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Korean Language At Cornell
Language Information Courses Other Resources


Language Contact Person: Meejeong Song
Phone: 255-8498
Office: 123 Rockefeller
Office Hour: R 10:10-11:00 or by appointment
Korean
 The Korean language is spoken by more than 65 million people living on the peninsula and its outlying islands (the Republic of Korea in the south and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north). Modern Korean has several different dialects including the standard one used in Seoul and central areas, but they are similar enough that speakers do not have trouble understanding each other. Hangul (ÇѱÛ), the Korean alphabet, was invented in 1446 by King Sejong and his court, and consists of 10 vowels and 14 consonants which are used to form syllabic groupings. ¿äÁò ¾È³çÇϼ¼¿ä?

The Korean Language At Cornell
The Department of Asian Studies offers courses in Korean in three levels: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Korean. The Elementary and the Intermediate level courses are in two tracks. The Korea 1101-1102 sequence is for true beginners who have had no or very little prior knowledge of Korean, and the Korea 1109-1110 sequence (Elementary Reading) is for heritage students or partial beginners. All students SHOULD take a placement exam to determine the right course to take, except KOREA 1101.
Cornell Area Program Affiliation: East Asia Program
Announcements:
  • Placement Test
    All students are required to take a placement test to determine the right course to take, except KOREA 1101. The placement test is scheduled each semester just before and after the semester begins. Find the information of exact date and location of Korean placement test at http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian/programs/placement and go to the location on the test date. Note that it is not common for a student to be placed in KOREA 1110 or 2210 directly, because they are continuation courses of KOREA 1109 and 2209 respectively, and it may cause difficulty for a student to catch up with the accumulated lessons. For those who want to take a placement test for exemption from the language requirement, it is recommended to take the test on the scheduled dates.

Last edited by meejeong on Thu Aug 14 2008 at 02:43 PM.