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Difficulties of understanding in intercultural circumstances are often cultural as much as, or more than, linguistic in nature.
Effective intercultural communication requires not only a good competence in the target culture involved but also a good awareness of the components of miscommunication in different cultural contexts. Cultural barriers to language learning are highly variable and differ across cultures. In Korean EFL context, principal elements of intercultural miscommunication or conflict involve cultural differences and presuppositions in (1) collectivistic and individualistic value dimensions, (2) high-context (nonoral) and low-context (oral) communication patterns, (3) polychronic and monochronic time patterns. In dealing with the content and approaches of intercultural communication competence in Korean EFL context, it is necessary to incorporate such target areas of intercultural miscommunication or conflict, as well as intercultural communication skills, into a cultural awareness program or training.