Table 3 Distribution of business communication courses by course characteristics

Characteristics	Korea (2011)		Korea (2014)		Korea (2017)		US (2017)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
All	54	100.0	40	100.0	50	100.0	24	100.0
General education	13	22.8	3	7.7	3	6.0	1	4.2
Business major	44	77.2	36	92.3	47	94.0	23	95.8
Required	19	35.2	8	20.0	8	16.0	15	62.5
Elective	35	64.8	32	80.0	42	84.0	9	37.5
General-required	7	13.0	1	2.4	2	4.0
General-basic	5	9.3	3	7.3	0	0.0
General-elective	1	1.9	0	0.0	1	2.0
Major-required	5	9.3	2	4.9	2	4.0	15	62.5
Major-basic	2	3.7	2	4.9	4	8.0
Major-elective	31	57.4	28	68.3	35	70.0	9	37.5
Major-advanced	3	5.6	5	12.2	6	12.0