Hofstede's Scores for South Korea

Here is the data from Hofstede's website.



The part about individualism, because it can be seen at the first sight that Korean people are tend to stick in the groups, and establish close relationships with the members of it. Furthermore, they are very concerned about the respectful attitude towards older people, and it is appeared in every group, family or community.

Moreover, the structure and order are very important for punctual Koreans, that’s why it was obvious that they would get a high PDI, and also they are seem to be more happy to follow a good and responsible leader or boss than to act without one.

The last is an indicator of the long term orientation, which is very high (100%), and it also can be seen in the way Korean people behave, because they try to plan and make things considering how it will operate in future, even the way they build houses, with a high security, comfort and quality standards.

Koreans value and respect if you act or behave in more introverted way, however it will inspire and encourage them if you will show your confident and outgoing extroverted side. There is a stereotype that Koreans are very shy and quiet, however I disagree with it, I observed myself that among themselves they are very energetic and loud. I think the fact that they value etiquette and manners highly may sometimes be interpreted as timidity, but I can guarantee that wit close people Koreans act very freely and even sometimes wild.

Another thing is that Korea has the highest gender inequality of any developed country, yet they elected their first female president. Here is the picture of her.

Park Geun-hye