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 Korean Language Program Coordinator

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

Location: RWAC 0380

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: jeyseon@ucsd.edu

임난희 Nancy Yim

Ph.D. Candidate (Educational Technology, Hanyang University)

M.Ed. (Educational Technology, Hanyang University)

Title: Lecturer 

Areas: Language Pedagogy and Instruction, Educational Technology

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: nhyim@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: 2026-2027 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

박나연 Nayeun Park

M.S. Candidate (Business Analytics)

English instructor (Kidsney Language School) 

Location: TBA

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

Email: nap013@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: e4shin@ucsd.edu

임미영 Meeyoung Lim

M.Ed. (Educational Technology, Hanyang University)

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

Location: TBA

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

TA Application: 

Graduate Student Teaching Opportunities in the Korean Language Program

The Korean Language Program is seeking qualified graduate students to teach Beginning and Intermediate Korean language courses. Applicants who are selected through the initial document review will be contacted individually to schedule an interview.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must meet the following qualifications:

1. Be either:

• a current Ph.D. student in the Department of Literature or the Department of Linguistics; or
• a current M.A. or Ph.D. student in another department within the Division of Arts and Humanities or the Division of Social Sciences, with either a KFL (Korean as a Foreign Language) or TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certification and/or at least one year of formal language teaching experience.

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

3. Submit the following application materials for review:

• A current curriculum vitae (CV), including language learning and teaching experience.
• A 50-minute teaching demonstration video.
• A lesson plan and all instructional materials used in the teaching demonstration.