1. What cultural values are reflected in the following expressions in Korean?

• kohyang ‘hometown, native place’
  
• kacok ‘family’
  
• pumo-casik ‘parents-children’
  
• tongchang ‘schoolmate’
  
• tongmun ‘alumnus’
  
• tonghyang ‘same hometown’
  
• tonghohoe 'same hobby club'

Some concepts of interrelated terms:

• wuceng 'friendship'
• hyoto 'filial piety'
  
• unhyey 'gracious flavor'
  
• inyen 'connection through accidental encounter'
• chemyen 'face, self-esteem'
  
• tekthayk 'indebtedness',tekthayk/tekpwun-ey 'Thanks to you'

  A: yocûm ôttôhke cinae-se-yo? 'How are you doing these days?'
  B: tôktaek/tôkpun-e cal cinae-pnita. 'Thanks to you, I am doing fine.'

• nwunchi 'reading other people's mind'

Group first mentality:

1. Family name first:
   
   E: Burrack Obama, Hilary Clinton, George Bush
   K: Yi Hyo Sang , Hyun-Jin Ryu, Pak Inbee
   
   
2. Collective possession: the concept of uli ‘we’
   uli nala ‘our country’
   uli hakkyo ‘our school’
   uli kwa ‘our department’
   uli pan ‘our class’
   uli ômma ‘our mother’
   uli hyông ‘our big brother’
   uli cip-salam ‘our wife’
   uli namphyôn ‘our husband’
   
   
3. Whole-part orientation:
   
   
   
4. Emphasis on mutual involvement and concern:
   
   ôti kaseyo? ‘Where are you going/Are you going somewhere?’
   siksa hasyôssôyo? ‘Have you eaten [breakfast/lunch/dinner]?’
   aein ôps-ô-yo? 'Don't you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?'
   Wae kyôlhon an ha-se-yo? 'Why aren't you getting married?'
   ae ônce na-l kô-ye-yo?' 'When are you going to have children?'
   
   
5. Aligning with the other:
   A: An kasyôssôyo? Didn’t you go?
   B: Ye/Ne (yes), an kassôyô. No, I didn’t.