Korean

Korean is a global language with a long and distinctive linguistic, literary and cultural history. It is written in Hangeul, an alphabet created in the fifteenth century under King Sejong and designed to make reading and writing more accessible. The global rise of Hallyu (the Korean Wave) has transformed the international visibility of Korean, inspiring growing interest in the language and culture worldwide.

At Oxford, Korean can be studied at undergraduate level as a subsidiary language by students taking Chinese or Japanese as their main subject. At graduate level, the dedicated MSt in Korean Studies offers advanced interdisciplinary study of Korean language, history and culture.