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I found this map section in a map of the Seoul area over at the Korean War Project. It shows Ansan from around 1950. Here’s what the identical map section looks like today in Google Maps: Note how many of the location names in the map above correspond to neighborhorhoods in...
Understanding Korea and Koreans from the wider geopolitical context yields important insights into the newly confident nation we find today. Anyone doing business in this dynamic economy can expect to increase their effectiveness by learning about recent Korean history and its position in the region. Mark Minton boasts of a...
There are few people more qualified to discuss the Korean economic miracle than Peter Bartholomew. Having arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, he has remained in Korea almost continuously since 1968. Peter worked in a Korean company for almost a decade in the 1970s, and for the last 28 years,...
When Korea Business Central asked Dick Warmington to do an interview for us, we just expected that he’d have great insights about Chadwick International School, Korean education and Songdo city. We didn’t realize he’d also previously run the operations of Hewlett-Packard in Korea during the late 80s and early 90s,...
We recently interviewed Dick Warmington on KoreaBusinessCentral.com. (Click here [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://stevenbammel.com/category/archives/kbcforum/topics/korea-business-central-329] to listen and/or read the fascinating interview.) Dick is President of Chadwick International School in Songdo, Korea, which is a new city built entirely on reclaimed land in the West Sea south of Incheon. It’s a dramatic...
Everybody’s heard that “saving face” is important in Asia. It turns out Koreans think the Japanese place particular importance on this. But on a recent discussion on Korea Business Central, a member familiar with Japan mentioned that Koreans take the concept of “saving face” to a whole new level, and...
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...
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...
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...
On Sudder Street in Kolkata, India (see photo at right, which is not mine; click to see original page [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://pages.cthome.net/india2/]) in late 1989, I formed my most vivid memory of anti-Americanism. I was having breakfast at a small coffee shop frequented by foreign backpackers and the room was...
