A Korean customer visited our company on this Monday, as this Korean can speak English; I was assigned to be responsible for the reception of him.

    I was excited and a little nervous, because I hadn't met Koreans before and had little knowledge about them. The only information I knew about this Korean was that his given name is Park (“朴" in Chinese).

When I got to the airport with the driver, I found that I made a mistake. I forgot storing Mr. Park's mobile phone number and I didn't know his looks either. Fortunately, I saw the personnel from other companies holding a paper which wrote the person's name they would pick up, and it suddenly occurred to me that I could also made a paper like that. I quickly took out a paper and a pen from my handbag and wrote “Mr. Park” and the name of his company. Shortly afterwards, a man aged around 30 walked out of the airport and went to me directly.

Having not being asked by me, this man extended his hand said to me initiatively: “You must be Ms XX, nice to meet you.” I hurriedly put out my hand: “Yes, and you must be Mr. Park, nice to meet you, too.”

Then, I guided him to the parking lot where our driver was waiting. When we got into the car, we had some small talks. Even though sometimes I couldn’t hear him very clearly due to the different accent, I became less nervous. In the next several hours, I also arranged the accommodation for Mr. Park.