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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| coralreefer_1 wrote: |
As Patrick mentions, Korean ability is a huge plus. With that said however, unless the course studies are something specifically focused on Korea (Korean Literature for example), while the courses themselves may be lectured in Korean much if not all of the actual material would be in English.
I mean nearly every respectable scholarly journal is published in English, and much of the research one would do in just about any field in Korea would likely draw on the articles of such journals, or at the very least reference such articles which can be looked at for further reading.
In short, other than perhaps entrance to the program, I cant imagine Korean Language ability (or lack of) would hinder one greatly in a PhD program here. |
Well that may help you more than my post did Adventurer! |
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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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I'm doing PhD here. My classes are in English, what I read is in English, what I write is in English, all my teachers studied in the US. If I lived in a bubble where I didn't need others to learn methods, then I would not need Korean at all.
But there are many times I wished I was better at Korean, some of the people are a bit more reluctant to help me learn new things/techniques because they think (and it probably is for them) that interacting with me requires good English level.
Totally feasible though. |
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