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[Fluent Fools] King Sejong and the Invention of the Korean Script

Posted byby MinJu Park
October 5, 2022
24 minute read

Episode Description 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…

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[Fluent Fools] Traveling to Korea during a Global Pandemic ✈️

Posted byby MinJu Park
October 19, 2020
1 minute read

Episode Description In this episode, we 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…

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[Fluent Fools] The Origins of Korea: Shamanism, Mountain Spirits, and the Legend of Dangun ⛰️

Posted byby MinJu Park
September 17, 2020
34 minute read

Episode Description 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…

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[Fluent Fools] Why is a Korean Culture Podcast called Fluent Fools? 🎙️

Posted byby MinJu Park
September 1, 2020
1 minute read

The answer is… 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….