Boye Lafayette De Mente - Etiquette Guide to Korea: Know the Rules that Make the Difference!

Contents

NOTE: Unless otherwise specified, references to Korea throughout this book refer to South Korea.

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Copyright 2008 Boy Lafayette De Mente
Cover photograph Craig Jay Brown

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

De Mente, Boye.
Etiquette guide to Korea : know the rules that make the difference / Boye Lafayette De Mente.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0023-7 (ebook)
1. EtiquetteKorea. 2. KoreaSocial life and customs. I. Title.
BJ2007.C56D42 2008
395.095dc22

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A

Advances, scientific, 16
Aeguka (national anthem), 2324, 76
Age, and etiquette, 51
Airports, Korean, 9
Alcohol, 6061, 103
Ancestor worship, 15
Apologies, 55

B

Bargaining, 7172
Birthdays, celebrating, 6869
Body language, 5354
Bowing, 5153
Buddhism, 14, 4445, 56
Business: alcohol and, 103; advisors and consultants in, 93; annual greeting rituals, 105; business card ritual, 9495; collective responsibility in, 89; contracts in, 99102; criticism in, 85; emotion in, 86; English-language e-mail and, 67; factions and, 8283; friendship in, 3334, 102103; go-betweens and, 9192; groupism and, 8787; government control of, 7880; internationalization of, 19; interpreters and, 96; letters of introduction and, 92; logic and, 8990; management practices, 8182; meetings, etiquette of, 9394; meetings, leaving, 63; military organization, as, 8081; negotiations and, 72, 83, 9599; patience, 106; professional hospitality, 5556, 102103; respect and, 8485; saving face in, 84; singing and, 104; situational truth in, 8687; stubbornness and, 9091