This book is written in English with two main goals in mind : content learning and language improvement. That is, the first goal is to provide students with a systematic knowledge of the fundamental aspects of Korean studies. The second goal is to help students achieve a professional (superior) level of proficiency in Korean language and culture through content based instruction.

Sohn Ho-min

HO-MIN SOHN is Professor of Korean linguistics and Director of the Korean Language Flagship Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and President of the Korean Language Education and Research Center, Inc. which has developed twenty Korean language textbooks.
He is a past chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (1993-2000) and a past director of the Center for Korean Studies (2004-10) at UHM and a past president of both the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (1979-81) and of the American Association of Teachers of Korean (1994-7). His numerous publications include Korean Language in Culture and Society (2006), The Korean Language (1999), Korean: Descriptive Grammar (1994), Linguistic Expeditions (1986), Woleaian- English Dictionary (1976), Woleaian Reference Grammar (1975), and A Ulithian Grammar (1973).

Sang Yee Cheon
Sang Yee Cheon has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is assistant professor of Korean language and linguistics and Flagship undergraduate coordinator at the UHM. Her research interests include acquisition of phonetics/phonology and roles of media materials such as movies and advertisements in Korean language and culture education.

Hee-Jeong Jeong
Hee-Jeong Jeong has a Ph.D. in Korean linguistics from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is a full-time preceptor of Korean at Harvard University. Her current research interest is in linguistic and cultural studies for advanced learners of Korean.