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Tue, September 24, 2019 | 17:48

Customer service in S. Korea

Good customer service is disappearing. I think democracies would rank among those places. We just can't get past ourselves to imagine we'd serve someone. It isn't about servility or servitude, groveling or self-humiliation. It's extending active and considerate regard for customers as people. Among the countries I've visited, South Korea has displayed good customer service to...

Na Jeong-ju | 2019-09-24 16:45

US-DPRK working-level talks

Following an uneasy period of uncertainty, the United States and North Korea are ready to start their working-level talks at the end of this month, or shortly thereafter, at a place yet to be determined.

2019-09-23 18:17

Legacy of Prof. Ed Wagner

In writing of late in this column, which I call the “Frog Outside the Well,” I have touched on the subject of Korean jokbo (genealogies) a few times. I have had feedback from this column and from my YouTube channel that Korean jokbo are unreliable in that commoners and slaves have bought their way into established genealogies.

2019-09-22 17:55

Archive to revive 1907 Korea

While I was finalizing my dissertation in November 2017, UNESCO decided to list on the Memory of the World Register the very documentary archives I had been researching - the National Debt Redemption Movement Archives. Those thousands of historical records, handwritten letters and newspaper articles from of 1907 to 1910 attest to the first nationwide voluntary fundraising mov...

2019-09-20 17:38

Hypocritical behavior

We Koreans often use “nae-ro nam-bul,” an expression certain to make non-Korean speakers tilt their heads and question: “What does this mean?” It is a coined Korean term (with an English word inserted), a four-syllable abbreviation from “naega hamyeon, 'romance'; nami hamyeon, bullyun.” In short, it means: “If I love someone, it is a romance; but if others do, it is an affair...

2019-09-19 16:06

Appeasing North Korea

President Moon Jae-in, in his anxiety to appease North Korea, faces difficult choices. North Korea is easily offended.

2019-09-19 09:58

Beijing-Seoul ties after Xi's Pyongyang visit

There are some qualitative differences in the way China treats South Korea since Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to Pyongyang. The visit to Pyongyang, which took place in late June, itself was a significant event in Sino-North Korea ties; China signified it was raising its stake in the geopolitical dividends of the North Korea nuclear matter. Interestingly, without any publ...

Na Jeong-ju2019-09-17 17:47

Moon's biggest mission in New York

President Moon Jae-in will leave for New York City, Sunday, to attend the U.N. General Assembly and hold talks with his U.S. counterpart on the sidelines.

2019-09-17 17:36

N.Korea's spat with UN

It might seem perverse for a country where 40 percent of the population faces the risk of going hungry that North Korea should request a reduction in the number of United Nations humanitarian aid workers there by the end of 2019.

2019-09-16 18:22

Schadenfreude, Korea style

I have to admit that I am surprised at the groundswell of outrage that seemed to take over the Korean society against recently appointed Minister of Justice Cho Guk's alleged hypocrisy. More specifically, outrage against how his daughter managed to do a student internship at a medical lab and be listed as the primary author on a paper that was published in a respected medical...

2019-09-15 17:34

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