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Grace์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ: ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด์˜ ๊ธฐ๋กœ์—์„œ

Grace์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ: ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด์˜ ๊ธฐ๋กœ์—์„œ

Grace's Visit and Dilemma: At the Crossroads of Her Korean Career

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๋ฉฐ์น  ํ›„, Grace๋Š” ์•ฝ์†๋œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋งž์ถฐ ๋ถ„๋‹น์„ ์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์›์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐจ์ฐฝ ๋ฐ– ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋นŒ๋”ฉ ์ˆฒ์—์„œ ์ ์ฐจ ๋‚ฎ๊ณ  ๋„“์€ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋€”์ˆ˜๋ก, Grace์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋˜ '์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ'์˜ ํ˜„์‹ค์ด ์™€๋‹ฟ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A few days later, Grace took the Bundang Line towards Suwon at the appointed time. As the scenery outside the train window gradually changed from the familiar concrete jungle of Seoul to lower, wider buildings, a strange sense of anxiety, mixed with anticipation, settled in Grace's heart. It was the moment when the reality of the ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ (chultoegeun geori) Mike had mentioned hit home.

๐Ÿ“š ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ (chultoegeun geori): commuting distance, the distance between home and work

๐Ÿข ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๊ณผ์˜ ๋งŒ๋‚จ

ํšŒ์˜์‹ค์—๋Š” ์ธ์žํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ค‘๋…„์˜ ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜ ํ•œ ๋ถ„์ด ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—ค๋“œํ—Œํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋น„์šด ํ›„, ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด ๋จผ์ € ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In the meeting room, a kindly-looking middle-aged Division Head was waiting. After the headhunter left, the Division Head began the conversation.

๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜ (Bonbujang-nim - Division Head):

"Grace ๋‹˜, ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ท€ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‚ด์–ด ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—ค๋“œํ—Œํ„ฐ๋‹˜๊ป˜ Grace ๋‹˜์˜ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์—…๋ฌด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ตํžˆ ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ Grace ๋‹˜์„ ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

"Grace ๋‹˜, thank you for taking your valuable time to visit our company. I've heard a lot about Grace's outstanding work competency and global marketing experience from the headhunter. The biggest reason we want to bring Grace on board is specifically your deep understanding of the cultural differences between the Korean market and overseas markets."

๐Ÿ“š ์—…๋ฌด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ (eopmu yeokryang): work competency, professional capability or skill set
๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ฐจ์ด (munhwajeok chai): cultural differences, disparities in customs, beliefs, and values between different cultures
GRACE:

"๊ณผ์ฐฌ์˜ ๋ง์”€์ด์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“ค์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ € ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ธฐ์  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

"You're too kind, ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜. If my experience can be helpful for the company's growth, I would also be delighted."

๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋น„์ „๊ณผ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™•์žฅ ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋„์ „ ์ •์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ธ์žฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, Grace์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ์•ˆ๋œ ํŒ€ ๋ฆฌ๋” ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Division Head explained the company's vision and the aggressive overseas market ํ™•์žฅ ์ „๋žต (hwakjang jeollyak) currently underway. He emphasized that they are looking for talents with rapid ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ (silhaengnyeok) and a ๋„์ „ ์ •์‹  (dojeon jeongsin), and that the team leader position offered to Grace is right at the heart of it.

๐Ÿ“š ํ™•์žฅ ์ „๋žต (hwakjang jeollyak): expansion strategy, a plan to grow and extend business operations
์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ (silhaengnyeok): execution capability, the ability to carry out plans effectively and decisively
๋„์ „ ์ •์‹  (dojeon jeongsin): challenging spirit, a mindset that embraces new and difficult tasks
๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜ (Bonbujang-nim):

"Grace ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ๋Š” ์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งก์•„์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋ถ๋ฏธ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ณต๋žต์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ ๊ธฐํš๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ถ„์„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด๊ด„ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ž์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ธฐ์กด ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ณก์„ ์„ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฑ…์ž„์ž ์ž๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

"When Grace joins us, you will immediately take charge of several core projects. Specifically, you will oversee everything from planning new marketing campaigns for the North American market strategy, to budget management, and performance analysis. We grant our leaders significant autonomy, but we expect equally clear goal achievement. This role is not just about managing existing tasks; it is a person in charge position to pioneer new markets and raise the company's growth curve."

๐Ÿ“š ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ (peurojekteu): project
๊ณต๋žต (gongnyak): market penetration, strategy to enter and succeed in a market
์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ (yesan gwalli): budget management, overseeing and controlling financial resources
์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ถ„์„ (seonggwa bunseok): performance analysis, evaluating results against goals
๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ (mokpyo dalSeong): goal achievement, successfully reaching set targets
์ฑ…์ž„์ž (chaegimja): person in charge, someone responsible for a particular task or area
์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ณก์„  (seongjang gokSeon): growth curve, a graphical representation of growth over time

Grace๋Š” ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์˜ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉฐ ์‹ฌ์žฅ์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋›ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋А๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช… ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ดํฌ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งด๋Œ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '์ธ์‚ฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ฑ…์ž„, ์‹ค์  ์••๋ฐ•... ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ํฐ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์ด ๋”ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์žŠ์ง€ ๋งˆ.'

Listening to the Division Head's explanation, Grace felt her heart beat faster. It was clearly an attractive opportunity. But at the same time, Mike's voice echoed in her mind. '์ธ์‚ฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ (insa gwalli), ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ฑ…์ž„ (bogo chaegim), and ์‹ค์  ์••๋ฐ• (siljeok appak)... Don't forget that it might come with much greater responsibilities than you think.'

๐Ÿ“š ์ธ์‚ฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ (insa gwalli): personnel management, the management of employees, including hiring, training, and evaluation
๋ณด๊ณ  ์ฑ…์ž„ (bogo chaegim): reporting responsibilities, the obligation to report results and progress
์‹ค์  ์••๋ฐ• (siljeok appak): pressure to perform, stress related to achieving targets and meeting expectations
๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜ (Bonbujang-nim):

"์ด์ œ ์ž ์‹œ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด์‹œ๊ณ , ํŒ€์›๋“ค๊ณผ๋„ ์งง๊ฒŒ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€์‹œ์ฃ . ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ Š๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ ์ธ ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ์˜์‚ฌ์†Œํ†ต์„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

"Now, let's take a moment to look around the office and have a brief greeting with the team members. Our company has a young and vibrant atmosphere. We aim for a horizontal organizational culture and value free communication."

๐Ÿ“š ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ ์ธ ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™” (supyeongjeokin jojik munhwa): horizontal organizational culture, a culture with less hierarchy and more equal communication among members
์˜์‚ฌ์†Œํ†ต (uisasotong): communication, the process of exchanging information or ideas

๐Ÿข ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๊ธฐ์™€ ํŒ€์›๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋งŒ๋‚จ

๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ Grace๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„“์€ ์˜คํ”ˆํ˜• ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์€ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ถ„์ฃผํ•จ ์†์—์„œ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฐ„๊ฐ„ํžˆ ์ „ํ™” ํ†ตํ™” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ‚ค๋ณด๋“œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ์ด ๋“ค๋ ค์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Grace๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ํŽธ์•ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์™€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ญ‡ ๋‹ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Guided by the Division Head, Grace stepped into the office. The spacious open-plan office felt vibrant, but there was also a strange tension noticeable within the busyness. Employees were focused on their monitors, and only the occasional sounds of phone calls and keyboards could be heard. It was quite different from the comfortable atmosphere filled with laughter Grace felt at her current company.

๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์€ Grace๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•  ํŒ€์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌํ‚ค๋ฉฐ ๋ช‡ ๋ช…์˜ ํŒ€์›์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งง์€ ์•…์ˆ˜์™€ ์ธ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๊ฐ”์ง€๋งŒ, ํŒ€์›๋“ค์˜ ํ‘œ์ •์—์„œ๋Š” Grace๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•œ ํ™˜์˜์˜ ๊ธฐ์ƒ‰๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚ฏ์„  ์ด๊ฐ€ ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•จ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”๋น  ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ƒ‰์ด ๋” ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผ์ณค์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋‚ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™”๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ๋Œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋˜ '์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๋Œ'์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํ˜„์‹ค๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ๋“ฏํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Division Head pointed to the team's area that Grace would join and introduced a few team members. Brief handshakes and greetings were exchanged, but from the team members' expressions, the awkwardness of a stranger's arrival or a look of being busy felt stronger than a welcoming gesture towards Grace. Someone briefly made eye contact but quickly turned their gaze back to their screen. The possibility of ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๋Œ (jojik munhwa chungdol) that Mike had talked about seemed to be approaching reality.

๐Ÿ“š ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๋Œ (jojik munhwa chungdol): organizational culture clash, a mismatch between an individual's values and the organization's culture

์งง์€ ๋งŒ๋‚จ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, Grace๋Š” ํŒ€์˜ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ƒ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ'๊ณผ '๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ฐ๊ฐ'์œผ๋กœ ํŒ€์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์ด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์†์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์กด ํŒ€์›๋“ค๊ณผ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์œตํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ํŒ€์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๋ฌธ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Although it was a brief encounter, Grace instinctively felt that the team's atmosphere might be different from what she had imagined. She had to lead the team with 'excellent leadership' and 'global sense', but she questioned whether she could quickly ์œตํ™” (yunghwa) with the existing team members and create ํŒ€์›Œํฌ (timwokeu) in this atmosphere.

๐Ÿ“š ์œตํ™” (yunghwa): harmony, assimilation, blending in
ํŒ€์›Œํฌ (timwokeu): teamwork

๋‹ค์‹œ ํšŒ์˜์‹ค๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ Grace๋Š” ์•„๊นŒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ง„์ค‘ํ•œ ํ‘œ์ •์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Returning to the meeting room, Grace's expression was slightly more serious than before.

GRACE:

"๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜, ์ข‹์€ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋น„์ „๊ณผ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋Š” ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ํŒ€์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ํŒ€์›๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

"๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜, thank you for sharing such positive insights. I understand the company's vision and what is expected of me. However, what is the current atmosphere like within the team I would join? I'm curious about how the team members feel about new leadership."

๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋”๋‹ˆ ์†”์งํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋‚ด๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Division Head hesitated for a moment before giving an honest answer.

๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜ (Bonbujang-nim):

"์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ํŒ€์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฐ”์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ค€๋น„๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์—…๋ฌด ๊ฐ•๋„๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํŽธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์›๋“ค ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์™ธ๋ถ€์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์‹ฌ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ Grace ๋‹˜์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํŒ€์„ ์•ˆ์ •์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์‹œ๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํŒ€์˜ ์ €ํ•ญ์— ๋ถ€๋”ชํžˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ Grace ๋‹˜์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋งˆ์ฐฐ์ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์ž˜ ํ—ค์ณ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด Grace ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ณผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

"To be honest, the team is very busy right now. The work intensity is quite high due to preparations for entering new markets. From the team members' perspective, there might be some wariness or anxiety about a new leader suddenly joining from the outside. However, with Grace's experience and leadership, I believe you can fully stabilize the team and create synergy. Of course, in the initial stages, you might face some team resistance or friction between the existing work style and Grace's approach. Navigating that process well will be Grace's first important challenge."

๐Ÿ“š ์—…๋ฌด ๊ฐ•๋„ (eopmu gangdo): work intensity, the degree of effort or stress required for a task
๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์‹ฌ (gyeonggyesim): wariness, caution or suspicion
๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ (burangam): anxiety, unease or nervousness
์ €ํ•ญ (jeohang): resistance, opposition or reluctance
์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์‹ (eopmu bangsik): work style, the method or manner of performing tasks
๋งˆ์ฐฐ (machal): friction, conflict or disagreement
๊ณผ์ œ (gwaje): task, assignment, or challenge

๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์˜ ์†”์งํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์€ Grace์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ผ๋ฉด ํฐ ์„ฑ์ทจ๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”'๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ—ค๋“œํ—Œํ„ฐ์™€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ˜„์‹ค์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ์ทจ๋Š” ํŒ€์›๋“ค์˜ ์ €ํ•ญ์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฐ”์˜๊ณ  ์ง€์ณ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์†์—์„œ ํŒ€์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ๋งŒ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”, ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ณผ์ œ์ผ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Division Head's honest answer presented Grace with new concerns. 'If it's a performance-oriented culture, I'd definitely feel a great sense of accomplishment' was a different reality from her conversation with the headhunter. She realized that achievement here might be a much more complex and difficult task, attainable only by overcoming team resistance and building teamwork within a busy and seemingly exhausted atmosphere.

๐Ÿ“Œ ๊นŠ์–ด์ง„ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ

์ˆ˜์›์—์„œ ์„œ์šธ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ, Grace๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๊นŠ์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช… ํฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋†’์€ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ์™€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ณ ์ถฉ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ํŒ€์›๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์˜ ์†”์งํ•œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰์€ ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๋Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ์˜ ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

On the way back to Seoul from Suwon, Grace fell into deeper contemplation. The new company clearly offered significant growth opportunities, but she also learned that equally high ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ (riseukeu) and unexpected ๊ณ ์ถฉ (gochung) might be waiting. Especially the team members' atmosphere and the Division Head's honest remarks brought the ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๋Œ (jojik munhwa chungdol) Mike had talked about back to her mind.

๐Ÿ“š ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ (riseukeu): risk
๊ณ ์ถฉ (gochung): difficulty, hardship, or trouble
์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๋Œ (jojik munhwa chungdol): organizational culture clash, a mismatch between an individual's values and the organization's culture

์ง€๊ธˆ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ Grace๋Š” ์•ˆ์ •๊ฐ ์†์—์„œ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์›๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋„ ์ข‹์•˜๊ณ , ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋ฌธํ™”์—๋„ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ž์‚ฐ๋“ค์„ ๋’ค๋กœํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋ชธ์„ ๋˜์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์˜ณ์€ ์„ ํƒ์ผ๊นŒ?

At her current company, Grace was growing while being recognized within a sense of stability. Her relationships with team members were good, and she had become somewhat accustomed to the company culture. Leaving these precious ์ž์‚ฐ (jasan) behind, was it truly the right choice to throw herself into an uncertain future?

๐Ÿ“š ์ž์‚ฐ (jasan): asset, something of value

Grace๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋„์ „์˜ ์งœ๋ฆฟํ•จ๊ณผ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ์•ˆ์ •๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๊ธธ์„ ์žƒ์€ ๋“ฏ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ๋‹ค์Œ ์žฅ์€ ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ์ˆ˜์›์—์„œ์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์„ ๋ฟ, ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋‹ต์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•ด์ฃผ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Grace seemed lost between the thrill of a new challenge and the reality of her current stability. Where will the next chapter of her career lead? The day in Suwon had only complicated her dilemma further, offering no clear answer.

๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์ ์  ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋น ์ ธ๋“ ๋‹ค.

Her decision increasingly leads her into deeper contemplation.

Grace๋Š” ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ ๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์„ ํƒ์— ๊ท€์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋œ๋‹ค.

What decision will Grace ultimately make? All eyes are on her choice.

๋‹ค์Œ ํŽธ์—์„œ๋Š” Grace๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ •๋ณด์™€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ตœ์ข… ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ด ๊ทธ๋ ค์ง„๋‹ค.

In the next episode, the process of Grace synthesizing all this information and her feelings to make a final decision will be depicted.

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