an interview with the Donga Ilbo. <스티븐씨의 소개> Q. 동아일보 독자들에게 스티븐씨에 대한 간단한...
Korean Translation Tip: Koreans Are All About “We”
In a previous post, I discussed plurals in Korean. The word “plural” is associated with a group and a group is how Koreans view themselves. In fact, one of the top banks in Korea (where I keep my money, in fact) calls itself “Woori Bank [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://eng.wooribank.com/]”, meaning “Our...
Question from KBC Member “What visa would you suggest I go for?”
Somewhere along the way (beginning 'round about the time I published this article, I guess…), I started getting questions about visas in Korea. Having sat down with the official from Korea Immigration for an hour or so earlier this year, I realize this topic isn't as complicated as it seems....
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About Steven (Certified Technical Korean to English Translator)
Starting Out in Korea A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington (College of Business Administration), Steven S. Bammel came to Korea in the mid-1990s, working in Seoul for nearly five years within the LG Group of South Korea. During that time, he learned about Korean business practices from...
Reflections on Studying for a Ph.D. at a Korean University
I was discussing with an associate about my studies at Hanyang University and he had some questions about the program. He first asked about my studies, including about how busy I am over vacation and whether the first year is taken up entirely by coursework. "The studies are going fine;...
Korean Translation Tip: Korean Has a Plural Form; It Just Doesn’t Get Used Much
I’ll occasionally get a message like this from a Korean translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/]client who wants me to change a singular Korean noun to a plural form: “Steven, the client just made the following change in the English. Can you update it in the Korean? Old version: “We’ll be sending...
Get a Job in Korea: “Now tell me: how can Korea Business Central help me find a job in Korea?”
The following was extracted from a recent interview with me about how to find a job in Korea. Visit Korea Business Central for more information on getting a job in Korea, including the full video of this interview. “Now tell me: how can Korea Business Central help me find a job...
