Posts

Showing posts with the label korean native says about their culture

Work environment in South Korea

Image
Hi, I'm Jackie. I'm a native Korean who's living in Korea. (Don't ask me are you from North Korea or South Korea! No one from North Korea is allowed to go abroad and talk to you guys) I've been noticed many of my American friends and some of my friends from another country are dreaming about Asian life and so into Korean culture. Yes, we have lots of fascinating cultures like k-pop, pretty little fancy cosmetics business, drastically changing fashion trend, aegyo culture(acting cute), caring relationship culture which is a bit different with western culture when it comes to expressing one's feeling, and what else.. ah, extreme food culture. But putting aside all these, I'd like to talk about a working environment first. I'm pretty sure that this will break your fantasies about Korea! South Korea's economy has grown up drastically from 1970s to 2018. We were under a dictatorship in 70s. Many people died and we had some national acti...