The state-run Overseas Koreans Foundation plans to provide training for some 520 Korean-language teachers around the world to help them adopt more modern, practical and effective teaching methods.
About 520 people from China, Russia and other countries will participate in sessions here for Korean language, linguistics, teaching methods and, Korean culture until mid-August, the Seoul-based organization said.
“Instructors’ greater capabilities mean better help for young generations living overseas to establish their identity as Koreans given that most instructors at Korean schools there are non-Korean-language majors or volunteers,” Kim Kyung-keun, president of the OKF, said in a statement.
Among them are 36 ethnic Koreans from the Commonwealth of Independent States, which includes Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Their program starts on July 3 at Hanyang University’s Ansan campus in Gyeonggi Province for a five-week run.
Forty-three Korean-Chinese participants are also scheduled to take part in a two-week training course at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies’ Yongin campus starting July 16.
In August, 210 instructors will receive lessons at Kyung Hee University’s Suwon campus for one week.
More than 230 individuals have separately started online classes offered by the Global Language Education Institute at Digital Seoul Culture Arts University. They will be given a certificate when they complete the nine-week program.
By Shin Hyon-hee (
heeshin@heraldcorp.com)
