They just all look the same don't they?

As a preface, and as everyone might know by now, I work for a Korean Company.

Anyway, upon my return from a recent business trip, I met with my boss to discuss what I had accomplished, we went over some questions, opinions, etc., The following day however he sent me an email asking me various questions about my trip. At first I thought it was a little odd because we went over most of the stuff already, but nonetheless I figured maybe he wanted a recap in writing, so I obliged.

As time went on we discussed more topics, resolved some more issues, etc., and yet again I got an email from him asking again some of the same questions that I'd thought we already answered. This time however, in the email, I had to use wording like "as per our previous discussion" and "as you mentioned", etc., in hopes of refreshing his memory a little. I even went and spoke with another manager to see if she knew why he was sending me these emails after we had already spoken about the matters at length... maybe he was tired or stressed I wondered.

Last night I got another email from him, and at the end of the email he said "Please respond before you leave" and I looked at the time of the email and it said 6:40pm and I almost spit out my cold coffee "as if" I thought to myself... he knows I'm out the door at 4:59:59.

Then it hit me. It wasn't my boss sending me the emails - it was someone from our Seoul, Korea office. See my boss' name is, at least as I call him, "W.Y.Kim" (they use initials in the US) his full name, as it appears in email (as I know now) is "Kim.Wonyong" and I was getting emails from "Kim.Woohyong" who is actually "W.H.Kim" as in "Woo Hyung", where as my boss is Won Yong... I guess it's true what they say... they do all look alike.