1. Describe your preparations. (1) Interview preparations.
This is my third interview, due to I already
did the last two interviews, so I am good at interview now. This time I still
choose interview Korean. I did my third interview with SK. She is my Philosophy
194 classmate, we are also teammate. SK was a wonderful girl, she has a good
relationship with everyone. I met with SK in CH on 7th November,
after P194 class we go upstairs and found a quite spot to started our interview,
finally we choose a sofa near by the windows. I still used my phone to recorded
interview process. Actually I want use my laptop to take video, but SK said she
will be shy when I take video. So I changed my mind, I just record her voice,
she felt comfortable and that was enough for me. The third interview was the
longest one, it took us around one and a half hours.
2. Describe
the interview. (2) Interview
report
I met with SK in Centennial
Hall, we found a quiet and comfortable spot to start our interview. We choose
a sofa nearby the window. SK said that it is her favorite spot, there has
enough sunshine and warm. So when she doesn’t have classes, she will come here
and enjoyed the afternoon. The third interview spends around one and half an
hours. I told SK I really interested in and love Korea food, she told me that
when she come to United Stated, she was never visited Korea restaurant, because
her mother was cooker and she was tough SK how to cook by herself. In other
word, SK was good at cook. She also said she will bring some Korea food for me
next week, I was exciting. I found a detail, most of Korea people use Samsung self-phone,
and seldom people use apple or other brands. SK agrees with my opinion, but she does not
know the answer.
3. Report on country/region and culture: (3) Country Report
Samsung was
founded by Lee Byung-chul in
1938 as a trading company. Over the
next three decades the group diversified into areas including food processing,
textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in
the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the
mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death
in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group,
Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since the
1990s Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities, and electronics,
particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important
source of income.
Samsung has a powerful influence on South
Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has been a major
driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River". Its
affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports. Samsung's
revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea's $1,082 billion GDP.
In 2013, Samsung
began construction on building the world's largest mobile phone factory in the
Thai Nguyen province of Vietnam.
4.
Transcribe the interview. (4) Interview transcription
SK=S
Minjie =M
S: How is going
today?
M: I am fine, just
so cold outside.
S: Did you sew snow
yesterday?
M: Really? I did not sew that. Do you like
the weather in St. Cloud?
S: Are you crazy? Who like the
weather in St. Cloud?
M: I know somebody did.
S :( laughs) She must be a
crazy people. ? I don’t like the weather in St. Cloud because it is too cold
and there is too much snow in winter.
M: I don’t like too. I hate
snow, it always make me fell down.
S: We should be live together.
M: Are you live in St. Cloud?
Where are you born?
S: I am living in St. Cloud
now. I was born in South Korea.
M: How many year have you been
to the United Stated? Did you undergo different culture?
S: Yes. I had hard time eating
American food, did you?
M: I hate cheese burger, I don’t
know why people like it.
S: My mother was a cook, so my
family has a high demand for food.
M: My mom was not a cook I
still hate cheese burger.
S: (laughs)
M: Why you choose SCSU?
S: SCSU had sister relationship with my school back in
Korea. This is how I came to the United States, especially SCSU. I was an
exchange student at first, and I transferred here.
M: I heard about that, I think
that was the reason why most Korea students are exchange students.
S: Yes.
M: What is you major?
S: Linguistics
M: Oh my god, this major was
so hard.
S: Yes, but I interested in
language.
M: So why you choose
you’re major?
S: I like learning languages
especially English. I thought that I need to learn English since I came to the
United States.
M: Sound’s great. How often do you communicate with your family
back at home?
S: I talk to my family once
a week or once per two weeks. How about you?
M: I make a phone call to my
mother once or twice a week.
S: Did you use Skype or
something?
M: I use China Mobil. This one
was cheaper.
S: It just open for Chinese?
M: Emm…. I don’t know about that.
S: Ok.
M: What is the biggest holiday in your country?
S: Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) and Chusok (Korean
thanksgiving)
M: Oh… Thanksgiving! Did you
have Black Friday?
S: No, I don’t like the Black
Friday, all the people become crazy.
M: I am strange. I love
Black Friday, but I have never shopping on the Black Friday.
S: Because the lines were
crazy.
M: Yes. So did you face any racist problems?
S: I don’t face serious racial problems, but people joke
about Asians being good at math.
M: That is truth. Did you
have religion?
S: Yes.
M: In what ways might it be difficult to practice
your religion here in the U.S?
S: I don’t think it is too
difficult. I feel happy about what I can practice. I learn so much about it and
I experience so much.
M: I don’t have religion.
S: That is fine.
M: What’s the biggest difference between the
American culture and your culture?
S: Language is a biggest and the most challenging
difference
M: my second interviewee
said that too. Grammar was so hard.
S: Yes. Many discipline need
to remember.
M: What are your goals for the future; after you
graduate, what are you going to do?
S: I want to go to graduate school
M: Haha…Same as me. We have simple
goals.
S: I told you, we should
live together.
M: What do you do for leisure?
S: I like singing songs.
M: I like listen music but I
don’t like sing a song. Can you tell
me something about yourself?
S: what kind of things you
want to know?
M: Anything.
S: Ok. I am a senior. I have
lived in America for three years. I am looking forward to go to graduate school
after I graduate.
M: Nice. Tell me some important things from your culture?
S: I think Korean pop culture is
popular nowadays. Many people in the world would like to learn what is going on
in Korea. I think K-pop, Korean dramas, Korean style clothing are the most
famous and important things.
M: All right. Did you have some
questions for me at the end?
S: Yes, how many years have you been
USA?
M: Let me see. About a year and a
half.
S: I am longer then you. I don’t have more questions.
M: Ok, our interview is finished,
you are free to go. Thank you for your help.
S: See you next week.
M: Have a good weekend
S: You too.