Fluent Fools

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud, a theoretical linguist and Professor Emeritus at George Washington University, on King Sejong the Great and his invention, the Korean script. Join us as we explore why even after more than a millennia of using Chinese characters to notate the Korean language, we needed our own writing system and how King Sejong went about to c

In this episode, I talk to JuanJo Baiardi, a Global Korea Scholar, about moving from Paraguay to Korea for his Master's Degree in Global Affairs.He walks us through the entire process from applying to the three-year all-expenses-paid scholarship, getting special permits to leave his country, arriving in Incheon and the special protocols involved, getting tested, to life in the

When the ancestors of the Korean people migrated southward from what is now Siberia thousands and thousands of years ago, they arrived in a beautiful peninsula covered in mountains. Since then and throughout our history, the Korean people have had a spiritual connection to and an unrelenting love for the land we call home. This relationship with nature is the basis of Korean Shaman

Because "one who learns language without learning culture ends up becoming a fluent fool." I'm Korean. But I've lived most of my life outside of the peninsula. And while I can speak Korean (somewhat fluently), there's definitely a lot of things I missed during my time overseas. This show is about bridging the gaps in our understanding of Korea by exploring