If I received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Korean, I would first experience and analyze the Korean culture. In Korean culture, there are different words and phrases you use for friends, elders, and strangers. Because of these different aspects of Korean culture, I think experiencing the culture would allow for better understanding of why and when to use certain words or phrases.
Another important aspect of Korean is the Chinese characters Hanja. Even today, if you look at Korean newspapers, they would jump between Korean and Hanja to explain some meanings. Korean words were pretty much derived from Hanja, so in Korean schools, students learn Hanja to better grasp where the roots of the words come from.
The different structural components from the class such as language families or where the language comes from would really show up in this work. Learn Hanja will significantly boost the understanding of words and the meanings mainly due to the language Korean rooted from.
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