How much do you tip?

I'm with you greenjello, I'm a lil surprised at the whole tipping attitude overall, as I had stated in one of my other responses, it's not the norm here in Korea to tip either, but being American it's my nature. Somethings are just the norm for me, I feel like tipping a delivery person is perfectly acceptable, just this week I had a discussion with one of my Korean workers about tipping, he orders his lunch almost everyday from the same place and it's always the same delivery man every time.

This also happens to be the same person that delivers if I order from my house. So I asked my employee why he never tips, he said it's not expected, not customary. I said well every time he comes to my house I tip, and when he delivers lunch here for me I tip. He said it's not necessary so from now on when you order lunch and I'm here I'll pay him with your money so you don't have to tip him. I assured him I didn't mind and I tried to explain to him the rational behind it, it's a convenience for us to sit in our office in the air condition, while it's blazing hot outside and have our lunch delivered to us, the least we could do is tip the man for his services.

He argued the point with me and stood firm that it was not necessary to tip this man, he doesn't see it the same way I do, he looks at it as part of the mans job and since he is already getting a paycheck for that job why do we need to tip him. I guess we just have to agree to disagree on this one.