๐คThe true picture of the Korean office ③ ํค๋ํํฐ์์ ๋ง๋จ
๐ผ Grace์ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผ – 2ํ: ์ ํ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์์
๐ผ At the Crossroads of Choice
์ด๋ฒ ์ํผ์๋์์๋ ํค๋ํํฐ์ ๋ฏธํ ํ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋์ธ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๋๋ค. ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํ์ฅ์ง์ ๋งก์์ผ ํ ๊น์, ์๋๋ฉด ํ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ง์ฅ์ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ฌ์ผ ํ ๊น์? ๋ง์ดํฌ์ ์กฐ์ธ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฉด์ ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
In this episode, we follow Grace as she faces a crucial decision after meeting a headhunter. Should she take the team leader role at a growing company or stay in her current stable job? Mike's advice adds another layer to her dilemma.
๐ข ํค๋ํํฐ์์ ๋ง๋จ
๐ข Meeting with the Headhunter
ํด๊ทผ ํ, Grace๋ ์ผ์ฑ๋์ ํ์ ํ ์นดํ์์ ํค๋ํํฐ์ ๋ง์ฃผ ์์๋ค.
After work, Grace met the headhunter at a quiet cafe in Samseong-dong.
๊ธ๋ก๋ง ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์๋, ์ง์ ๋์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ง์ํ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ณ ์ถ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
She wanted to have a sincere face-to-face conversation, not just exchange messages.

HEADHUNTER:
"Grace ๋, ์ง์ ๋ต๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฆ ํด์ธ ๋ง์ผํ ๋ถ์ผ์์ Grace ๋์ฒ๋ผ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์ค์ ๊ณผ ํ์ํ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฒธ๋นํ์ ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ง ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต์ต๋๋ค."
"Grace, it's a real pleasure to meet you in person. These days, it's truly difficult to find someone like you in the overseas marketing field who combines outstanding performance with excellent communication skills."
HEADHUNTER:
"ํน์ ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ด์ ์ ํ์ฌ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํด ๋ณด์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ด๋ ์ ๊ฐ์? ์ง๊ธ ๋น์ฅ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ์๋ผ๋ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ, ์ง์ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์๊ณ ํ๋จํ์ จ์ผ๋ฉด ํฉ๋๋ค."
"Would you be open to visiting the company office sometime this week? This isn't about making a decision right now, but rather seeing the company atmosphere and meeting the team members in person to help you decide."
๋ฐ์ด๋ ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ (ttwieonan rideoship): excellent leadership
๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๊ฐ๊ฐ (geulrobeol gamgak): global sense
GRACE:
"...์ข์ต๋๋ค. ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ด์ด ์ด๋ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค."
"...Okay. Seeing it in person would be good. Thank you for taking the time to invite me."
๐ง๐ผ ๋ง์ดํฌ์ ์กฐ์ธ
๐ง๐ผ Mike's Advice
๋ฉฐ์น ํ, Grace๋ ํ์ฌ ์๋น์์ ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ง์ดํฌ์ ์ ์ฌ์ ํจ๊ปํ๋ฉฐ ์๋ง์์ ํธ์ด๋์๋ค.
A few days later, Grace had lunch with Mike in the company cafeteria for the first time in a while and confided in him.
GRACE:
"๋ง์ดํฌ, ๋ ์์ฆ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด ๋ง์. ์ผ๋ง ์ ์ ํค๋ํํฐํํ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ด ์๋๋ฐ, ์ ๊ณ 5์ ํ์ฌ์์ ํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ฐ์์ด. ์ฐ๋ด๋ ๊ฝค ๋ง์ด ์ฌ๋ ค์ค๋."
"Mike, I've been having a lot of worries lately. I got a call from a headhunter a while ago. They offered me a team leader position at a company ranked 5th in the industry. The salary is also quite a bit higher."
MIKE:
"์ค, ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์ ์์ด๊ธด ํ๋ค. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์์งํ ๋งํด๋ ๋ ๊น? ๋๋ ๋ค๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ ์ด์งํ๋ ๊ฑด ์ข ๋ ์ ์คํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด ๋ดค์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด."
"Oh, that's a really good offer. But can I be honest with you? I think you should consider changing jobs very carefully."
GRACE:
"์, ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ง์ดํฌ ๋ํํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ. ๋ค ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์์ด."
"Yeah, that's why I'm talking to you, Mike. I wanted to hear your thoughts."
MIKE:
"Grace, ๋ ์์ฆ ํ์ฌ์์ ์ผํ๋ฉด์ ์์ฃผ ์๊ณ ์ ๋ง ํ๊ธฐ์ฐจ ๋ณด์ด์์. ์ง๊ธ ํ์์ ์ธ์ ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ํ์ฌ ๋ฌธํ์๋ ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ณ ."
"Grace, you've been smiling and seem really energetic at work lately. You're well-recognized in your current team, and you seem to fit well with the company culture."
"๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์์คํ๊ณ ์ป๊ธฐ ํ๋ ๊ฑด์ง ๋๋ ์์์? ์ด์งํ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ค์ ์์ํด์ผ ํด."
"You know how valuable and hard-to-come-by that is, right? If you change jobs, you'll have to start all over again."
ํ์ฌ ๋ฌธํ (hoesa munhwa): company culture
GRACE:
"์... ํ์ํฌ๋ ํ์ฌ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ ์ ๋ง ์ข์. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ง๊ธ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋์ ์ ์ธ ์ญํ ์ด๋ผ์ ์๊พธ ๋ง์์ด ๋๋ ค."
"Yeah... the teamwork and company atmosphere are really great. But the role they're offering is much more challenging, and that keeps attracting me."
MIKE:
"๋ฌผ๋ก ์๋ก์ด ๋์ ์ ํ์ํ์ง. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ด์ง์ด ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๋ง์กฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ์ง ์์."
"Of course, new challenges are necessary. But a job change doesn't always bring satisfaction."
ํ๊ตญ๊ณ ์ฉ์ ๋ณด์ ํต๊ณ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด์ง์ ์ค 37%๊ฐ '์ด์ง ํ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ์ง ์๋ค'๊ณ ์๋ตํ๋.
According to Korea Employment Information Service statistics, 37% of job changers reported being 'unsatisfied after changing jobs.'
"ํนํ ์ถํด๊ทผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ ์ถฉ๋ ๋๋ฌธ์ ํํํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๊ฝค ๋ง์."
"In particular, many regret their decision due to commuting distance or organizational culture clash."
"๋์ฒ๋ผ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ผ๋ก ์ผํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ ์๋ ๋ ์ค์ํ์ง."
"For you, as a foreigner working here, cultural adaptation is even more important."
ํ๊ตญ๊ณ ์ฉ์ ๋ณด์ ํต๊ณ (hanguk goyong jeongbowon tonggye): Korea Employment Information Service statistics
์ถํด๊ทผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ (chultoegeun geori): commuting distance
์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ ์ถฉ๋ (jojik munhwa chungdol): organizational culture clash
๋ฌธํ์ ์ ์ (munhwajeok jeogeung): cultural adaptation
GRACE:
"...๊ทธ๋ฐ ํต๊ณ ์๋ฃ๋ ์์๊ตฌ๋."
"I didn't know there were statistics like that."
MIKE:
"๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค๊ฐ ํ ๋ฆฌ๋๊ฐ ๋๋ค๋ฉด, ๋จ์ํ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ์ธ์ฌ ๊ด๋ฆฌ, ๋ณด๊ณ ์ฑ ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค์ ์๋ฐ ๋ฑ ์์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฐจ์์ ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ ๊ฐ๋นํด์ผ ํ ์ ์์ด."
"And if you become a team leader, you won't just be managing projects; you'll also have to handle personnel management, reporting responsibilities, and pressure to perform, which can bring a completely different level of stress."
"๋ค๊ฐ ์๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ํฐ ์ฑ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์์ง ๋ง."
"Don't forget that it might come with much greater responsibilities than you think."
์ธ์ฌ ๊ด๋ฆฌ (insa gwalli): personnel management
๋ณด๊ณ ์ฑ ์ (bogo chaegim): reporting responsibilities
์ค์ ์๋ฐ (siljeok appak): pressure to perform
GRACE:
"๋ฃ๊ณ ๋ณด๋, ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ฌด ์ด์์ ์ผ๋ก๋ง ์๊ฐํ๋ ๋ด."
"Hearing that, I think I might have been idealizing that aspect too much."
MIKE:
"๋๋ Grace ๋ค๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ธธ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด์ผ."
"I sincerely want Grace to grow even more than she is now."
"ํ์ง๋ง ์ง๊ธ ๋ค๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ์์คํ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋๋ฌด ๊ณผ์ํ๊ฐํ์ง ์์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด."
"But I hope you don't underestimate the valuable things you have right now."
"๋๋ก๋ ์ง๊ธ ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ์ถฉ์คํ๊ณ ํ์ฌ์ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ์ต์ ์ ๋คํ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ํ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ์ ๋ต์ด ๋ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ธฐ์ตํด."
"Remember that sometimes, being content in the present moment and doing your best in your current role can also be an excellent career strategy."
๐ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ ๊น์ด
๐ Depth of Conflict
๋ง์ดํฌ์ ํ์ค์ ์ด๋ฉด์๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์กฐ์ธ์ Grace์ ๋ง์์์ ๊น์ ์ธ๋ฆผ์ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
Mike's realistic yet warm advice left a deep impression on Grace's mind.
์๋ก์ด ์ฑ์ฅ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํ์ ํ์ฌ์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ ์์คํ ๊ฐ์น ์ฌ์ด์์ Grace์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ๋์ฑ ๊น์ด์ ธ๋ง ๊ฐ๋ค.
Grace's dilemma deepens between the attractive opportunity for new growth and the precious value of her current stability.
๊ณผ์ฐ Grace๋ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด์ ๋ค์ ์ฅ์ ์ด ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๊น, ์๋๋ฉด ์ง๊ธ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ์ฑ์ฐฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ํ์ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๊น?
Is Grace truly ready to open the next chapter of her career, or does she need more time for experience and reflection?
๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ ์ ๋ ๊น์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ ์์ผ๋ก ๋น ์ ธ๋ค์๋ค.
Her decision increasingly leads her into deeper contemplation.
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