1. KOREA’S CULTURAL HERITAGE

2. General Description Course Title: Korea’s Cultural Heritage
Class Schedule:
Monday 4th,6th & 7th Periods
Credits: 3
Professor’s Name:
SOHN Woo-hyun (손우현, 孫又鉉)
Office No.:
14403, International Hall
Phone No.:
1885
Office Hours for Students:
By appointment

3. I. Course Objectives and Course Summary
This course entitled “Korea’s Cultural Heritage” is conducted in the English language and aims to provide an introduction to Korean culture for international students. The professor will draw on readable writings by leading scholars in Korean studies and his own experience in public diplomacy to make the course interesting and accessible to foreign students, whose mother tongue may not be English.

4. Lecture and discussion Power point presentation
II. Teaching Method
Lecture and discussion
Power point presentation

5. III. Textbook An Introduction to Korean Culture
Edited by John H. Koo & Andrew C. Nahm
(Hollym, 1997)

6. IV. Additional Materials (ii)
Essays on East Asian History and Cultural Traditions
By Koh Byong-ik,
Hallym Academy of Sciences Project Report,
Vol. 103
(Sowha, 2004)

7. V. Grading Mid-term exam: 40% Final exam: 40%
The final exam could be replaced by a term paper of approximately 1,000 to 1,500 words.
Attendance and participation: 20%
Students can be absent from two hours of class with no penalty. Each additional absence results in a one point deduction from the student’s overall score. Each late is a .5 pt deduction.

8. IV. Course Outline Introduction of the course
Korean Language  Korean Writing and Hangul (Korean Alphabet)
Korean Painting
Korean Traditional Music and Dance
Stone Pagodas and Buddha Images
Korean Architecture and House Furniture
Korean Traditional Ceramics
Paper Making and Printing
Oral Literature – History and Memorabilia of Three Kingdoms
Sixteenth Century Korean Verse
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Korean Prose
Modern Korean Literature
Post-Division & Post-War Korean Literature
Review

9. Professor SOHN Woo-hyun: Education
1973:
B.A. in French and Political Science,
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul
1989:
DESS in International Relations,
Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Strategiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Paris

10. Professor SOHN Woo-hyun: Career (i):
Reporter, The Korea Herald, Seoul :
Paris Bureau Chief, The Korea Herald :
Reporter, The Yonhap News Agency, Seoul :
Press Attache, Korean Embassy in Jakarta :
Cultural and Press Attache, Korean Embassy in Paris

11. Professor SOHN Woo-hyun: Career (ii):
Press Counselor, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea in Geneva :
Director-General, Office of Information Policy, Ministry of Information, Seoul
1993:
Director-General, International Public Affairs, Taejon Expo Organizing Committee, South Korea :
Counselor for Public Affairs, Korean Embassy in Ottawa :
Director-General for Foreign Media, Korean Overseas Information Service,
Ministry of Information, Seoul

12. Professor SOHN Woo-hyun: Career (iii):
Presidential Foreign Press Secretary, Seoul :
Director-General, Government Publishing Office, Seoul :
Minister (Cultural Affairs), Korean Embassy in Paris
July 2003:
Member of the Korean Government Delegation to the 115th IOC General Assembly held in Prague :
Secretary-General, Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation, Seoul
2007-present:
Visiting Professor, Hallym University

13. Professor SOHN Woo-hyun: Awards
1994:
Kunjong Pojang,
Service Merit Medal of the Korean Government for outstanding civil service
2004:
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Republique Francaise
(Knight of the Order of the Arts and Letters, French Republic)