Culture & Etiquette
The unwritten rules of Korean social life — age and titles, etiquette that actually matters, and the handful of mistakes that genuinely land badly.
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Korean Age and Titles: Why Birth Year Matters
Koreans ask your birth year within minutes of meeting you. Here's what they're working out, what the titles mean, and why the age system recently changed.
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Korean Etiquette: Mistakes Foreigners Make
Most etiquette guides list rules nobody enforces. These are the ones that actually register — and the handful that genuinely cause offence.