Services currently available and others planned, but not yet available include:

  A.  A set of English conversation texts in different versions tailor-made for several societies with respect to their subtle cultural differences, but all versions centered on cogent dialectics with the aim of building students' ability to express themselves clearly in the Western mode of rational discourse.

  B. A few games which are kind of fun for young people, and those still young at heart, focusing on fostering diplomatic, coalition-building skills while cultivating and enjoying warm communion among friends from any culture.   Projected date to offer first game?  ... Try Summer of 2009 as a best-case scenario, and that on a wing and a prayer.    

  C.  ESL Summer Camp in Eastern North Carolina ... a few years later if all goes well, in conjunction with my church, as a nonprofit, Christian based.  Offering instruction in Padook (Go Game), Chess, piano, violin, ka-ya-geum and sa-moo-no-lee traditional Korean instruments tennis, juggling (focusing on team passing skills), drumming, and basic writing and math skills.

  D. Another nonprofit, through my church, for younger college grads:  Christian Principles Management Seminar Site during off season (Fall and Spring weekends and Winter vacation), catering especially to foreign companies in the Southeastern U.S., and U.S. companies which seek to build better relations with Oriental culture.   Better wait more than a few years for this to bloom. 

  E. Translation services, No.  But, I'd like to offer help for political tracts, polishing English drafts for speeches intended for international audiences, particularly helping Developing Countries to put their best foot forward for a Western audience, and without mincing words or provoking offense anymore than necessary, get across the fullness of their intended meaning in a most effective manner.

  F. Spring and Fall Semester devoted to a specialty Padook Academy in the U.S., focused primarily on producing fine padook players, teachers and historians, in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia.  This school would teach a heavy schedule of padook training, but have a consistent smattering of additional required work, in math and English rhetoric and literature.  History and Science and other arts would be much abbreviated, focusing on meeting the needs to pass a G.E.D. test in semi-flying colours. 

  G. Homework Helpers:  A program wherein I enlist the retired teachers of my church to volunteer a couple of hours one evening each week a-piece to work with me on a rotating basis to provide, in a room of our church, a place where young students may come to get free help.  Incidentally, we will be sure "park" our new church in the low rent section of town, keeping well on the disenfranchised side of the proverbial railroad tracks.

This is my family, absent Mom, who's snapping the picture.  We are in the midst of a birthday celebration, a thing we do more and more often in the course of a year.   This is not a bad hobby for us.  We have no regrets so far, as our family size grows and grows.  However, my children and I agree that it would be good to adopt some orphans as younger brothers and sisters in the future.

Available Texts:

One text is now available in several Taejeon bookstores, and then in Kyobo Books in other South Korean cities and online.  It is entitled Best Questions for Cogent Dialectics:  Volume I.  Substantial bulk discounts are available for large orders. 

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The Devil's Advocate: 

Within a web log format, I wish to aid users of my texts.  If they have critical comments and want help from me, to play the Devil's Advocate and/or to help them phrase a rebuttal, I will do so on a first-come/first-serve, time available basis.  Naturally, if it turns out that I can glean sufficient income from text publication, I will be able to extend greater support towards this end, which I feel is quite valuable. 

I will select what seems to be the best critical comments, and those which represent the most common questions and problems, and provide my suggestions for help or typical potential communication problems (weak points in the logical or affective/persuasive structure of your writing) vis-a-vis a Western audience, and publish them on the web log site. 

"Click" on the link above to connect to the site, peruse a bit if you like, and begin your submissions.

In the web site in the above link, you may then send me your best writing in attempts to form cogent dialectical arguments.  I will try to choose stellar representative examples from contributors, particularly the ones which I feel most pertinent to our pedogogical needs, and too, those which I can best address with my humble efforts and abilities, and then proceed to perform two helpful functions for all students using these texts: 

1) Play the Devil's Advocate, countering the expressed positions, showing how an American adversary, in a debate forum, might respond to their assertions. 

2) Help students develop their logical argument skills by fortifying their ability to make their points in a more convincing manner.