(Published: Aug. 23, 2024 – 05:30) The switch from President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate for US president brought…
(Published: Aug. 23, 2024 – 05:30) The switch from President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate for US president brought…
(Published: Aug. 9, 2024 – 05:30) Languages change all the time, and Korean is no exception. In the age of social media, words that go…
(Published: April 5, 2024 – 05:37) Happiness popped back in the news recently with the release of the “2024 World Happiness Report.” The report made…
(Published: 2024-03-08 05:39) South Korea’s low fertility rate made the news again recently after a government report predicted that the rate would fall to a…
(Published: 2024-02-09 05:30) On a recent visit to Seoul, I noticed something that had never caught my attention before: smoking in outdoor nonsmoking areas. As…
(Published: 2024-01-26 05:13) For much of January, I had the privilege of being invited to give talks on two books that I wrote in Korean.…
(Published: 2023-09-15 05:31) Reading articles about cities around the world almost always invites comparisons with Seoul because it’s the city I know best. I lived…
(Published: 2023-08-04 05:31) How well do South Koreans speak English? The development of translation apps and decreased personal interaction after the pandemic may be making…
(Published : Mar 24, 2023 – 05:11) In Dobong-gu in northeast Seoul, the Seoul Robot & AI Museum (Seoul: RAIM), which was built mostly by…
(Published: Dec 16, 2022 – 05:20) The biggest news story of 2022 was, without question, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. The war is…