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

Traveling to Korea during a Global Pandemic

Oct 18th, 2020 30m 27s

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 scholarshi

The Origins of Korea: Shamanism, Mountain Spirits, and the Legend of Dangun

Sep 16th, 2020 1h 8m

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

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Why is a Korean culture podcast called Fluent Fools?

Sep 1st, 2020 2m 56s

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

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