Wednesday, October 08, 2003
GLOBALIZATION (WESTERNIZATION?) IN KOREA. A recent survey of the names of businesses in the busy Myong-dong area of Seoul (and in the central district--chunggu--more generally) reveals that fully 53% of them have some sort of foreign word in their name. This is up from 45% two years ago. Language purists probably decry such a move. Of course, aside from the comical efforts of a French style l'Academie Francaise language police, there is no way to really stop languages from changing.
