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Saerom Kwak KORA101 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/14/2025	100% recommend taking KORA101 and KORA102 with professor kwak! It's little fast paced so I would recommend spending time on duolingo to familiarize yourself with the korean alphabet - it will help a lot during the beginning. She does keep attendance, but it doesn't actually affect your grade - as long as you show up most of the time (even if it is late) she'll still make you present. Every Monday you take a practice vocab quiz, and then every friday you take a graded review quiz. The quizzes are pretty simple - just study vocab and grammar a little bit throughout the week and you should be fine - there were so many times were I arrived late bc i overslept and still got an A on quizzes. Midterm is on paper but the final was online (and in my experience the midterm was harder than the final). You also have to do a presentation on korean culture - in KORA101 it's in english and then for KORA102 it's in korean. I missed my original presentation time but she still let me make it up at the end of class so she's extremely forgiving about things like this! My only complaint would be that she doesn't give out a good study guide to prep for your midterm or final - you kinda have to find a way to prepare for potential questions on your own.
Younghi Ramsey KORA101 Expecting a W Raikou-Neko 12/14/2011	I dropped this course after the first 3 weeks. Irksomely, I'll get a W, but it's better than fighting through the craziest class ever. By our 3rd week, she expected us, non-heritage speakers, to be able to listen to Korean words and write them in Hangul. Anyone who knows Hangul knows there are overlapping vowels, so unless you know the spelling of the word, you have to guess. Which makes it even harder because we were not really taught the meaning of the words to begin with. The textbook was designed for high school students and we had to order it through an obscure Korean book website, meaning that I cannot return them. I ended up giving them to a friend who planned on taking the class next year. I loved the TA, but Ramsey could never make up her mind on what she wanted us to know. She say one thing and our quiz the following class would have it on there plus a bunch of other things we hadn't studied for (because she changed her mind and didn't tell us). The homework was similar, she'd change her mind 2 or 3 times and so several students always had the wrong assignment. There wasn't a syllabus that accurately state assignments. This class, as mentioned previously, was highly unorganized and a joke to college courses. I honestly feel that the only reason she is the teacher for the entire Korean department is because her husband is the department chair.