It's not really yours. At least not in Korea.
Your employer can arrange various dinners, marathon drinking sessions, karaoke gatherings, and team trips mere minutes before you're scheduled to leave work, and you're expected to attend them all. What's that you say? You had "plans"??? Bah!
This cultural norm also trickles down into social situations. Korean friends (especially if they're older than you--remember heirarchies?) think nothing of scheduling activities in your free time prior to finding out if you're actually "free."
And of course, everyone's always shocked when you are not actually available as you were "planned" to be.
The End.
I feel like this was written by a amused heart with bitter memories xD
ReplyDelete