Jonghyuk,
Your Korean teacher
Hello, I'm Jonghyuk. I'm originally from Daegu and hold dual degrees from business schools in Korea and France. I've built my project around a single guiding principle: connecting people and cultures.
I am convinced that a language is learned primarily through interaction and speaking(even if it means making mistakes) rather than through rigid textbook phrases.
Before teaching Korean, I was an English teacher in Daegu, my hometown. I taught English to young children at several preschools. My role was to teach the language to complete beginners and bring it to life (through games, songs, stories, and conversation, rather than through rules).
It’s an experience that has shaped my entire approach to teaching. When you’re working with children, you can’t hide behind a textbook: you have to capture their attention, make them want to participate, and and turn every mistake into a normal step in the learning process.
From Daegu to the world: my vision of teaching languages
That’s where I really came to understand the importance of speaking up and having confidence when learning a language. Because, deep down, when we learn a new language, it inevitably takes us back a little to that time in our lives when speaking was a challenge.
Since then, I've taken the opposite approach: sharing my own language. I lead introductory workshops on Korean and Hangeul in elementary schools, where I help students learn their first words and the Korean writing system through fun and interactive activities.
Whether I’m teaching a language I’ve learned or passing on my own, in both cases I’m guided by the same conviction: a language is lived before it is learned. And that is exactly what I put into practice today in my Korean classes.
My teaching approach:
embrace mistakes and speak as much as possible
Learning a language : I haven’t just taught it; I’ve lived it. When I was learning French, I spent a long time trying to construct perfect sentences before daring to say them. The result: I kept quiet. The real turning point came the day I let go of that idea of perfection, when I accepted that I could improvise, try things out, and make mistakes even when I wasn’t sure of myself. That’s when I really started to make progress.
It has become the core of my teaching philosophy. Making mistakes isn’t just a hiccup along the way: it’s the most difficult step, but also the most essential one. As long as we wait until we’re sure and don't open our mouths, there’s no learning. After working with more than 80 learners, I’m convinced: those who progress the fastest aren’t the ones who make the fewest mistakes, but simply the ones who dare to speak up.
In my classes, everything revolves around speaking and confidence. We practice, we speak aloud, and we work on the wording until it feels natural. I create a space where mistakes are not only allowed but welcome because it’s by trying, over and over again, that we eventually end up speaking Korean that’s lively, spontaneous, and natural.
In short…
More than 80 people have already placed their trust in me…
If you'd also like to learn Korean with me, feel free to check out our dedicated pages: group classes and private lessons or simply start by test your Korean level (free and with no obligation).
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