Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language and Its Related Fields

It is needless to say that human’s language ability is known to be the most complex one due to the complex nature of functions of human brain. Therefore we must understand that Foreign Language Education is also dealing with quite complex nature of different aspects of linguistic components of the target language itself as well as external factors such as teachers’ teaching behaviors, learners’ styles and their strategies. Thus it is natural to say that Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language should be considered as an interdisciplinary field that should carry its own identity as a subpart of the field of Second Language Studies. This paper will discuss a variety of related fields, so we can consider different kinds of academic principles to establish a solid and mature Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language as an independent academic discipline.