Korean
This page contains links to cultural resources in Korean.
Ads
- A searchable database of ads from around the world (search by country, industry, media/type of ad--audio/print/video, etc.)
Audio
- A crowd-sourced collection of texts in Korean, shared by language learners who found them helpful or interesting. The site allows you to search by categories (fiction, non-fiction, conversations, songs, and others) and to build a list of texts, a word list, and flashcards based on what you have read (if you are signed in).
Children's Literature
Cloud Bread - An imaginative, award-winning children's book in Korean (also available in English) about two kittens who end up floating around like clouds after their mother makes "cloud bread" from a piece of a cloud they find on a rainy morning
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[구름빵 시즌2] 14 누나 때문에 - Gureumppang - Cloud Bread - A 7:30 min. animated read aloud of the children's book
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구름빵 만들기 Cloud Bread Recipe - A 3:59 min. video with subtitles in Korean that shows the recipe for making "cloud bread"
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[초등권장]우리누나/우리문화 / Uri Nuna - A 17 min. read aloud of the children's book that shows the cultural clothing, games, and traditions of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty
Waiting for Mama - A bilingual children's book in Korean and English that is based on a story that was first published in a Korean newspaper in 1938
[오디오스쿨X참쌤스쿨] 수업 활용 자료 - 수박 수영장 - Watermelon Pool - A 4:34 min. read aloud of the book from the publisher
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내가 수박수영장 주인공이라면?!|따즐상상|수박수영장|안녕달|그림책 주인공 되어보기 - What if I was the main character in the Watermelon Pool? - A cute, 2:04 min. video in Korean in which students put themselves into the story
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프롬아미#12 가족뮤지컬'수박수영장'_수박수영장 개장합니다!! - A 6:03 min. entertainment report in Korean that announces the opening of a play based on the children's book with scenes from the play
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수박 수영장 만들기 / 여름 미술 / Paper Pop-Up WATERMELON - A 10:01 min. video in Korean with instructions for making a pop-up watermelon pool craft
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When Spring Comes to the DMZ - A children's book in Korean
Cultural Comparisons / Culture
Dollar Street - Use the dropdown menus on this incredible site to choose countries and topics for comparison based on socioeconomic level. Your selections will bring up photos of whatever you chose from the countries you selected. The site contains many common everyday objects, people, and situations (e.g., adding spices to food while cooking, alarm clocks, answering phones, arm watches, armchairs, backyards, bathrooms, bedrooms, beds, bikes, boats, books, bowls, brushing hair, brushing teeth, car keys, carrying water, cars, ceilings, chickens, child rooms, chopping food, cleaning equipment, cleaning floors, closing the front door, computers, cooking, cooking pots, cooking utensils, cups, cutlery, diapers, dinner guests, disability aid, dish brushes, dish racks, dishwashing soaps, dishwashers, doing dishes, drinking water, drying clothes, drying dishes, earings, eating, everyday shoes, families, family snapshots, favorite home decorations, favorite items in kitchen, floors, freezers, get water, glasses, go through mail, goats, grains, guest beds, hairbrushes, hallways, handwashing, hands, and so forth.
Cultural information in English, accompanied by a collection of short video clips filmed with native speakers in the 1990s. Some are interviews with native speakers, others demonstrate various cultural practices in cultural settings from South Korea. Topics include communication, culture, necessities, shopping, and transportation. Materials in a variety of other languages are also included on the site (shared by Lori Langer de Ramirez)
Global Issues & Social Problems
How much do you know about global issues / [퀴즈! 1탄] 당신은 글로벌 이슈를 얼마나 알고 있나요 - A series of images with quiz questions in Korean for children about global issues
Top 10 issues in Korean society 10 years from now - An article in Korean with several infographics
Top 10 issues in Korean society 10 years from now - An article in Korean with several infographics
Images
- Hundreds of free images related to Vietnamese culture (Search for Korea)
- High quality, professional, royalty-free images (search for Korea)
Infographics
- Links to a variety of infographics in Korean from the Office for Government Coordination and the Office of the Prime Minister
인포그래픽 / Infographics - A Pinterest collection of infographics in Korean (many are very easy to comprehend)
인포그래픽(Infographic) - A Pinterest collection of policy-related infographics
Interviews
Cultural information in English, accompanied by a collection of short video clips filmed with native speakers in the 1990s. Some are interviews with native speakers, others demonstrate various cultural practices in cultural settings from South Korea. Topics include communication, culture, necessities, shopping, and transportation. Materials in a variety of other languages are also included on the site (shared by Lori Langer de Ramirez)
Magazines & News
- Magazine and newspaper sites, categorized by country and topic, from 200 countries around the world
- Today's front pages from newspapers around the world (including several from South Korea)
- A map that plots the locations of newspapers from around the world--can be filtered by language (Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, etc.)
Music
- A collection of traditional songs organized by continent, country, holidays, and language (with songs in Korean from both North and South Korea)
Texts
- Audiobooks in a variety of languages, including a few collections of poetry and short stories in Korean
Videos
Pororo Korean Official - The YouTube channel for the animated cartoon in Korean
Pedagogical Resources
- Magazine available in English and the language of your choice. Each issue is organized around a conceptual theme. Excellent visuals make great bulletin board material if you buy these in your local bookstore instead of viewing online. CAUTION: Some of the material in these magazines is NOT appropriate for classroom use, so teachers should preview and select carefully.
Phenomenal site filled with creative, practical, proficiency-oriented ideas for world language teaching and learning
Handouts from an ACTFL 2010 presentation that contain a comic analysis worksheet form, a comic creation worksheet that asks students to analyze complementarity, contrast, and redundant relationships among images and text, lesson plans, project rubrics, and more
Excellent resources for building, tracking, and assessing proficiency
Excellent materials for building, assessing, and tracking proficiency from Alyssa Villareal
- A PowerPoint presentation from an ACTFL session that contains loads of great examples for engaging students with culturally authentic texts in pedagogically sound ways
StoryKorean - Stories in Korean that are based on Korean (or global) traditional stories, but have been simplified for learners of Korean
Resources related to the CI approach