After teaching business in Seoul and Hong Kong for many years, retired Professor Ted Wallin mentors and encourages students at Syracuse University. There’s a catchy song about train safety that takes me back in time, back to Professor Ted Wallin’s marketing class at Sejong University in Seoul. Professor Wallin taught in the Sejong-Syracuse MBA program…
Adjusting to a new country can bring huge amounts of stress. But Adam Czelusta powered through and built a life here — and an art career too. Adam Czelusta and I first crossed paths around 2014, when we both did some work for Groove magazine’s 100th edition. I got to interview human rights champion Yiombi…
University English instructor Sonia Knapp thought her Korea adventure might last a year. That was more than two decades ago. When Sonia Knapp set out for Korea in 1998, it was supposed to be short term. A New Orleans native, she was teaching at a high school in Moab, Utah, and getting tired of it….
Where Korea’s cyberbullies (and a few cool people) did their thing before the rise of social media. Sometime around 2007, a woman I barely knew started a thread on a message board and addressed it to me. She made sure to tell me to fuck off in the subject line. Another member of the same…