KSIF to launch ‘Cyber Korean Course’, free online Korean language classes

Introduction and Beginner’s Korean Language offered in 4 languages: Russian, Vietnamese, English, and Korean
1:1 feedback provided by online teachers following self-learning video instruction

▲ Cyber Korean Course main screen

King Sejong Institute Foundation (hereinafter referred to as KSIF; President: Kang Hyounhwa) will launch its ‘Cyber Korean Course’, online Korean language lessons for foreigners in regions that lack a Korean Language education institute.
On the 27th of last month, KSIF began operating the ‘Cyber Korean Course’ classes on its Korean learning platform, the ‘Online KSI’ (www.iksi.or.kr), and started recruiting learners. The ‘Cyber Korean Course’ is an online Korean Language curriculum developed and operated by KSIF to meet the increasing demand for overseas Korean language learning.

This year, 3 courses—an Introduction course for those are learning Korean for the first time, Beginner 1, and Beginner 2—will be launched on a trial basis. The introductory course will be offered in English and Chinese, while the beginners’ courses will be available in Russian, Vietnamese, English, and Korean.
The ‘Cyber Korean Course’ will be operated as 2 versions. The first involves watching video content and studying the Korean language alone, before submitting tasks through the bulletin board and receiving 1:1 feedback from the Korean language teacher. The second involves watching the video content then taking real-time online video lectures from the Korean language teacher. The lecture form which involves submitting tasks through the bulletin board and receiving feedback isn’t subject to any lecture application period restrictions. The Cyber Korean Course, which involves the Korean language teacher giving real-time video lectures after the learner watches video content, includes 24 classes and the application deadline is August 2nd.
KSIF plans to recruit approximately 3,000 learners for this launch, and the courses are expected to be extended further.

Park Hyeyoung, KSIF Content Support Department assistant manager, explained that “The Cyber Korean Course is a new form of online lecture that has pushed the limits of online language learning, involving studying alone by watching video content” and that “Not only are the lessons are conducted by Korean language teachers but also, feedback on the learner’s progress is provided, and by managing the learning, this enables systematic online-only learning”.
KSIF started an online Korean language learning platform called ‘Online KSI’ in April. 1,162 Korean language curricula were operated through the ‘Online KSI’ in the first half of the year and 12,643 learners to date have taken part in total.
Based on the management achievements of online KSI in the first half of the year, KSIF plans to operate the ‘Cyber Korean Course’ for foreign learners in regions without KSI from August, and will extend this online Korean language education by subsequently launching untact learning platforms in non-KSI institutes.