...areas were needed to be improve. It is really good when a boss takes time to listen to and hear what time of ideas you have in mind, since basically the own employees are the ones that are down there making the job and are able to see much better what is going on. Also the Indian culture they are really dedicated to their work they’re the ones that can improve our technology base on their intelligence not saying that other culture can’t but they have been the leading culture on technology base on the video. They also work with really close friends and hang out with people of their own interest so they can be able to share ideas. Many countries try to imitate japan such as kores, Korea is a very intelligent country they build relationships with other countries so they can grow as a company in Korea they are really loyal people they respect their jobs and take it really it real serious. They will respect their boss as if they were in the military, and over the time they...
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...I.HANGUL ALPHABET SYSTEM Vowels : - | | | ㅏ | ㅑ | ㅓ | ㅕ | ㅗ | "a" | "ya" | "eo" | "yeo" | "o" | | | | | | | | | | | ㅛ | ㅜ | ㅠ | ㅡ | ㅣ | "yo" | "oo" or "u" | "yoo" or "yu" | "eu" | "i" | | | | Consonants : - | | | ㄱ | ㄴ | ㄷ | ㄹ | ㅁ | "g" or "k" | "n" | "d" or "t" | " r " or " l " | "m" | | | | | | | | | | | ㅂ | ㅅ | ㅇ | ㅈ | ㅊ | "b" or "p" | "s" | - | " ch " | " ch' " | | | | | | | | | | | ㅋ | ㅌ | ㅍ | ㅎ | | " g' " or " k' " | " d' " | " p' " | " h " | | Note that " ' " means the letter is aspirated, i.e a sharp sound. | ㅎ + | ㅏ + | ㄴ = | 한 | han | | h | a | n | | | | | | | | | | ㄱ + | ㅜ + | ㄱ = | 국 | guk | | g | u | k | | | | II.DOUBLE VOWELS ㅐ | ㅒ | ㅔ | ㅖ | ㅘ | ㅙ | ㅝ | ㅞ | | eir | yeir | ere | yere | wa | where | wo | weo | | | | | | | | | | | ㅟ | ㅢ | | | | | | | | weou | wei | | | | | | | | III.USE OF CONSONANTS AND VOWELS Vowels in the korean languages may be attached to the left, right or beneath each other in order to form a word, the following are examples of their use : - 가 = ka | 거 = keo | 겨 = kyeo | 갸 = kya | 기 = ki | 고 = ko | | | | 바 = pa | 버 = peo | 부 = pu | 뵤 = pyo | 지 = chi | 저 = cheo | 즈 = chu | 조 = cho | 마 = ma | 머 = meo | 무 = mo | 나 = na | 너 = neo | 이 = i | 야 = ya | 디 = ti | 고 = ko | 댜 = tya | 요 = yo | 오 = o | 도 = to | 드 = tu | 두 = too |...
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...* Imagine that you could have one super power. What would it be and how would you use it? What would be your kryptonite? The super power I would love to have is teleportation (transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them). Having this kind of power will allow me to think about where I want to be, get dress and be get there in little time. My professors and my parents will never have to worry about me being late to class because it only takes me a split second of a time to arrive. My Kryptonite would be thinking of two places at one time and getting stuck in between walls and dying. As a freshman in college it is so hard to adjust to the college lifestyle so teleportation would be a perfect super power for me. I can imagine myself being in situations like having a 9:00am class, sleeping through the alarm clock, it’s now 8:45am and having little time to get to class. I could jump out of bed, take a quick shower, brush my teeth, and get dress by 8:59am. I would then use my super power teleportation, think about my Finance class and still made it to class at 8:59am… on time! When I get older, complete my college education and retire from my career field in Finance, I would love to start traveling around the world. I would have no more stress about transportation deciding on whether to drive, take the train or taking the plane. Whether I want to go to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, etc., I can save on my retirement...
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...Naturally, when I moved from South Korea to Miami, I expected there to many differences. What I didn’t foresee were all the similarities. I assumed that moving from South Korea back to the United States, would be like going home, however, I found that coming to Miami was like adjusting to another country all over again. Both South Korea and Miami are lovely places to visit. One of them, however, is also an amazing place to live. Every major city has traffic issues. After living in South Korea, I didn’t think that anywhere could possibly have worse traffic, or drivers than them; until I moved to South Florida. Red lights are more of a suggestion in Korea. Even if you have the green light, it’s best to proceed with caution, just in case another...
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...in Global Business Practice and Education S. J. Chang Illinois State University ABSTRACT As today’s business decisions and choices are increasingly influenced by the diverse cultural backgrounds and perspectives of various corporate stakeholders, it is critical for business managers to have multicultural understanding. This motivates us to refine our business perspectives and approaches in global arena as well as our educational philosophies on global business management. Based on casual yet experiential discussions, this essay presents some cohesive points on comparative cultural understanding and business implications thereof between the “West” and the “East,” which is presupposed by the cultural contrasts between America and Korea. It can hopefully serve as a practically meaningful guideline for business practice and education on multiculturalism. Keywords: multiculturalism, global business management, comparative cultural understanding Journal of International Business and Cultural Studies When East and West Meet, Page 2 INTRODUCTION Thanks to the rapid and continuous expansion of large global businesses, today people, capital, information, and technology travel more freely, rapidly, and widely than ever. The everexpanding scope and scale of large global firms over the recent decades have already been amply documented by numerous reports (See, among others, Barnet & Cavanagh, 1994; Korten, 1996; Karliner, 1997; Gottlieb, 1998; Worldwatch Institute, 2000;...
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...was filmed in South Korea; I will compare the movie with my culture as an Americanized-Hispanic. Introduction Ethnocentrism can be defined as our point of view of another culture; basing our opinion by comparing it to our own culture. Depending on how one uses this categorization we can easily come to a conclusion which becomes more of a stereotype or racist judgment. The effects of ethnocentrism can be negative and affect others in their life in great multitudes. We can use the example from 9/11. Since then many Muslims have been judged and put into a category simply because of their religion; not everybody who is Muslim is also tied into al-Qaeda. Just because woman/man wear head gear also make them an extremist who is out to bomb something. But because of this tragedy, we have done just that, accused and damned their religion and beliefs; because they are not like us and well because of 9/11. “The Chaser” The movie I chose was “The Chaser”; a movie filmed in South Korea about an ex-detective turned pimp who finds himself in financial trouble because two of his girls disappeared. After sending his last girl, he finds out that the customer is also the last customer of the other two girls who just went missing; in his quest of finding the where about of those two other girls he unfolds the truth. This customer is a serial killer! The reason I chose this movie was first because it was filmed in South Korea, second because I...
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...Throughout the 19th century into the 20th century, the west started to have an increasingly great influence on the other parts of the world. Asia, in particular, was faced with the decision of whether to adopt and conform to the western ways or to reject and stick with their traditional ways of life. In the end, Asia adapted to ways of the western “devils”, but most of their efforts seemed unsuccessful while others were quite successful. The main countries that experienced the western influence were China, Korea and Japan. Although all three countries experienced their share of internal and external strife, China and Korea’s modernization efforts were, in comparison to Japan, unsuccessful. The reason for this was because Japan was able to fully utilize their resources and take advantage of the opportunities that they were presented with in Asia, whereas China and Korea were occupied with internal and external conflicts. Although China and Korea weren’t total failures, the Land of the Rising sun overshadowed them. China’s first experience with western imperialism is seen in the 1830’s when they had conflict with the spread of opium and the dwindling of silver within the country. China wished to stop both these events so when they confiscated supplies of opium from British traders, the British government used its newly developed military power to make their dissatisfaction known to the Chinese. This, along with other factors, led to the First Opium War (1839-1842). The result...
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...About Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE） About Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE） Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) has been involved in various international cooperation activities mainly for developing countries since its establishment in 1977. JICE contributes to the development of not only developing countries but international community through the implementation of the activities for strengthening mutually beneficial partnership between foreign countries and Japan. Our main activities are the management of international training courses entrusted by ministries and agencies including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), universities, local governments, public and private organizations, international organizations and foreign governments; youth exchange programmes; assistance for students from overseas; dispatching interpreters; Japanese language lessons; supporting conventions, seminars and projects, operation of supporting development education. Besides the staff of 194, JICE has 1080 specialists who are specialized in 31 languages and engage in formulation, investigation, research, implementation and evaluation of projects by using their accumulated experiences and knowledge. JICE, with our motto “Share knowledge and experience. For our world. For the future”, links “Japan’s technology, knowledge and experience” to the world and works on developing future leaders of each country through...
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...KOREAN LITERATURE Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classical and modern periods, although this distinction is sometimes unclear. Korea is home to the world's first metal and copper type, world's earliest known printed document and the world's first featural script. ------------------------------------------------- General overview In general, the written arts have a tradition in epigraphic inscriptions on stones, in early tombs, and on rarely found bamboo pieces that formed early books. Repeated invasions and sacking of the east and west capitals, as well as the difficulty in preserving written texts on bamboo, make works before 1000 rare. Those works were entirely written in Chinese characters, the language of scholars, but of course incorporated Korean words and mindset. Medieval scholars in Korea learned and employed written Chinese as western schoolmen learned Latin: as a lingua franca for the region. It helped cultural exchanges extensively. Notable examples of historical records are very well documented from early times, and as well Korean books with movable type, often imperial encyclopedias or historical records, were circulated as early as the 7th century during the Three Kingdoms era from printing wood-blocks; and in the Goryeo era the world's first metal type...
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...Writ 1301 The Tears of Korean Comfort Women After Chosun (the former name of Korea) was invaded by Japan in 1910, Korean women were forcibly sent to Japan as comfort women: sex slaves of the Japanese military. ‘Comfort woman’ is a euphemism for a female sexual slave to the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. The Japanese military recruited young and unmarried Asian women to join the military, then sent them to brothels in China and other Asian and Pacific countries in order to “comfort” Japanese soldiers. One of the few surviving Korean comfort women, Soon-duk Kim, gave the following testimony to Sangmie Choi Schellstede, the editor of the book, Comfort Women Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military: “I was promised a job as a military nurse…[however, the Japan military took us to] a ruined village of Shanghai. Rooms were divided into tiny cubicles. Each of our fifty girls was divided to one of these cubicles. Now this house became a brothel, and we were sex slaves in it” (38). Kim was wounded due to numerous rape. She explained about the horrible remedy she received: “One day our manager gave me packets of black powder to take once a day…[But] after I used it several times, he then told me the powder was made from a leg of a Chinese soldier’s corpse” (38). This experience is not limited to Kim. Approximately 200,000 Korean women suffered as sex slaves of Japan’s military system before and during the World War II. Today, however, not many...
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...Business Comm. Business in other Countries When working in the global commercial environment, you need to consider the cultural mandates of each country in which you do business, and you will also need to ensure you obey both local and international laws. Knowledge of the impact of cultural differences is one of the keys to international business success. Improving levels of cultural awareness can help companies build international competencies and enable individuals to become more globally sensitive to the social norms of different countries. Cultures vary widely from country to country, and what might seem polite in the United States can be rude and unprofessional in another location. In some countries, for example, in China you'll be expected to dress very formally and be highly direct. In others, however, small talk, getting to know your client and frequent informal business meetings are the norm. Doing business always involves meeting and greeting people. In China, meetings start with the shaking of hands and a slight nod of the head. Usually clients aren’t overly vigorous when shaking hands, the Chinese may interpret this as aggressive. The Chinese are not keen on physical contact, the only circumstance in which it may take place is when a host is guiding a guest. Even then contact will only be made by holding a cuff or sleeve. Also, it is not wise to slap, pat, or put your arm around someone's shoulders. The giving of gifts does not carry any negative connotations...
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...China and Japan shared many differences in their late years. The differences between late China and Japan I will discuss are their gardens, ceramics, and painting: Gardens: China utilized the practice of cultivating man made and designed gardens that took on the appearance of a naturally occurring garden/landscape. Meanwhile the Japanese utilized Zen Gardens which were often big yards that contained sand a few large rocks instead of the usual grass and trees. The Chinese gardens were to obtain the fully natural beauty of nature in an unnatural place, while the Japanese Zen gardens were to aid in the Japanese practice of Zen Buddhism through repetitive meditative work. Ceramics: The Chinese and Japanese also had differences in their sculpting....
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...Japan went through a period of national isolation from the outside world (the “sakoku” period) during the late 1600s. The Tokugawa rulers wanted cultural particularism and they could achieve this by having no contacts abroad, so that Japan could engage in introspection. During the Tokugawa period, knowledge of other countries was rather restricted, but toward the end of this period there were few Japanese who speculated where Japan stood in relation to the West. The general population, however, was ignorant to the significance of other better nations existing and expressed little interest concerning the West. Hirata Atsutane, for example, thought he was certain of Japan’s superiority because of the fact that the sun first shines on Japan each morning. Another example of comparing Japan to the rest of the world in the nineteenth century is in the writings of Aizawa Seishisai, an influential thinker of the Mito school: “The earth in the firmament appears to be perfectly round, without edges or corners…As for the land amidst the seas which the Western barbarians call America, it occupies the hindmost region of the earth; thus, its people are stupid and simple, and are incapable of doing things” (596). It goes without saying that the Japanese viewed the US in a very arrogant manner. They considered the US as inferior compared to them, and for this reason the Japanese wanted nothing to do with them. There was a fear that with the merging of two nations as allies, the West would send...
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...The origin of the Japanese people is controversial with various theories and hypotheses. However, based on the result of genotypic analysis by The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in 2012, proto-Japanese is considered as an admixture of Jomon people and Yayoi people. When looking back over the Japanese history, the proto-Mongoloid in the Japanese archipelago during the Jomon period is called Jomon people, and Yayoi people is the one migrated from southern China. Around the fourth glacial age, also known as Ulm glacial age, the ice sheet covered most of continents in the north hemisphere, and the sea level was about 120m lower than today. The Japan sea and the East China sea then could be crossed by foot. While proto-Mongoloid in the Japanese archipelago migrated southbound with mammoths from Northeast Asia, proto-Mongoloid in southern China migrated northbound with Naumann’s elephant. Finally, they met in the central area. These two branches of proto-Mongoloid have been separated by the Japanese Alps for a long time, but then mixed up after lived together. The interbreeding is known as proto-Japanese during 5000 B.C. or Jomon period. (Shiba, 2008) Then, how they came to Japan? There are three potential origins of the Japanese people the Okinawa route, the Hokkaido route, and the Tsushima route. (or the marine route, the north route, and the south route) Southern Proto-Mongoloid traveled northbound from Taiwan to Ryukyu Islands is thought as the first route. The Hokkaido...
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...Impact of Culture on Consumer Behavior in Luxury Consumption South Korea vs Netherlands By: Cindy Yoel Tanesia, Joline Boersma I. South Korea South Korea is a country located in the southern part of Korean peninsula. The population is 48,955,203 people (July 2013 est.) which make South Korea to be the 25th largest country in terms of population despite the relatively small area of the land. This paper will compare two cities in South Korea, Seoul and Busan, in terms of different in culture and how it affects the consumer behavior of the people living in the related cities. But, first of all, let’s see the general culture of people in South Korea: 1. Homogeneous There is a term of ‘hanminjok’ (한민족) in South Korea which literally means South Korean race. This term is used to describe that South Korean actually prefer to not mix their race with other races through international marriage because they afraid that they eventually will not have the pure Korean race anymore. However, the diplomatic relationship between USA and South Korea where USA helps South Korea for the military made USA military base established in some parts of South Korea actually opened the opportunity for more people from USA to come and stay in South Korea and eventually have their own family in South Korea which contributes to the increase in the international marriage in South Korea, especially in Seoul. 2. Importance of education Education plays important part for South Korean in almost every...
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