My name is Nuri, and I live in Korea. 

 

Do you think emotional expression is seen as a strength or a weakness in Korea? Okay?

 

I think it depends on the situation, and I think it also depends on who you interact with. So but in general, expressing emotions isn't always well received in the workplace. But other than that, being able to express your emotions well is essential to maintaining a healthy mind. And I think this is the general perception of Koreans.

Yeah, I think other Koreans think in the family too

 

In your opinion, why do you think it's hard for Korean families to talk about failure? 

 

Um, I think, I think because people judge others, and people usually don't like to fail. And in Korea, there are certain things that you should do at a certain age, like by mid 20s, you need to graduate from university, and then you should get a job, then you should get married, and you should buy a house, things like this. So if you fail, at some point, you might think that you are a little behind. So I think this kind of tendency makes you choose the safe path rather than the challenging one. Yeah, this is just my opinion. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. And then, do you think that there's anything that a lot of Korean children think they wish they would be able to say to their parents, or wish they could talk about with their family. So you think that Korean children have this tendency not to talk to their parents often. Yeah, do you think that they that in the US to talk a lot with my parents till I became like 13 or 14, but after that, I I didn't want I did. And after the certain age, I was more likely to talk about my things with my friends than rather than my parents. I don't know why, but I began to have some kind of secrets to my parents and have some things that I felt difficult to discuss my parents. Maybe that's the reason. Not sure.

 

Okay, just two more questions. Do you think conversations around mental health are becoming more common? 

 

Conversations about mental health? Yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah. I um, compared to, like, 20 years because I graduated from university around 15 years ago, compared to that period, at that time, it wasn't that common for people to tell that they are they have, like, depression or they take medication. But nowadays, I feel, I think it is more common to say only about their mental health issues. And a lot of people are having depressions, and I think they are not hiding that that much. Of course, they don't talk that they have depressions at the office, but they can freely discuss that with the family and the friends with close ones. I think,

 

Okay.

 

And last question, do you see how any differences between how the older generation, your generation, and then, if you can just see, like from social media or something like the youngest generation, how their views differ? 

 

On mental health. I think younger generation have much more open minded toward the mental health issues. Still older generations, they have this kind of tendency. They don't admit that they have, like mental health issues, and they avoid going to see psychiatrists. But my generations are more open than that, and younger generations are much more open to that, and they are not hiding that they have some kind of mental issues on social media and everything. Yeah, so,

so do you think that the older generation is just like that? Because there's like a shame when people say they have mental health issue. Yeah, because in the past, you have this kind of stigma when you have to go to the school see the psychiatrist, and they sometimes they don't believe that you have mental health issues. They sometimes, they think it's a fake it's not a real thing. Yeah, younger generations are definitely, definitely open to admit that they have the kind of mental health issues

 

Thank you