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Strategic Conflict Management

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์ „๋žต์  ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ / ์กฐ์œจ / ํ˜‘์ƒ / ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€
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TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • ๐Ÿงญ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ means handling conflict with a clear goal: reduce damage, protect trust, and move both sides toward a workable next step.
  • ๐Ÿค Advanced Korean often describes conflict through neutral process words like ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค (to coordinate), ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค (to negotiate), and ์ด๊ฒฌ์„ ์ขํžˆ๋‹ค (to narrow differences).
  • ๐ŸŒ‰ The strongest phrasing avoids blame and focuses on ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ (relationship preservation), ํƒ€ํ˜‘์  ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ (searching for compromise), and ์ƒํ˜ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ํšŒ๋ณต (restoring mutual trust).
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๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Open
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and type any Korean phrase from this lesson to hear it aloud. Formal phrases like ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค (to coordinate differences in position) and ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค (to prevent relationship deterioration) become much friendlier once your ears have shaken hands with them. ๐Ÿค

๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

Conflict language in advanced Korean is not just about saying โ€œpeople fought.โ€ It often describes how people manage disagreement without destroying the relationship, the project, or the long-term goal. Very diplomatic. Very โ€œletโ€™s not flip the conference table.โ€ ๐Ÿช‘
The core idea is ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค (to manage conflict strategically). That means you do three things at once:
  • ๐ŸงŠ lower emotional heat with neutral language
  • ๐ŸŽฏ protect the main goal or shared interest
  • ๐ŸŒ‰ keep enough trust alive for future cooperation
Compare the tone:
  • ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์‹ธ์› ์–ด์š”. โ€” The two people fought.
  • ์–‘์ธก์˜ ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ ธ ์กฐ์œจ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€” The difference between both sidesโ€™ positions grew, so coordination became necessary.
Both sentences can describe tension, but the second sounds formal, neutral, and solution-oriented. That is the strategic conflict-management vibe. ๐Ÿงญ

๐ŸŽจ The Core Strategic Conflict Management Family

1. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to manage conflict ๐Ÿงฏ

๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ means conflict, tension, or clash. ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค means to manage. Together, ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค means to keep conflict from becoming destructive, not necessarily to erase it completely.
Useful combinations:
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to prevent conflict
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to ease conflict
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate or mediate conflict
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ conflict deepens or intensifies
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์žฅ๊ธฐํ™”๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ conflict becomes prolonged
Usage note: ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ is broader than ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ (conflict resolution). A conflict can be managed, reduced, redirected, or contained before it is fully solved.

2. ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to coordinate, fine-tune, harmonize ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ

์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค originally has the feel of โ€œtuningโ€ or โ€œadjusting.โ€ In conflict contexts, it means coordinating different positions so they can work together.
Natural phrases:
  • ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate differences in position
  • ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate interests
  • ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate opinions
  • ์ผ์ •์„ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate schedules
Usage note: ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค sounds more delicate than simply changing something. It implies balancing several sides, not just making a one-sided adjustment.

3. ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค and ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to negotiate and search for compromise ๐Ÿค

ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค means to negotiate. It is used when parties discuss conditions, demands, responsibilities, or possible agreement.
ํƒ€ํ˜‘์  means a compromise point, and ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค means to seek or explore. So ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค means to explore a possible compromise.
Natural phrases:
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to negotiate conditions
  • ํ˜‘์ƒ์— ์ž„ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to enter negotiations
  • ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค โ†’ to find a realistic compromise point
  • ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ˆ˜์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to seek a mutually acceptable alternative
Usage note: ์–‘๋ณด (concession) can be one-sided, but ํƒ€ํ˜‘ (compromise) usually suggests both sides adjust.

4. ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค and ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to preserve the relationship ๐ŸŒ‰

Strategic conflict management is not only about winning the argument. It often aims to preserve the relationship.
Natural phrases:
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to maintain a relationship
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to prevent relationship deterioration
  • ์ƒํ˜ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to restore mutual trust
  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด ๊ฐ€๋‹ค โ†’ to continue a cooperative relationship
Usage note: In formal Korean, relationship-preserving language is useful for workplace conflict, community disputes, public policy, family negotiations, and leadership contexts.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

  • ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋Š” ํŒ€ ๋‚ด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋จผ์ € ์–‘์ธก์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    • The manager first listened to both sidesโ€™ positions in order to ease conflict within the team. ๐Ÿข
    • ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž = manager, ํŒ€ ๋‚ด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ = conflict within the team, ์ž…์žฅ = position.
  • ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์ด๊ฒฌ์ด ์ปค์ ธ ๋ถ€์„œ ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์œจ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    • Disagreement over budget allocation grew, so coordination between departments became necessary. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
    • ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ = budget allocation, ์ด๊ฒฌ = differing opinion, ๋ถ€์„œ ๊ฐ„ = between departments.
  • ์–‘์ธก์€ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ง‰๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    • Both sides reduced emotional wording and sought a compromise point in order to prevent the relationship from worsening. ๐ŸŒ‰
    • ์–‘์ธก = both sides, ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„ = emotional expression, ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค = to seek/explore.
  • ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•œ ๋’ค ์ด๊ฒฌ์„ ์ขํžˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘์ƒ์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    • After confirming the shared goal, the negotiation proceeded by narrowing differences. ๐ŸŽฏ
    • ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ = shared goal, ์ด๊ฒฌ์„ ์ขํžˆ๋‹ค = to narrow differences, ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค = to proceed.

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

Advanced Korean often turns conflict actions into formal noun phrases. Recognize the action hiding inside the noun phrase.
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to manage conflict
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ†’ conflict management
  • ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate differences in position
  • ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด ์กฐ์œจ โ†’ coordination of differences in position
  • ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to seek a compromise point
  • ํƒ€ํ˜‘์  ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ โ†’ search for a compromise point
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to prevent relationship deterioration
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™” ๋ฐฉ์ง€ โ†’ prevention of relationship deterioration
This noun-heavy style appears often in news, essays, reports, policy discussions, and workplace communication. If the phrase looks like a stack of nouns, find the main action and unpack it. Tiny grammar detective hat: optional but encouraged. ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ

๐Ÿ“š Cross-check note

Key vocabulary, collocations, and formal usage patterns in this lesson were cross-checked against standard Korean usage and National Institute of Korean Language resources at korean.go.kr. โœ…

๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ โ†’ conflict/tension; broad and common.
  • ๋ถ„์Ÿ โ†’ dispute; more formal, often legal, institutional, or international.
  • ์ด๊ฒฌ โ†’ differing opinion; useful when the focus is disagreement, not emotional fighting.
  • ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด โ†’ difference in position or stance; neutral and formal.
  • ์กฐ์œจ โ†’ coordination/fine-tuning; emphasizes balancing positions.
  • ์กฐ์ • โ†’ adjustment, coordination, mediation; broader and more procedural.
  • ํ˜‘์ƒ โ†’ negotiation; direct discussion of conditions or terms.
  • ํƒ€ํ˜‘ โ†’ compromise; both sides adjust.
  • ์–‘๋ณด โ†’ concession; one side gives something up.
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ โ†’ relationship maintenance; strategic long-term goal.

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

  • โŒ ์‹ธ์šฐ๋‹ค for every formal conflict โ†’ โœ… Use ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค or ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ง€๋‹ค when you need a neutral tone.
  • โŒ Treating ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค as โ€œfully solveโ€ โ†’ โœ… ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค can mean preventing, easing, or containing conflict.
  • โŒ Confusing ์–‘๋ณด and ํƒ€ํ˜‘ โ†’ โœ… ์–‘๋ณด can be one-sided; ํƒ€ํ˜‘ usually involves mutual adjustment.
  • โŒ Using ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค for a simple one-person change โ†’ โœ… Use it when multiple positions, schedules, interests, or opinions need balancing.
  • โŒ Sounding accusatory with ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์ด ๊ณ ์ง‘์„ ๋ถ€๋ ธ๋‹ค โ†’ โœ… Use neutral phrasing like ์–‘์ธก์˜ ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ปธ๋‹ค unless blame is truly intended.
๐ŸŽ‰ Strategic conflict language lets you sound calm, precise, and solution-focused โ€” like someone brought a whiteboard to a storm cloud. ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ
Try this exercise
Read each sentence and choose the best conflict-management word or phrase. Focus on whether the sentence needs conflict management, coordination, negotiation, compromise, or relationship preservation. Then open the Answer toggle and check the logic.
1. ํŒ€ ๋‚ด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
The manager should manage the conflict before conflict within the team intensifies. ๐Ÿข
Answer
๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ€” ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค means to manage conflict so it does not become destructive.
2. ๋‘ ๋ถ€์„œ์˜ ์ผ์ •์ด ๊ฒน์ณ ํšŒ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
The meeting time was coordinated again because the two departmentsโ€™ schedules overlapped. ๐Ÿ“…
Answer
์กฐ์œจ โ€” ์ผ์ •์„ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค means to coordinate schedules among involved parties.
3. ์–‘์ธก์€ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
Both sides sought a compromise point they could accept. ๐Ÿค
Answer
๋ชจ์ƒ‰ โ€” ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค means to seek or explore a compromise point.
4. ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ๋น„๋‚œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
It is more important to confirm the shared goal than to make emotional accusations. ๐ŸŽฏ
Answer
๋ชฉํ‘œ โ€” ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ helps redirect conflict toward cooperation.
5. ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๊ณ„์† ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
If you need to continue cooperating with the other party, you must consider relationship preservation too. ๐ŸŒ‰
Answer
์œ ์ง€ โ€” ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ means maintaining or preserving the relationship.
6. ์–‘์ธก์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ค„์–ด๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด๊ฒฌ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
When both sidesโ€™ differences of opinion have decreased, you can say they narrowed differences. โ†”๏ธ
Answer
์ขํ˜”๋‹ค โ€” ์ด๊ฒฌ์„ ์ขํžˆ๋‹ค means to narrow differences.
7. ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ•ฉ์˜์ ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋‹ค.
The process of exchanging conditions and finding a point of agreement is negotiation. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ˜‘์ƒ โ€” ํ˜‘์ƒ is negotiation over terms, conditions, or possible agreement.
8. ํ•œ์ชฝ๋งŒ ์†ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํƒ€ํ˜‘๋ณด๋‹ค ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค.
When only one side loses, it is closer to a one-sided concession than compromise. โš–๏ธ
Answer
์–‘๋ณด โ€” ์–‘๋ณด can be one-sided, while ํƒ€ํ˜‘ suggests mutual adjustment.
9. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๋” ๋‚˜๋น ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์€ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋‹ค์ด๋‹ค.
The expression for preventing the relationship from worsening is โ€œprevent relationship deterioration.โ€ ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ
Answer
๋ฐฉ์ง€ โ€” ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค means to prevent a relationship from getting worse.
10. ๋น„๋‚œ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์ ˆ์ฐจ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If you reduce blame and focus on procedure, you can ease conflict. ๐ŸงŠ
Answer
์™„ํ™” โ€” ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค means to ease or reduce conflict.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ํŒ€ ๋‚ด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ โ†’ conflict within the team
  • ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to manage
  • ๋ถ€์„œ โ†’ department
  • ์ผ์ •์ด ๊ฒน์น˜๋‹ค โ†’ schedules overlap
  • ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate / fine-tune
  • ์–‘์ธก โ†’ both sides
  • ํƒ€ํ˜‘์  โ†’ compromise point
  • ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to seek / explore
  • ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ โ†’ shared goal
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ โ†’ relationship preservation
  • ์ด๊ฒฌ์„ ์ขํžˆ๋‹ค โ†’ to narrow differences
  • ํ˜‘์ƒ โ†’ negotiation
  • ์–‘๋ณด โ†’ concession
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to prevent relationship deterioration
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to ease conflict
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก First identify the goal: reduce conflict, balance positions, negotiate terms, or protect the relationship.

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Want more reps? Continue into the Practice Hub when youโ€™re ready to turn conflict vocabulary into a calm little toolkit. ๐Ÿงฐ
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๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” Strategic Conflict Management
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Welcome to your strategic conflict-management command center. ๐Ÿงญ Youโ€™ll practice Korean expressions that help describe disagreement without sounding dramatic, accusatory, or vague. By the end, youโ€™ll be able to talk about conflict like a calm negotiator with excellent stationery. ๐Ÿ–Š๏ธ
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๐Ÿ“ Instructions: Complete each Korean prompt with the best word or phrase, read the full sentence, then open the Answer toggle. Watch whether the sentence is about managing conflict, coordinating positions, negotiating compromise, preserving relationships, or avoiding common wording mistakes.
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Exercise 1 โ€” Naming and Managing Conflict ๐Ÿงฏ

A. ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์— ์—ญํ• ์ด ๋ถˆ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉด ํŒ€ ๋‚ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If roles are unclear at the start of a project, conflict within the team can occur. ๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ
Answer
๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ โ€” ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค is a neutral way to say conflict occurs.
B. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ณต์ •ํ•œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋กœ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
The issue must be managed through a fair procedure before the conflict intensifies. โš–๏ธ
Answer
๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ€” ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค or ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค emphasizes preventing damage.
C. ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜๊ฒฌ์ด ๋‚˜์™”์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ง ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Different opinions came up in the meeting, but it is not yet a serious conflict. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ โ€” Not every ์ด๊ฒฌ becomes ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ; this sentence contrasts the two.
D. ๋‘ ํŒ€์˜ ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
As the gap between the two teamsโ€™ positions grew, the cooperative relationship faced a risk of worsening. ๐ŸŒ‰
Answer
์•…ํ™” โ€” ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋‹ค means a relationship worsens.
E. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๋ฐฉ์น˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž‘์€ ์˜คํ•ด๋„ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋ถˆ์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If conflict is neglected, even a small misunderstanding can expand into long-term distrust. ๐ŸŒง๏ธ
Answer
ํ™•๋Œ€ โ€” ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๋‹ค means to expand or escalate.
F. ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋Š” ์–ด๋А ํ•œ์ชฝ์„ ๋น„๋‚œํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ € ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
The manager first checked the facts rather than blaming one side. ๐Ÿ”
Answer
ํ™•์ธ โ€” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค means to verify the facts.
G. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ๊ฐ์ •์  ๋ฐ˜์‘๋ณด๋‹ค ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์‘์ด๋‹ค.
The core of conflict management is a strategic response rather than an emotional reaction. ๐Ÿงญ
Answer
์ „๋žต โ€” ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์‘ means a strategic response.
H. ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์ด ์Œ“์ด๋ฉด ๊ณต์‹์ ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ™” ์—†์ด๋„ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If dissatisfaction builds up, conflict can intensify even without a formal conversation. ๐ŸŒฉ๏ธ
Answer
์‹ฌํ™” โ€” ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋‹ค means conflict intensifies.
I. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์€ ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ฉด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ฐœ์„ ์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If handled properly, early-stage conflict can become an opportunity for improvement. ๐ŸชŸ
Answer
๊ณ„๊ธฐ โ€” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ means an opportunity or turning point.
J. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์—†์• ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฑด์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ด๋‹ค.
It is realistic to handle conflict constructively rather than eliminate it completely. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ
Answer
๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ€” ๊ฑด์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค means to manage something constructively.
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Vocabulary Box
  • ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ โ†’ project
  • ์—ญํ•  โ†’ role
  • ๋ถˆ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be unclear
  • ํŒ€ ๋‚ด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ โ†’ conflict within the team
  • ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to occur
  • ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to intensify
  • ๊ณต์ •ํ•œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ โ†’ fair procedure
  • ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to manage
  • ์ด๊ฒฌ โ†’ differing opinion
  • ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด โ†’ difference in position
  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„ โ†’ cooperative relationship
  • ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to worsen
  • ๋ฐฉ์น˜ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to neglect
  • ๋ถˆ์‹  โ†’ distrust
  • ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to expand / escalate
  • ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„ โ†’ facts of the matter
  • ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to check / verify
  • ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์‘ โ†’ strategic response
  • ๊ณ„๊ธฐ โ†’ opportunity / turning point
  • ๊ฑด์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ constructively
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Conflict-management sentences often ask whether the conflict is occurring, intensifying, being neglected, or being handled strategically.
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Exercise 2 โ€” Coordination and Position Balancing ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ

A. ๋‘ ๋ถ€์„œ์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์„œ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
Because the two departmentsโ€™ demands were different, priorities had to be coordinated again. ๐Ÿ“Š
Answer
์กฐ์œจ โ€” ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค means to coordinate priorities.
B. ํšŒ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฐธ์„์ž์˜ ์ผ์ •์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
The meeting time was coordinated after considering all participantsโ€™ schedules. ๐Ÿ“…
Answer
์กฐ์œจ โ€” ์ผ์ •์„ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค is natural when multiple schedules must fit.
C. ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ณต์žกํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
The more complex the interests are, the more delicate coordination is needed. ๐Ÿงต
Answer
์กฐ์œจ โ€” ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์กฐ์œจ means delicate coordination.
D. ์–‘์ธก์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
Both sides reviewed each otherโ€™s demands and gradually narrowed their differences in position. โ†”๏ธ
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์ขํ˜€ โ€” ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ขํ˜€ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค means to gradually narrow differences.
E. ์‹ค๋ฌด์ž๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์  ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ๋…ผ์˜์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
The working-level person reduced emotional wording and adjusted the direction of the discussion. ๐Ÿงญ
Answer
์กฐ์ • โ€” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค means to adjust direction.
F. ๊ณต๋™ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ, ์žฅ์†Œ, ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
To prepare a joint event, the budget, venue, and personnel all must be coordinated. ๐ŸŽช
Answer
์กฐ์œจ โ€” Multiple moving parts make ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค natural.
G. ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณ„ํš ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค.
The process of fitting different goals into one plan is close to coordination. ๐Ÿงฉ
Answer
์กฐ์œจ โ€” ์กฐ์œจ emphasizes harmonizing separate parts.
H. ์กฐ์œจ ์—†์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ํ•œ์ชฝ์ด ๋ฐฐ์ œ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If a decision is made without coordination, one side may feel excluded. ๐Ÿšช
Answer
๋А๋‚„ โ€” ๋ฐฐ์ œ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ๋‹ค means to feel excluded.
I. ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์กฐ์œจํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋จผ์ € ์Ÿ์ ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
When coordinating opinions, you must first organize the issue clearly. ๐Ÿ”Ž
Answer
๋ช…ํ™• โ€” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค means to organize clearly.
J. ์–‘์ธก์ด ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๋ฉด ์กฐ์œจ ๊ณผ์ •์ด ๋” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค.
If both sides establish shared criteria, the coordination process becomes smoother. ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ€” ์›ํ™œํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค means to become smooth.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๋ถ€์„œ โ†’ department
  • ์š”๊ตฌ โ†’ demand
  • ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ โ†’ priority
  • ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to coordinate / fine-tune
  • ํšŒ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ โ†’ meeting time
  • ์ฐธ์„์ž โ†’ participant
  • ์ผ์ • โ†’ schedule
  • ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„ โ†’ interests
  • ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์กฐ์œจ โ†’ delicate coordination
  • ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ขํžˆ๋‹ค โ†’ to narrow differences in position
  • ์‹ค๋ฌด์ž โ†’ working-level person / practitioner
  • ๋…ผ์˜์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ โ†’ direction of discussion
  • ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to adjust / coordinate
  • ๊ณต๋™ ํ–‰์‚ฌ โ†’ joint event
  • ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ โ†’ budget
  • ์žฅ์†Œ โ†’ venue
  • ์ธ๋ ฅ โ†’ personnel
  • ๋ฐฐ์ œ๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be excluded
  • ์Ÿ์  โ†’ issue / point of dispute
  • ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ†’ clearly
  • ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€ โ†’ shared criteria
  • ์›ํ™œํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be smooth
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Use ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๋‹ค when several positions, schedules, or interests need to fit together.
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Exercise 3 โ€” Negotiation and Compromise ๐Ÿค

A. ์–‘์ธก์€ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ๊ธด ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
Both sides negotiated for a long time over the contract terms. ๐Ÿ“„
Answer
ํ˜‘์ƒ โ€” ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค means to negotiate over conditions.
B. ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„œ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
They sought a mutually acceptable compromise point for a realistic solution. ๐ŸŽฏ
Answer
๋ชจ์ƒ‰ โ€” ํƒ€ํ˜‘์ ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค means to seek a compromise point.
C. ํ˜‘์ƒ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ํ•œ์ชฝ์˜ ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋งŒ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์ปค์ง„๋‹ค.
If only one sideโ€™s one-sided concession is demanded during negotiation, conflict grows. โš–๏ธ
Answer
์–‘๋ณด โ€” ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ์–‘๋ณด means one-sided concession.
D. ํƒ€ํ˜‘์€ ์–‘์ธก์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ด๋‹ค.
Compromise is a process where both sides adjust conditions little by little. ๐Ÿงฉ
Answer
์กฐ์ • โ€” ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค means to adjust conditions.
E. ์–‘์ธก ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ˆ˜์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
Both sides were not fully satisfied, but they found an acceptable alternative. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
๋Œ€์•ˆ โ€” ์ˆ˜์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋Œ€์•ˆ means an acceptable alternative.
F. ํ˜‘์ƒ์ด ๊ฒฐ๋ ฌ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ง€์ ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Effort is needed to find a middle ground so negotiations do not break down. ๐ŸŒ‰
Answer
์ฐพ โ€” ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ง€์ ์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค means to find a middle ground.
G. ์ƒ๋Œ€์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง„๋‹ค.
The possibility of agreement increases when you accept part of the other partyโ€™s demands. ๐Ÿ“ˆ
Answer
์ˆ˜์šฉ โ€” ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค means to accept a demand.
H. ํ˜‘์ƒ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์  ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
In negotiation, a sustainable agreement is more important than emotional victory. ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ
Answer
ํ•ฉ์˜ โ€” ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•ฉ์˜ means sustainable agreement.
I. ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ํ•ฉ์˜ ํ›„์—๋„ ํ•ด์„์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If terms are not clarified, a dispute over interpretation can arise even after agreement. ๐Ÿ”
Answer
์ฐจ์ด โ€” ํ•ด์„์˜ ์ฐจ์ด means difference in interpretation.
J. ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ ํ˜‘์ƒ์€ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ด๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋‘”๋‹ค.
Strategic negotiation focuses on finding shared benefit rather than defeating the other side. ๐Ÿคฒ
Answer
์ด์ต โ€” ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ์ด์ต means shared benefit.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ contract terms
  • ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to negotiate
  • ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ โ†’ realistic solution
  • ํƒ€ํ˜‘์  โ†’ compromise point
  • ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to seek / explore
  • ํ˜‘์ƒ ๊ณผ์ • โ†’ negotiation process
  • ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ์–‘๋ณด โ†’ one-sided concession
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์ปค์ง€๋‹ค โ†’ conflict grows
  • ํƒ€ํ˜‘ โ†’ compromise
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to adjust conditions
  • ์ˆ˜์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋Œ€์•ˆ โ†’ acceptable alternative
  • ๊ฒฐ๋ ฌ๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to break down
  • ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ง€์  โ†’ middle ground
  • ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to accept a demand
  • ํ•ฉ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ โ†’ possibility of agreement
  • ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•ฉ์˜ โ†’ sustainable agreement
  • ํ•ด์„์˜ ์ฐจ์ด โ†’ difference in interpretation
  • ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ์ด์ต โ†’ shared benefit
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก In negotiation sentences, watch the difference between ์–‘๋ณด (concession), ํƒ€ํ˜‘ (compromise), and ํ•ฉ์˜ (agreement).
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Exercise 4 โ€” Relationship Preservation and Trust ๐ŸŒ‰

A. ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋„ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
If cooperation is needed in the long term, the relationship must be maintained even in a conflict situation. ๐ŸŒ‰
Answer
์œ ์ง€ โ€” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค means to maintain a relationship.
B. ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Reducing emotional expressions can prevent the relationship from worsening. ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ
Answer
๋ฐฉ์ง€ โ€” ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค means to prevent relationship deterioration.
C. ๊ณต์ •ํ•œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง„ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ๋‹ค.
A fair procedure helps restore broken mutual trust. ๐Ÿงฑ
Answer
ํšŒ๋ณต โ€” ์ƒํ˜ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค means to restore mutual trust.
D. ์ƒ๋Œ€์˜ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ด๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If you acknowledge the other partyโ€™s concerns, the path of conversation can open again. ๐Ÿšช
Answer
๊ธธ โ€” ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜ ๊ธธ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋‹ค means the path for conversation opens.
E. ๋น„๋‚œ ๋Œ€์‹  ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ถˆํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Using neutral expressions instead of blame can reduce unnecessary backlash. ๐ŸŒค๏ธ
Answer
๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ โ€” ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์„ ์ค„์ด๋‹ค means to reduce backlash.
F. ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์˜ ์ฒด๋ฉด๋„ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
To preserve the relationship, you must protect the other partyโ€™s face to some degree. ๐ŸŽญ
Answer
๋ณดํ˜ธ โ€” ์ฒด๋ฉด์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋‹ค means to protect someoneโ€™s face/dignity.
G. ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์ธ ๋น„๋‚œ์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ ๋ขฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Public blame can cause loss of trust rather than problem-solving. ๐Ÿ’”
Answer
ํ•˜๋ฝ โ€” ์‹ ๋ขฐ ํ•˜๋ฝ means a drop in trust.
H. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ์ดํ›„์—๋„ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด ๊ฐ€๋ ค๋ฉด ํ›„์† ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
Follow-up dialogue is needed to continue cooperation even after conflict. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
๋Œ€ํ™” โ€” ํ›„์† ๋Œ€ํ™” means follow-up dialogue.
I. ์ƒํ˜ธ ์กด์ค‘์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž‘์€ ์˜๊ฒฌ ์ฐจ์ด๋„ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If mutual respect is lacking, even a small difference of opinion can lead to relationship deterioration. ๐ŸงŠ
Answer
์•…ํ™” โ€” ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™” means relationship deterioration.
J. ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์ผ์ด๋‹ค.
Strategic conflict management is finding balance between problem-solving and relationship preservation. โš–๏ธ
Answer
๊ท ํ˜• โ€” ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค means to find balance.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ in the long term
  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to cooperate
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ์ƒํ™ฉ โ†’ conflict situation
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to maintain a relationship
  • ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„ โ†’ emotional expression
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to prevent relationship deterioration
  • ๊ณต์ •ํ•œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ โ†’ fair procedure
  • ์ƒํ˜ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ โ†’ mutual trust
  • ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to restore
  • ์šฐ๋ ค โ†’ concern
  • ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜ ๊ธธ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ a path for conversation opens
  • ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„ โ†’ neutral expression
  • ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ โ†’ backlash
  • ์ฒด๋ฉด โ†’ face / dignity
  • ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to protect
  • ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์ธ ๋น„๋‚œ โ†’ public blame
  • ์‹ ๋ขฐ ํ•˜๋ฝ โ†’ drop in trust
  • ํ›„์† ๋Œ€ํ™” โ†’ follow-up dialogue
  • ์ƒํ˜ธ ์กด์ค‘ โ†’ mutual respect
  • ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค โ†’ to find balance
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Relationship-preservation language often uses ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค, ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค, and ์ด์–ด ๊ฐ€๋‹ค.
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Exercise 5 โ€” Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

A. ๊ณต์‹ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์—์„œ ๋‘ ๋ถ€์„œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ธ์› ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์“ฐ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์“ฐ๋Š” ํŽธ์ด ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์ ์ด๋‹ค.
In an official report, it is more neutral to write that conflict occurred than that two departments fought. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
๋ฐœ์ƒ โ€” โŒ ์‹ธ์› ๋‹ค can sound too casual or accusatory. โœ… ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค is neutral and formal.
B. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€œManaging conflictโ€ does not necessarily mean completely resolving the conflict. ๐Ÿงฏ
Answer
ํ•ด๊ฒฐ โ€” โœ… ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค can mean prevent, ease, contain, or redirect โ€” not only fully resolve.
C. ํ•œ์ชฝ๋งŒ ๊ณ„์† ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ํƒ€ํ˜‘๋ณด๋‹ค ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค.
A situation where only one side keeps stepping back is closer to one-sided concession than compromise. โš–๏ธ
Answer
์–‘๋ณด โ€” โŒ Do not call every concession ํƒ€ํ˜‘. โœ… ํƒ€ํ˜‘ usually requires mutual adjustment.
D. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ถ€์„œ์˜ ์ผ์ •๊ณผ ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ์ผ์—๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋ณด๋‹ค ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค.
When matching several departmentsโ€™ schedules and demands, โ€œcoordinationโ€ is more natural than simple โ€œchange.โ€ ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ
Answer
์กฐ์œจ โ€” โœ… ์กฐ์œจ fits situations with multiple interests or moving parts.
E. ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์ด ๊ณ ์ง‘์„ ๋ถ€๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
If you immediately say the other party was stubborn, it can sound overly accusatory. ๐Ÿšซ
Answer
๋น„๋‚œ โ€” โœ… A neutral alternative is ์–‘์ธก์˜ ์ž…์žฅ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ปธ๋‹ค.
F. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ ค๋ฉด ๋จผ์ € ๊ฐ์ •์  ํ‘œํ˜„๋ณด๋‹ค ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
To reduce conflict, you should first check the facts rather than emotional wording. ๐Ÿ”
Answer
ํ™•์ธ โ€” โœ… ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค supports neutral conflict management.
G. ํ˜‘์ƒ์—์„œ ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ์ด์ต์„ ์ฐพ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•ฉ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ง„๋‹ค.
If shared benefit cannot be found in negotiation, the possibility of agreement decreases. ๐Ÿ“‰
Answer
๋‚ฎ์•„ โ€” โœ… ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๋‹ค means the possibility decreases.
H. ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœ์  ๋น„๋‚œ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›„์† ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋‹ค.
When the goal is relationship preservation, follow-up dialogue is more effective than public blame. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
๋Œ€ํ™” โ€” โœ… ํ›„์† ๋Œ€ํ™” helps restore trust after conflict.
I. ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์€ ์ƒํ˜ธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
The process of accepting some of each otherโ€™s demands is based on mutual concession. ๐Ÿคฒ
Answer
์–‘๋ณด โ€” โœ… ์ƒํ˜ธ ์–‘๋ณด supports compromise and agreement.
J. ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์ŠนํŒจ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ ๋ขฐ ํšŒ๋ณต๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋‹ค.
The goal of strategic conflict management is trust restoration and relationship preservation rather than winning or losing. ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ
Answer
์œ ์ง€ โ€” โœ… ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ is a core strategic goal.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๊ณต์‹ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ โ†’ official report
  • ๋ถ€์„œ โ†’ department
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ conflict occurs
  • ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์  โ†’ neutral
  • ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to manage conflict
  • ์™„์ „ํžˆ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to resolve completely
  • ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋‹ค โ†’ to step back
  • ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ์–‘๋ณด โ†’ one-sided concession
  • ํƒ€ํ˜‘ โ†’ compromise
  • ์ผ์ • โ†’ schedule
  • ์š”๊ตฌ โ†’ demand
  • ์กฐ์œจ โ†’ coordination
  • ๋น„๋‚œ์  โ†’ accusatory
  • ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„ โ†’ facts of the matter
  • ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ์ด์ต โ†’ shared benefit
  • ํ•ฉ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ โ†’ possibility of agreement
  • ๊ณต๊ฐœ์  ๋น„๋‚œ โ†’ public blame
  • ํ›„์† ๋Œ€ํ™” โ†’ follow-up dialogue
  • ์ƒํ˜ธ ์–‘๋ณด โ†’ mutual concession
  • ์‹ ๋ขฐ ํšŒ๋ณต โ†’ trust restoration
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ โ†’ relationship preservation
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Pitfall patrol: use neutral wording, separate management from full resolution, and distinguish one-sided concession from mutual compromise.
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๐ŸŽ‰ Excellent work โ€” you can now describe conflict as something to manage, coordinate, negotiate, and repair, not just a dramatic thunderstorm. May your Korean stay calm even when the meeting agenda does not. ๐Ÿงญ