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edith
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:26 am Post subject: Is it customary to take your Korean colleagues out? |
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Hi,
I've read a few times that it is customary to take your Korean colleagues out to eat every week, is this really true? I plan to take them out when I first get paid because they have been so helpful in my first weeks here.
Am I really expected to do this every week? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:34 am Post subject: Re: Is it customary to take your Korean colleagues out? |
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Not to take them out but to go out with them. If my boss is coming, I would never pay. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:18 am Post subject: |
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And you needn't go every single week, either. Once a month or so is enough.
It is a good idea to offer to pay a fair part of the time. Nothing will be said if you don't, but no one likes a sponge. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: Gangnam
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:10 am Post subject: |
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My Korean guide book said that you should take out the coworkers after your first paycheck, but didn't really mention it after that. From what I understand, the oldest person usually pays in the standard 'eating out' senario.
I tried to get them to come out with me after that first month, told them it was on me, but they didn't really seem that in to it, so I didn't press it. They're a somewhat quiet and reserved bunch.
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thursdays child
Joined: 21 Sep 2005
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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We never take each other out. Once a month the Principal puts 20,000 into everyones bank account and we go out and all pay dutch - or not go.
Defitnly a 'fair' system - but it all seems a little impersonal and un-koreanish. |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Bundang
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: |
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i took my co workers out for lunch to say thanks for helping me with getting my arc/cell phone and other things like that
they felt kinda weirded out that i suggested it but i wanted them to know how grateful i was for their help (and for their personal time they took to do it)...it was a nice gesture and was well recieved
i also buy them coffee or stuff from the bakery from time to time as well..
i think that taking them out every week is someone seriously trying to pull your leg!!! i think that maybe if you do go out socially in a group from time to time its nice if you pick up the check or a round of drinks or the norae bang bill
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Hyeon Een

Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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kiwigirl :O) wrote: |
i took my co workers out for lunch to say thanks for helping me with getting my arc/cell phone and other things like that
they felt kinda weirded out that i suggested it but i wanted them to know how grateful i was for their help |
They were probably weirded out because they wanted to go to dinner and drink 109 bottles of soju insteada having to go back to work after =) |
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milf

Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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It is the way of asians to be generous and hospitable, for closer ties. Food is the most common and easiest way. |
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