Wow!
It's been awhile since I been here! I'm very settled here at my university now : ) amazing how different things are now, the differences in culture are worlds apart! Love it here and I don't miss Korea, even a tiny bit!
Small issue really but I wondered whether small gifts were due in these cases....
It's taken me awhile as generally such issues haven't arisen much here, in Korea, I have a budget allowance for such things!
I locked myself out of my campus apartment (put the key on the table to pick up something I needed to deliver, pressed the lock inwards and shut the door, the key still on the table!) I wechat-ed our foreign laison staff and they replied that the boss lady would give me the key if I went to office now. The boss lady who looked like she was camped out there for the weekend, gave me the spare key and asked that I return it in 24 hours, Sunday which I did, no issues.
Now in this sort of scenario, is it a good thing to give a small gift, to who, and what?
When I've gave gifts on arriving, the recipients seemed surprised, even shocked .... I don't want to get it wrong. The above was over a week ago now too....