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Monthly Archives: July 2003

Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr

28-Jul-03

I think the book’s theme is that for some, human relationship is not all and everything to psychological completeness, that spending time by oneself is often needed for self-inspection, and that the solitude, in fact, seems to have played key parts for some creative people over the years. The book quotes and elaborates many examples [...]

What’s in a (Korean) Name?

01-Jul-03

Should I write my name as Younghong Cho or Cho Younghong? There is something I’ve been noticing recently about how some Koreans write their names in Roman alphabets. Some of them started writing Korean names with their family name first without a comma. This seems to be more common for the names of Koreans in [...]