Every one in awhile a song with a dance comes along that captures the imagination of not only the originating country but a good chunk of the rest of the world. They usually feature a dance step that is easily learned and a song with a catchy beat. Well, this time the artist is South [...]
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a few months since this isn’t a new announcement, but I still feel it deserves to be heard. South Korea decided last summer to invest the equivalent of US $2.4 billion dollars in Samsung Galaxy Tabs for the classroom, switching from textbooks to tablets by the end [...]
When discussing philosophy over in East Asia, regardless of where I was at the time, I seemed to consistently encounter aphorisms. It was always the same procedure. I would be told that there was an old Chinese/Japanese/Korean saying and they would first speak it in their language, then translate it into English for me. Then [...]
This video has gone viral on the net and for good reason. Sung-bong Choi, appearing here on the TV show “Korea’s Got Talent”, is a 22 year old young man who spent most of his childhood living on the streets, barely surviving after he ran away from an orphanage when he was five years old. [...]
