The mission of the Faculty of Korean Language and Literature as a centre of education and development of language and literature and a training centre for writers and journalists is to train competent experts who are capable of solving theoretical and practical problems in the fields of literature, linguistics, national classics, creative writing and journalism.
Separated from the Faculty of History in 1949 it was named the Faculty of Korean Language and Literature, and it became the College of Literature in 2000. It was renamed the Faculty of Korean Language and Literature in October 2019.
The Faculty has six departments, which include the Department of Literature, the Department of Screenplay Writing, the Department of Novel and Poetry, the Department of National Classics, the Department of Journalism, and the Department of Archive Information. It also has an institute (the Institute of Korean Language Studies) and four offices (the Office of Modern Linguistics, the Office of Historical Linguistics, the Office of Creative Writing and the Office of Language and Literature Application).
It offer courses in Korean Literature, Linguistics, Korean Language Studies, Film Scenario, Creative Writing, National Classics, Journalism, Archive Information and a special course for the training of writers and journalists.
The main subjects include "Juche-based Theory of Literature", "History of Korean Literature", "Contemporary Korean Literature", "Modern Korean Literature", "Ancient & Medieval Korean Literature", "Orally-transmitted Literature", "Literary Criticism", "Dramaturgy", "Screenwriting", "Novel Writing", "Poem Writing", "Children's Literature Writing", "Introduction to Linguistics", "Korean Lexicology", "Korean Morphology", "Korean Syntax", "Korean Semantics", "Korean Stylistics", "Korean Speaking", "Intensive Korean Reading", "Network Journalism", "Introduction to Mass Media", "History of Ancient Publications", "Metal and Stone Inscriptions in Korea" and "Chinese Characters".
The Faculty has a staff of 110 lecturers and researchers including three academicians, one candidate academician and 50 Doctors of Philosophy. Sixty of them have professorship or associate professorship.
It has about 1 300 students.
Introduction to Curriculum For Exchange Students
Educational system: 4-year course Degree: Bachelor in linguistics
- Year 1
Semester 1
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean speaking | 7 | 12 | Type-one | |
| 2 | Basic Korean reading | 7 | 10 | Type-one | |
| 3 | PE | 1 | 1 | Type-two | |
| total | 15 | 23 |
Semester 2
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean speaking | 8 | 10 | Type-one | |
| 2 | Basic Korean reading | 7 | 10 | Type-one | |
| 3 | Introduce to Linguistics | 4 | 6 | Type-one | |
| 4 | PE | 1 | 1 | Type-two | |
| Total | 20 | 27 |
- Year 2
Semester 1
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean style reading | 6 | 8 | Type-one | |
| 2 | Korean listening | 6 | 8 | Type-one | |
| 3 | Korean phonetics | 4 | 4 | Type-one | |
| 4 | PE | 1 | 1 | Type-two | |
| 5 | Korean geography | 3 | 3 | Type-two | |
| 6 | Fundamentals of literature | 3 | 4 | Type-two | |
| 7 | Writing practice | 2 | 2 | Type-two | |
| Total | 25 | 30 |
Semester 2
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean style reading | 4 | 6 | Type-one | |
| 2 | Korean listening | 5 | 8 | Type-one | |
| 3 | Korean lexicology | 3 | 4 | Type-one | |
| 4 | PE | 1 | 1 | Type-two | |
| 5 | Computer Application | 4 | 5 | Type-two | |
| 6 | History of Korean literature | 2 | 3 | Type-two | |
| 7 | Writing Practice | 2 | 2 | Type-two | |
| Total | 21 | 29 |
- Year 3
Semester 1
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | 4 | 4 | Type-two | |
| 2 | Korean history | 3 | 4 | Type-two | |
| 3 | History of Korean literature | 3 | 3 | Type-two | |
| 4 | Korean style reading | 4 | 6 | Type-one | |
| 5 | Korean listening | 5 | 6 | Type-one | |
| 6 | Korean morphology | 4 | 5 | Type-one | |
| 7 | Writing practice | 1 | 2 | Type-one | |
| Total | 24 | 30 |
Semester 2
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | 3 | 6 | Type-two | |
| 2 | Korean history | 2 | 3 | Type-two | |
| 3 | Korean style reading | 4 | 6 | Type-one | |
| 4 | Korean listening | 5 | 8 | Type-one | |
| 5 | Korean syntax | 4 | 5 | Type-one | |
| 6 | Writing practice | 1 | 2 | Type-two | |
| Total | 19 | 30 |
- Year 4
Semester 1
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juche philosophy | 2 | 4 | Type-two | |
| 2 | Socialist Constitution | 3 | 4 | Type-two | |
| 3 | Logic | 2 | 2 | Type-two | |
| 4 | Korean folklorism | 3 | 3 | Type-two | |
| 5 | Korean stylistics | 3 | 3 | Type-one | |
| 6 | Korean semantics | 3 | 4 | Type-one | |
| 7 | Korean dialectology | 3 | 4 | Type-one | |
| Total | 19 | 24 |
Semester 2
| No | Course Title | Credits | Sessions per Week | Exam Type | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juche philosophy | 2 | 3 | Type-one | |
| 2 | Psychology | 2 | 4 | Type-two | |
| 3 | Mathematical linguistics | 3 | 8 | Type-one | |
| 4 | Computer linguistics | 3 | 8 | Type-one | |
| 5 | Korean word-formation | 3 | 7 | Type-one | |
| 6 | History of korean linguistics | 3 | 8 | Type-one | |
| 7 | Middle Korean grammar | 3 | 7 | Type-two | |
| 8 | Chinese ideograph | 3 | 8 | Type-two | |
| 9 | History of foreign linguistics | 3 | 8 | Type-two | |
| 10 | History of foreign literature | 3 | 8 | Type-two | |
| Total | 14 | 28 |
Course Duration: 2 years
Degree: Master Degree of Linguistics
For the graduates from Korean linguistics department, post-grad course is available, providing a wide array of Korean-related subjects and disciplines in linguistics, writing dissertations for MA degree.
The subjects for MA course are:
1. Social linguistics
2. Text linguistics
3. Pragmatics
4. Cognitive semantics
5. Contrastive linguistics
6. Syntactic semantics
7. Psychological linguistics
8. Phatic linguistics
9. Environment semantics
10. Cognitive linguistics
11. Lexicography
12. Text semantics
13. Speech analysis
14. Sentence construction
15. Language pedagogy
16. Academic terms theory
17. Manchu linguistics
18. Middle foreign linguistics
19. History of Korean grammar
20. Korean vocabulary
21. History of Korean phoneme
22. Language information theory
23. Vague linguistics
24. Machine translation
25. Corpus linguistics
The apprentice’s course is following:
1. Korean reading-1
2. Korean reading-2
3. Korean speaking-1
4. Korean speaking-2
5. Practical Korean grammar
6. Korean style reading
7. Writing
8. Korean geography
9. General linguistics
10. History of Korean language
11. Dialectology
12. Computer applied linguistics
13. History of Korean literature
14. Fundamental of literature
15. Korean semantics
16. Korean history
17. Korean folklorism
