Travel Report: Daegu, South Korea

Introduction to Korean Culture

You can either choose Korean Culture or Korean History course. On this course you need to read a lot of articles and present them in class. On the lessons we discussed about culture issues, but the teacher didn't do much and let the students to do the job. The good thing was that they have movie nights every week, and you see Korean movies with English subtitles. After a movie you need to write a comment about it on a course page on the Internet. You can also attend the movie nights without attending the course, which is a good option.

Korean history

Crosscultural Communication

The topic of this course is interesting; what kind of cultural differences do we meet when talking to people from different cultures. We read lots of articles from a book and presented them in class to other students (even though everyone had read them already by themselves). As a project we interviewed foreigners who had moved to Korea, or Koreans who have lived abroad. The teacher read the book often aloud to students, which was quite boring. The course is different in year 2004 than it was for us in 2003 because the teacher changes.