The Korean Language Education at Incheon National University fosters secondary Korean language teachers and experts who will lead the future of Korean language education in Korea. The department cultivates educators with the expertise to lead the 21st-century knowledge-information society and the competencies required for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is a cradle of talent that will create creative language and culture, which are the core foundations of such a knowledge-information society and the era of the Industrial Revolution.

A good Korean language teacher must be an expert in the linguistic communication of the Korean language, an expert in the noble act of education, and simultaneously an expert in the human being known as the learner. Our department provides an optimized curriculum, programs, and environment to cultivate Korean language teachers and experts equipped with such expertise, character, and creativity.

The quality of education can never surpass the quality of the teacher. Furthermore, the quality of a teacher is determined by the quality of the university education that produced them. Therefore, the Korean Language Education at Incheon National University operates a curriculum of depth and breadth across the fields of Korean language education, linguistics, modern literature, and classical literature to foster the best Korean language teachers and experts in Korean language education.

Furthermore, we are making our utmost efforts to realize the mission of Korean language education by expanding a practical understanding of the subject to contribute to the public and global sectors as well as the field of Korean language culture, thereby possessing both public and international perspectives. As a result, a large number of our graduates are entering the education sector through the teacher employment examination and are distinguishing themselves in various public fields, as well as in publishing, media, and the cultural sector.