Travel & People

In 2017, Prof. Whon-il Park was commissioned by NAVER to contribute an article on the data localization to its Privacy White Paper. In the early September, Prof. Park visited the head office at Bundang, South of Seoul to discuss the framework and contents of the article. NAVER is the largest portal or IT business which would dwarf Google in South Korea. To our surprise, the main building library..

In February 2017, after two-year construction, the "New & Different" Building was ready for a working space of new dimension: - Efficiency for workers in the building - Location, i.e., a good access to Metro lines for customers - Maintenance and energy Cost saving for the management - Beauty and Elegance in line with the products of the company - Pride and Confidence for all participants. If you..

On March 23, 2017 a distinguished speaker, Judge Kang Min-koo, visited Kyung Hee Law School to deliver a special lecture . He is now the President of the Supreme Court Library, and former Chief Judge of Busan District Court. Judge Kang is famous for his series lectures on YouTube. His farewell speech “Advisable Attitude in the Current Information Age” (혁신의 길목에 ..

Nowadays it is said that card companies or finance companies remind us of spouse birthdays or wedding anniversaries which are to be observed. One day a flower basket was delivered to home. It was sent by a bank manager who regards my wife as one of his VIP clients. I was a little bit surprised because we regularly observe her birthday on the basis of the lunar calendar, not solar calendar. My do..

On a winter day, it's quite natural to have some snow. My doggy Petit likes to walk on snow. On a persimmon tree, a flock of birds enjoy meal like at a feast. Traditionally some fruits used to be left generously for hungry birds in winter. Koreans say such a thing as "birds' food" (까치밥). The Gwanghwamun square where people gather for candlelit vigil on every Saturday was calm and peaceful. On a ..

Prof. Whon-il Park received the honorable Award of Superb Academic Achievements by President Inwon Choue of Kyung Hee University (KHU) on December 29, 2016. His achievements in the past few years include: - Publishing a book, Legal Issues arising out of Trans-Border Data Flow, Jipmoondang in October 2015, which was selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Jun..

When I returned from the Persian Silk Road trip in July 2016, I was requested to speak about "supply chain finance in Korea". At first, I declined the request so as to give such a good opportunity to other younger scholars than I in the sixties of age. A few days later, a staff member of the Korea Federation of Banks insisted on my presentation because he could not find an alternative speaker ab..

One day in July 2016, advertiser Park Woong-hyun asked a provocative question in a radio interview, "Why don't you live like a dog?" It's true his words sound like a copy of advertisement. For example, he published a book claiming the liberal arts or humanities are a hatchet.1) Park meant every dog lives the very present moment, in other words, "Carpe Diem." The dog never worries about the past ..

There took place extraordinary exhibitions of Van Gogh's paintings and other Impressionist landscape arts at the same time in Seoul. One day in March 2016, I had a pleasure to see a number of digital paintings and a real landscape picture of Vincent Van Gogh. While I stayed in Europe in 1986, I found out that he was born 100 years before me, and that he lived in Paris 100 years before I visited ..

Controlling mind (마음 다스리기/誠諭心) is increasingly important these days when ordinary people used to lose their footing like this: * Road rage : In June 2015, a man in Gimje was arrested after allegedly driving with another man on his car bonnet, who was claiming his careless driving on the road. * Dispute with noisy neighbors : It is not surprising in Korea that noise from next door or upstairs usu..