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The Cheollipo Arboretum (1)

When I told my professor at Hanyang University that I was heading down to Yesan in August for the 2010 South Choongcheong Province International Tourism Academic Conference, he suggested we take a side-trip up the Taean peninsula to visit the Cheollipo Arboretum [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.chollipo.org/]. (Click here to visit...

Online Source of Photos of Old Ansan

I’m always amazed to think of the growth and changes in Ansan since I first arrived almost 17 years ago. But that pales in comparison with the transformation of what used to be a sleepy fishing village into a city of 350,000 people when I arrived in 1993 (Current population...

The Warriors Who Saved Santa Claus

The Warriors Who Saved Santa Claus

This is a little out of season but as I was cleaning the files out of our old Flip camera before lending it to a colleague so that he can prepare new content for us over at Korea Business Central, I came across a few videos that the kids created...

A New Family Dynasty in the Making in Ansan, Korea

According to an article in CNN today [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/28/north.korea.kims.son/index?hpt=T2], Kim Jong-Un, the third son of  Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il and grandson of Great Leader Kim-Il Sung, was just named Vice Chairman of the Workers Party of North Korea’s central military commission. In this way, the process of family...

Translating Addresses from an English Business Card into Korean

Translating Addresses from an English Business Card into Korean

Business cards often list the company name twice; once in the logo and once in the address.  On an English card, the second time above the address generally shows the way it should appear on the outside of an envelope for mailing. But Korean business cards don’t show an exact...