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One reason why Korean and Chinese are careful when developing business relationships.


The Korean term for losing face is "??" ("mangshin") using a character (mang) that means "death" (?? ?) and a character (shin) that means "body" (? ?). If clearer examples are needed, let me say this: The same (Chinese-root) "mang" is used for physical death and the same "shin" is used for a physical checkup.

Thus we can say that losing face is equal to death. Or at the very least, "I almost died" and not in the valley-girl or ironic sense.