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KBC Intern Jared Muloongo interviewed reporter Jamie Lee as part of his research in preparing the report “A Map to a Career in Korea: What You Need to Know!”. The following is the original Q&A for the interview. For links to this and other interviews in the series, visit Supplementary...
Let’s suppose you work at an elite prep school in the US with some Koreans in the student body. When the parents of one of the kids, Young-Hee, filled out the application form for their child, they entered their own names as Dong-Hyuk Kim and Eun-Hee Huh. And now, let’s...
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The following was extracted from a recent interview with me about how to find a job in Korea. “What do I need to start doing right now to have a great job waiting for me the moment I arrive in Korea?” “It depends what you want to do. Those...
웃음이 가득한 즐거운 추석 명절 맞이하세요! —— 추석을 맞이하여 행복한 시간되시기를 기원드립니다. —– 한결같은 성원에 감사드리며 사랑 가득한 한가위 되시길 기원합니다. —– 풍요로운 한가위 보내시고, 가정에 웃음이 가득하시기 기원합니다. — 저에게 주신 성원에 감사드리며 즐거운 추석을 기원합니다. — 늘 감사합니다. 가족 친지들과 행복 나누는 추석 보내시길 기원합니다. — 감사하고 행복한...
An article published in Korea (조직몰입 선행변수의 효과에 대한 국가 간 비교연구: 한국, 미국, 중국을 중심으로 – 심원술, 김진희) [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/595513] a few years ago studied the factors leading to organizational commitment in companies of Korea, China and the US. To me, the most interesting point of the...
One nibble of this homemade delicacy had Myunghee in the emergency room on Saturday night with food poisoning. She got out of the hospital this afternoon, not much worse for the wear. Moral of this lesson: Don't eat raw crab anymore!
A client asked me recently whether a Korean translation written for Koreans living outside Korea should be handled differently than a translation for Koreans in Korea. He mentioned that Chinese translators have told him that Chinese living outside China (such as Chinese living in the US) speak and write differently...
I want introduce you to another language quirk in Korean that affects some of our Korean translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/] projects, especially websites. Koreans rarely write the words “Copyright” or “All rights reserved” in Korean in the footer of a website. It seems odd, no? But if you don’t...
Japan is a popular topic of discussion among Koreans. The themes used to focus mainly on a) how bad the Japanese were during their 34-year colonization of Korea and b) how advanced they are and that it would really be nice to catch up. Today, the tone is much different....
