Daebak Easy Korean
What you'll learn
- Learn basic Korean Language
- Explore Korean food
- Communicate using basic Korean language skills
- Understand Korean food culture
Requirements
- Welcome, all the beginners!
- You will learn everything you need in this course
- You must be able to read simple hangeul(Korean Alphabet)
Description
Welcome to our course, DaeBak EASY KOREAN!
Are you interested in Korean food and culture? Do you want to learn the Korean language? How about killing two birds with one stone? In this course, you will be learning the essential Korean language through the topic of Korean food! Each lesson will cover various Korean food and culture, while introducing Korean grammar and expressions.
This course has 4 seasons, and each season has 8 episodes.
Season 1: What is Korean food? We will be discussing general knowledge of Korean food.
Season 2: The most famous Korean dishes. We will find out the most popular dish in Korea.
Season 3: Korean street food! We will explore all the different kinds of street food!
Season 4: Korean food on special occasions! We will introduce what we eat on special occasions!
At the end of this course, you will have achieved a fundamental understanding of the Korean language and basic communicative skills in addition to knowledge of Korean food and culture. It will help you to communicate and share your thoughts with the people who have experiences with Korean food or who wish to taste Korean food. Are you ready to food travel with us?
Who this course is for:
- New language learners / Beginner language learners who are new to Korean
- People who are curious about the Korean culture (Korean Food)
- People who may want to visit Korea
- People who want to learn the Korean language
Instructors
Celebrating 621st anniversary of foundation years, the mission of Sungkyunkwan University is to be an innovative school for student success and create future value. In the light of this mission of SKKU, we have focused to the fullest, on supporting our students to grow up into a great addition to human society and the world.
According to our statistics in 2018, we annually have 5,000 learners on average. As the Korean Wave gains more interest in the world, we foresee even more learners coming and have strived for raise our education quality. Other than our current regular program, we have been working on development of course and learning materials. Also, we keep monitoring our environments and state-of-art facilities which meet rapidly changing trend in education.
Hyunjung Lee is currently a Korean language instructor at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
She earned her bachelor's degree in Korean language and literature at Yonsei university and her master's degree in Korean linguistics and second language teaching at the university of Oregon.
She has been teaching the Korean language at universities in the United States for 9 years.
She loves teaching Korean language and introducing Korean culture to those who are interested.
Dr. Ku In (Kyuin) Kim is a scholar in Korean Studies and a Korean language lecturer in the UK.
She obtained a Ph.D. in Korean Culture and a Master's degree in Korean Language acquisition at Ewha Woman’s University in Korea.
She has a varied background with broad expertise in Korean studies. She worked as a Korean lecturer in Korea, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. In addition, she worked as a translator and published “Korean for Overseas Koreans (English)” by the Ministry of Education of Korea.
Her research mainly involves Intercultural competence in Korean language pedagogy. She encourages her lectures to be intellectually fun and culturally fascinating. She is currently writing a book about giving insight to future Korean language lecturers.
She is a heavy traveler, white wine lover, and foodie.
I am a former management consultant with strong international background, especially in Asia. I stopped counting my travels in Korea and definitely fell in love with this country, its people and culture.
Now entrepreneur, I keep travelling in Korea for business and holidays. As soon as I have a chance, I share my tips with travellers (so much things to know about Korean food and culture...).
One last thing, food is my religion :-)