Inrerview preparation
During the last interview, I decide to interview another korean, because I want to understand more about Korea. During the first intereview, I prepared the information is not so good. Before I take this interview, I prepare many questions, they include the questions that I interviewd in the first interview. Because I want to make sure if it is correct.
I send a message to Yoon, ask her if she mind that to introduce one of her korean friend to me for doing my last interview, she is pleasure to help me, and she tells me that they are in liabrary, I can go to find them. Her friend’s name is Piao, a pretty girl. And she is very nice. She does not mind me to record our conversation by using my telephone. So we do the interview at 9:00pm, April 2 in the liabrary.
During this interview, I pay more attention at the food and holidays of Korea. And I add several questions like their government and how is her feeling about SCSU.
Interview Report
Piao is from Seoul. It is the capital of Korea. Becaude she is from a big city, she understands more about Korea, she tells me when they build Korea, and tell me the situation about currently korean government, she tells me that they have many revolution in south korea.
And in the first interview, I think the food in Korea is similar to China. So I do not pay more attention at food. During this interview, Piao tells me that the korea food is very different with chinese food. Even though both of us eat rice, the rice is different, and they prefer to eat rice as their breakfast, but in china, noodles always as our breakfast.
Country report
The full name of Korea is “Republic of Korea”, it is located in Northeast of Asia. There are ocean around three sides of Korea: the east, the south and the west. And Korea is an emerging developed country. The legal land scope of korea is the entire Korean Peninsula and the islands around the Korean Peninsula. The area of Korea is the 4/9 of Korean Peninula’s area. Its area is 99,600 km2. Since the 1960s, the Korean government implemented a new economic policy, it made the economic of Korea had a large development. This new policy made Korea become a medium developed country by one of the world’s poorest country.
The number of population of Korea is 50,087,000. (the end of January 2011). The main race is Korean. The number of population of Korean is the 99 percent of the whole population of Korea. It is a single nation state. The main language of Korea is Korean language. Most of the pronounctiation of this language are from China. 10 percent of the pronounciation is from America. (It is the same with my first interview)
Seoul
The capital of Korea, and also it is the biggest city of Korea. The population of Seoul has reached 230 million. The pink pictures show us the Seoul’s location.
During the last interview, I decide to interview another korean, because I want to understand more about Korea. During the first intereview, I prepared the information is not so good. Before I take this interview, I prepare many questions, they include the questions that I interviewd in the first interview. Because I want to make sure if it is correct.
I send a message to Yoon, ask her if she mind that to introduce one of her korean friend to me for doing my last interview, she is pleasure to help me, and she tells me that they are in liabrary, I can go to find them. Her friend’s name is Piao, a pretty girl. And she is very nice. She does not mind me to record our conversation by using my telephone. So we do the interview at 9:00pm, April 2 in the liabrary.
During this interview, I pay more attention at the food and holidays of Korea. And I add several questions like their government and how is her feeling about SCSU.
Interview Report
Piao is from Seoul. It is the capital of Korea. Becaude she is from a big city, she understands more about Korea, she tells me when they build Korea, and tell me the situation about currently korean government, she tells me that they have many revolution in south korea.
And in the first interview, I think the food in Korea is similar to China. So I do not pay more attention at food. During this interview, Piao tells me that the korea food is very different with chinese food. Even though both of us eat rice, the rice is different, and they prefer to eat rice as their breakfast, but in china, noodles always as our breakfast.
Country report
The full name of Korea is “Republic of Korea”, it is located in Northeast of Asia. There are ocean around three sides of Korea: the east, the south and the west. And Korea is an emerging developed country. The legal land scope of korea is the entire Korean Peninsula and the islands around the Korean Peninsula. The area of Korea is the 4/9 of Korean Peninula’s area. Its area is 99,600 km2. Since the 1960s, the Korean government implemented a new economic policy, it made the economic of Korea had a large development. This new policy made Korea become a medium developed country by one of the world’s poorest country.
The number of population of Korea is 50,087,000. (the end of January 2011). The main race is Korean. The number of population of Korean is the 99 percent of the whole population of Korea. It is a single nation state. The main language of Korea is Korean language. Most of the pronounctiation of this language are from China. 10 percent of the pronounciation is from America. (It is the same with my first interview)
Seoul
The capital of Korea, and also it is the biggest city of Korea. The population of Seoul has reached 230 million. The pink pictures show us the Seoul’s location.
And the economic of Seoul is developed, such as there is a building in Seoul, it include many important economic activities during this building.
Intervie transcription
Course: eng 191
Interviewer: lian ll, Chinese
Interviewee: Piao, Korean
Time: 9:00 pm, April 2, 2012, at the second floor of liabrary
Piao: Good, and you?
Me: Good, thank you. How is your class going?
Piao: it is good.
Me: I know you have so many homework to do, let’s finsh the interview quickly, can we start now?
Piao: It is does not matter, let’s start it.
Me: Would you mind me to record our conversation by using my telephone? Because I am afraid that I can not write down all of your answers.
Piao: Yeah, you can do that.
Me: Ok, these are my main questions, you can check them first.
Piao: Ok… eh, I think I have confusing about the first question.
Me: Oh, I just want to know what kind of government of your country. How do you think about your country’s government?
Piao: Our counry’s government is democracy. The history of our country’s democracry government is short. It develops too fast. It is on the balance now.
Me: Are there any different with US government?
Piao: Yeah, compare with US government and other countries’ governments, our country’s government’s history is very short, and it is always connect with our country’s economic.
Me: How long your country build the democracy government?
Piao: I do not know very much. Let me check it … I think maybe from 1945, Korea got free from Japan. The government developes fast, now, we can blaim the president.
Me: So, how many years your country change a president? Four? Or it just depends on how nice that one president is?
Piao: No, there has policy for changing the president, we will change a president in 4 years, no, it is five years.
Me: is there any typical days for a child in your country?
Piao: Oh, it is Children’s Day. The date is may 5th.
Me: Yeah, I also interview a Korean for my first interview, she tells me that your Children’s Day is May 5th. You know, in China, the date for Children’s Day is June 1st.
Piao: Really? I think May 5th is the international Children’s Day.
Me: I also think it before, but I check it in the Internet, I find that each date of country’s Children’s Day is different.
Piao: Ah….
Me: What will you do in this day?
Piao: Our parents will give us gifts, and bring us to the park.
Me: So, what will the shool do during this day?
Piao: The schol will give us one holiday duing this day.
Me : Is there any activities in school, in China, the schools always organize the children together to dance and sing.
Piao: No, there is no activities in school.
Me: What religious holidays or other cultural events do you or others celebrate?
Piao: Christmas Day ,Esten Day and Buddhist Day, and several other Day, I can not remember them clearly. During these days, the school always give us holidays. During Buddhist Day, people who have religious beliefs always go to temple to do some pray. And the date of this day is April 8th, the date is different for every year.
Me: Really? The school will give you holidays during some western holiday like Christmas Day to celebrate it? In China, we have no holiday during these days, it is different. And in China, every month always have two buddhist day.
Piao: Oh, I forget the new years day, there are two new year day, other is lunar new years day. It is important than new years day.
Me: Lunar? I can not understand it.
Piao: In China, you always have the Lunar new year day. You should know. The new years day always is the first day of one year.But lunar new years day is….
Me: Oh, I know. So how many holidays you have to celebrate the lunar new years day?
Piao: School always give the student 3 days to have a rest, but company always give them about 5 days.
Me: I think it is different with China, Chinese pay more attention at this day, students always have 30 days, and company always give them 7 days or more.
Piao: Your holidays is more than ours.
Me: What different mode of transportation are used in your country?
Piao: subway, train, bus, taxi and car. I think every country has the similar transportation.
Me: yeah.
Piao: There are many subways in Korea, it is convienent.
Me: En, have you been China before?
Piao: No, but I really want to go, because I like Chinese food so much.
Me: Oh, really? Do you like spicy food? My hometown is famous for spicy food.
Piao: Yeah, I like spicy so much, espically the beef noodles, there are large piece of beef on the noodles soup, it is so delicious. I eat it at New York’s chinatown. The chinese restaurant in there is not good, I find that the taste always are sweet, I do not like it.
Me: Yeah, the chinese restaurant in there is not good, the taste is similar to American taste. It is not spicy. But in city, there is a restaurant, their food is spicy, you can try it next time.
Piao: Ok, you know? Korea food is very different with chinese food, even both of us eat rice. But the rice is different, our rice is more sticky and heavy, chinese rice is more light, just like the rice at cash wise there. When we have the meal. We always have rice, soup, kimchi and many other food.
Me: Yeah, I know, in China, there are some korea restaurant, I find there always have many dishes on the table.
Piao: Yeah, In China, the people always cook all of the food before we have the meal, but in korea, we can cook it in the table like BBQ. And in korea, we always eat rice for the breakfast, even it is not convient.
Me: Oh, in China, the noodle always as our breakfast. Do you have many stess when you are a child in the school?
Piao: Yeah, we have, not because we have many homework, we have a lot of stress because we have a lot of exams.
Me: How do you think about SCSU?
Piao: I think this is a good place to study Englis, there is countryside, there are few korea, I need to speak english every day.
Me: But don’t you think there is so boring, we hardly have the entertainment.
Piao: Yeah, it is boring, but it is a good place for us to study.
Me: Ok, thank you so much and nice to meet you.
Piao: Me too. Have a good night.
Me: Have a good night.
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