Koreans

South Korea and how the awareness of nunchi affects social relations on professional and casual levels. The main purpose of my research is to identify how nunchi serves as grounding in interpersonal relations and why it plays such a large role in Korean culture compared to other cultures. As a result, my main research question is how nunchi affects and reflects…

Overall, this cross-cultural partner project provided me a unique and practical opportunity to get to know my friend Aaron and his native South Korean culture better. This project helped me understand the South Korean culture and how it has impacted Aaron’s life thus far. Learning about Aaron’s wonderful journey as a military member in South Korea, to becoming a successful exchange student in the United States as a student here at Dordt College, was one of the most interesting series of…

My heritage as a second generation Korean American has made me experience all sorts of comments and questions about my culture numerous times. Many of my Korean friends are also in the same position as me, or they were born in South Korea and moved to the U.S.A when they were children. Whenever someone in my group of Korean friends, talk about Korea we always ask my immigrant friends why they moved here. Especially if in that group, there is a native South Korean that just recently moved here or…

Fact Book * Modes: the main modes of transportation in South Korea are airports, road transport, and rail transport. Especially, the roads appeared to have the largest share of the overall transportation infrastructure. * Availability: South Korean government has invested heavily on increasing and maintains an efficient transportation system. Past few years, total road network increased by 25% in South Korea. * Usage rates: Use Incheon (Inch'on), Pohang (P'ohang), Busan (Pusan),…

The image above shows the many emotional consequence of war and the negative aspects that come of it. This tragic image demonstrates the brutality of war and the effect it as on the soldiers themselves. The images makes viewers conscious of the worried and horrified feeling of the soldiers. The image creates a sympathetic environment upon the viewer who is witnessing a solider break down in a battle field. The feeling of heartbreak is immediate since it doesn’t have to be processed carefully…

listen and speak English, I have a translator in my head. What it means is that I have to translate English into Korean first. These indirect processes of literacy take more time to communicate in English. Specifically, the arrangement of words in sentences is opposite. For example, the sentence "I am writing an essay" changed about "an essay I am writing" when it converted to Korean. The difference of word placement makes me hard ,especially, when I speak English. For instance, in class, I have…

Most people are Korean and walk alone, not engaging with each other. The block feel like a passageway, so in addition to Koreatown residents and visitors, some pedestrians walk through Koreatown to get somewhere else. These people usually walk quicker and look around less than those here for food and shopping. In the evenings and on weekends, the crowds are younger and consist of groups of friends and romantic partners. Some of these groups are multiethnic, though the majority are Korean, and…

study, Ellen Moore, unfortunately experiences all of these pressing issues when she takes a job in South Korea. Coming from the United States, Ellen was blind to the Korean culture and way Koreans did business, but she did her best to acquaint herself with it. However, when it came to understanding the company culture of the Koreans she did her best to adjust, tippy-toe, and navigate potential land mines. When it comes to teamwork that was established in Korea, Ellen had to do her best to fit…

Economic indicators The Korean government is very efficient. South Korea to play a large consortium, the resources concentrated in a few consortium who, the use of large to squeeze opponents, making Samsung, LG, modern technology and brands are among the world-class. South Korea on the panel, dram, the semiconductor industry to help them refine the investment overturned bend, China learned this (I said is learning to support dram, the semiconductor panel, not a consortium), so we are now the…

The Korean and Greek civilizations were very different and barely alike in any way. In a way, however, there are still many connections between the two. The Koreans were a very dependent kind of people due to not having much even back then. They thrived off of small hobbies like fishing and farming. The Greeks were most definitely different economically, militaristically, and politically from the Koreans. The Korean economy was much better way back when, then it is now. The Koreans mainly…