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5 Cultural Shocks in FINLAND AS KOREAN

Jun 01, 2021
Hello guys and welcome back to my channel. Now I'm sure they found out. I am very happy to finally be here and I will be staying here for just over a month. I was here as an exchange student 2 years ago and I stayed here for 8 months including my internship, but when I got here I felt like it was familiar but still unknown at the same time. It's a really strange feeling when I came here, it reminded me of what I felt when I came here for the first time and all the feelings I had like a culture shock, so in this video I'm going to talk about five culture

shocks

that I've gone through in Korea, Zealand , so first I want to talk about the people, since I grew up in Korea my whole life, I only saw Westerners. culture through American TV shows or movies, so I thought that all Westerners were like Americans who described TV shows or movies naturally, such as very outgoing personalities, smiling at strangers and talking right up to the front door, and I didn't have a single idea how to finish.
5 cultural shocks in finland as korean
People were expected to end up as Americans, so naturally I'm really sorry if I was being racist, but they were totally different, they don't talk to strangers or Mollison needles, but they believe that personal space really matters and they respect each other. A lot of people say it's I called but I didn't really feel like it was cold because in Korea we also don't talk to strangers or smile at them and if you smile at them you'd think you're a weird person or something and then it's It's going to be really awkward so I thought I'd I felt totally comfortable with this.
5 cultural shocks in finland as korean

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The most shocking thing was that at the first meeting they were very, very, very shy and quiet people. Hello, nice to meet you, nice to meet you, and many Finns speak perfect or great English. English, but they don't really have confidence in it. I don't know why, but in Korea many people feel shy about their English and sometimes we also have to act quietly and modestly so that can show as shyness, but when you make friends with Finns. and approach them, they are really warm and nice people and they are very good friends with you and, personally, it was easier for me to approach or be friends with Finns than with people from the United States because I felt like it was more similar. to be friends with Finns and Koreans to be friends with Koreans, you have to go out several times, talk more and get closer little by little and become friends, but in America it was quite difficult for me to know if we became friends or not because people I was friendly to everyone and the people were nice to everyone or I was only in the United States for four months, so it was a very short time to be friends with them or fully understand their culture.
5 cultural shocks in finland as korean
One thing I really like about the Finns who were there: honesty. Wow, well, they are literally honest, they don't pretend, they don't say things when they don't mean it. I heard this from my friend over that this Finnish society is based on trust, so people treat each other with trust and don't. They don't lie and are honest with each other, but once you have trust, you really have to return to this society. However, I felt like they were a little extreme because they were quiet, but a lot of them like loud music, like heavy music. metal they look very shy but they don't hesitate to express their personality through their tattoos or their hair colors or piercings whatever.
5 cultural shocks in finland as korean
I saw a lot of people with red or pink hair and with a lot of piercings or tattoos that I really like because it means that you can be yourself, you are respected just the way you are and I personally feel uncomfortable if other people worry too much about me and when they see me for the first time they consider me a finish, which is actually very respectful, that means they don't. They don't assume me as a foreigner at first glance, but once they know you're a foreigner and don't speak Finnish, they just switch it straight to English.
I really appreciate this, oh my gosh, how long, wasn't it? but I promise the last four won't last that long so stay tuned, they don't know samba first of all. I didn't know it's from Finland and even the word Sona is Finnish. Did you know that almost all places are Finnish? They have some here, even in this apartment they have a sauna. Yes, I can show you that they also have outdoor public sounds and I'm thinking about floating properly later, let's look at the third alcohol limitation. I couldn't believe this at first. hours you cannot buy alcohol after 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. every day you can drink them in a pub or a bar which are super expensive when I was an exchange student I always forgot about this although I drink at least every 8:55 I realized that I bought some bison beers and I ran to a store and I put some cheaper beers, however, when my boyfriend came to Korea, where there is no alcohol limitation, I realized how much they like alcohol and why they have that law, because every day, at dinner, he drank at least one soldier bottle.
Of course, I can't judge everyone with this one person, but I was still so surprised that I thought Koreans were the best alcohol in the world, that was my mistake. I told them that Finns don't talk to strangers, but when they are drunk. They become very very friendly and talk to you in a very organized way when dealing with the snow, of course every morning, they have this machine that removes all the snow from the roads if it has been snowing. I used to wake up several times very early in the morning. In the morning because of this machine, the loud sound and when you go to fill up you will see many mountains of snow on the side of the road and they put these small stones on the road so that the roads do not become slippery.
It's really interesting when I first saw this because I thought it was a really organized system five, hanging out at someone's house is normal, maybe this isn't really finished culture, but maybe it's more Western culture. I guess hanging out at a friend's house is also normal in Korea, but when it comes to different things. Of the sexes we become suspicious, like what are they doing in the same room like this? Some people are very conservative about this. It can also happen in Korea and I go out with my friends at my house, but we don't really say that. loudly and we have plenty of places to hang out outside and make a bong track bong or Playstation bong, whatever.
There are plenty of places to drink too. In Finland there isn't much to do outside and it's also expensive, but to invite people to your own house and have dinner together or just hang out here or have a party or whatever, okay, let's finish it and thanks for watching this video and If you liked this video, please give me a big thumbs up if I can. If you had any misunderstanding, you can always comment below and we'll see you in the next video.

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