๐ผ ํ์์ค์ ์์ ๋๋ผ๋ง: ๋ง์ผํ ๊ฒฉ๋
Navigating the K-Kkondae: A Marketing Clash
LEVEL: Business Korean (Intermediate-Advanced)์ค๋๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ง์ฅ์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ณํํ๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ '๊ผฐ๋' ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ๋จ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํนํ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ง์ฅ์ธ์๊ฒ๋ ์ด ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ๋ฏ์ค๊ณ ์ด๋ ต๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ง ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ธ์์๋ ๋ง์ผํ ์ ๋ต ํ์์์ ๋ฒ์ด์ง๋ ์ธ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ ํตํด '๊ผฐ๋'์ ํน์ง๊ณผ ๊ทธ์ ๋์ฒํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์์๋ด ๋๋ค.
Today's Korean workplaces are changing rapidly, but the 'Kkondae' culture still lingers. This can be particularly unfamiliar and challenging for foreign employees. In this post, we'll explore the characteristics of a 'Kkondae' and how to handle them through a generational conflict during a marketing strategy meeting.

๋ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฌผ (Characters)
Grace (๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค) ๐: ํธ์ฃผ์์ ์จ 3๋ ์ฐจ ๋ง์ผํ ๋๋ฆฌ. ํ์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์ ๊ทผ์ ์ ํธํฉ๋๋ค. (A 3rd-year marketing assistant manager from Australia. Prefers innovative, data-driven approaches.)
์๋๋ ์๋ฌด (Executive Director Seo) ๐ง: ๋ณด์์ ์ธ ์ฑํฅ์ 20๋ ์ฐจ ๋ฒ ํ ๋. ์์ ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ ๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ขฐํฉ๋๋ค. (A conservative veteran with 20 years of experience. Absolutely trusts his own experience.)
ํ์์ค ์ํฉ (The Meeting Room Situation)
✨ ์ฅ๋ฉด 1: ์์ด๋์ด ๋ฐํ (Scene 1: The Idea Pitch)
"We propose a short-form video platform marketing campaign targeting Gen Z and Millennials. According to recent data..."
์๋๋ ์๋ฌด๋ ๋ฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๋ ๋ด๋ด ํํ์น ์์ ํ์ ์ ์ง์ต๋๋ค.
Executive Director Seo looks displeased throughout the presentation.
✨ ์ฅ๋ฉด 2: ๊ผฐ๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฉ (Scene 2: The Kkondae's Counterattack)
"Hmm... Grace, the idea is fresh, but... our main customers don't like such frivolous things. It just looks like child's play to me. Back in my day, one TV ad..."
"๋ ๋๋ ๋ง์ด์ผ (Latte is horse... a pun for 'Back in my day...')"๋ ๊ผฐ๋์ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ํํ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ ์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํ์ฌ ์ํฉ์ ์ผ๋ฐํํ๋ ค๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค.
✨ ์ฅ๋ฉด 3: ๊ฒฝํ vs. ํธ๋ ๋ (Scene 3: Experience vs. Trend)
"I've been in this business for 20 years. Young people these days are so fickle, you never know what they'll like, and they get bored of things easily."
"I see your point, sir, but according to recent surveys, over 70% of young consumers get brand information via social media. We can't ignore the trends shown by the data."
Clicking on the ad helps a lot in content creation.