“What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?” This is the riddle Sphinx gave to Oedipus. As well-known, the answer is human. As an infant, he crawls on

School’s out. Almost. I recently received an email from my former student asking how to study English. She wanted to spend the winter vacation to really work on the language skills that she had

I bet many of students know about Cinderella, a famous fairy tale written by German Grimm brothers. It is an archetypical success story of ordinary people that they can also make their dreams come tru

One day in Incheon my Korean–Australian colleague and her daughter took me out to a buffet lunch. The buffet was in a wedding hall open to the public. Its dining room was crowded with a big, noi

The smartphone is the perfect spy gear of days of yore: there is a camera, a video recorder, a video player, a music player, a mobile computer and a touch-screen interface. There is a live video confe

In my Business Communication class, we learn how companies are quickly adopting new ways of communicating with customers, suppliers, employees, and stakeholders. Social Networking Services such as Fac

C.S. Lewis, a British scholar and novelist once said, “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survi

During my six years at Ewha, several students have asked me how to study English, so here is one advice. Keep in mind that there is no magic trick that will enable you to speak English fluently in jus

There once was a farmer who had two very intelligent and curious daughters who liked to ask many questions. He was troubled, however, because he could not answer all of their questions. Therefore, he

This year’s Easter is over. Every year when I am on the Lenten Season, which is for a period of approximately six weeks leading up to Easter, I try to go through this period of time by thinking

I was recently asked to give a talk at the Harvard College in Asia Program held at Ewha a few weeks back. The conference was titled “Technology and Social in Justice.” It was attended by a

Welcome to Ewha! You just made a choice to change the world. Despite having achieved a milestone in your academic life, you must go on. There is always more to learn, more to do, and more to accomplis

Fellow members of the Ewha community, I have a very simple request—one I have nagged my friends and students about for so long that I want to make it public. It is this: Please turn off the ligh

I have been asked to offer my thoughts in this first edition of the Ewha Voice for the academic year 2012. Many issues could be addressed – from the political rise of Kim Jong-un to the politica

Last semester I received a call from a Seoul area high school teacher who inquired about the use of an uncommon English collocation that a student had written on her cloze test. The teacher thought th

Earlier this month I attended a conference about competition in the Korean society (SBS’s Future Korea Report: Competition Dilemma). Presenters lamented that there is excessive competition in li

Everyone likes to feel special, and enjoys making other people feel special, too. One morning last week, I phoned my neighbour from the apartment parking lot and told him in my broken Korean that he h

About ten years ago, when I studied business related subjects, I had come to believe that the goal of company was to maximize profit. One day I read a case study about a US power plant company, and a

The Korean economy’s dependence on foreign trade is nearly 90 percent, so the Korea’s case would be somewhat different from that of Japan, whose dependence on foreign trade is only about 2

As the Korea-EU free trade agreement goes into effect, the legal services market faces an imminent turning point. The Korean economy has attained rapid growth through market opening and competition. T