Click into the Hermit Kingdom (95); Chong To-jon - True Gentleman-Scholar.

From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) | Date: January 10, 2000 | Copyright information

Kim Young-oak, a fast-talking oriental-scholar doctor-writer, is currently attracting record-breaking numbers of viewers with his philosophy lecture series on EBS TV.

Touching on a variety of subjects including traditional Korean thought, the series is indeed entertaining and educational, except for his unrestrained word choice and multilingual verbiage peppered with English, Chinese and Japanese.

During one of his shows last week, the former Korea Universi...

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