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Dinner with Professors Yoon & Kim

Dinner with Professors Yoon & Kim At the Faculty Cafeteria [1], 2006, Kyungnam University, Masan, South Korea.   Tonight, two professors came over and asked if they could sit with me. Very nice gentlemen who wanted nothing else than to meet me and practice their English. One who did most of the talking was a good-looking, regal, hawknosed, white-haired man named Prof. Yoon, Dean of the Law Department. He’d spent a year at the U. of Texas in Austin. His sidekick was Prof. Kim, (well, who isn’t Prof. Kim? [2]) from the Dept. of Marketing. He’s a little round-faced, bespectacled Mr. Peepers type. His given name, believe it or not, is Young-man. T ypical 3500 won lunch at the gyoji gwon sikdang.  Dinners, which cost  maybe 4500, were even better; they always included a fish or meat dish and a dessert. Ubiquitous kimchi at upper left. “How do you pronounce that?” I asked Prof. Kim. “Young man,” he said. “How do you spell it, I mean in English?” He pulled out his business ca