Professor bridges Korea, Zimbabwe with lecture on culture

The Korea Times

Professor bridges Korea, Zimbabwe with lecture on culture

Korean scholar and English educator Min Byoung-chul has become a one-day lecturer on Korean culture for teenagers in Zimbabwe, Friday. At the invitation of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Zimbabwe, Min, an endowed chair professor at Chung-Ang University and the author of “Land of Squid Game,” delivered a 70-minute interactive online lecture on Korean culture to Zimbabwean youth, explaining Korean customs and everyday expressions. Participants gathered in a lecture hall set up at the residence of Korean Ambassador to Zimbabwe Park Jae-kyung, where each segment of the talk reportedly prompted lively discussion. The session followed a simple loop — watching short YouTube videos from Min’s channel, followed by his commentary and a Q&A — but quickly turned into a two-way exchange as students compared Korean customs with their own. Min spotlighted everyday cultural codes — from the greeting “Have you eaten?” and birthday seaweed soup to missing fourth floors, chopstick taboos and the “ppalli-ppalli” (hurry-hurry) mindset behind Korea’s rapid postwar rise. What drew

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