DAEGU UNIVERSITY - Academics - Korean Language Education Center(KLEC)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Regular Session

Period of Study per Session	Total Class Hours	Class Hours per Week	Class Time	Students per Class
10 weeks	200	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. 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 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.

Short-term Session

Period of Study per Session	Total Class Hours	Class Hours per Week	Class Time	Students 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.

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