Understanding Current Situation of the New Environment
（Take Sri Lanka as Example）
III. Understanding how to coordinate with the co-workers from different places (Korea, Taiwan, and the mainland China):
A. Korea
1. Customs and Taboos
During the meal, don’t hold the bowl of soup or rice which is misconduct in their eyes.
Do not hold the rice bowl or soup bowl in your hand during the meal. Chew food with your closed mouth and do not make noises while chewing. Do your best not talk about commerce during the meal?
Use spoon for rice and liquid foods, such as stews or soups; use chopsticks for other foods.
If have a visit must be agreed in advance. Koreans attach great importance to the reception.
You have to take off your shoes when you go to a Korean home.
2. Diet
Korean food has moderate calories, low fat and sweet taste- very healthy and well-balanced.
Traditional Korean meals are noted for the number of side dishes that accompany steam-cooked short-grain rice.
Koreans eat miyeok guk on birthdays as well as for regular meals. Miyeok guk is also the #1 postpartum food in Korea because of its amazing health benefits. Miyeok guk is also very soothing for your stomach
Chicken Soup with Ginseng is more traditionally eaten and enjoyed during the summer months. Koreans like to drink hot soup or stews during the summer months in an effort to fight the heat with heat.
Korean likes Chinese food, Miscellaneous sauce noodles and Sweet and sour pork.
3. National characteristics:
Koreans have strong nationalism.
Koreans have strong nationalism.
Korean is persistent in dong things, their toughness in Asia is well known. Koreans for the identification of things may be more directly, they want to seize any opportunity to promote their strengths. Whether the results can be expected to achieve, and just to try is the characteristics of Korean.
Korean is persistent in dong things, their toughness in Asia is well known. Koreans for the identification of things may be more directly, they want to seize any opportunity to promote their strengths. Whether the results can be expected to achieve, and just to try is the characteristics of Korean.
One of the most prominent features of Korean is easy come, easy go. Koreans are quite emotional.
Koreans seems stubborn.
South Korea has been living in the crack of the big country, and then be damaged by Japanese Colonial in the modern times, therefore their national pride was unusually strong; on the other hand, Korean are good at singing as well as dancing, the people there is industrious and courageous; their culture is effected by Confucian traditional culture, their economic have taken off, so their self-confidence gain a huge boost. Thus forming a rather characteristic of the national character in the so many factors.
4. Way of Thinking
South Korea is mainly respected Confucianism which reflected in the thinking of the family and the Confucian doctrine of authority. They care of maintaining the authority of the elders. For example, in the face of the elderly or elders, the Korean people usually have to bend to greet each other. When we talk about our own mother, we will say “my mother” while the Koreans would say” our mother”. This also reflects that the deep thought of the family, and the results of the deep influence of the Confucian thinking.
South Korea is a country with high context. Communication between people usually in indirect way, it means that if you are unhappy with someone or something, they would not express directly, rather in a more obscure way.
Koreans have a very strong sense of self-respect. It’s not wise to refute him at the moment when he is very angry even your idea is right, because you may hurt his feelings unconsciously.
5. Way of interaction:
When you meet for the first time, Koreans will ask you about your age, title, titles, marriage and such personal things to confirm seniority and regulate speaking. If you are unclear about their age, just regarded them as a respected older generally.
Gradually shaking hands become common etiquette when they meet.
6. Behavior pattern:
South Korea is a mountainous country, so hiking becomes the favorite pastime of the National People. Even in the most crowded cities, there are a few hills that make people far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and gain a moment of peace.
Koreans are pay more attention to etiquette training in their contact including regulate behavior and grooming.
B. Taiwan
1. Diet
Taiwan’s diet is similar to Guangdong and Fujian, but it has the characteristics of Taiwan: common barbeque curry sauce, peanut butter, sweet taste more heavy, with clear soup. Study dishes big auspicious, focus on dishes of fresh, tender, slippery, cool. General tastes like light, love slightly sweet. The staple food is rice as staple food, also like variety of pasta.
Culinary culture: Taiwan and Mainland South, that is very particular about food. In a word, it is a healthy food culture. In Taiwan, health old age with a complement of yin and Yang, the five elements to reconcile concepts such as deep. At present Taiwan food and health is mainly vegetarian, raw food, organic food, breaking therapy and traditional Chinese diet. Taiwan private \”four gods soup\” (Yam, euryale, Lotus seeds and Poria cocos), a nourishing beverage, is a nutritious snack. Private culinary customs is the most unique in the so-called \”half-fill\”, that is, at the beginning of lunar calendar every year in June, families with rice flour roll meatballs, sweet Zi Wan, after eating in addition to the summer everything. In addition, Taiwan also \”winter\” or \”winter\”, stand the winter tonic.
2. Etiquette:
Without being aware of Taiwan’s political position under the premise, not talking about the County and the local political issues.
Taiwan’s people taboos to inquire about their salary, age and address. Because they did not want to be asked about their private affairs.
Taiwan people don’t like that someone blinked at him. Because this is very impolite behavior.
They taboo “4”, which read “si” . Thus, when they meet the “4”, people are disgusted. Try to keep away from “4”what they usually do. If this is unavoidable, it will be “4” as “two pairs”.
In generally, do not concerned about the religious beliefs of others.
3. National charcteristics:
Taiwan is multiethnic multiethnic Habitat development society and keeps the Hans descent stoic virtues of diligence, seeking truth from facts, admitting natives, fearing of humble. Taiwan absorbed the Japanese, the rule of law, respect for the civic-social norms now, which abandoned most of the Hans is relatively rigid cultural tradition and without burden to modern, scientific and democratic spirit in Europe and America, but without the deconstruction of the West, and tip of the post-modern challenge.
Taiwan’s culture, Commerce industry, bravely pioneering and contempt the authority, respect statue of Poseidon which is the Marine characteristics.
Taiwan people are civilized people whom pay attention to social politeness. Meet friends, or a communication, or visiting, in terms of behavior, they pay special attention to respect for others. They are enthusiastic and sincere feelings. In terms of moral values, they most abhor hypocrisy and quirky, like making a bargain.
Taiwan’s people who are gave the feeling of being very smart, life and work are very intelligent and loves to learn, generally serious work hard, even a bit “workaholic” .
Taiwan’s people have courage to carve out a career outside, but never forget the origin and foundation of the department. A more than 80% Taiwan’s person comes from Fujian, the emotions of memory of ancestors, especially from the Taiwanese.
4. Way of thinking:
National freedom. Citizens ‘ right to freedom of expression, freedom of association and of procession.
Good manners. Taiwan people’s pay attention to civility, “please”、”thank you”、”you’re welcome” and “I’m sorry” often on the lips ; a habit of lining up, no one to jump the queue; no one ran a red light; no occupied “love seat”; the left side of the escalator is always left in a hurry; all litter does not fall, everywhere is clean , and so on.
Good manners. Taiwan people’s pay attention to civility, “please”、”thank you”、”you’re welcome” and “I’m sorry” often on the lips ; a habit of lining up, no one to jump the queue; no one ran a red light; no occupied “love seat”; the left side of the escalator is always left in a hurry; all litter does not fall, everywhere is clean , and so on.
C. Mainland China
1. Diet
Flavor diversity. There have the speaking of “North likes noodle, South likes rice”. The taste is sweet in south, salty in north, acid in east, spicy in west. It mainly has Ba, Qilu, Huaiyang, Guangdong and Fujian four flavors.
Four seasons are different. Throughout the year, eating according to the season is a major feature of Chinese cooking. Since ancient times, Chinese cooking according to seasonal changes to seasoning, garnish, the food taste strong in winter, and light and cool in summer.
Exquisite beauty. Chinese cooking, not only in skill and has exquisite beauty of traditional dishes, food color, flavor and taste, shape, coordination.
Focus on fun. Chinese cooking focus on taste very early, also have strict requirements in color, aroma and taste of food snacks, and it have certain requirements in their name, taste, rhythm of dining, entertainment interlude etc.
Combination of food and medicine. Chinese cooking techniques and health care is closely linked, ‘medicine food homology ‘and’ diet analogous’ argument for thousands of years ago, utilization of the medicinal value of food raw materials, made into a variety of delicious food to prevent some diseases.’
2. National characteristics:
Industrious and frugal, unremitting self-improvement
The same pragmatic, modest holding
Care for family；different between relative or not
Ethics as the key link, pecking order
3. The character of Chinese:
The Chinese are very conscious of face.
Chinese don’t like to be separated from crowd, stared at or asked too many personal questions (even though they often stare at and ask personal questions of Westerners).
Chinese often smile or giggle when a sensitive subject is broached or they feel embarrassed or uncomfortable.
Chinese generally don’t express their feelings very well.
Most of China’s super rich are publicity-shy.
Chinese tend to be very formal and have an us versus them attitude towards outsiders.
Apologizing is important in China. The methods, manners and the ways it is carried out is affected by the rank and identity of the person doing the apologizing and the person being apologized to and is often conducted in a way that is difficult for Westerners to unravel and comprehend.
Chinese find it difficult and humiliating to apologize to someone face to face.
People in China lie all the time about this and that.
Chinese have a high tolerance for uncertainty,
4. Way of thinking
Binary thinking is a common thinking in Chinese. This is a very simple thinking that only see the opposite sides or ends of things, but ignoring the intermediate case between other aspects or two extremes.
Most of Chinese lack of the basic logic knowledge, and also lack of the training of basic logical thinking, resulting in the ability of the abstract logical of Chinese is relatively poor.
Chinese are not good, or not to be bothered to differentiate the concept, the definition of the concept almost fuzzy to Chinese.
The collective concept is relatively strong in China.
Chinese pay more attention to their experience and intuition.
Chinese pay attention to the overall, so their thinking and doing are more comprehensive and rarely go to extremes.
Previous research indicated that Chinese look at the problem in the view of connection, admit the change and accommodate the concept of contradiction, pursue the harmony when they deal with interpersonal relationship, take a compromise approach when they deal with the problem.
Chinese culture is established above the deeply influence of Confucianism and Taoism, so the dialectical and overall thinking as the main features of the way of thinking.
Chinese are good at using the whole, holographic, systematic methods, rather than local, anatomical, analytical
The mainstream thinking of the Chinese is fuzzy, experience, intuition symbolism, relativism, monism mode of thought, which is suitable for the creation of literature and philosophy, but not scientific development. This is a simple way of thinking.
5. The difference between the North and the South:
Aspects of physical appearance: Northerners physically larger, the South is relatively short.
Aspects of personality: Northerners are mostly unrestrained roughness, warm and straightforward; while southerners are more delicate、 pretty and delicate, mature inside. North love loyalty, and put the loyalty on the first in all things, about right and wrong on the second. Southerners are always going to talk about right and wrong, and law and order, however the loyalty in their eyes is light than before.
In terms of money, southerners and northerners have great differences. Northerners are generous, like treat, often invite a friend to a restaurant, even with the cash-strapped and cannot lose face. While the southerners advocate AA, more budget-conscious.
People doing business who working in the South throughout the country, some even to the world, only elderly and children at home in the countryside. Most people prefer to stay in their present province in the North, does not like going out adventure.
The aspect of diet:
Southern food is light and sweet, Northern dishes taste salty and hot. The number of food is enough in the North, drinking bowl, and eating large pieces of meat that is, expressing forthright manner, not as southerners about small and exquisite.
Northerners eat noodles, southerners eat rice, and southerners think it is only for dim sum, and always hungry. Northerners say rice is luxury, and can’t satisfy hungry. The different of staple foods, resulting in a North-South throughout the large differences in diet and eat, advocate simplicity in the North, South pursue fine, eating rough in the North, while the South work fine.
