Handbook

This course provides intermediate-level tuition in Korean language study from a communicative and task-based approach. It focuses on enhancing spoken and written communicative skills in Korean, with an increasing emphasis on literacy development. The course consolidates understanding of how Korean works, presenting vocabulary and grammatical structures within culturally relevant contexts. Through these contexts, students learn to request and offer assistance, express intentions and future plans, describe sequences of events, and engage using a range of speech levels, including banmal (intimate endings) and geulmal (narrative endings). The course also covers indirect speech, polite question forms, and reading and writing diverse text types, such as reviews, recipes, instructions, emails, and journals. Additionally, it explores key aspects of contemporary Korean society and culture, including employment trends, social manners and etiquette, traditional games, and symbolic animals. While not an official TOPIK preparation course, the course introduces language features and cultural insights that can help lay the groundwork for further study toward TOPIK 1.