hi i need to know if anyone out there knows hand gestures or any other gestures in the korean culture?
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The offensiveness or acceptability of a particular social gesture will depend to a great extent on the exposure that the individual has to other cultures. Here is a general guide for Korea: \n\n* GREETING GESTURES\no Among themselves, bowing is the traditional form for both greeting and departing.\no Western and Korean male friends usually greet with both a slight bow and shaking hands. When shaking hands, both hands are sometimes used. Women usually do not shake hands, especially with men, but usually just nod slightly. The senior person offers to shake hands first, but the junior person bows first. However, shake hands with a light grip and perhaps with eyes averted.\no Avoid hugging and kissing when greeting.\no Prolonged direct eye contact is considered impolite and even intimidating.\no Business cards are traded respectfully. Keep the card on the table in front of you as just one small gesture of respect.\no When saying good-bye, the traditional gesture is the bow, but the younger generation has adopted the western custom of waving good-bye by moving their arm side-to-side.\n* TOUCHING GESTURES\no Generally speaking, the Koreans are not a touch-oriented society (especially true for visitors.) So avoid touching or any prolonged form of body contact.\no Public display of affection are very rare. On the other hand, you may note people of the same sex walking hand-in-hand, which is simply a gesture of friendship.\no Don't worry about a bit of pushing in stores or when groups board public buses or trains. Apologies are neither offered or expected.\n* BECKONING GESTURES\no The open hand or the middle finger is used for pointing.\no To beckon someone, the palm faces downward and the fingers are moved in a scratching motion. Using the arm and hand up, palm toward the face is used only for calling dogs and children.\n* OTHER NONVERBAL GESTURES\no Respect is always shown to elderly people, so it is appropriate to rise when a person-- especially an elderly man enters the room or giving up a seat on a subway. However, an elder may not give up a seat for a young boy.\no Men generally have priority in Korea: Go through a door first, walk ahead of women, and women may help them on with their coats.\no Among the Koreans, laughter is used to disguise many emotions: anger, frustration, and fear.\no Loud talking or laughing is usually avoided. Koreans, especially women will cover their mouths laughing, resulting in giggling rather than wide open-mouth laughing.\no Periods of silence are common and accepted, even during dinners.\no Correct posture is important, especially when seated. Don't slouch or put your feet on desks or chairs. Try to maintain a balanced posture, stand or sit erectly or squarely. When seated have both feet squarely on the ground with arms in the lap or on the armrests. Crossing the legs at the knees or ankles is the preferred form rather than with one ankle over the other knee.\no When walking in public, keep to the left side of the walkway and stairway.\n* OTHER NONVERBAL GESTURES\no It is considered impolite to enter a room without knocking first. However, Koreans may not wait for you to come to the door and open it. They may knock and then enter.\no When walking in public places, direct eye contact is uncommon in the larger cities. However, visitors may be the subject of much curiosity and therefore you may notice some stares.\no Blowing you nose in public is considered rude, especially at a meal. Paper tissues are used for blowing the nose and then discarded.\no When entering a private home, it is usually customary to remove your shoes.\no Spitting (except for young women) and burping in public is acceptable.
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Hi while waving your hand at the person you greet. :) Sometimes I greet my friend with "musta?" which is a shortened version of "Kamusta ka na?". It means "How are you?" in English. :)
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Because a lot of Korean fight songs have same lyrics such as "Ooooooo pirsun korea ooo ooh oh ohh oh" maybe, I am not sure but I think ths song could be "Oh, Pilsung Korea(오, 필승 코리아)" which means 'Oh, Victory Korea' in English. That is an official fight song of Korea National Football Supporters Club(Red Devil)..\n\nJust visit this site to check the song.\nhttp://www.weirdtopics.com/blog/1160\n\nIf the song is the one you are looking for, please, leave a comment. If not, I wll try again.
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I have heard of things like open palms and such. It is subconscience body language that you can look for when the other person has a hard time using words.
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Type "Korean language center" or something like that in the search box of search site as Yahoo, Goole!
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I hope you know Korean...\nhttp://kr.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=kr-front&KEY=&search_go=01&p=my+girl
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THE SIX ..? Sounds like the 6 properties were discussed in your study text - here are a few off the top of my head\n\nA foreign laguage is not a secret code of your mother tongue. It has it's own rules and personality. (German is technical. Korean is more spiritual and repectful of older generations)\n\nYou will find languages all have vowel sounds made from the throat and constant sounds made by the tongue, lips and teeth. (arguements for languages for animals look at the sounds)\n\nThe sentence structure is different in each language. Nouns,  Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs are common in all languages, but have greater or lesser importance in each. (long verbs cam be formed in German using nouns as their basis. English may have nouns based on verb origins -eg: "dining room")\n\nIrregular words (verbs or nouns with plurals) give an idea of things that were important to the host culture before language rules were applied (eg - from wheat to bread, we have many words that discribe the different phases of that food in the West. In the East, rice has many variations to the words used depending on being the plant or gathered or cooking or served).\nVerbs used for hunting (shoot, run, hit, eat) are irregular in English to give an idea what is important to our cultural background. In Greek, there are 5 to 8 translation to our one word "Love" - shows what is important there.\n\nmany cultures have "Peace" as an important part of their greeting or departing wish.
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Any Koreans I know are very strict with their wives and children. It's the culture Hong Kong Girl. You know that. It's their children that will loosen up in time in this culture.
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너는 예쁘다\nhttp://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
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It totally depends on the circumstances.  Holding hands is common among friends in many cultures.  For me, a lot would depend on how he approached it and how he acted once he was holding my hand.  If he was trying to get romantic at the same time, it would probably bother me.  If he just held it and went on like nothing happened, I would probably assume it was just a friendly gesture.
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well there are definitely cultural differences between all countries...the japanese and chinese are quite similar in language and culture because the japanese took the chinese culture hundreds...even thousands of years back but koreans may be different because of what is cool now in korea...you might have noticed that out of all the asian countries, the korean teenagers smoke more, drink more, and they usually try to act more...gangster and highlight their hair and act rude...but I have a lot of korean friends...and many of them are my best friends and they are very different from those koreans that I have just described.  it may also be the family's influences and not just the cultureal differences
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Yes and no. Yes, every culture has their own way of mannerism. No, as human, manners depends much of one's own upbringing despite of one cultural's background.
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I'm an ESL teacher in China.  I find that the students like to talk about you.  They like to know about your "home town", your likes and dislikes,  and about your family.  I have a large immediate family, and that always amazes them.  \n\nTalk to the children about their favorite season and why.  What activities they enjoy in that particular season.  You could also talk about why people immigrate.  I have recieved many great responses to this topic.\n\nGood Luck in Korea!
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Google...and just type in Korean actors...good luck! ^_^
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I watched My Sassy Girl. Is that Korean or Japanese? It was laugh-out-loud funny!
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Sometimes it is hard to get the sense of Korean sounds in English lettering.  The only one I can tell you for sure off the top of my head is 16, Yak sok, means promise.  I will check out the suggested websites also.  Hope they help you.
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Try googling korean american newspapers.\n\nYou might find this site helpful too.  http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html