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Jungeun Kim

Jungeun Kim is a passionate and highly responsible Korean language educator. She has taught Korean for 5 years at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University as Adjunct Faculty, with experience teaching beginners to upper- intermediate levels in university settings. She has worked with diverse learners, including heritage and non-heritage students. She holds a Master of Education in Foreign Language Education from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Soo-hyun Kim

Soo-hyun Kim is a dedicated Korean language instructor who has been teaching at the undergraduate level since Fall 2020. She earned her Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton and holds an M.A. in Translation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Prior to her doctoral studies, Soohyun built an extensive career as a professional translator and interpreter…

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Eunwha Jeong

Eunwha Jeong completed doctoral coursework in Korean Language at Hongik University and holds a Master's degree in Korean Language Education as a Foreign Language from Ewha Womans University in Seoul. With over 20 years of extensive teaching experience, she has worked with diverse Korean language learners at major corporations including Samsung, immigration offices, and universities throughout Korea…

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Dawoon Kim

Dawoon Kim is a dedicated Korean Language Instructor with extensive experience teaching Korean at various levels. She holds a Master’s degree in Teaching Korean to Speakers of Other Languages (TKSOL) from Ewha Womans University. Dawoon provides structured and engaging lessons tailored to the diverse needs of her students, whether they are preparing for Korean proficiency exams like TOPIK and DLPT, learning Korean for travel…

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Amanda Grant

Amanda’s 10+ year journey with Korea began at the University of Minnesota, where she earned a B.A. in Asian Languages and Literature with a double minor in TESOL and Linguistics. After receiving a Fulbright Grant, she spent two years teaching English at a high school on Jeju Island, before earning an M.A. in Korean for Professionals from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. After graduating, Amanda became the Education Program Officer at The Korea Society in NYC…

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Insil Choi

Insil Choi majored in Korean language and literature at Hanyang University and completed her M.A. at Hanyang Graduate school majoring in Korean Modern Literature. She also received a Master's degree at SUNY Binghamton in Comparative Literature. She has been teaching students Korean at Korea Society for four years, and previously taught Korean at Democracy Prep High School and Manhattan Korean School in NYC…

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Heewon Seon

Heewon Seon holds a M.A. in Korean Language Education from Korea University and a B.A. in Korean Language and Literature from Chung-Ang University. She is currently a Korean language teacher at a high school in Seoul and has also spent several years teaching Korean literature, grammar, reading, and writing at a private academy. As a Fulbright grantee, she taught Korean at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she also designed curricula…

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Go-Eun Chae

Go-Eun Chae received dual B.A. degrees in Philosophy and English, and graduated summa cum laude from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. She then moved to the U.S. and earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University, where she researched grammatical variability in Korean and its first and second acquisitions. Dr. Chae wrote her doctoral dissertation on second language acquisition of Korean grammar…

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Rachel Kim

Rachel Kim is an Adjunct Lecturer teaching Korean as part of the Asian and Asian American Studies Department at Stony Brook University. She is also an Adjust Lecturer at Queens College, City University of New York and a Korean Language Teacher for the Queens School of Inquiry.

Ms. Kim received her B.A. in Korean Education from Stony Brook University and is certified to teach Korean…

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Nhia Borja

Nhia Borja holds a Master's degree in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center and a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics with a minor in Korean from Queens College. With nearly six years of experience as a Korean language tutor at LaGuardia Community College, she has successfully guided students of various levels in achieving their language goals. In 2015, Nhia traveled to Korea, where she lived with host families tending to private farms in Gyeryeong-san and in a community serving a corporate farm in Jeju Island…

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Daesil Quirk

Daesil Quirk earned a B.A. in Education and a Secondary School Teacher’s certificate from Korea University. She earned three master’s degrees in Korea and in the United States, majoring in Mass Communication and Media and Culture. Her most recent Master's degree is from New York University. She has had various teaching experiences and can teach students at all skill levels, including comprehensive speaking…

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B. Kim

B. Kim received her Bachelor of Science in Education and Public Policy from Penn State University and her Master’s in Teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education. She holds teacher certification in New York and has taught Korean Language and Culture classes at a public charter high school in New York City for 7 years, covering beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. B. Kim has extensive experience in creating and tailoring lessons to…

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Jun Choi

Jun Choi received his M.A. in comparative linguistics in Korean and Japanese languages from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Jun Choi lived in Japan from 2001-2011 and taught Korean language at private language schools in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. He is currently an adjunct Korean/Japanese language instructor at New York University, Columbia University, LaGuardia Community College, and the Korea Society…

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