Korean

Yang Hwan Choi

Yang Hwan Choi

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean
Educational Background

EdD: International Educational Development, Teachers College, Columbia University (2021)
MA: Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York (2012)
MA: Korean Language and Literature, Kyung Hee University (2009)
BA: Korean Language and Literature / Korean Language Education, Kyung Hee University (2007)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First-Year Korean I

Research Interests

Korean Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Adult Learning and Acculturation, Korean Popular Culture and Transnational Media.

Yang Hwan Choi has taught Korean language and East Asian cultural studies at the university level for over a decade, including current appointments as a Teaching Professor at DePaul University and adjunct positions at New York University, SUNY New Paltz, and Ramapo College. He holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his research examines the transnational circulation of Korean popular culture through the lens of adult and transformative learning theory.

Sue Y. Yoon

Sue Y. Yoon

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-G Kent Hall
Office Hours: TW 4-5 PM
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: syy2121@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Korean Language and Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2023)
MA: Linguistics with specialization in Language Teaching Studies, University of Oregon (2017)
MA: Korean Linguistics and Pedagogy, University of Oregon (2017)
BA: Linguistics, University of Oregon (2015)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First Year Korean
KORN UN2201 Second Year Korean

Research Interests

Korean Linguistics and Pedagogy
Interactional Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Multimodality

Sue Y. Yoon received her doctoral degree in Korean Language and Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her dissertation, titled “The Interactional Uses of Response Tokens in Korean Conversation: As Resources for Managing Turns, Sequences, and Stances”, examines how the recipient of a turn deploys response tokens to accomplish a diverse range of interactional work.

Filed Under: Adjunct, Korean

Jiyeon Janice Kim

Jiyeon Janice Kim

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502F Kent Hall
Office Hours: T 2:30 pm -3:30 pm
Email: jyk2123@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Teacher’s College at Columbia University (’15)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First-Year Korean I

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition.

Jiyeon Kim has been teaching a wide range of Korean levels to all ages since 2014. She received her M.A. in Early Childhood Education from Teachers College Columbia University and holds a TESOL certificate from University of California, Riverside. She is currently working at the Korea Society as a Korean language instructor.

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