Yongsan-gu Recruiting Adult Students for Native Speaker Foreign Language Classes

Yongsan-gu Panorama

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Yongsan-gu (Mayor Seongjang Hyun) is recruiting adult students for the 3rd term of the 2021 Native Speaker Foreign Language Classes.

There are a total of 21 classes across 6 foreign languages, with each class having around 12 students, and the lessons focus on practical conversation.

To ensure uninterrupted courses despite COVID-19, the district planned online and offline classes according to social distancing levels and conducted the 1st and 2nd term courses from April for 683 residents (422 adults, 271 students).

The 3rd term adult classes will run for 11 weeks from November to January next year. The general courses include ▲English 6 classes ▲Chinese 4 classes ▲Japanese 3 classes ▲Spanish 2 classes ▲French 1 class, and the evening courses include ▲English 2 classes ▲Chinese 1 class ▲Vietnamese 1 class ▲French 1 class.

The classes will be held at the Native Speaker Foreign Language Classroom on the 1st floor of Yongsan Dream Tree Complex Town (329 Baekbeom-ro). If social distancing is at level 2 or below, classes will be face-to-face; if level 3 or above, classes will be conducted online.

The tuition fee is 50,500 KRW for 3 hours per week and 33,600 KRW for 2 hours per week. Textbook fees are separate. Tuition is waived for low-income groups (basic livelihood security recipients, near-poverty groups, low-income single-parent families).

Residents who wish to enroll can apply through the district’s comprehensive education portal from 10:00 AM on October 1 to 6:00 PM on October 11. If applications exceed capacity, a computerized lottery will be held, and enrollment results will be announced on the website at 2:00 PM on October 14.

For English courses, a level test will be conducted from October 20 to 25 to organize classes according to proficiency levels.

Seongjang Hyun, Mayor of Yongsan-gu, said, “Research shows that bilingual people can cope well with unpredictable situations and have resistance to senile dementia. I hope residents overcome the frustrating stay-at-home life by learning practical conversation in the flexibly operated native speaker foreign language classes according to the COVID-19 situation.”

The Yongsan-gu Native Speaker Foreign Language Classes are commissioned to SLI Lifelong Education Institute, a foreign language education specialist company. In August, the district disclosed the results of the private consignment performance evaluation (score 99.5) for the Yongsan-gu Native Speaker Foreign Language Classes on its website, in accordance with the ordinance on private consignment of Yongsan-gu administrative affairs.

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