You will prepare and submit a term paper on Differences and Similarities between Korea and Japan

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Differences and Similarities between Korea and Japan. Your paper should be a minimum of 250 words in length. I took this to understand academic differences and similarities between Korea and Japan since I have lived in both countries. While I was reading the articles for week 1, I found many interesting points. One was in Okuyama 1’s article which I thought was exaggerated.

In the Korean community, this kind of "no" activity reflects me as an irresolute person, and many people know I am not good at saying ‘no’, so make me accept their request.

By this, when I moved to Korea in third grade from Japan, I was stressed a lot because it was hard to say ‘no’ even though I really did not want to. These language differences haunt me a lot. I became a person to say ’no’, but it is still hard and more comfortable to give reasons.