ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 has focused on the broader theme of social relationships between Korean graduate students and their American university academic advisors within which their interpersonal advising relationships have been firmly grounded on basic moral values and principles, and furthermore, substantially affected by the personality traits of the latter. Some US Korean graduate students have shown great concern about the reassurance of their personal moral well-being and rights (e.g., personal welfare, freedom, fairness, or justice) that generally correspond to the reach of their academic interests or career goals. They were also well aware that the precariousness of interpersonal relationships with their academic advisors would be unfortunately somewhat harmful to the pursuit or reach of their academic interests and goals. In general, among many factors, they attributed their relationship problems or a danger of losing their personal welfare to their academic advisors’ personality traits. This sort of diagnosis that links graduate students’ welfare and rights to all the personality issues of their academic advisors has been either confirmed or denied by communicative guiders who further introduced various other factors affecting their communicative agents’ concerns. In this chapter, those communicative guiders are specifically called social guiders.
