South Korea

"
June 202
Average Family
size -2-5
Jobs
as
people household
60.4%
employment Rate
popular
Family is really important, especially the act
of an individual can be the representation of
•
Agriculture 4.88%
Mend
'
Women F
Samsung CJ (food &
"

the whole family. 25.13%

Collective Face
•
Industry Hyundai Motor Company pharmaceuticals)
⑧ Services 69.99% Korea Electronic Power Airlines
Kia Motor Company Samsung
Posco (steel making)

Largest Industries

- Vehicle manufacturing Major Employers

" - Chemicals - Samsung
be
independent
"

Inhumane
- Hyundai (cars)
to
- Electronics
One should not consider themselves as separate - Semiconductors - LG Electronics
from their parents and families. Close family ties - KPMG (professional
- Shipbuilding
are valued and it is the child’s duty to pay off their
- Steel service)
“debt” to their parents by taking care of them.
- Mobile Telecommunications - ExxonMobil (chemicals)
TypesofAas
's
House Korea Top Hoo'

¥)
-

-
one Room
Easy to find in the countryside
A space for sleeping and to
but rare in big city.
put things, studios with tiny
Apartments
-

Luxurious, high-rise buildings. Here kitchen and bed.

-
-
-
Mostly
⇐
-
-
160%1

radiational
•
Hands g) got
Built the Nth
in
century
during Joseon
Dynasty
Goshiwon
" -
Villas (FEET) People prefer their house to be by a mountain or
Testing Apartments
"
-
IM
Usually for people who live on their own, facing the river. The ones near the city is really
Condo type home, smaller than expensive.
tenants who rent for employment and
students for testing.
apartment, four or five stories
hiieeogether without elevators.
tagRe
chores
usually .

are
&House
mothers
- Confucian relationships Child Are
the
Job
- Patriarchal authority
- Father exhibit dominance and kindness to mother. Also show guidance and
protection to children in return for filial piety, with respect and obedience.
- Mother will remain obedient and give support to the family/father’s
decisions.
- Father will be the ultimate decision maker in many Korean families.

- Parents are very devoted to the children’s

success, education and economic wise.

- High expectations to reach parents’

aspirations.

Age defines seniority in the culture. Where elders (seniors) should be honored and
payed with respect, old people (grandparents should be cared by the family).