Conflicts over knowledge transfer across the border: Korean international students and the conversion of cultural capital

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNG-CHOON PARK
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Korean International Students

‘I Know What Freedom and Responsibility Mean Now’

Young ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gowoon Jung
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Time Of Arrival ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
State University ◽  
Advanced Degrees ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Korean International Students ◽  
Agency And Structure

This article analyses narratives of autonomous adulthood among Korean international students at an American state university. I categorize student narratives in terms of the number of activities associated with achieving adulthood markers and the efficacy of individual agency. A broad perspective considers a wide variety of activities to contribute to autonomous adulthood and valourizes individual agency. A narrow perspective focuses on activities tailored to one’s career, and downplays individual agency compared to larger institutional-structural factors. I examine these narratives among three groups of international students, depending on their time of arrival: pre-college migrants who moved to the USA during middle or high school, college-migrants who arrived during the first or second year of undergraduate college and post-college migrants who came for advanced degrees (e.g., MA, PhD). The finding suggests that students negotiate agency and structure differently depending on their past and current experiences in the sending and receiving countries.

Individualism, Collectivism, Client Expression, and Counselor Effectiveness Among South Korean International Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 824-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Seok Seo
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
International Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Hierarchical Multiple Regression ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Mail Surveys ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Counselor Effectiveness ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Korean International Students

The present study examined how individualism, collectivism, and counselor emphasis of client expression (cognition vs. emotion) are related to perceived counselor effectiveness among South Korean international students. Data were collected through mail surveys from 127 South Korean international students attending a Midwestern university. As hypothesized, results from a hierarchical multiple regression analysis demonstrated that the participants perceived the counselor who emphasized the expression of client emotion as more effective than the counselor emphasizing the expression of client cognition. Contrary to expectations, however, the interactions between cultural variables and counselor emphasis of client expression were not significantly predictive of perceived counselor effectiveness. Implications for counseling practice and future research are discussed.

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