Archive - Fluent Korean

The book talk with Kyunghee Kim (author of See Us Bloom) is this week!

Here are the Zoom details.

Mar 21, 2023

October 2022

King Sejong and the Invention of the Korean Script

Listen now | In this episode, I speak with Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud, a theoretical linguist and Professor Emeritus at George Washington University, on…

Oct 5, 2022

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October 2020

Traveling to Korea during a Global Pandemic

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…

Oct 18, 2020

September 2020

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

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…

Sep 16, 2020

Why is a Korean culture podcast called Fluent Fools?

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…

Sep 1, 2020

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