Slowing down to be heard: The rise of nonviolent communication in Korea

In Seoul, a city defined by speed, fast Wi-Fi, fast delivery and fast growth, there is a quiet countercurrent that has been emerging. It does not promise efficiency or productivity. Instead, it asks people to slow down, go inward for self-understanding, listen and speak with unusual honesty and awareness. At its center is NVC Korea, founded by Katherine Han (Singer), who has spent over two decades introducing a radically simple idea: that the way we communicate can transform not only our relationships, but also our inner lives. The practice that she and her team teach is known as Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a framework developed by American psychologist Marshall Rosenberg (1934-2015). At first glance, it may seem almost too simple. Participants learn to structure communication in four steps: observation, feeling, need and request. But beneath that simplicity lies something more demanding: a shift away from judgment and toward awareness. Han describes NVC as learning “how to express ourselves honestly without judging others, and how to hear others’ feelings and needs however the

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