Living and working in South Korea has become increasingly popular among non-Koreans in recent years. In a new column for Korea Real Time that will appear twice each month, an American woman working at a mid-sized Korean company writes about her experiences. Here’s her first column.

My job is fairly ordinary. Thousands of office workers throughout Korea have jobs just like mine. While for them there is little unusual about this type of job, for me, one of the few foreigners working at a medium-sized Korean company, every...