Lessons From A Few Years Spent in The World (5 of 5)

by Jake Hollingsworth // Seoul, South Korea // www.JakeHollingsworth.net Ask any of the great leaders of history, and they will quickly tell you the key ingredient to a successful company, movement, or organization. Starbucks is not successful because of their profit margins (well, yes they are, but that’s not my point). Martin Luther King, Jr.…

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Lessons From A Few Years Spent in the World (4 of 5)

by Jake Hollingsworth // Seoul, South Korea // www.JakeHollingsworth.net Apparently, around midnight on Saturday, the subway stops running between Noryangjin and Hapjeong Station. Maybe it was just down for maintenance. Or, quite possibly, we were naive foreigners in over our heads. Either way, we were stuck. My wife and I had opted for a weekend…

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Lessons From A Few Years Spent in the World (3 of 5)

by Jake Hollingsworth // Seoul, South Korea // www.JakeHollingsworth.net My first teaching assignment was just a bit off the grid… Buseok, a tiny farming community on the outskirts of Yeongju, goes mostly unnoticed. Ask any Korean to point out the obscure little  town on a map, and you’ll get a variety of blank stares, nervous…

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