The Korean Basic Course teaches the national standard language as spoken by educated Koreans, a form that is understood throughout the country. The Korean orthography (Hangul) is introduced gradually.
FSI Korean Basic Course, Volume I, provides introductory materials is modern spoken Korean for the student who wishes to achieve a working command of the language currently spoken by an estimated 70 million people on the Korean peninsula and in Japan. Manchuria and the former Soviet Union.
B. Nam Park, supervisor of Korean language instruction at FSI, is the principal author of the text. Richar B. Noss gave general direction to the project; James C. Bostain reviewed the English portions of the text for style and clarity of expression; Chunghw T. Kay, Korean instructor, worked closely with the author in the classroom testing, revision and tape recording and also typed the Korean version of the dialogues and the glossary; Evelyn C. Vass did the final typing of the English portions. The tape recordings which accompany this volume were produced in the Foreign Service Institute studios with the technical assistance of Jones M. Ramirez.
