Abstract

The fact that koreans have their own unique cultural history and heritage suggests the possibility that koreans' psychology is also unique to koreans and different from the psychology of westerners. It was attempted here to analyse the psychological concepts in everyday usage which were supposed to reflect characteristic make-ups of korean psychology. For the purpose the concepts of Cheong, Woori, Chemyon, Noonchi, and Han were analised from the perspective of indigenous psychology, finally construing koreans' self-psychology. Koreans self are characterised as being defined in group showing great concern about interpersonal relationship having developed very subtle way of emotional and implicit communications, having high sensitivity to social face, and their deep emotional stratum being stuffed with ambivalent emotional quality of anger and repentance, that is, Han.