๐ฒDifferences in How We Address People ์ฌ๋์ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ฐจ์ด
I know calling people by their positions is very important in Korea. People are called โteam leaderโ or โJunโs momโ or โmanager.โ This is very strange to me as an American.
ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ง์ฑ
์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ณ ์๋ค. โํ์ฅ๋โ, โ์ค์ด ์๋งโ, โ๋งค๋์ โ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ง์นญํด์ ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ณค ํ๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ธ ๋ด๊ฒ ๋ฏ์ ๋ฌธํ๋ค.
I think, for us, our independence is very important. We donโt want to be known by our position or relationships, we want to be known as ourselves. That being said, we do have terms we use to address people in formal situations. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๋
๋ฆฝ์ฑ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ์ง์๋ ๊ด๊ณ๋ก ์๋ ค์ง๊ธธ ์์น ์๊ณ , ๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๊ธธ ์ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง ๊ณต์์ ์ธ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ์ฉ์ด๋ ์๋ค.
Perhaps youโre familiar with โMr.โ for men (both single and married), โMissโ for unmarried women, โMrs.โ for married women, and โMs.โ which is used for both single and married women. We usually use these terms when we first meet someone.
๋จ์ฑ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ๋นํผ, ๊ธฐํผ ๋ชจ๋ โMr.โ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌ ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๋นํผ ์ฌ์ฑ์ โMissโ๋ฅผ, ๊ธฐํผ ์ฌ์ฑ์๊ฒ๋ โMrsโ,๋ฅผ, ํผ์ธ ์ฌ๋ถ์ ์๊ด์์ด ์ฌ์ฑ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ โMs.โ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ ํํ์ ๋ค์ด๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ณดํต ์ฒ์ ๋ง๋ฌ์ ๋ ์ด๋ฐ ํธ์นญ์ ์ด๋ค.
I would introduce myself as โMs. Mundstock,โ because Iโm an unmarried woman and that is my familyโs name. However, if we get more familiar with someone, they often ask just to be called by their first name. ๋๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ ๋ โMs. Mundstockโ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋๋ฐ, ํ์ฌ ๊ฒฐํผํ์ง ์์ ์ฌ์ฑ์ด๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ฑ์ด Mundstock์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ข ๋ ์นํด์ง๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ฒญํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค.
It is even more casual in most offices. I would always recommend being formal first, especially to your boss or manager. You would call them Mr. or Ms. whatever when you first meet them. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ง์ฅ์์๋ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์บ์ฃผ์ผํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ด๋ค. ์ฒ์์๋ ํญ์ ๊ฒฉ์์ ์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข๋ค. ์์ฌ๋ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์์๊ฒ๋ผ๋ฉด ๋๋์ฑ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค. ์ด๋ฉด์๋ โMr.โ๋ โMs.โ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌ์ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋๋ค.
If they donโt like that, then they will say something like, โPlease, call me Sam.โ This means that they donโt want you to use a title when you call them, but just use their first name. I would always recommend being polite first and then switching to a more casual tone after you get to know someone.
์๋๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๊ธธ ์์น ์๋๋ค๋ฉด, โ๊ทธ๋ฅ Sam์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ค์.โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ด ๋ง์ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋ ์งํจ ๋ง๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฌ์ฃผ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค๋ ๋ป์ด๋ค. ์ฒ์์๋ ๊ณต์ํ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ทจํ ๋ค์ ์๋์ ์ข ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์์ง๋ฉด ์บ์ฃผ์ผํ ํค์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. |