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America is the federal government :
carries out the roles assignment to the
federation of individual state.
Korea is just one government.
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American population is 301,212,321.
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Korean population is 48,058,972.
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The traffic jam in America.
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The traffic jam in Korea.
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In America mostly it is
mostly a small family system :
parents and the children.
In Korea it is mostly small family
but in past It was
big family :
parents, grandparents
and the children.
In America they prefer
the convenience of eating
in front of TV .
Fast food is popular
food in America.
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In Korea we can’t
eat in front of TV.
We usually eat rice and soup.
Adult must eat first.
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In America Wal-Mart,
Target, Home Depot,
Lowes – are bog box
stores. What customers
need available in one place.
 In Korea Emart, Lotte
department, Hyendae
department –
are big box stores.
What customers need
available in one place.
also there’s many small supermarkets.
Supermarket is smaller than big box store
We can buy what we need in supermarket, too.
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In America 13 years including
Kindergarten.
In Korea 8 years excluding
kindergarten.
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In America people use
Dollar $ and coins.
(quarter, dime, nickel,
penny)
In Korea people use
won 원 and coins.
(10, 50, 100, 500)
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$1 = 1116
But it always change.
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In America people use language
called English.
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In Korea people use language called
korean. 한글
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America have five major sports :
Baseball, American Football, Basketball,
Hockey, and car racing.
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Korea have five major sports :
Taekwondo, baseball, basketball, soccer,
Korean wrestling.
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In America there food are all variety and
excitement from all over the
Countries.
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In Korea there are lots of traditional dishes
that people enjoy.
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America is individualism.
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Korea is individualism nowadays.
But in past Korea was collectivism.
We’re
individualism
!!!!!!
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In America we can come and go overnight and in
the end usually does not matter. The end result is
more of the focus. A person is more likely to
overlook a reputation to get the job done.
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In Korea we take the name/reputation matter very
seriously. Also people think it’s important how other
people think about who he/she is. In the middle
school and high school some student even commit
a suicide when someone says bad thing about
them to the others.
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Most Americans are immigrants who either have
lost the information on grave locations or the
locations are in foreign countries.
Most Koreans remember the date their unitary died to
have a big family ceremonies.
we remember grand parents. Great grand parents and
great great grand parents.
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In America when someone sneezing :
“Got bless you!”
when someone burping
“Excuse me.”
Ahhh...
Choo!!!
In Korea when someone sneezing
We don’t say anything.
In Korea when someone burping :
“Excuse me.” “실례합니다.”
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America
Bad number : 13
Lucky number : 7
Korea
Bad number : 4 means
Death in Korean culture
Lucky number : 7
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In America : Easter, Christmas,
Thanksgiving, Independence Day
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In Korea : the anniversary of the
independence day, independence,
Hangul proclamation day, Constitution
Day, the National Foundation Day of
Korea
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In America : Tooth fairy
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In Korea : Korean magpie
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In America : Not specific
traditional clothes.
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In Korea : Korean
traditional clothes
Hanbok
한복
America : Change their menu
for each mealtime.
Eat a variety of foods each day.
In particular, they eat pizza,
sandwiches, pasta or noodles,
and sometimes meat for dining.
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Korea : Change their menu for
each mealtime.
Eat a variety of foods each day.
In particular, they eat rice,
egg, meat, many kind of
vegetable, kimchi.
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In America children went to school eight
hours a day, and five days a week.
In Korea children went to school
five hours a day, and five days a week.
last year, we went to school on Saturday
2 times in
one month.
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In America classroom atmosphere is informal, and
they don’t stand up when teacher enters the
room.
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In Korea classroom atmosphere is informal, and
they don’t stand up when teacher enters the
room.
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In America almost all have discussion in school.
Students and teacher talk about one subject
that they want to talk about.
In Korea almost don’t have discussion
in school. Teacher lead all the lesson.
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In America they learn Morality, like good
thinking or good behavior for people are
learned from their parents or school in the USA.
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In Korea morality is very important thing to
learn so they learn Morality, like good thinking
or good behavior for people are learned from
their parents or school in the Korea. Also we
have a separate class to learn morality with its
textbook in the Korea.
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In America they are very friendly attitudes, no uniforms
unless private, not many rules of formality in public
school. For example, the student never stand up when
the teachers enter the room.
In Korea the relationship between teacher and
children are usually friendly. They don’t wear
uniforms unless private, they have many rules at
school. For example, they shouldn’t run in hallway,
you can’t speak since teacher point them to speak.
And teacher shouldn’t hit children. If they do, they
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In America there is numerous activities like
clubs, sport, and student council available.
In Korea there are extracurricular after school.
We pay little money and there are many kinds of
subjects like music
math, English, science,
history .
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In America there are three months of vacation in
summer, and almost two weeks in Christmas.
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In Korea there two months of vacation in summer,
1 months of winter break and almost two weeks in
spring break.