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Courses
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Curriculum

Level Ⅰ [Beginner]
Students, who does not have a knowledge of Korean language, learn basic grammar, usage, and vocabulary for a basic communication in a
daily life. Students can understand construction of Korean vowel and consonant, and can write and read basic Korean. Students can
understand basic vocabularies and construct a simple sentence and conversation for essential daily life such as self-introduction, telephone
conversation, shopping, using public transportation, and conversation at a pharmacy and a hospital.

Level Ⅱ [Beginner Ⅱ]
Students can understand and construct a practical sentence, and can differentiate between formal language usage and informal language
usage. Students can understand and use the expression related to familiar location and topic to their life. Students can read and write the
vocabularies and use language skills for their daily life and for using public facilities.

Level Ⅲ [Intermediate Ⅰ]
Students can understand and use the most vocabularies for daily life. Students can understand the contents of society and culture based on
their understanding of Korean public culture such as King Sejong & Hangeul, marriage, and Korean national holidays. Students can
understanding basic feature of written language and spoken language, and can differentiate between written language and spoken language
and can use both. Students learn basic vocabularies related to a job and a social phenomenon and can make the sentence by using relatively
complicated postposition conjunctional connective suffix.

Level Ⅳ [Intermediate Ⅱ]
Students can implement most of the language functions necessary to use public services and to keep social relationships. Students can also
implement some degree of the functions required in general work performance such as simple document writing, reporting, etc. Students can
understand relatively easy and simple contents in the news or newspaper. Students can understand and express familiar social and abstract
contents with relative accuracy and fluency. Students can acknowledge and express social and cultural contents based on an understanding of
frequently used idiomatic expressions and represent Korean culture.
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Level Ⅴ [Advanced Ⅰ]
Students can implement some degree of language functions such as summarizing, demonstrating, inferring, discussing, etc. that are necessary
for research and work performance in their professional fields. Students can understand and express unfamiliar contents in politics, economy,
society, and culture. Students can distinguish different contextual usage of language appropriately according to official and unofficial contexts
as well as spoken and written contexts. In addition, students can understand and organize editorials, reports, literary work, interviews,
debates, etc.

Level Ⅵ [Advanced Ⅱ]
Students can implement the language functions necessary for research and work performance in their professional fields with relative
accuracy and fluency and understand and express unfamiliar contents in politics, economy, society, and culture. Students experience no
difficulty in implementing most language functions and conveying meaning although they have not yet reached the level of first language
speakers of the target language.

Programs

Regular Session
Regular Session is offered in four terms over the course of one year. Each term consists of ten weeks. The Regular Korean Language Program
is an integrated training program where all four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) are combined and taught via a
team-teaching method where a group of two to three teachers teach one class. The goal of the program is to maximize the learning effects of
students by improving their Korean language proficiency for smooth communication and expanding their understanding of Korean culture
through Korean cultural experience classes. It is ideal for international students wanting to speak Korean fluently.

Period of Study
Students

Total Class Hours Class Hours per Week Class Time

per Session per Class

10 weeks 200 20 (4 hours * 5 days) 09:30-13:20 10-15

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Class hours include Korean cultural experience events and tuition includes Korean cultural experience events. Culture classes such as Korean
song class, Korean movie class, Samulnori (a folk music accompanied by Korean traditional four percussion instruments) class, Korean
cooking class or Korean traditional craft-work class will be held every two week. Field trips such as Korean historic site visit, folk village visit
or ancient palace visit will be held every five week. Certificate of completion and Transcript will be issued after completing each session.
Counseling service will be provided to the prospective undergraduate or graduate students..

Short-term Session
Short-term Session is offered in two terms over the course of a year, in Summer and in Winter. Each term consists of three weeks. The
Short-term Korean Language Program is an integrated training program where all four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and
writing) are combined. This program focuses on improving students' communication skills by implementing practical Korean language
training. It is also designed to foster the understanding of Korean culture through on-site experiential and cultural exploration.

Period of Study
Students

Total Class Hours Class Hours per Week Class Time

per Session per Class

3 weeks 60 20 (4 hours * 5 days) 09:30-13:20 10-15

Class hours include Korean cultural experience events and tuition includes Korean cultural experience events. Culture classes such as Korean
song class, Korean movie class, Samulnori (a folk music accompanied by Korean traditional four percussion instruments) class, Korean
cooking class or Korean traditional craft-work class will be held every two week. One field trip such as Korean historic site visit, folk village
visit, or ancient palace visit will be held every five week. Certificate of completion and Transcript will be issued after completing each session.

Course Schedule

Regular Program ( 10 Weeks ) (YYYY. MM. DD)

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Academic Application
Begin on
Finish on

Term Level test

Year Deadline (from) (to)

Academic Application
Begin on
Finish on

Term Level test

Year Deadline (from) (to)

Session I 2021.02.08 2021.03.02 2021.03.02 2021.05.07

Session II 2021.04.29 2021.05.17 2021.05.17 2021.07.23

2021
Session III 2021.08.09 2021.08.30 2021.08.30 2021.11.05

Session IV 2021.10.25 2021.11.15 2021.11.15 2022.01.21

Session I 2022.02.07 2022.03.07 2022.03.07 2022.05.13

Session II 2022.04.19 2022.05.23 2022.05.23 2022.07.29

2022
Session III 2022.08.09 2022.09.05 2022.09.05 2022.11.11

Session IV 2022.10.25 2022.11.21 2022.11.21 2023.01.27

Short-term Program ( 3 Weeks ) (YYYY. MM. DD)

Academic Application
Begin on
Finish on

Term Level test

Year Deadline (from) (to)

2021 Summer 2021.07.12 2021.08.02 2021.08.02 2021.08.20

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Academic Application
Begin on
Finish on

Term Level test

Year Deadline (from) (to)

Winter 2022.01.10 2022.02.07 2022.02.07 2022.02.25

Summer 2022.07.12 2022.08.08 2022.08.08 2022.08.26

2022
Winter 2023.01.10 2023.02.06 2023.02.06 2023.02.24

A placement test will be conducted on the first day of class and classes are not offered on weekends and Korean national holidays.

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