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By Mark Peterson Last time I wrote about the surprising news report that one Korean company was requiring all employees to use English names in...
By Mark Peterson Now I've seen everything! Korean Bigtech company Kakao has decided to implement a policy of using first names in office...
By Mark Peterson One of my editors at the Korea Times suggested I examine the recent summer hit, Barbie, and perhaps contrast it with Korean...
By Mark Peterson Once again, Korea is caught up in a battle over history ― not an argument with China or Japan ― we've seen those arguments...
By Mark Peterson With the loss of so-called "Korean age" that I've written about lately , I've started thinking about what else we've lost, and...
By Mark Peterson I've been thinking more about the "Korean age," "international age" issue. "Mannai" means "international age" in Korean. Another...
By Mark Peterson As a "cultural columnist," I suppose I need to respond to the news of June 28, the date when Korea abandoned "Korean age" and...
By Mark Peterson Confucianism in Korea is in sharp decline. I would like to speak to the Confucian Association leaders at some point, and...
By Mark Peterson On my recent trip to Korea, I had the privilege of sitting down with an old friend and "hubae," Ross King, Ph.D. in linguistics...
By Mark Peterson On my recent trip to Korea, I visited, for the first time, the grave of Jeong Mong-ju, the famous Goryeo official who chose to...
By Mark Peterson The Korean family is changing. That might be the understatement of the decade. Given that fact, then what is it going to change...
By Mark Peterson The Korean family is changing. That might be the understatement of the decade. Given that fact, then what is it going to change...
By Mark Peterson In my last article I wrote a semi-optimistic, semi-pessimistic piece about the new year. I was optimistic that it would be a...
By Mark Peterson In my last article I wrote a semi-optimistic, semi-pessimistic piece about the new year. I was optimistic that it would be a...
By Mark Peterson I'll leave the political forecasts to others, but I want to focus on social issues. Let's look at social trends and predict where...