
Cultivate a good attitude and common sense to navigate hierarchy and earn respect in a Korean company.
Explore dress code expectations in Korean companies, from suits to business casual, where blue jeans are not allowed. Apply the T.P.O. rule—time, place, and occasion—for weddings and funerals.
Learn to navigate privacy in a Korean company, where colleagues may ask about age, last night, and relationship status, and understand 'number of spoons' measure of familiarity with prepared responses.
Explore hierarchy in Korean companies, showing Samsung Electronics reducing from seven to four levels to enable free communication, and outline howon, teddy, padang, and nim naming and calling conventions.
Learn to survive in Korean companies by answering boss questions with the conclusion first, stating status and timeline, then reasons, and avoiding excuses.
Understand the meeting definition in a Korean company and learn three practical sentences to participate, signal understanding, ask about sales and revenue (BP), and observe Asian business card etiquette.
Navigate Asian corporate bonding rituals, such as Friday night fishing, two-handed toasting, and boss-led dynamics, and learn how newcomers sit across the table to respect hierarchy.
Recognize how protocol shapes hierarchy in Korean companies, including car seating, elevator button order, and handshake etiquette across Asian and Western cultures.
Working in Korean company makes you exhausted.
Because Korean companies require not only job ability but also attitude.
So if you decide to work in Korea , you need to learn how to fit yourself in the Korean company.
I assume you already have enough skills and information ,
so I just want to add a small knowledge of Korean culture.
These lectures are focusing on the skills you need to fit in Korean company.
1. Introduction - Why attitude is important in Korea
Sometimes , attitude is more important than ability
2. Dress code - How to dress in Korean Company
Each Korean companies require each dress code.
3. Privacy - Why Koreans seem to touch your private life
Koreans think sharing privacy makes the relation closer.
4. Hierarchy - Your Pay roll means your hierarchy
During conversation , you have to catch which one is higher
5. Conversation - If you can speak Korean , you have to be careful.
You speak the conclusion first , the reason last.
6. Phone etiquette : How to answer the phone. It depends on the situation.
If your boss calls when you`re in the middle of meeting , do you have to answer the phone ?
7. Meeting - It is the best way to show your ability so don`t be shy.
You may think that silence is the best way if you don`t know what to say in meeting ,
but the truth is you have say anything.
If you stay silent , it makes you useless.
8. Hoesic - Hoesic is an unique culture of Korean Company
HOESIC is a Korean word meaning "Gathering and Eating dinner together"
But it is not a just eating dinner together.
You have drink liquor , you have sing in Karaoke.
So this lecture is introducing the HOESIC.
9. Korean Funeral - How to attend someone`s funeral and show your condolences.
Most of Korean funeral is performed in hospital building ( not in the grave yard or street)
So this lecture is about the steps to attend the Korean Funeral.
10.Protocol - Basic etiquette : Where to sit on in car , Where to be in elevator.
Korean Culture is based on respect.
Protocol is about hierarchy in car or elevator.
You can find your position according to your pay roll.
Thank you.
God bless your job.