Cross-cultural Problems Of South Korean Students In Adaptation In China

Since the China and South Korea established diplomatic ties in August1992,there are more and more Korean students studying in China. Coming and studyingin China means they not only need to learn Chinese well, but also need to gothrough adaptation process to China’s culture. However, it’s really very difficult toadjust to the unfamiliar environment. Someone can quickly immerse themselves toChina like a duck to water, but someone could not adapt to Chinese culture evenafter several years life in China. Undeniably the latter will encounter a lot ofproblems on their study,emotion and normal life. Some students even rebel againstChinese culture, which will damage China’s reputation in the world. To avoid thissituation and to attract more students to study in China, China should gather hugeamounts of intercultural adjustment materials. However now information availableare most about western counties. These available research results do not suit toChina-Korea intercultural adjustment problems for that there are big differencesbetween Chinese culture and Western culture. In a word, China-Korea intercultural adjustment problems need our deep research.To better study and research China-Korea intercultural adjustment problems,This article adopts the method of investigate researching,literature retrieval,generalizations etc, at the same time, this article also related some China andabroad research achievements. In addition, we designed relevant questionnairesabout the normal life and academic progress of Korea students in China andanalyzed the report through SPSS software. We found that social support is closelyrelated to intercultural adjustment problems and social support is a very importantfactor which will have serious impact on Korea students’ adjustment to China.There is also a lot of room for improvement at this point.According to the data from the China-Korea intercultural adjustment researchsystem, we get the conclusion that generally Korea students have clear goalscoming to China, and they are satisfied to studying environment. So learningobjectives and studying environment do not affect their adjustment to China.However, the data reflects that Korea students are not conscientious enough totheir domain knowledge studying.Firstly,a lot of Korea student encountered hardtimes during their study. Secondly, Korea students hold negative attitudes to theirmajor course. Given these problems, this article integrates psychology, intercultural communication and all the related documents, based on which, itgives many constructive suggestions and proposals about intercultural adjustmentproblems. At last, intercultural adjustment is very complicated problem, it not onlyneeds improvement of foreign Chinese teaching and government support, but alsoneed Korea students’ own efforts.