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Nojeok (pronounced: “No-juck”) Hill is located in Ansan, Korea: Note: All the graphics on this page can be enlarged by clicking on them. There’s not a whole lot about Nojeok Hill that’s particularly remarkable. But I’ve had a connection with it for 15+ years since I first moved to...
Ansan, South Korea – December 11, 2009 – Korea Business Central (KoreaBusinessCentral.com [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: file:///C:/Users/sbammel/Documents/KCTS/Administration/Marketing/KBC/Tom%20Tucker%20-%20Project%20%231/koreabusinesscentral.com]), a new online community focused on business in Korea and which is sponsored by Korean Consulting & Translation Service, Inc. (KoreanConsulting.com), announces an agreement with Tucker Media Group, Inc. (www.TuckerMediaGroup.com) of Palm Springs, California...
I generally go to Yahoo! Korea’s Korean<>English dictionary [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://kr.dic.yahoo.com/]for definitions when translating. It’s pretty good and has several subject-matter specialties. Korean portal sites Naver.com and Daum.net also have about the same offering but I’ve stuck with Yahoo! simply because the interface is more familiar to me. It probably doesn’t...
I was contacted by a US company looking for advice on doing business with the US military in Korea. Through my network at Korea Business Central, I was able to introduce him to a qualified consultant.
I discussed and translated an article [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?total_id=3895261] from the Jungang Daily newspaper last week in this post of Nojeok Hill: My View from the Top. Here is the (almost) full Korean source followed by the translation. It was nice to work on a translation project where I was the...
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.
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...
OPENING NOTE: The following post is a little long-winded. To get the key warning, simply scroll down to the red text below. Several years ago, I signed a premium software maintenance agreement (PSMA) with SDL so that I would always have the latest version of Trados for the licenses I...
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.
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...
