Professionalism

I was reading an article in today's The Korea Times which spoke of how Koreans are turning away from beef and consuming more pork. Blah blah blah, this issue is so tired I can't even begin to write about it. If you want coverage of the AMERICAN BEEF IS SATAN issue, check out the Marmots Hole.

Anyway, back to the article "Korea Turns From Beefy Country to Porky One", by Oh Young-jin, a Staff Reporter with the Korea Times. Apparently this professional and highly qualified journalist has the email address foolsdie @ gmail . com. Now that is hilarious!

I often wonder why so many Korean professionals have such unprofessional email addresses. It's really strange having someone who wants to do business tell you their email address is "sparkly_princess@", "afghanistan@", or "twinkle_toes@". Call me old fashioned and out of touch, but in my opinion, a professionals email should be either his/her name (youngjin.oh@), or a variation of his/her name(yjoh@). I also don't think someone should post their alternative email address. Why does Oh Young-jin not have a @Koreatimes email? It just makes the Korea Times look small time and unprofessional.