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Tag: Korean studies

  • Confucius on <갯마을 차차차> (“Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha”)

    13:23 Confucius said, “The superior man is conciliatory but does not identify himself with others; the inferior man identifies with others but is not conciliatory.” 1 The essence of this passage is that it is willingness to remain in harmony with others without sacrificing individuality makes a person better. The passage then says that when…

  • Words for a nation

    Whatever it means to be human varies in some way from person to person. Yet everyone has a collective albeit oftentimes both unexpressed and inexpressible understanding of this common denominator. Similarly, nations differ from how they understand their ‘group’ and ‘other groups’ while all calling these unique sets using similar terms. In the twenty-first century…