Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Troglodyte]

Does anyone know of schools (Hogwans or otherwise) in Korea that teach foreign languages other than English? Some friends of mine in other countries has recently asked me about it. I haven't seen any myself, but I'm absolutely sure that there must be some out there. If someone here has heard of one, could you post it here or PM me? Thanks.

[fustiancorduroy]

Foreign language high schools teach foreign languages. Usually several. At mine they taught Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, and German in addition to English.

[Troglodyte]

[fustiancorduroy]

[Scamps]

There's the Alliance Francaise here for French and the Goethe Institut for German. There are many other hagwons that cater to other languages too.
YBM teaches Japanese (along with Korean and English).

[orangepostit]

I take Korean classes in Daegu, at a Chinese language hogwan.

Japanese and Chinese hogwans are probably relatively common. My teacher has complained about how Koreans don't want to learn Chinese though.

[Old Gil]

[paulandamy]

Asian language hagwons are easy enough to come by - hell, there are literally 5 hagwons within a .5km radius of my apartment that teach English, Japanese, Chinese.

However, other western language hagwons (spanish, latin, french, german) are hard to come by - you have to go to Gangnam or other areas where those language are enough in demand.

And yes, if you go to a foreign language high school, you'll find that these schools teach all of those language mentioned by fc... I assume you can also find courses in universities as well.

[Dude Ranch]

It actually amazes me how many young Koreans are learning French and German. I can kind of see French, although it is kind of funny when they can barely speak English trying to learn a third language, but German? Even though I'm of German decent I wouldn't really recommend it as my first choice for anyone these days.

I was also very surprised at the lack of Koreans wanting to learn Chinese.

[fustiancorduroy]

[Gillian57]

I work at a foreign language high school in South Jeolla and here they teach Chinese, German, and French, in addition to English.

[cdninkorea]

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has classes in all sorts of foreign languages: I wouldn't think Korean students would want to learn Romanian, for example, but you can major in that at HUFS.

[orosee]

[redaxe]

I remember seeing ads for a Spanish hagwon in the Sinchon subway station. The teacher probably speaks way too much Korean though, like Old Gil said about the Chinese hagwon.