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Hyeran Ryu KORA101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/18/2025	I 100% recommend this professor. She's very sweet and helpful. All of her assignments are very easy and straightforward. She always makes the class fun and engaging. She makes sure that we comprehend and pronounce the phrases correctly. The weekly review quizzes help a lot with comprehending the information. If you pay attention in class, you will be fine. I didn't spend too much studying for this class. I would study like the day or couple days before the midterm and final exam and I did really well on them. I definitely did learn a lot in this course and I am planning on taking the follow up course, I do wish it was with her but, she's not available. So if you plan on taking a beginner Korean class, take her if she's available.
Hyeran Ryu KORA101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/17/2025	She is so sweet and understanding. She doesn't give too much homework and when she does it only takes about 15-20 minutes. For the midterm and the quizzes she literally reviews stuff with us before the test. She does speak in korean so you get used to hearing it but she also speaks in english so you know what shes saying (it was also very rewarding because by the end of the semester you basically knew what she was saying when she was fully speaking in korean). She goes at a really good pace and if you're ever confused she's always willing to help. As long as you go to class and pay attention you shouldn't fall behind. I literally asked her if she could teach 102 next semester so I could take her class, she's actually the best ever.
Hyeran Ryu KORA101 rvann377 12/11/2025	Hyeran 교수님 is an amazing professor. She makes every class very enjoyable with engaging class activities and is very helpful to each individual students. When we're working in class, she would come around and monitor each student's progress, meeting each student where they are in the class. She's also a generous grader and is responsive to email. I highly recommend taking her class.
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.

Hyeran Ryu
KORA101

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/18/2025

I 100% recommend this professor. She's very sweet and helpful. All of her assignments are very easy and straightforward. She always makes the class fun and engaging. She makes sure that we comprehend and pronounce the phrases correctly. The weekly review quizzes help a lot with comprehending the information. If you pay attention in class, you will be fine. I didn't spend too much studying for this class. I would study like the day or couple days before the midterm and final exam and I did really well on them. I definitely did learn a lot in this course and I am planning on taking the follow up course, I do wish it was with her but, she's not available. So if you plan on taking a beginner Korean class, take her if she's available.

Hyeran Ryu
KORA101

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/17/2025

She is so sweet and understanding. She doesn't give too much homework and when she does it only takes about 15-20 minutes. For the midterm and the quizzes she literally reviews stuff with us before the test. She does speak in korean so you get used to hearing it but she also speaks in english so you know what shes saying (it was also very rewarding because by the end of the semester you basically knew what she was saying when she was fully speaking in korean). She goes at a really good pace and if you're ever confused she's always willing to help. As long as you go to class and pay attention you shouldn't fall behind. I literally asked her if she could teach 102 next semester so I could take her class, she's actually the best ever.

Hyeran Ryu
KORA101

rvann377
12/11/2025

Hyeran 교수님 is an amazing professor. She makes every class very enjoyable with engaging class activities and is very helpful to each individual students. When we're working in class, she would come around and monitor each student's progress, meeting each student where they are in the class. She's also a generous grader and is responsive to email. I highly recommend taking her class.

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.

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