Korean's great excuses

Paju Book City This huge complex is home to 250 publishers which spreads across 215 acres.It covers the entire process of publishing from printing to distribution. Many books are often sold on the ground floor of publishing companies  but there are also several good used bookstores, at least two of which feature books in languages other than Korean. The city also contains unusual art galleries, book cafes, and specialized exhibition spaces. Aside from bookstores and cafes, Paju Book City also boasts many attractions. There is also a playground for children, as well as an adjacent Premium Shopping Outlet.  Address 145, Hoedong-gil, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do

Heyri Art Valley in Paju si Lots of Korean artists of various cultural fields such as writers, painters,architects and musicians constructed the cultural town of Heyri and the architects constructed each building with its own unique characteristics. Within this community, there are artistic spaces, work rooms, art galleries and museums.   The major role of Heyri is to be a pleasant residential area for artists and professionals who can concentrate on their work in one place. The works of the resident artists are exhibiting in galleries and show rooms and art festivals and music concerts are continuously taking place in Heyri.   One of the major features about the Heyri is to preserve and maximize the natural surroundings that has applied to all areas, including architecture, road, pavement, and even fence. Another feature is that the aesthetic sense has been considered in all places. All architectures and items are artworks that will surely improve your sense of beauty....

Pain is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. (Actually, I want to share every single text of this book in my blog which is impossible, so that I did my best to extract some passage to help you understand why God allow people have pain. I highly recommend you to read the whole book.) Of all evils, pain only is sterilized or disinfected evil. Intellectual evil or error may recur because the cause of the first error (such as fatigue or bad handwriting) continues to operate; but quite apart from that, error in its own right breed error – if the first step in an argument is wrong, everything that follows will be wrong. Sin may recur because the original temptation continues; but quite apart from that, sin of its very nature breeds sin by strengthening sinful habit and weakening the conscience. Now pain, like the other evils, may of course recur because the cause of the first pain (disease or an enemy) is still operative: but pain has no tendency, in its own right, to proliferate. Whe...

The Republic of the Workaholic There is no denying that average Korean people are hard workers. In the long-loved sitcom, Modern Family, Alex who is incredibly smart and competitive high school student in episode 5 said to her psychological therapist one day. “Did you have SAT or Asian kids in you school?” It indicates how hard it is for Alex to compete with Asian kids in her school. Korea and other East Asian countries have been accustomed to doing hard work by rice farming, which is ten to twenty times more labor-intensive than working on an equivalent size corn or wheat field (Ref. Outlier by Malcolm Gladwell p261~275). The heritage of our ancestors’ strong willpower and attitude runs in all Koreans’ veins. This heritage intertwined with Korean people’s desperation not to starve to death after the Korean War and collectivism to reconstruct our country. Our previous generation literally worked their fingers to the bone to feed their family. Working hard has seated on Korean p...

Getting More How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World I like his approach with an underlying premise that people are irrational and impractical. I think his premise is quite right that especially when people get scared, angry, vengeful and fearful, it is impossible to have a rational debate with people and it has nothing to do with how hard you make an effort or how many you have objective data to try to persuade them. He proves how you can get more what you want from illogical and irrational people by showing various experiences his students have had so far. The way this book shows is utterly different from the typical manipulative way which wins others by remarkable logic and outstanding glib. He presents the way of conversation to truly respect and understand people, so that they’d happy to help us voluntarily get what I want. I think I like this book because this book and my view of life are on the same wave length. And yet I can see clearly a lot of ...

Drinking culture in Korea is no joke. Before I post this article, I want to be clear that as a woman and a Christian, I can’t help but  have a negative feeling about Korean drinking culture, although I drink sometimes. According to a 2014 study by Euromonitor, South Koreans drink 13.7 shots of liquor per week on average which is the most in the world which means Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians does and more than four times as much as Americans. Drinking culture in South Korea is a big part of life. Many foreigners are surprised to see how incredibly accessible it is to get liquor in Korea and how liberal Korean people are when it comes to drinking liquor in public places. It is very common that a lot of celebrities such as TV and movie stars and famous singers, brag about how many bottles of Soju(Korean popular alcohol) they can drink, regardless of their age in talk shows. Many times they have enormous fun sharing about their particular behavior...