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	<title>Fulbright U.S. Education Center &#187; History and Background</title>
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	<description>Issues in U.S.- Korea Educational Exchange</description>
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		<title>Book Becomes Available on Google Books</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/10/books-available-on-google-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to inform readers of this blog that the 1996 book I co-authored with Mel Gurtov and Robert R. Swartout, Jr., Korea&#8217;s Amazing Century:  From King&#8217;s to Satellites is now available full-view with a downloadable PDF option on Google Books. The book was a project of the Fulbright Korea Foundation and the Korean-American Educational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background and Statistics on Korean Education</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/02/background-and-statistics-onkorean-education/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/02/background-and-statistics-onkorean-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History and Background]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, For a number of years now, the Korean government has annually published both short and long books containing background and a wealth of statistical detail about Korean education.  Although they are shifting over to web based provision of information, they continue to make publications available in pdf format. One useful document is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dokdo and Cyber Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/07/dokdo-and-cyber-diplomacy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/07/dokdo-and-cyber-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cyber and online education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dokdo is in the news again. (Click on the image at the left to see a more panoramic, full-size image.) References to the island as Japanese territory in newly published guidelines for middle school teachers in Japan provoked widespread anger and demonstrations in Korea. In fact, last night some of the participants in a candlelight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book by Yonsei University Professor Young Ick Lew</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/06/new-book-by-yonsei-university-professor-young-ick-lew/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/06/new-book-by-yonsei-university-professor-young-ick-lew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Ick Lew, Chair Professor at Yonsei University gave a wonderful overview of pre-modern and modern Korean history earlier this week to our American International Education Administrator (IEA) Grantees.  As luck would have it, he visited Fulbright for this presentation on the same day that the Korea Times carried a review of his new book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VI. Heredity and Environment</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/heredity-and-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/heredity-and-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay #VI from &#8220;Korean Culture – Very Informal Essays&#8221; by Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director Emeritus, Fulbright Korea. (download entire document here korean-culture-essays-hhunderwood)   Lots of Korean children are adopted overseas each year.  This has become a big issue in Korea lately, as some Koreans consider it embarrassing to their nation.  I, on the other hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>V. Groupies</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/groupies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/groupies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay #V from &#8220;Korean Culture – Very Informal Essays&#8221; by Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director Emeritus, Fulbright Korea. (download entire document here korean-culture-essays-hhunderwood)    One student is nothing.  A batch of students is more powerful than a university.  A big batch of students is more powerful than a government.           Korea is a collective society.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IV. Personalized Politics</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/personalized-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/personalized-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay #IV from &#8220;Korean Culture – Very Informal Essays&#8221; by Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director Emeritus, Fulbright Korea. (download entire document here korean-culture-essays-hhunderwood)   One difference between Korean and American loyalty is that in general Americans are loyal to abstracts or ideals and Koreans are loyal to people.  Nationally the highest loyalty for Americans is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>III. Loyalty and Honesty</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/loyalty-and-honesty/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/loyalty-and-honesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay #III from &#8220;Korean Culture – Very Informal Essays&#8221; by Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director Emeritus, Fulbright Korea. (download entire document here korean-culture-essays-hhunderwood)   I had a terrible time in my classes when I was teaching at Yonsei because my students kept cheating on tests and plagiarizing homework.  I had to watch them all the time.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>II. No Men Are Created Equal</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/no-men-are-created-equal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/no-men-are-created-equal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay #II from &#8220;Korean Culture – Very Informal Essays&#8221; by Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director Emeritus, Fulbright Korea. (download entire document here korean-culture-essays-hhunderwood)   The problem of “in and out” is only a small part of a larger pattern: Korea is fundamentally not an egalitarian culture, not one that values equality of treatment, but one that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I. &#8220;In&#8221; and &#8220;Out&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/in-and-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2008/04/in-and-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay #I from &#8220;Korean Culture – Very Informal Essays&#8221; by Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director Emeritus, Fulbright Korea. (download entire document here korean-culture-essays-hhunderwood)   Two of the most common first impressions that foreigners have of Koreans is that they are incredibly polite, and that they are incredibly rude.           In fact, the courtesy and kindness [...]]]></description>
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