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Intercultural Understanding:
Interacting with Koreans
Beom Yoo
(Chungbuk National University)
([email protected])
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
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
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
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.
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
Important Areas
of
Intercultural Differences
in
Communication
Verbal Communication
• linguistic expressions
• stress and intonation
• conversation topics
• discourse structure/strategies
• speech acts
• conversational structure/strategies
Nonverbal Communication
• eye-contact
• facial expressions
• posture
• hand gestures
• body gestures
• situational behavior
• personal space
• voice
Living Customs
• daily life
• special occasions
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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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
Questions
and
Answers