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Navigating the K-Kkondae: A Marketing Clash

LEVEL: Business Korean (Intermediate-Advanced)

์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ง์žฅ์€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— '๊ผฐ๋Œ€' ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ง์žฅ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ด ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฏ์„ค๊ณ  ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธ€์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ „๋žต ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด '๊ผฐ๋Œ€'์˜ ํŠน์ง•๊ณผ ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹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.

Illustration of a 'Kkondae' manager pointing fingers in a meeting

๋“ฑ์žฅ์ธ๋ฌผ (Characters)

Grace (๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค) ๐Ÿ’ƒ: ํ˜ธ์ฃผ์—์„œ ์˜จ 3๋…„ ์ฐจ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ. ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (A 3rd-year marketing assistant manager from Australia. Prefers innovative, data-driven approaches.)

์„œ๋‚˜๋Œ€ ์ƒ๋ฌด (Executive Director Seo) ๐Ÿง”: ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์˜ 20๋…„ ์ฐจ ๋ฒ ํ…Œ๋ž‘. ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ ˆ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (A conservative veteran with 20 years of experience. Absolutely trusts his own experience.)

ํšŒ์˜์‹ค ์ƒํ™ฉ (The Meeting Room Situation)

✨ ์žฅ๋ฉด 1: ์•„์ด๋””์–ด ๋ฐœํ‘œ (Scene 1: The Idea Pitch)

๐Ÿ’ƒ Grace
"์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ 2030์„ธ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ฒŸ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ˆํผ ๋น„๋””์˜ค ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด..."
"We propose a short-form video platform marketing campaign targeting Gen Z and Millennials. According to recent data..."

์„œ๋‚˜๋Œ€ ์ƒ๋ฌด๋Š” ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๋‚ด๋‚ด ํƒํƒ์น˜ ์•Š์€ ํ‘œ์ •์„ ์ง“์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Executive Director Seo looks displeased throughout the presentation.

ํƒํƒ์น˜ ์•Š๋‹ค (tamtakchi anta): ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋ชป๋งˆ๋•…ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์˜ ํ˜•์šฉ์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (An adjective meaning to be displeased or dissatisfied.)

✨ ์žฅ๋ฉด 2: ๊ผฐ๋Œ€์˜ ๋ฐ˜๊ฒฉ (Scene 2: The Kkondae's Counterattack)

๐Ÿง” ์„œ๋‚˜๋Œ€ ์ƒ๋ฌด
"์Œ... Grace ์”จ, ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜๊ธด ํ•œ๋ฐ... ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ๊ฑฐ ์•ˆ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ธฐ์—” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์• ๋“ค ์žฅ๋‚œ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ? ๋ผ๋–ผ๋Š” ๋ง์ด์•ผ, TV ๊ด‘๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ..."
"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..."
๊ผฐ๋Œ€ ๋‹จ๊ณจ ๋ฉ˜ํŠธ (Classic Kkondae Phrases):
"๋‚˜ ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋ง์ด์•ผ (Latte is horse... a pun for 'Back in my day...')"๋Š” ๊ผฐ๋Œ€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์ผ๋ฐ˜ํ™”ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

✨ ์žฅ๋ฉด 3: ๊ฒฝํ—˜ vs. ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ (Scene 3: Experience vs. Trend)

๐Ÿง” ์„œ๋‚˜๋Œ€ ์ƒ๋ฌด
"๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์—์„œ 20๋…„์ด์•ผ. ์š”์ฆ˜ ์ Š์€ ์• ๋“ค์€ ๋ณ€๋•์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์„œ ๋ญ˜ ์ข‹์•„ํ• ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์งˆ๋ ค ํ•˜์ง€."
"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."
๐Ÿ’ƒ Grace
"์ƒ๋ฌด๋‹˜ ๋ง์”€๋„ ์ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ Š์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ 70% ์ด์ƒ์ด SNS๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."
"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."
๊ผฐ๋Œ€ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜๋ฒ• (How to deal with a Kkondae): ๋จผ์ € ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ํƒœ๋„("๋ง์”€๋„ ์ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ...")๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ธ ํ›„, ๊ฐ์ •์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฐ๊ด€์ ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (First, show respect for their opinion ["I see your point, but..."] and then present your own opinion based on objective data or facts, not emotions.)
๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํด๋ฆญํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์ œ์ž‘์— ๋งŽ์€ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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