Business Korean

Business Korean builds advanced speaking, vocabulary, and communication skills for Korean business settings and covers business culture, formal writing, and current economic and social issues.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Byung-Jin Lim3.9/5

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand and participate in work-related conversations

  • Produce coherent and clearly organized written texts in business settings

  • Understand Korean companies’ hiring processes and detailed information regarding Korean-specific business culture and issues.

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ASIALANG 305 or placement into ASIALANG 306

ASIALANG 381

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Spring 2027
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Raw average: 4.50/5 from 6 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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BYUNG-JIN LIM is recorded teaching in Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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the class

Build advanced-level speaking, vocabulary, and communication skills needed for a variety of Korean business settings. Become familiar with Korean business culture through classroom activities and homework assignments. Topics include formal communication skills, business-related vocabulary frequently used in formal writing, and current issues related to Korea's economy, society and culture. Understand Korean companies' hiring processes and detailed information regarding Korean-specific business culture and issues. Enhance language skills for business settings in South Korea.

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Topics

  • Korean business culture.
  • Formal communication, business vocabulary, and current issues in Korea's economy, society, and culture.
  • Korean companies' hiring processes and specific business culture issues.

Skills

  • Advanced Korean speaking, vocabulary, and communication skills for business settings.
  • Formal communication skills and production of coherent, organized written texts using business-related vocabulary.
  • Understanding of Korean companies' hiring processes and Korean-specific business culture and issues.

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ASIALANG 381 · Spring 2027

Business Korean

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