Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Opens 2025 World Korean Language Educators Conference.. 300 Korean Language Teachers Attend

[Financial News] The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that it will hold the '2025 World Korean Language Educators Conference' at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul from the 21st to the 24th, in cooperation with the Sejong Institute Foundation. 
This year marks the 17th edition of the 'World Korean Language Educators Conference', a training event that invites educators working as Sejong Institute teachers abroad and Korean language educators from home and abroad to provide the latest teaching methods and enhance professionalism.
This conference was attended by 162 teachers from 107 Sejong Institutes in 49 countries worldwide, as well as over 300 Korean language teachers active domestically and internationally.
During the opening ceremony, awards for the excellent teacher case contest and presentations of Korean language education cases were held. In the excellent teacher case contest, teacher Park Inseon, who is active at the Sejong Institute in Budapest, Hungary, received the top prize, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award.
He introduced an educational case themed 'Korean Language, Connecting the Classroom to the World', which linked SNS writing classes with a language and cultural exchange program with Korean students studying abroad.
Teachers Lee Bohyun (Luxembourg Sejong Institute) and Lee Seul (Bahrain Manama Sejong Institute), who received the excellence award, shared cases of using an AI interpretation application and multilingual cultural classes using Korean films, and sound book (Audio Book) classes using Hangul, respectively.
On the 22nd and 23rd, field-centered training programs will be provided to strengthen the professionalism of Korean language teachers.
Participants plan to enhance their practical teaching capabilities through hands-on lectures on various topics such as △ the direction of Korean language education at Sejong Institute and the role of teachers △ understanding of the Sejong Korean Language Assessment (SKA) and the stepwise adaptive Sejong Korean Language Assessment (i-SKA) △ ways to utilize achievement evaluation △ methods of Korean language classes using learning applications △ Korean culture education. During the training period, lesson plans will also be prepared and presented, and excellent class cases will be shared.
Lee Jeongwoo, Director of the Culture and Arts Policy Office of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, "As the theme of this conference is 'Korean Language Meeting the World, Educators Opening the Future', I hope that Korean language educators will become the future driving force for the spread of the Korean language through the training session," and added, "The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will continue to strengthen training programs to support Korean language teachers in the field of Korean language and culture dissemination."


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