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인맥 is not the Korean word for networking. It describes something more demanding and more valuable. Here is the distinction that changes how you build professional relationships in Korea.
Most professionals evaluate opportunities by asking: is this good? The more useful question is harder to answer. And it changes almost every decision. Most professionals evaluate opportunities with some version of the same question: Is this good? Is the salary good? Is the company good? Is the role good? Is the timing good? These are…
The most concerning result of AI in professional communication is not bad writing. It is writing that is technically clean and intellectually absent. There is a distinction worth making between two kinds of AI-assisted professional communication. The first is work that AI has helped make better: clearer, better structured, more precisely worded. The human thinking…
The people you spend the most professional time with set the standard for what is normal. That standard is either working for you or against you. There is a principle in behavioural science that shows up in career research with uncomfortable consistency. The people you spend the most time with set the standard for what…
Most professionals wait until something goes wrong to look at how they communicate. Here is a 20-minute exercise to do before that happens.
The phrase is not warm. It is a habit. Here is what warmth in an email actually looks like. Every week, somewhere, a startup founder sends a cold email to a potential investor that opens with “I hope this finds you well.” A student emails a professor for a recommendation letter: “I hope you are…