> This is a bit unfair when the company we're talking about goes out of its way to recruit and relocate skilled workers from overseas to Korea, knowing than mos

> This is a bit unfair when the company we're talking about goes out of its way to recruit and relocate skilled workers from overseas to Korea, knowing than most will never have the time or motivation to learn the language to a professional level. This is correct, except it's often not the people (generic) you end up having comm difficulities with who made the strategic recruitment decision, which is why things don't work out all the way down. Language barrier and not wanting to put up with it is a legitimate way to want to get out, personally, but I sometimes hear the complaint publically voiced in a way that's at least unempathetic (e.g. toward the amount of stress and embarassment being required to speak English can cause Korean employees). Which then creates follow-on strife like Koreans complaining to me that "Americans are arrogant and only want to speak English wherever they go", and so on, and so forth, which puts me in an awkward spot. It's best to go in expecting a language barrier, and doing the reversed-roles thought experiment helps.