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How Switching to a Four Day Working Week Made Me a New Man

Like most people, since graduating, I’d been grinding out those long five (or sometimes six) day work weeks. At the beginning of 2021, I…

5 min readOct 20, 2021

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Why Punks Hate Hippies And Why I Do Too

Growing up as a punk rocker in the 90s, I used to hear my favourite bands bang on about how awful the peace and love brigade were. I still…

4 min readSep 2, 2021

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Should You Feel Guilty About Flying?

I’m heading overseas next month to visit family I haven’t seen in two years. But every day, I see images of horrific forest fires and…

5 min readAug 26, 2021

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Yes, You Use Your Bookshelves to Humble-Brag But That’s OK

We’ve all seen Zoom interviews with people sitting in front of well-stocked bookcases. But why do so many of us like to make our book…

5 min readAug 24, 2021

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A Spot of G-dropping, My Lord? British Attitudes to Accent and Class

British politician Lord Digby Jones savaged TV presenter Alex Scott over her accent this week. But was he right to criticise her or is he…

4 min readAug 2, 2021

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Plagiarism- South Korea’s Dirty Little Secret

With a seemingly never-ending raft of plagiarism accusations running rife in the South Korean media, has the problem reached epidemic…

4 min readOct 10, 2022

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Should You Get Rid of Your Old Tattoos?

My son keeps staring at the faded, badly rendered tattoos I got when I was in my teenage years, asking me why daddy has funny drawings on…

4 min readFeb 20, 2022

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Should You Get Rid of Your Old Tattoos?

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Buy my new book, “These Things Seem Perfectly Normal to Me Now…”, available now

on Amazon in Kindle and paperback versions! Order it here:

1 min readFeb 13, 2022

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Buy my new book, “These Things Seem Perfectly Normal to Me Now…”, available now

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My Trip to the North Korean Border the Day Kim Jong-Il Died

This is the story of my visit to the DMZ, the most fortified and dangerous land border in the world, planned for the day the despotic North…

10 min readFeb 12, 2022

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My Trip to the North Korean Border the Day Kim Jong-Il Died

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Buy Your Dream House in Spain for under $50,000. Let’s All Move to…

Ever felt the need to get away from it all and escape to sunny Spain for a little fun and sangria? Well, buying that dream Spanish holiday…

4 min readFeb 6, 2022

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Nicholas H. Simpson

Nicholas H. Simpson

PhD candidate, language geek living and working in South Korea. All about UK culture, Korean life, cross-cultural differences and English language.

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