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Martin Roll is a world-renowned thought-leader on value creation through brand equity, and the eighth interviewee in our Korea Business Interview Series hosted at KoreaBusinessCentral.com. Martin Roll is Danish by origin, but currently based out of Singapore. He spent most of his career in international advertising and media before setting...
The following is an extreme example; I don’t usually get corralled into conversations like this in Korea anymore, though, for obvious reasons, it used to happen a lot more often when I taught English. Fortunately for me now, my ace-in-the-hole is that I can converse in Korean. Without that, this...
I Got a Tutor I think one of the cardinal rules of studying Korean has to be this: “Reject all invitations to trade English study for Korean study.” The first reason is that if you trade one hour of English for one hour of Korean, you’ll spend one hour talking...
The Language is All Backwards I'm told that Korean is one of the hardest languages in the world for English-speakers to learn. When I was first studying the language, I didn't really sense this though. Spanish had seemed pretty hard to me too and improving my Korean appeared to...
I remember where I was when I first heard that the US Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded (in typing class, 11th grade – Lomalinda, Colombia), that the Ceausescu regime had fallen in Romania (backpacking – Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh) and about the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks (living room at home...
Steve McKinney is president of McKinney Consulting, a leading executive search firm in Seoul, and the seventh interviewee in our Korea Business Interview Series hosted at KoreaBusinessCentral.com. To listen to the interview or download the .mp3, read the transcript and discuss his interview with members of Korea Business Central, visit the...
I'm Not Fluent! The only proper first answer to this question is, "I'm not fluent." Fluency implies a level of comfort in the language that I don't ever expect to achieve. The word I've used for at least the last ten years or so is "proficient" and even that is...
GAFIC A few weeks back, I visited General Secretary Yong-Moon Kim, who runs the GyeongGi Province Association of Foreign Invested Companies (GAFIC) [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.gafic.co.kr/], to learn more about what the association does and I reported about it (as well as another related meeting a couple weeks later...
