Have you heard about a word ‘Ugly Korean’? While overseas trips of Korean is increasing with advance in economical levels of Korea, the image of Korean is seems dropped because of some Korean don’t observing good manners. We should not pass over this problem. Anyone can go overseas trip and we can be an ugly Korean if we don’t know what the good manner is. It is old saying that it is happy to meet Korean while traveling foreign countries. We can meet Korean anywhere all over the world no matter how far we go. In this situation, you might have seen some of Koreans that are bad-mannered. The classic case is scribbles written by Korean on foreign countries’ cultural assets. As scribbling on public places is becoming a big issue in Korea, the habit seems not resolved even at foreign countries too. Also, the habit of cutting in line is the classic case of ugly Korean. By these kind of behaviors, the image of Korean isn’t good in foreign countries. Recently, a TV program ‘Flower young boy in Africa’ showed this problem. The program showed four men eating breakfast with gown in the hotel restaurant and swimming naked without filtering. This occurred a huge controversy in Korea. It seems that the casts didn’t aware of the manner while traveling. The controversy was made because both editor and casts didn’t know what the manner is. If we go outside Korea, we become people who represent Korea. We should aware of this and we need to care, not to make image of Korea bad. Before we go to foreign country, we should check out what are the manners we need to observe in the foreign country and what are our daily habits that can be considered as a bad manner so that we won’t mistake in overseas. The owner of the country is citizen and citizen makes the image of the country. We should keep it in our mind.
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