105 Learning Journal #2

[Melody (Mengdong) Zhuang]

After reading the Figuring Foreigners Out, I consider Koreans are collectivists, uses non-verbal communication or body languages such as bows, and use indirect communication. Koreans only touch someone who is a relative or close friend, and would consider a personal violation to touch, hug, patting or back slapping a stranger or elder. Koreans are family-oriented. There is an obvious hierarchy within the family or corporation where the juniors should always respect the seniors, use formal and polite vocabularies, bow to elders or seniors when greeting and leaving, and always pass and receive objects with right hand supported by the left hand or with both hands.