KOREAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

LTKO 1

LTKO 1A

1. Culture

• Greetings with a bow
• Korean names
• Social hierarchy and terms of address
• Exchanging business cards
• Introducing friends or acquaintances
• Social hierarchy and sentence endings
• Korean collectivism
• Extending family terms to friends and acquaintances
• The Korean national flag
• Asking where others are going
• 안녕히 가세요vs. 잘 가
• Talking about where someone lives
• Housing

2. Expression & Pattern

• Korean Alphabet and pronunciation
• Useful classroom expressions
• Equational expressions: (Noun1은/는) Noun2이에요/예요. (Noun1은/는) Noun2이/가 아니에요.
• Omission of redundant elements
• Comparing items: 은/는 v.s. 도
• Yes-or-No questions: Q: Noun이에요/예요? A: 네/아니오, Noun이에요/예요.
• Using a title or a name instead of ‘you’
• Verbs v.s. Adjectives
• The structure of predicates: The polite ending …-아요/어요
• The honorific ending …-(으)세요
• The subject particle 이/가
• [Place]에 있어요.
• The discourse particle 은/는 (changing the topic)
• The conjunction 그리고
• Use of 있다/없다 to express possession
• Expressing possessive relations: Noun1 (possessor) Noun2 (possessed)
• Alternative questions
• 은/는, 도, and 만
• Joining nouns: Noun1하고 Noun2 (Noun1 and Noun2)
• The object particle 을/를
• Omissions of particles
• The locative particles 에 and에서
• Numbers
• Noun counters
• [Time]에
• Irregular verbs in -ㄷ: 듣다
• Changing the topic of conversation: 그런데
• -(으)러 ([Place]에) 가요
• The basic sentence pattern: Noun1이/가 Noun2에서 (Noun3을/를) …. -아/어요.
• [Place]에서 [Place]까지 ‘from place A to place B’
• Vowel contraction
• Noun(으)로 ‘by means of Noun’
• The conjunction 그래서
• 은요/는요? ‘What about….?’
• The negative adverb 안
• Past events: -았어요/었어요.
• Noun (person)하고 (같이) … -아/어요.
• Irregular predicates in -ㅂ: 가깝다

 3. Task & Function

• Greetings
• Introducing oneself
• Describing another person
• Introducing friends
• Inquiring about another person’s health
• Asking about the location of something or someone
• Seeking information about things and objects
• Making requests
• Inquiring about a person’s hometown and family
• Talking about someone’s major
• Describing people
• asking and telling about destination and purpose
• Asking and telling time
• Asking and telling about quantity; counting
• More greetings; saying good-bye
• Asking reasons: 왜 ‘why?’
• Talking about how long something takes
• Asking about someone’s residence
• Talking about daily activities
• Coming and going

LTKO 1B

1. Culture

• Writing dates
• 달력
• 돌과 환갑
• Seoul
• The subway system in Seoul
• Education and the school system in Korea
• Korean language education around the globe
• Koreans living abroad
• Ingroup vs. outgroup: telling one’s age
• 태권도
• 한복: Korean traditional clothing
• The family system in Korea

2. Expression & Pattern

• 무슨 ‘what (kind of) Noun’ and 어느 ‘which Noun’
• Goal or source: Noung한테/께 or Noun한테서; [Place]에 or [Place]에서
• Probability: -(으)ㄹ 거예요
• Noun(이)나
• Negation: 안 and 못
• Negative questions
• Deferential styles: -습니다/ㅂ니다, -습니까/ㅂ니까?
• The subject honorific -(으)시
• Seeking agreement: -지요/죠?
• Demonstrative expressions: 이/그/저 and 여기/거기/저기
• The clausal connective -고 (Clause1 and Clause2)
• Direction: -(으)로
• The noun-modifying form: adjective stem + (으)ㄴ Noun
• Irregular predicates in -ㄹ: 알다
• The clausal connective -는데/(으)ㄴ데 (background information)
• The sentence ending -는데요/(으)ㄴ데요
• Expressing desire: verb stem + -고 싶다/싶어하다
• asking someone’s opinion: (으)ㄹ까요? ‘Shall I/we….?’ ‘Do you think….?’
• The noun-modifying form: verb stem + -는, adjective stem + -(으)ㄴ
• The clausal connective -아서/어서 (cause)
• The conjunction 그렇지만 ‘but’
• The progressive form: verb stem + -고 있다
• Intention: verb stem + -(으)ㄹ래요.
• Noun(이)나 ‘or something; as many/as much as’
• Noun 밖에 + negative ‘nothing but, only’
• [Time]부터 [Time]까지 ‘from…. To/until…’
• Irregular predicates in -으: 예쁘다
• The noun-modifying form -(으)ㄹ (prospective)
• 별로 + negative ‘not particularly, not really’ (sequential)
• The clausal connective -아서/어서 (sequential)
• -겠 (conjuncture)
• The sentence ending -네요
• Irregular predicates in -ㅎ: 빨갛다
• The noun-modifying form -(으)ㄴ
• Honorific expressions

3. Task and Function

• Talking about weekend plans: 주말에 뭐 할 거예요?
• Giving and receiving; making and receiving phone calls; sending and receiving letters
• Dates, days, and schedules
• Talking about likes and dislikes
• Organizing a birthday party
• Conversing and inquiring about someone’s background
• Talking about the weather
• Asking and giving directions
• Visiting a professor’s office: how to start a conversation
• Giving biographical information
• Making an apology and giving reasons
• Asking for an opinion
• Ordinal numbers
• Telling one’s age
• Extending, accepting, and declining invitations
• Expressing reservations
• Talking about family
• Describing clothes
• Talking about weekend activities
• Describing likes and dislikes
• Describing colors

LTKO 1C

1. Culture

• Telephone conversations
• Airports and airlines
• Korean ginseng
• Korean money
• National holidays on Korea
• The school calendar in Korea
• Recreational activities
• The Korean concept of a meal
• 불고기 and 김치
• Korean restaurants and 카페
• Sports in Korea
• Traditional music and Western music

2. Expression & Pattern

• The benefactive expression: verb stem + -어/아 주다
• The sentence ending -(으)ㄹ게요 ‘willingness’
• 때문에 ‘because of Noun’
• -겠 (intention)
• Expressing obligation or necessity: -아야/어야 되다/하다
• Noun + -(이)라서 (cause)
• Negative commands: verb stem + -지 마세요. ‘Please don’t…..’
• Irregular predicates in -르: 빠르다
• The particle -에 ‘for, per’
• The humble verb 드리다
• The negative -지 못하다 ‘cannot, not be able to’
• The adverbial form -게
• Noun + 때 ‘at the time of Noun’
• Verb stem + -(으)ㄹ까 하다 ‘I am (we are) thinking of …-ing’
• The clausal connective: verb stem + -고 나서 ‘after’
• Listing actions: noun도 verb stem + -고 noun도 verb stem + -고
• (An act of) -ing: verb stem + -는 것
• The clausal connective -지만 ‘but, although’
• The clausal connective: verb stem + -(으)면서 ‘while …-ing’
• Verb stem + -아/어 보다 ‘try doing’
• Giving and offering: verb stem + -아/어 주다 v.s. verb stem + -아/어 드리다
• Negation: -지 않다
• Compound verbs
• The nominalizer -기
• The clausal connective -기 때문에 (reason)
• The clausal connective: verb stem + -기 전에 ‘before …-ing’
• Verb stem + -기 시작하다 ‘begin to’
• The conditional ?(으)면 ‘if, when’
• Verb stem + -(으)ㄹ 수 있다/없다 (potential)
• The comparative 보다 (더) ‘more than’
• Verb stem + -(으)ㄹ 줄 알다/모르다 ‘ know/not know how to’
• Verb stem + -(으)ㄹ 때 ‘when’
• Verb stem + -기로 하다 ‘plan to/ decide to’

3. Task and Function

• Making telephone calls
• Making an appointment
• Describing illness or pain
• Making a polite request
• Taking a taxi
• Asking about prices; buying things
• Writing letters and postcards
• Expressing frequency
• Meeting someone by chance
• Talking about vacation plans
• Setting up a get-together
• Making suggestions
• Describing tastes
• Ordering food
• Talking about favorite activities
• Talking about occupations
• Expressing emotions and feelings

LTKO 2

LTKO 2A

1. Culture

• The four seasons
• The lunar and solar calendars
• Yongin Falk Village
• A culture of uniformity and formalism
• Food courts at department stores
• Part-time jobs for college students
• 경주, the ancient capital of the 신라 dynasty
• Cultural differences between the West and Korea
• The mail
• 효도
• Banking
• The citizen’s ID card and the Dong office
• Boardinghouses
• Public bathhouse
• The Korean underfloor heating system
• Dialects of Korean

2. Expression & Pattern

• Change of state: Adjective verb stem -아/어지다 ‘become, get to be’
• Sentence ending -잖아요 ‘You know….’ (assuming agreement)
• Noun-modifying form -던 (retrospective)
• Verb stem -(으)ㄴ 다음에/후에 ‘after doing (something)’
• Expressing speaker’s wish: -(으)면 좋겠다
• Sentence ending -겠습니다 (announcement)
• Verb stem -(으)려고 ‘intending to’; Verb stem -(으)려고 하다 ‘intend to'
• Verb stem -기(가) 쉽다/어렵다 ‘it is easy/difficult to…’
• Expressions of permission and prohibition: Verb stem -아/어도 되다; Verb stem -(으)면 안 되다
• Noun1 말고 noun2 ‘not Noun1 but Noun2’
• -(으)ㄴ/는/(으)ㄹ 것 같다 ‘it seems/looks like’
• Particle (으)로 ‘into’, ‘change into’
• -게 되다: change or turn of events
• -(으)면 되다 ‘all one has to do is…., all one needs is ….’
• -았/었네요, -겠네요, -았/었겠네요
• -아/어 본 적이 있다/없다: past experience
• -는 동안 ‘while, during’
• -는 길이다/-는 길에 ‘(be) on one’s way’
• -거든요 ‘You see, (because)…’
• -(으)려면 ‘if (someone) intends to do…’
• Noun(이)요
• -아야/어야지요 ‘…definitely/indeed/surely should/ought to/have to’
• -느라고 ‘as a result of/while/because of …-ing’
• The plain Speech Style -(는/ㄴ)다
• -게요: purpose of a request
• -는 중이다 ‘in the process/middle of …’
• -대요/(이)래요: hearsay
• -(으)ㄴ/는지 알다/모르다 ‘know/don’t know whether (what, who, where, when)…’
• -(으)ㄴ지 얼마나 됐어요? ; -(으)ㄴ지 [Time Span]이/가 됐어요.
• -다가: transference of an action/state to another

 3. Task and Function

• Describing weather
• Indicating possibility and capability
• Listening to weather forecast
• Requesting, granting, and denying permission
• Making plans
• Describing physical appearance and clothing
• Shopping
• Calling a travel agency and buying an airline ticket
• Talking about vacation and summer jobs
• Describing past events
• Skimming newspaper ads for airline tickets and travel information
• Using postal services
• Giving a warning and seeking advice
• Writing personal letters and postcards
• Searching for housing
• Describing buildings and interior
• Initiating a conversation and introducing oneself
• Giving compliments and responding to compliments
• Advertisement for housing

LTKO 2B

1. Culture

• Taxis
• The subway
• Mountains and hiking
• Using different speech styles
• Open markets and shopping
• Bargaining
• Birthday celebrations
• 감사합니다 and 미안합니다
• Expressions of humility
• Singing culture
• Barbershops and hair salons
• Advertisements
• Korean universities
• 씨름
• 노래방
• 바둑
• 장기

2. Expression & Pattern

• The Intimate Speech style: -아/어
• The use of the Plain Speech style in speaking
• Indirect quotation: -다고 하다, -(느/으)냐고 하다, -(으)라고 하다, -자고 하다
• -다면서/라면서? (confirming information)
• -(으)니까 expressing a reason or ground for the subsequent message
• 아무리 ….-아도/어도 ‘no matter how….’
• Indefinite pronouns
• -기는요. ‘not at all’
• Passive verbs
• -아/어 있다 ‘in the state of being ….’
• -는 데(에) ‘in/for … -ing’
• -는/(으)ㄴ 편이다 ‘It is more than the case of …. Than the other’
• -아/어 가지고 ‘having …-en, because, since…..’
• -(으)ㄹ까 생각하다 ‘in the middle of thinking/wondering if….’
• -던데요 (recall)
• -(으)ㄹ테니까
• floating plural marker -들
• -아/어 가지고 (completion) ‘by doing, by being, as, and’
• -는/은/을 줄 알다/모르다 ‘… know/don’t know…, think/don’t think…’
• -(으)ㄹ텐데
• -게 하다 (causative)
• -지요 (emphasis/suggestion)
• Verb stem + -나 보다, Adjective verb stem + -(으)ㄴ가 보다 ‘it seems…, it looks like…’
• -아/어 보이다 ‘someone/something appears…, looks….’
• -아/어 하다 (refers to person’s emotional status)
• 하다 v.s. 되다
• -거나/Noun(이)나 ‘or’
• -았/었다(가)
• -더라고요 ‘I am telling you…, Let me tell you…’
• -(으)니까 (sequential relation, temporal sequence)
• -아/어(서) 죽겠다 ‘… to death’
• -는/(으)ㄴ 척하다 ‘pretend to do something, pretend to be in a certain state of affair’
• -자마자 ‘as soon as, no sooner than, immediately after’  

3. Task and Function

• Asking for and giving directions
• Using public transportation
• Making telephone calls
• Writing a journal
• Talking about food and making a shopping list
• Making recipes
• Negotiating price
• Expressing hesitation
• Organizing a party
• Writing invitations and thank-you notes
• Expressing regrets
• Describing hairstyles and hair fashions
• Commenting on someone’s appearance
• Reading and making ads
• Talking about stressful events
• Talking about hobbies and pastimes
• Reporting one’s past experiences

LTKO 2C

1. Culture

• Holiday customs
• 떡국
• Holiday games
• How to wear 한복
• Hospitals in Korea
• Western medicine and Sino-Korean medicine
• Korean adages and metaphors
• Korean marriage customs
• Modern weddings
• 집들이
• The Korean family
• Taboos and superstitions
• Aging
• Selecting a major
• Job searches and interviews
• Women’s issues
• College entrance examinations

2. Expression & Pattern

• -(으)면서 (express complaints, criticism or disapproval)
• -기는 …-는/은데 ‘it is true that …. but…’
• Noun -(이)라면 ‘If it were/is…, If you mean to say Noun…’
• 아무 Noun-(이)나 ‘any Noun’
• Question word-(이)든지 ‘any …’
• -기 위해(서) ‘for the sake of …, in order to…, for the purpose of….’
• -아/어 버리다 (refers to the emotional effect of swiftly finishing or cleaning up something)
• -군요/구나 (exclamatory expression)
• -(으)ㄹ걸 (그랬어요) (express a feeling of regret on one’s past action)
• -다/라는 소식/이야기/말씀 ‘a news/words on/about ….
• -는 바람에 ‘because…, as a result of…’
• -(으)려다가/(으)려고 그러다가 (describe a situation where somebody is about to do something)
• A이/가 아니라 B ‘It is not A but B’
• -는/(으)ㄴ 거예요/거야 ‘What it is, is…, The fact is…, What happens is….’
• -아/어야 할지 모르다 ‘don’t know what to/where to/when to/how to….’
• 차라리 ..이/가 (더) 낫다 ‘A is better (than B)’
• -기도 하다 (express another possibility in addition to what is mentioned in the preceding context)
• -는/은/을 모양이다 ‘It appears to…, It looks like …’
• Doubling of -았-: -었었-, -았었-
• Causative -이/-히/-리/-기/-우
• Noun만큼, Verb stem + -(으)ㄹ 만큼 ‘as much as’
• (-(으)면)…-(으)ㄹ수록 ‘the more… the more…’
• -았/었더니 (describe a situation the speaker experienced in the past as a result of another situation)
• [Time Length]만에 (the time that it takes for one to complete a task)
• -(으)ㄹ 뻔하다 (indicate that some event almost happened, but did not)
• -는/(으)ㄴ데도 ‘despite the fact that….’
• 하나도 + negation ‘not at all’
• -는/은/을지 (생각하다/궁금하다/잘 알다)
• -았/었으면 하다 ‘wish ….. ?ed, It would be good if….’
• 언젠가, 어딘가, 무언가 ‘sometime, somewhere, something’
• -(으)ㄹ까봐 ‘for fear that….’
• 얼마나 …-는/지(으)ㄴ지 (exclamatory remark on the greatness of the state of affairs the speaker experienced)
• 마치 …-는/은/을 것 같다 ‘as if…..’

3. Task and Function

• Talking about holidays
• Making suggestions and arranging schedules
• Reading newspaper articles
• Describing illnesses and injuries
• Describing a car accident
• Understanding labels
• Expressing concern/fear/worry
• Talking about wedding
• Expressing disbelief and agreement
• Describing personality
• Stating opinions
• Talking about cultural differences
• Narrating a series of events
• Talking about one’s major and career goals
• Expressing encouragement
• Reading ads for jobs