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Intercultural Understanding: Interacting with Koreans
Beom Yoo
(Chungbuk National University)
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Aims of This Presentation
• To help the participants better understand Korean culture in the areas of interpersonal communication and everyday life .
• To help the participants avoid intercultural miscommunication when they interact with Koreans
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Lecture Plan
• Talk about intercultural differences between high-context culture (Korea) and low-context culture (anglophone countries)
• Provide explanations on various intercultural differences between Korean and anglophone countries that the participants need to be aware of to interact with Koreans in their everyday life
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Hall's model of cultural value orientation (Chen & Starosta(1998), Foundations of Intercultural communication, p. 51)
Low-context Culture
• Overtly displays meaning through direct communication forms
• Values individualism
• Tends to develop transitory personal relationships
• Emphasizes linear logic
• Values direct verbal interaction and is less able to read nonverbal expressions
• Tends to use "logic" to present ideas
• Tends to emphasize highly structured messages, give details, and place great stress on words and technical signs
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High-Context Culture
• Implicitly embeds meanings at different levels of the sociocultural context.
• Values group sense.
• Tends to take time to cultivate and establish a permanent personal relationship.
• Emphasizes spiral logic.
• Values indirect verbal interaction and is more able to read nonverbal expressions.
• Tends to use more "feeling" in expression.
• Tends to give simple, ambiguous, noncontexting messages.
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Individualistic Cultures vs. Collectivistic Cultures
• Individualistic Cultures
characterized by the primacy of individual goals, achievement benefiting the individual, self-esteem, and self-reliance
• Collectivistic Cultures
emphasize the subordination of individual goals to those of the group and place greater importance on the group's needs, norms, and beliefs relative to those of the individual
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Important Areas of
Intercultural Differences
in Communication
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• linguistic expressions
• stress and intonation
• conversation topics
• discourse structure/strategies
• speech acts
• conversational structure/strategies
Verbal Communication
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Nonverbal Communication
• eye-contact
• facial expressions
• posture
• hand gestures
• body gestures
• situational behavior
• personal space
• voice
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Living Customs
• daily life
• special occasions
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Koreans' Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
and Their Behaviors
Most of the following examples have been cited from Ugly Koreans, Ugly Americans published in 2006 by BCM Media in Korea.
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• Keeping one’s face is extremely important
• Tend to be sensitive to hierarchical relation in a group
• Tend to ask personal questions
• Often respond negatively to complements
• Often do not separate private matters with public matters
• Building up “Jeong” (a feeling of caring about each other) is crucial.
• Treat guests devotedly
• Often make comments about appearance such as weight, height, nose, ears, or skin
• Often smile at you after making a mistake or being embarrassed
• Korean women cover their mouths when they laugh
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• Often speak Korean among themselves and do not translate for a foreigner, even though they can speak English.
• Do not greet when passing by a stranger
• Tend to shake hands too long or too limply.
• Male friends sometimes hold hands.
• Females often hold each other with their arms around each others waist.
• Often have extensive small talk before business.
• Tend not to express his/her opinion clearly when asked.
• Often grab their neighbor's sleeve or hand to get his/her attention.
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• Korean females often slap their friend next to them while bursting into laughter.
• Some Koreans avoid eye contact during a conversation to show respect.
• Often eat dried squid in public. They also enjoy "cheonggukjang," which smells really bad to many westerners.
• Parents tend to let their children disturb others in public.
• Some Koreans stare at foreigners and talk about them in their presence.
• Often make invitations or important announcements at the last minute at work.
• Don't wear shoes inside their houses or apartments.
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• Often close their eyes at a meeting to concentrate on listening.
• One's seniority is more important than one's achievement or ability.
• Many Koreans use a roll of toilet paper for tissues or paper napkins at home or at an office.
• Often slurp loudly while eating noodles or soup.
• Often reach across the table to pick up something instead asking their neighbor to pass it.
• Many Korean men unbuckle their belts during meals when they feel they are tight.
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• Many Korean use toothpicks after meals especially at restaurants.
• Might add cream and sugar to coffee without asking their guests how they like it.
• Korean men and women tend to form separate groups at parties, dinners, etc.
• Some Koreans get into subways or elevators before others get off.
• Have facial expressions that are flat and dull.
• Some public restrooms are used by men and women in common.
• Public restrooms often do not have toilet paper or paper towels.
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Korean students• Bow to their teachers
• Wear uniforms
• Tend to be quite noisy during the break
• Tend to show passive attitude in class
• Do cleaning up after school
• Study at school till late at night (high school)
• Tend to be afraid of speaking English
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Questions and
Answers