Third interview with SK

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 7^th 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 Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and are the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).

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.

Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's 2nd-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36th-largest construction companies). Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company), Samsung Ever land (operator of Ever land Resort, the oldest theme in South Korea), Samsung Techwin (an aerospace, surveillance and defense company) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 16th-largest advertising agency measured by 2011 revenues).

 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.