112 Bi-weekly Report #3

[David Lee]

Staying on the topic of Korean history, our language partner provided us a section of a Korean learning textbook from the library. We read a section on Horace Grant Underwood, a missionary who helped develop Korean society and Christianity. Underwood founded the Chosun Christian College, which later became Yonsei University, a well-known top-3 educational institution in the country. We then looked at famous Korean paintings called the 일월 and 연화도. Each section was followed by a short quiz (fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, true or false). The activity required a dense amount of reading and analysis of the texts to answer the questions correctly. 

[Mae Ariel Harter]

It's great that you are able to learn about Korean history simultaneously to language learning. Readings on history are usually hard because of the unusual/archaic words that can be in it so I can relate when you said that the reading was dense. Do you think reading from a language textbook is useful? I personally find them a little awkward because the language is usually so formal that no one actually uses it in daily writing.