Standard Curriculum for Korean Language - Annex 1 - Proclamation of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism - 2020-54

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The curriculum establishes a standard framework for Korean language education to address growing demand driven by national influence, the spread of Korean pop culture, and increased immigration. It explains why diversity in learners and educational environments creates both quantitative growth and quality challenges. The document sets flexible objectives and content while requiring stable, appropriate achievement standards. It positions communicative competence and intercultural communication as central outcomes, linking language learning with culture and enabling learners to develop knowledge through diverse media.

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Pages48

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Background

Objectives

Content framework and achievement standards

Principles of content framework

Components of content framework

Overarching goals and achievement standards

Directions for teaching, learning, and assessment

Directions for teaching and learning

Direction for assessment

Appendix: Achievement Standards for Each Level and Linguistic Skill

Proclamation of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism \#2020-54 [Enforcement Date 27. Nov, 2020. ] [Annex 1] Standard Curriculum for Korean Language 1. Background ··································································································· 1 2. Objectives ······································································································ 3 3. Content framework and achievement standards ································· 4 3.1. Principles of content framework ······················································ 4 3.2. Components of content framework ·············································· 6 3.3. Overarching goals and achievement standards ······················· 10 4. Directions for teaching, learning, and assessment ························ 22 4.1. Directions for teaching and learning ············································· 23 4.2. Direction for assessment ·································································· 29 [Appendix] Achievement Standards for Each Level and Linguistic Skill ······················································································································ 37 1. Background The demand for Korean language education has been steadily rising in recent years due to the expansion of national power, proliferation of Korean pop culture, and increased immigration. These domestic and foreign social and institutional factors have resulted in diversity in the educational environment, learners'characteristics, and other aspects of Korean language education. Such diversity, on the one hand, is a major driver of overall quantitative growth in Korean language education; on the other, it poses a challenge in improving on its quality. The objectives and contents of Korean language education should have flexibility to be changed as necessary in response to a wide range of learning variables. Such flexibility affords benefits for teachers and learners but may also cause confusion and inefficiency, pointing to the need to establish appropriate standards for objectives and contents of education. To ensure continued and stable development in Korean language education, a standard curriculum for the Korean language needs to be put in place as criteria that can be flexibly applied and modified to different educational environments, students, and learning objectives. This Standard Curriculum for Korean Language is the highest level of curriculum that can address all the diversity in classrooms and learners. The International Standard Curriculum for Korean Language developed in 2010 was used in the education and research areas as reference standards to resolve problems with selection of educational contents and grading. The Korean as a Second Language (KSL) Curriculum developed in 2012 was subject-specific and targeted at the elementary and middle school students learning the Korean language. The Standard Curriculum for Korean Language is truly characterized asa national curriculum in that it is comprehensive, establishes objectives, achievement standards, and educational contents, and encompasses practical methods and directions for teaching, learning, and assessment. This Curriculum is configured in such a way as to become a basis to develop subsequent individual curricula designed specifically for a certain educational environment by proposing the content framework that is not limited to particular regions and learners. The Standard Curriculum for Korean Language takes the viewpoint that various layers of linguistic knowledge and experience positively influence each other to eventually develop communication competence through correlation between individual languages; i.e. a list of languages of an individual speaker is formed. This can be explained by multilingualism, which emphasizes that a person's linguistic experience starts at home, develops through the language of a society, and ex

FAQs

Why does Korean language education need a standard curriculum?

Demand has risen due to national growth, expanding Korean pop culture, and immigration, leading to diverse classroom and learner environments. The diversity increases quality challenges, so consistent standards are needed for stable development.

How does the curriculum handle flexibility in objectives and content?

It emphasizes that objectives and contents should be adaptable to different learning variables, while still establishing appropriate standards. Flexibility supports teachers and learners but must be guided to avoid confusion and inefficiency.

What are the key skills the curriculum aims to develop?

The curriculum focuses on communicative competence: conveying messages, interpreting them, and negotiating meaning in Korean. It also aims to strengthen intercultural communication competence and support learning about Korea through varied media.

Oct 1, 2026

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