Teaching Staff

Instructors:

이지선 Jeyseon Lee

Ph.D. (East Asian Languages & Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award Winner, 2021

Title: Senior Lecturer and Coordinator

Areas: Korean Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Curriculum Development of Second/Foreign Language Courses, Language Pedagogy and Instruction

Location: RWAC 0381

Office Hours: MWF 1:30-2:30 and by appointment

Phone: (858) 534-4835

Email: jeyseon@ucsd.edu

임난희 Nancy Yim

M.A. (Educational Technology, Hanyang University)

B.A. (English Language and Literature, Hanyang University)

Title: Lecturer 

Areas: Language Pedagogy and Instruction, Educational Technology

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: nhyim@ucsd.edu

정지연 Jiyun Jung

M.Ed. (Education, Loyola College in Maryland)

B.A (History and Culture, Hansung University)

Title: Lecturer 

Areas: Language Pedagogy and Instruction

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: j2jung@ucsd.edu

조혜진 Hyejin Cho

Ph.D. Candidate (Korean Language and Culture Education, Korea University)

M.A. (Korean Language and Culture Education, Korea University)

Title: Lecturer 

Areas: Language Pedagogy and Instruction, Educational Technology

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment
Email: hjcho@ucsd.edu

탁은선 Eunsun Tark

Ed.D. (Educational Leadership, California State University at Los Angeles)

M.A. (Linguistics, University of Kansas at Lawrence)

Title: Lecturer 

Areas: Korean Linguistics, Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy and Instruction

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment 
Email: etark@ucsd.edu

Teaching Assistants: 2024-2025 Academic Year

LTKO 1ABC & LTKO 2ABC

김사무엘 Samuel Kim

Ph.D. Candidate, Literature Department 

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: sak003@ucsd.edu

신은주 Eunjoo Shin

B.A. (English Language and Literature, KeonKook University)

TEFL Certificate (UCSD) 

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: eus007@ucsd.edu

이다솜 Dasom Lee 

Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology Department 

Korean instructor (Ansan Migrant Center, Korea Center for UN Human Rights Policy Can Tho)

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: dal257@ucsd.edu

임미영 Meeyoung Lim 

[MISC lecturer for the Spring quarter of 2025]

M.A program student (Educational Technology, Hanyang University) 

B.A. (English Language Education, HanKuk University of Foreign Studies)

TEFL Certificate (UCSD), KFL Certificate (Yonsei University) 

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment
Email: mlim@ucsd.edu

정현주 Melina Hyunjoo Jung

Ph.D. program student, Literature Department 

Spanish instructor (Kyunghee High School, Hwikyung Girls’ High School)

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment
Email: hyjung@ucsd.edu

TA Application

The Korean language program is seeking qualified graduate students to teach Beginning and Intermediate level Korean language classes.  The candidates, who pass the document screening, will be individually contacted to set up an interview. 

Eligibility:

1. Either Current PhD student in the Literature or Linguistics Department or Current MA or PhD student in any other Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences department who is holding a KFL or TEFL certificate and/or who has more than one year language teaching experience in a formal setting.

2. Native or near-native proficiency in Korean and advanced or near-native proficiency in English.

3. Able to provide for review: 1) CV, including language learning and teaching experience and 2) teaching video (50 minutes) and lesson plan with all the teaching materials required for the lesson.