For foreign residents, learning Korean is essential to
successfully settling in Korea and gaining a better
understanding of Korean culture. Fortunately, there are many
organizations in Korea that provide opportunities for foreign
residents to learn Korean free of charge. Multicultural family
support centers, migrants’ centers and Korean language schools
are a few of the leading organizations that offer Korean
language education for foreign residents. The multicultural
family support centers also operate a Visiting Education
Program, through which Korean language instructors are
dispatched to the homes of immigrants married to Korean spouses.
With an increasing number of online Korean language education
programs being provided, foreign residents can now easily learn
Korean at home. Hangeul can easily be adapted to suit a wide
range of information and communication media, such as computers
and mobile devices including cell phones. This was proved some
10 years ago, when Oxford University’s Center for Linguistic