Tag: language

  • Ruminations on the Hungarian Language: Take Two

    Ruminations on the Hungarian Language: Take Two

    Due to a potent combination of distraction and procrastination, here is part two of a short series on the Hungarian language, belatedly posted and slightly aged. Interested in reading part one? You’re in luck. Not speaking Korean in Korea was easy compared to not speaking Hungarian in Hungary. Korea’s population is remarkably homogenous and there…

  • Nem Beszélek Magyarul: Ruminations on the Hungarian Language

    Nem Beszélek Magyarul: Ruminations on the Hungarian Language

    Making my way past the supermarket’s overflowing crates of pale green paprikas and stacked tubs of sauerkraut, I found one phrase sliding through my mind.

  • Globalizing Korea: A Rhetoric of Food

    Globalizing Korea: A Rhetoric of Food

    Daniel Gray, a Seoul Eats food blogger, recently published an op-ed in the Korea Herald regarding the public and private efforts to export Korean culture to the West—particularly to the United States. With coverage from the New York Times, CNN, and other high profile news organizations in the US, the government seems to be doing…