MBTI, Five Elements, Ketsueki-gata, and Urbanization in South Korea
I consider the possibility that the basic transformation in the physical environment caused by rapid modernizing development goes a long way to explaining Korean people’s shift from an essentially agricultural and process-oriented model of human personality to a mechanistic, abstract, and ‘managerial’ one typified by MBTI.
MBTI. Some more thoughts
Some more thoughts on the MBTI craze in Korea, and its relationship to modernization in general.
Korea goes crazy for MBTI
Last week in class, one of my students mentioned how Koreans her age (the so-called MZ Generation) are seriously into MBTI – the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality assessment test. As I soon discovered on trawling the Internet, MBTI is practically an obsession amongst the young here in Korea. Why?