I just got back (to Seoul where I am now) after spending a weekend (Thursday evening through Sunday morning) in Nanjing. I taught and the whole family lived there during the 2000-01 academic year. We arrived there at the end of August 2000, so it's been almost 10 years.
I traveled there with Ed Monsour, one of the two people I went to Mongolia with last summer. Tom Doherty, the other traveler was planning on coming, but his visa didn't work out (More on that below).
Some quick thoughts on Nanjing now versus Nanjing when I was there. First, the city is much more modern and feels a lot bigger. There is an 89-story building on the north side of the Gulou traffic circle, for example (information here). The city has a lot more car traffic and a lot less bicycle traffic; and much of the bike traffic is now motor scooters, which were rare when we were there. The city is also brighter. More storefronts with neon or lighted signs. And a lot more small storefronts than I remember from before. Though, this could be because we were staying in a different part of town.
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Living Standards, Labor, and Productivity
This blog post by Donnald Marron is an interesting read for anyone interested in differences in standards of living.
"The productivity comparisons are striking: China, Indonesia, and India are 90% less productive than the 15 richest OECD countries. That’s an enormous gap."
Living Standards, Labor, and Productivity
"The productivity comparisons are striking: China, Indonesia, and India are 90% less productive than the 15 richest OECD countries. That’s an enormous gap."
Living Standards, Labor, and Productivity
Friday, March 27, 2009
Art of the Ming Dynasty
A 12-photo slide show of an exhibit currently showing in St. Louis. Also a link to an article on the exhibit. This is some pretty cool stuff!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802055331341637.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB123801614813541293%26articleTabs%3Dslideshow
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802055331341637.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB123801614813541293%26articleTabs%3Dslideshow
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Hainan Airplane Letter
I wrote this letter to the editor of the Deseret News in 2001 and just recently discovered that it was published.
http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/836628/Plane-incident-irrelevant-for-most-Chinese.html
Listening to the media coverage of the downed U.S. plane in Hainan, it would be easy to get the impression that the Chinese state-run media are on the verge of igniting a rash of anti-American protests. Here in Nanjing, at least, that is not the case.
My family and I have been living here since last August, where I am teaching for a year at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese & American Studies at Nanjing University. We are part of a small American community here in this city of 5 million. We meet regularly with a very small group of LDS people living in town (five are from Brigham Young University's China Teachers Program, and one is a recent BYU graduate studying Chinese). From our point of view, interacting with Chinese students every day, it appears that for the time being, this is not a terribly serious issue.
Unlike after the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade two years ago, when large crowds gathered spontaneously (but peacefully) to shout slogans and wave banners, nothing in the way of overt anti-Americanism is perceptible. The Chinese are very nationalistic (or patriotic, depending on your point of view) at times, especially the students and intellectuals. But for the average person on the street here it is just another new item with little direct relevance.
Perhaps the best illustration I can point to occurred yesterday afternoon as I was riding my bicycle through the downtown area. I stopped at a historic building to look inside, and after showing me around, a gentleman there asked me where I was from. I replied that I was from the United States and then mentioned that I was a bit nervous telling people that right now given the airplane incident. He laughed and said, "That's a nation problem, not a people problem."
It might be best to remember right now that the mood of the Chinese press does not necessarily mirror the mood of the majority of the Chinese people.
One thing that might come as a surprise is the amount of access Chinese citizens have to Western news sources over the Internet. CNN's Web site is regularly blocked, but there are myriad other sources available which are not. (The Deseret News being but one case in point).
While it is true that Internet access remains out of reach for the majority of Chinese, it is generally accessible to the students and intellectuals who were the most active element in the post-Belgrade demonstrations. Most students realize that the incident was an accident and not a deliberate attempt to harm. They may be a bit irked that U.S. surveillance planes regularly patrol their coast, but there seems to be little overt anger at America and Americans.
http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/836628/Plane-incident-irrelevant-for-most-Chinese.html
Listening to the media coverage of the downed U.S. plane in Hainan, it would be easy to get the impression that the Chinese state-run media are on the verge of igniting a rash of anti-American protests. Here in Nanjing, at least, that is not the case.
My family and I have been living here since last August, where I am teaching for a year at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese & American Studies at Nanjing University. We are part of a small American community here in this city of 5 million. We meet regularly with a very small group of LDS people living in town (five are from Brigham Young University's China Teachers Program, and one is a recent BYU graduate studying Chinese). From our point of view, interacting with Chinese students every day, it appears that for the time being, this is not a terribly serious issue.
Unlike after the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade two years ago, when large crowds gathered spontaneously (but peacefully) to shout slogans and wave banners, nothing in the way of overt anti-Americanism is perceptible. The Chinese are very nationalistic (or patriotic, depending on your point of view) at times, especially the students and intellectuals. But for the average person on the street here it is just another new item with little direct relevance.
Perhaps the best illustration I can point to occurred yesterday afternoon as I was riding my bicycle through the downtown area. I stopped at a historic building to look inside, and after showing me around, a gentleman there asked me where I was from. I replied that I was from the United States and then mentioned that I was a bit nervous telling people that right now given the airplane incident. He laughed and said, "That's a nation problem, not a people problem."
It might be best to remember right now that the mood of the Chinese press does not necessarily mirror the mood of the majority of the Chinese people.
One thing that might come as a surprise is the amount of access Chinese citizens have to Western news sources over the Internet. CNN's Web site is regularly blocked, but there are myriad other sources available which are not. (The Deseret News being but one case in point).
While it is true that Internet access remains out of reach for the majority of Chinese, it is generally accessible to the students and intellectuals who were the most active element in the post-Belgrade demonstrations. Most students realize that the incident was an accident and not a deliberate attempt to harm. They may be a bit irked that U.S. surveillance planes regularly patrol their coast, but there seems to be little overt anger at America and Americans.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Tiananmen at Panoramio
This is my most viewed photo at Panoramio; over 3000 views. You can also see it on Google Earth if you select the right buttons.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Vintage Film Footage from China
I've been a bit under the weather for the past week or so and haven't posted anything here, but I am feeling better now and am back at it.
I ran across a fascinating post at a blog called "QuirkyBeijing" which links to old film footage at the Travel Film Archive on YouTube. The footage would be very interesting to anyone who has visited these places and wants to see how much things have changed since the early 1900's.
Listening to the narration is a real treat too. The English language has evolved a lot since these clips were made. Attitudes toward the rest of the world seem to have changed also, as these come across as pretty patronizing.
This is worth at least a little of your time.
Here's the link - http://www.quirkybeijing.com/?p=62
I ran across a fascinating post at a blog called "QuirkyBeijing" which links to old film footage at the Travel Film Archive on YouTube. The footage would be very interesting to anyone who has visited these places and wants to see how much things have changed since the early 1900's.
Listening to the narration is a real treat too. The English language has evolved a lot since these clips were made. Attitudes toward the rest of the world seem to have changed also, as these come across as pretty patronizing.
This is worth at least a little of your time.
Here's the link - http://www.quirkybeijing.com/?p=62
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Teaching at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center
When I was done with my year's teaching in 2000-01 I was asked to comment on the experience. Here is what I wrote about the students and the teaching experience.
June 2001
I found that teaching the students at the Center was overall a very positive experience. The students were articulate, motivated and extremely bright. That said, the purpose here as I understand is to point out some of the challenges.
First, I often found it difficult to tell if the students understood the concepts on which I was lecturing. There was a general tendency for the students to keep silent and only rarely ask questions or make comments. A great deal of this was no doubt due to the fact that I lectured a lot, and rarely held class discussions. I would change that, if possible, but the subject matter makes it difficult.
Second, I found that there was a great deal of variance in terms of background – particularly in the principles class. Some students had bachelor’s degrees in economics and were pursuing advanced degrees in the field, and others had never taken an economics course in their life and had only minimal exposure to the math tools they needed. Still, I found that the majority of students were willing to learn difficult concepts and math tools, once they saw why and how the tools were used. I used a great deal of calculus in my principles class and found that those students who were unfamiliar with the concepts took the time to learn them. This was a pleasant surprise, as I was prepared to drop back to non-calculus based approaches, if necessary.
Third, I like students to cooperate on homework. So I encouraged them to get together in study groups. However, I suspect that a great deal of the time, they merely copied the homework of one of the two or so class leaders who had a clear understanding of the material from previous exposure to the topic. I don’t see anyway to enforce this, but I think it hurt many students at exam time, as they were inadequately prepared.
Finally, I found that overall the experience was not all that different from teaching US students. I did need to explain things clearly, but I could tackle more complex concepts more quickly, as well. Also, I had to be careful not to pick jokes for class that relied too heavily on puns or plays on words.
June 2001
I found that teaching the students at the Center was overall a very positive experience. The students were articulate, motivated and extremely bright. That said, the purpose here as I understand is to point out some of the challenges.
First, I often found it difficult to tell if the students understood the concepts on which I was lecturing. There was a general tendency for the students to keep silent and only rarely ask questions or make comments. A great deal of this was no doubt due to the fact that I lectured a lot, and rarely held class discussions. I would change that, if possible, but the subject matter makes it difficult.
Second, I found that there was a great deal of variance in terms of background – particularly in the principles class. Some students had bachelor’s degrees in economics and were pursuing advanced degrees in the field, and others had never taken an economics course in their life and had only minimal exposure to the math tools they needed. Still, I found that the majority of students were willing to learn difficult concepts and math tools, once they saw why and how the tools were used. I used a great deal of calculus in my principles class and found that those students who were unfamiliar with the concepts took the time to learn them. This was a pleasant surprise, as I was prepared to drop back to non-calculus based approaches, if necessary.
Third, I like students to cooperate on homework. So I encouraged them to get together in study groups. However, I suspect that a great deal of the time, they merely copied the homework of one of the two or so class leaders who had a clear understanding of the material from previous exposure to the topic. I don’t see anyway to enforce this, but I think it hurt many students at exam time, as they were inadequately prepared.
Finally, I found that overall the experience was not all that different from teaching US students. I did need to explain things clearly, but I could tackle more complex concepts more quickly, as well. Also, I had to be careful not to pick jokes for class that relied too heavily on puns or plays on words.
Monday, December 15, 2008
A Hainan Airplane Allegory
In April 2001 a US reconaissance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet near Hainan Island in southern China. A full review of the incident is available from Wikipedia. I was in Nanjing at the time and there was clearly a great deal of diplomatic tension between the US and China because of this, though there was very little ill-will or resentment that I could see from regular people in Nanjing (as I mentioned in a previous post).
The US press blamed the incident on a hot-dogging Chinese pilot, who was killed in the collision. The Chinese press blamed the US, claiming the incident was due to reckless provoction. As a father of small children at the time, the whole thing seemed very familiar. It was like my two youngest jumping on the sofa and pushing each other around. Then when one falls off and gets hurt they both blame the other and in some sense they are both right and both wrong.
Anyway, here is my short allegory which I wrote at the time.
No analogy or allegory is perfect, but sometime you can learn something from one.
Once upon a time there was a fairly successful U.S. business; let’s call it something quasi-meaningful like the Enterprise Corporation. Enterprise was on a role, expanding it’s sales after several years of poor management. They had a new product line out that was doing very well and they were now the second or third biggest supplier in their industry. Stock prices were up and things look generally pretty rosy. Especially since they had overcome a period of terrible sales following a near bankruptcy several years earlier. During that turbulent era the company had lost sales to a series of large international rivals. These companies had raided Enterprise’s R&D labs and hired away all of their best engineers. Though no one was able to prove any illegality, it was pretty clear that they had stolen many of their best design ideas in the process. Eventually one of these had emerged as the dominant firm in the market; let’s call them Hercules International, based in the Far East. Hercules was clearly the market leader with more than half the industry’s sales.
Anyway, things were going well. Enterprise had a largely loyal workforce, though there were some troubling labor rumblings. Financially, things could’ve been better, but they had certainly been worse.
In the midst of all of this, corporate security reported that there were some disturbing goings on. Every week or so a large unmarked van drove by the main research campus and rolled slowly past the warehouse doors where Enterprise kept it’s latest prototypes. It didn’t take much effort to discover that the van was full of photographers hired by Hercules that were snapping away in hopes of getting useful photos. Enterprise wasn’t run by dummies, and they did the best they could to keep their latest ideas under wraps, but they knew they eventually had to test them out-of-doors and they were worried that Hercules might pick up on something they could exploit.
Enterprise decided that they would not let this continue uncontested. They had several security people who began patrolling the roads around the plant on motorcycles. Whenever the van would show up they would tailgate, or zoom in front and then slow down and otherwise harass the driver. Part of this was to distract the photographers, but mostly it was to send a clear message to Hercules that they knew what was going on and were not happy about it.
Eventually, the whole thing developed into a real road race, with motorcycles swerving back and forth and the van alternately speeding up and slowing down and occasionally changing lanes unexpectedly (just like your run-of-the-mill action film).
Well, as you might expect (since there’s supposed to be a point to this story), one day there was an accident. Though the details weren’t clear it appeared that the van swerved to avoid one motorcycle and hit the other. The rider was seriously injured and was rushed to the hospital. The van plowed through the retaining fence stopping on Enterprise’s property. Plant security responded and took the van driver and his passengers to the infirmary where they were treated for minor cuts and bruises. While the van was unattended much of the photographic equipment and film disappeared. Enterprise eventually turned everything over to the police, but not until after they developed the film and made copies.
Now the questions: Who is responsible for the accident? Who was the aggressor and who was the victim? Or do such distinctions make any sense in this case?
The US press blamed the incident on a hot-dogging Chinese pilot, who was killed in the collision. The Chinese press blamed the US, claiming the incident was due to reckless provoction. As a father of small children at the time, the whole thing seemed very familiar. It was like my two youngest jumping on the sofa and pushing each other around. Then when one falls off and gets hurt they both blame the other and in some sense they are both right and both wrong.
Anyway, here is my short allegory which I wrote at the time.
No analogy or allegory is perfect, but sometime you can learn something from one.
Once upon a time there was a fairly successful U.S. business; let’s call it something quasi-meaningful like the Enterprise Corporation. Enterprise was on a role, expanding it’s sales after several years of poor management. They had a new product line out that was doing very well and they were now the second or third biggest supplier in their industry. Stock prices were up and things look generally pretty rosy. Especially since they had overcome a period of terrible sales following a near bankruptcy several years earlier. During that turbulent era the company had lost sales to a series of large international rivals. These companies had raided Enterprise’s R&D labs and hired away all of their best engineers. Though no one was able to prove any illegality, it was pretty clear that they had stolen many of their best design ideas in the process. Eventually one of these had emerged as the dominant firm in the market; let’s call them Hercules International, based in the Far East. Hercules was clearly the market leader with more than half the industry’s sales.
Anyway, things were going well. Enterprise had a largely loyal workforce, though there were some troubling labor rumblings. Financially, things could’ve been better, but they had certainly been worse.
In the midst of all of this, corporate security reported that there were some disturbing goings on. Every week or so a large unmarked van drove by the main research campus and rolled slowly past the warehouse doors where Enterprise kept it’s latest prototypes. It didn’t take much effort to discover that the van was full of photographers hired by Hercules that were snapping away in hopes of getting useful photos. Enterprise wasn’t run by dummies, and they did the best they could to keep their latest ideas under wraps, but they knew they eventually had to test them out-of-doors and they were worried that Hercules might pick up on something they could exploit.
Enterprise decided that they would not let this continue uncontested. They had several security people who began patrolling the roads around the plant on motorcycles. Whenever the van would show up they would tailgate, or zoom in front and then slow down and otherwise harass the driver. Part of this was to distract the photographers, but mostly it was to send a clear message to Hercules that they knew what was going on and were not happy about it.
Eventually, the whole thing developed into a real road race, with motorcycles swerving back and forth and the van alternately speeding up and slowing down and occasionally changing lanes unexpectedly (just like your run-of-the-mill action film).
Well, as you might expect (since there’s supposed to be a point to this story), one day there was an accident. Though the details weren’t clear it appeared that the van swerved to avoid one motorcycle and hit the other. The rider was seriously injured and was rushed to the hospital. The van plowed through the retaining fence stopping on Enterprise’s property. Plant security responded and took the van driver and his passengers to the infirmary where they were treated for minor cuts and bruises. While the van was unattended much of the photographic equipment and film disappeared. Enterprise eventually turned everything over to the police, but not until after they developed the film and made copies.
Now the questions: Who is responsible for the accident? Who was the aggressor and who was the victim? Or do such distinctions make any sense in this case?
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Reminiscing about Nanjing
For some reason, lately I have been thinking alot about the year our family spent in Nanjing, China. I spent the 2000-01 academic year teaching at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center there. There were 6 international professors there who taught classes in English mostly to the 50 Chinese students who were studying there. There were also another 45 or so international students taking classes in Chinese from Chinese faculty, mostly from Nanjing University. There was a US staff of three, and several Chinese staff all of whom were bilingual. In fact most everyone was bilingual, except the professors. Our joint faculty meetings with the Chinese faculty too a while because everything had to be translated.
The students, the international faculty families, and the US staff all lived in the center. The Chinese and international students were paired up as roommates (the only place in China where that was allowed). There was a really nice sense of community there. The staff did a wonderful job of helping us settle in and making life in a strange, new place comfortable.
I taught pretty much the same classes I teach at BYU: Principles of Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Trade Theory & International Monetary Theory. The students there were the best students I have ever taught. The competition for the 50 slots was fierce and only the cream of the crop were admitted. While I was teaching the principles class the first semester, I mentioned as an aside that the explanation would be easier if I could use calculus. Several of the students noted that they knew calculus and asked if I could teach using math. When I surveyed the class I found that all but two of the students had taken calculus. So I said, "Sorry, it's not fair to these two to use tools they don't understand." To which they replied, "It's OK, we'll learn calculus." And they did. They checked out math books from the library and crammed to learn the principles of calculus along with the economics. It is the first and only time I have taught principles of economics using calculus.
We were there for the 2000 election in the US, when the voting in Florida was such a mess and no one knew who the next president would be for several weeks. That was quite a treat for the Chinese students taking the class on American government.
We were there when the US reconaissance plane collided with the Chinese jet off Hainan Island and had to make an emergency landing there. Things seemed a bit tense if you watched CNN and maybe it was up in Beijing. I was out riding my bicycle with Alan during the time the US airmen were being held in Hainan. The tire went flat on the bike, so I pulled over to one of the many roadside bike repairmen. He found the valve stem was not tightened properly, fixed it, and reinflated the tire. In the meantime, a small crowd had gathered around. I guess I was in a part of town where foreigners rarely travel, or perhaps they had never seen such a chubby guy on a bike before. Anyway, when I asked how much the repair cost, the repairman waved me off with a smile and said, "guoji guanxi". In effect, "It's free for the sake of international relations." If that was his real intent, it worked. That is one of my best memories from that year.
Our whole family had a great experience. We lived in what for us seemed like cramped quarters, but the closeness was good in many ways. The lack of 50+ English language TV stations was also a blessing in disguise.
We attended church with a small group of LDS people in Nanjing. Five of them were affiliated with BYU's China Teacher's Program, and one was a BYU graduate studying Chinese at Nanjing Normal University. With six people in our family, we were half the group. We met in the apartments of the two retired couples. With such a small group you got to give a talk or teach a lesson almost every week.
I kept a journal of sorts of the year. You can find it here on our family's website.
I would really like to go back and do another year in the future. With kids going to high school in a year or two, though, I don't know when we will be able to go.
The students, the international faculty families, and the US staff all lived in the center. The Chinese and international students were paired up as roommates (the only place in China where that was allowed). There was a really nice sense of community there. The staff did a wonderful job of helping us settle in and making life in a strange, new place comfortable.
I taught pretty much the same classes I teach at BYU: Principles of Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Trade Theory & International Monetary Theory. The students there were the best students I have ever taught. The competition for the 50 slots was fierce and only the cream of the crop were admitted. While I was teaching the principles class the first semester, I mentioned as an aside that the explanation would be easier if I could use calculus. Several of the students noted that they knew calculus and asked if I could teach using math. When I surveyed the class I found that all but two of the students had taken calculus. So I said, "Sorry, it's not fair to these two to use tools they don't understand." To which they replied, "It's OK, we'll learn calculus." And they did. They checked out math books from the library and crammed to learn the principles of calculus along with the economics. It is the first and only time I have taught principles of economics using calculus.
We were there for the 2000 election in the US, when the voting in Florida was such a mess and no one knew who the next president would be for several weeks. That was quite a treat for the Chinese students taking the class on American government.
We were there when the US reconaissance plane collided with the Chinese jet off Hainan Island and had to make an emergency landing there. Things seemed a bit tense if you watched CNN and maybe it was up in Beijing. I was out riding my bicycle with Alan during the time the US airmen were being held in Hainan. The tire went flat on the bike, so I pulled over to one of the many roadside bike repairmen. He found the valve stem was not tightened properly, fixed it, and reinflated the tire. In the meantime, a small crowd had gathered around. I guess I was in a part of town where foreigners rarely travel, or perhaps they had never seen such a chubby guy on a bike before. Anyway, when I asked how much the repair cost, the repairman waved me off with a smile and said, "guoji guanxi". In effect, "It's free for the sake of international relations." If that was his real intent, it worked. That is one of my best memories from that year.
Our whole family had a great experience. We lived in what for us seemed like cramped quarters, but the closeness was good in many ways. The lack of 50+ English language TV stations was also a blessing in disguise.
We attended church with a small group of LDS people in Nanjing. Five of them were affiliated with BYU's China Teacher's Program, and one was a BYU graduate studying Chinese at Nanjing Normal University. With six people in our family, we were half the group. We met in the apartments of the two retired couples. With such a small group you got to give a talk or teach a lesson almost every week.
I kept a journal of sorts of the year. You can find it here on our family's website.
I would really like to go back and do another year in the future. With kids going to high school in a year or two, though, I don't know when we will be able to go.
Anyway here are a few photos from that year.
At the Yangtze River Bridge
Taking the Kids to Preschool
Lunch with Center Students
Our Church Group
Saying Goodbye after Graduation in June
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Korean and Chinese Names
My wife, Yeongmi, is from Korea, so she has a Korean name, of course. I served an LDS mission there in 1980-81 and it was common for the missionaries then to take a Korean name. I got mine in the missionary training center in Provo from Sister Kim, one of the the Korean language teachers there. She liked to pick names that were similar to our English names, so I ended up as Go Pilip. Go Pilip is a pretty silly sounding Korean name, but we were foreigners and seemed pretty silly to most Koreans in a lot of other ways as well, so a silly name wasn't really a big deal
When I taught at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2000-01, we were required to register as permanent residents using a Chinese name. I pulled out my old Korean name, which had corresponding Chinese characters, my wife already had a name based on Chinese characters, and we used my "Korean" family name with each of the kid's middle names to get their Chinese names.
I have been told by native Mandarin speakers that my name in Chinese sounds OK, which makes it a much better name in China than it is in Korea.
Korean names are almost always based on Chinese characters with a one-syllable family name coming first and a two-syllable given name coming second. For example, my wife's name is Jo Yeongmi, with Jo being her family name and Yeongmi being her given name. There are exceptions to this, of course. Some people have a single syllable given name. And there are a few rare a notable cases of two-syllable family names in Korea.
It is a common custom in Korea when naming children to pick one of the two charcters in the given name and use it in the names of all the children. My wife's siblings are Yeongae, Yeongsuk, Yeongheon & Yeongho, for example.
When we had our first child we decided to give him both an American and a Korean name. The Korean given name is what we used for each of our four children's middle names. We chose "Eun " (also Romanized as "Un") as the common character for each name. It means grace or gracious. It is shown below.
When I taught at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2000-01, we were required to register as permanent residents using a Chinese name. I pulled out my old Korean name, which had corresponding Chinese characters, my wife already had a name based on Chinese characters, and we used my "Korean" family name with each of the kid's middle names to get their Chinese names.So here are our family's Korean/Chinese names in Chinese characters, Korean phonetic characters, and the pronunciations in Mandarin and Korean.
I have been told by native Mandarin speakers that my name in Chinese sounds OK, which makes it a much better name in China than it is in Korea.
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