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This course aims to give a deeper understanding of Korean cultural values through the selected keywords, traditional stories, and folktales, adopting an Ethnopragmatic based approach.Students are expected to learn Korean cultural values through the Korean language and its usage in the cultural context. The course is for 15 weeks including two exams; the 8th midterm, and the 15th Final. Each week’s topic will be composed of three classes of 25 minutes. The course is purely online and students will be evaluated by two exams and attendance.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Achieve a better understanding of the intrinsic relationship between language and culture.
2. Understand Korean cultural values and assumptions through the Korean cultural key words, traditional stories and myths.
3. Learn the Korean way of being polite verbally, as well as non-verbally.
4. Practice Korean language in its cultural context.