Luxury car dealerships within 100m of work I heard on the news the other day that imported car ownership has reached an all time high in Korea. It’s now a whopping 2%! This may not be high in comparison to the States, where the meaning of local and imported brands are somewhat blurred. Nobody looks…
Month: August 2007
New City, New Job
New at Vinyl Almost 3 weeks after returning to Korea, I think I am finally finding some semblance of being settled. I started work at Vinyl, a 120-person strong “web agency” located in the heart of Seoul. Vinyl’s a well-established and according to some accounts (mostly internal), is the leading web agency in Korea. Most…
Korean hyper-efficiency
I was truly awe-struck by the speed at which things get done in Korea. If you request things like telephone service or buy something and ask for delivery they come the next day! Not only that, the service provider will either call you, or SMS you in the morning to confirm that you will be…
Seoul: First Impressions
Well… not quite first impressions. I arrived August 10th, but I’ve lived here at various points in my life for a total of 14 years, but the last time I lived here was 13 years ago. So things that I would not have noticed before seem to jump out at me. Mountainous Landscape Korea is…
Tour of the U.S. Capitol
US Capitol Rotunda It was a nice way to end my stay at Forum One and Washington DC. One of our clients – Capitol News Connection – very graciously gave our team a personal (press) tour of the U.S. Capitol. See more photos. Thx Chad, Melinda, Martin, Brian and Liz. Much appreciated.