Hae-Ra Han focuses on culture and introduces five new Nurse Researcher articles relating to the subject now available online first and in this issue

I still remember the culture shock I experienced when I arrived in the US from South Korea more than a decade ago: most people drove a car rather than walked, social gatherings were more family-oriented than age-based or gender-based, and the Baltimore Orioles baseball team were called the ‘O’s as if they were close friends. I was fascinated by the different looks, skin colours and languages to which I had never been exposed.