Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living and Working in Korea (Interact Series) - Softcover

Kohls, L. Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877864870 ISBN 13: 9781877864872

Publisher: John Murray Business, 2001

Synopsis

Kohls shares a feast of Korean culture: a ricebowl of history and tradition complimented by an array of spicy tidbits that capture the reader’s attention like a mouthful of kimchi. Based on personal experience, he provides critical incidents that explore the more puzzling aspects of Korean culture. Kohls explores Korean values―traditional values, value changes over the past forty years and projected values for the early decades of the twenty-first century. He is equally insightful when it comes to discussing the cultural patterns and practices of the workplace. He takes on management style, personal issues, networking and “pull,” negotiating style, persistence, key Korean business relations and more. To a greater extent than most other Asisan countries, Korea adheres to the traditional collectivist and Confucian traits of harmony, hierarchy, ingroups/outgroups, status, and proper behavior. According to Kohls, these traits plus the more Westernized values of the younger generations and the veneer of modern urban savvy surface in surprising combinations in personal and workplace relationships―often where they are least expected.

About this title

About the Author

L. Robert Kohls has thirty years' experience as an intercultural trainer and trainer of other trainers; he has worked, lived and travelled in more than eighty countries, with extensive stays in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He is also a founding member of SIETAR International.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Murray Business
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1877864870
• ISBN 13: 9781877864872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200