"adjusting to each other’s lagom, while using nunchi"

An interview with the Swedish ambassador to South Korea, and the similarities between the two cultures:

"Lagom, a way of striving for balance, is a concept that many Swedes apply in their daily lives without even thinking about it - it could be during their dinner conversations, in the way they consume and design products or even in the way of diplomacy.

'Not the middle. Not average. Not complacency. Just right,” wrote Lola Akinmade Akerstrom in her book, 'Lagom: The Swedish Secret of Living Well' (2017).

Nunchi is the Korean art of listening to and gauging other people in social settings that makes one a master of unspoken communications.

Korea and Sweden celebrated 60 years of their diplomatic ties this year. The ties have never been stronger, Hallgren said, and that may be attributed to the fact that many Koreans and Swedes grow up adjusting to each other’s lagom, while using nunchi."

My Korean adult students told me that nunchi is usually a good thing, but can also be a passive, shut-up when elders or seniors are talking, thing.