Korean Culture & Language

The MISSION of the Korean Culture & Language Program is to provide students with a unique, in-depth immersive experience and foster a development of identity, cross-cultural awareness, and language proficiency. Students will step out of their comfort zone and have an opportunity to broaden their perspectives through culture and language.

Why Korean? 

UNITY & EQUITY

Democracy Prep believes that there are numerous benefits to immersing in Korean culture and language, the most significant being unity and equity. As most of our scholars will be entirely new to Korean when they enter high school, it creates a unifying learning experience that they undertake together. With any other common language choices, scholars will likely bring varying degrees of linguistic abilities to the program. 

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Learning about different cultures allows students to reflect on their own identity and increases their awareness of similarities and differences between and among global cultures, discovering values and traditions different from their own. 

• Immersion in Korean Culture & Beyond: Learning Korean culture and language will expand scholars’ understanding of society, identity and global citizenship beyond familiar lenses and value systems, from Korea to East Asia and ultimately to the world. 
• Self-determination: There has been a resolve among the Korean people to maintain a strong collective identity that can transcend national boundaries over a history of political occupation. This affords our scholars the opportunity to examine how individuals and people groups around the world are impacted by oppressive state power and/or colonialism.