The purpose of this lecture is to explore the characteristics of Korean culture and understand cultural genes of Koreans by looking at the culture inherent in Korean language. To this end, this lecture examines the linguistic culture including Koreans’ view of languages, texts, idioms, body languages and also examines Koreans’ view of humans, nature, families, and the necessities of life. It also studies areas such as basic language knowledge, language skills, culture, and etc. based on “International Standard Curriculum of the Korean Language.” Finally, the lecture helps students to improve inter-cultural communication skills by providing opportunities to compare Korean and their own cultures.

• Level : Beginner
• Instructor : Kim Jung sup

The language we are using needs to be studied in detail from the perspective of human cultural genes. It is unfortunate, however, that such research is not being conducted in depth. If human genes are transmitted through our bodies, the cultural genes are transmitted through language. Therefore, just like human DNA is being studied, we have to analyze and study the human language. So, what cultural genes can be found in the Korean language. Of course, these are not only Korean genes like the human ones. The cultures have changed constantly influencing each other. And matured. They are changing even now. Through examining the cultural genes of Koreans in Korean language, we will learn to understand Korean language and Korean’s attitudes, values, and feelings toward life. And we will learn to draw a cultural genetic map of Koreans through Korean language.

• Level : Beginner
• Instructor : Cho Hyun yong

The purpose of this lecture is to help basic level Korean learners, who just got familiarized with Hangeul and started to communicate in Korean, to master Korean language. While the lecture integrally teaches four functions of the language, it is organized with an emphasis on speaking. Detailed goals are as follows: First, to understand the grammar and vocabulary necessary for Korean sentence composition. Second, to understand Korean culture necessary for communication. Third, to be able to talk about yourself and your surroundings in a familiar and personal context. Fourth, to precede without fear of communicating in Korean language.

• Level : Beginner
• Instructor : Lee Jung Hee

The purpose of this lecture is to provide guidelines for correctly writing Korean language by discussing fundamental necessities of Hangeul orthography and interesting stories in regard to Korean pronunciations, forms, abbreviations, loanwords, vocabularies and spacing problems, newly-coined words, special marks in sentences.

• Level : Beginner
• Instructor : Kim Ryang-jin

This lecture aims to identify important branches of Korean pop-culture and explain the context of Korean pop culture history diachronically. Through this, it is possible to distinguish the public’s structure of feeling and zeitgeist by era from the perspective of taste, aesthetics, and ideology. Furthermore, the lecturer views the interrelationship between political, social, industrial history and pop culture history, and reflects on the daily lives and desires of the public at the time.

• Level : Beginner
• Instructor : Ahn Soong-Beum

This course focuses on understanding K-movies through auteurism and at the same time examines the process of globalization of Korean movie. After examining the characteristics and contemporaneity of movies, which have caught the attention of global film market since the 2000s, we will try to understand the reasons for Korean movies gaining attention from the world and explore subsequent trends.

• Level : Beginner
• Instructor : Baek Tae-Hyun