Karka

Course

Professional Korean: The Workplace (L5)

CEFR B1–B2 · Korean offices run on titles rather than names, on seniority that outranks age, and on saying difficult things indirectly — plus a work culture that has changed genuinely and rapidly since 2018.

Professional electiveAdvancedKoreanCertificateAligned: CEFR level B1–B2
3 modules 14 lessons 14 enrolled ~16h of material

First three lessons free. Full access with Karka Pass from ₹49 for 7 days (7 days ₹49 · 30 days ₹199 · 1 year ₹1,999).

Professional Korean: The Workplace (L5)

By the end

What you'll build

  • Address colleagues correctly by title, and understand the 선배/후배 system
  • Write Korean business emails with the right register and structure
  • Disagree with a senior colleague using the techniques Koreans actually use
  • Read indirect refusals and decode what was actually said
  • Present and report in the expected structure
  • Handle a Korean job interview and its distinctive questions

Curriculum

What's inside

3 modules · 14 lessons

  1. 01

    Titles, Rank and Written Korean at Work

    4 lessons
    • Nobody Uses Your Name
    • The Korean Business Email
    • Writing Lab: A Business Emailwriting lab
    • Register at Workfill blank
  2. 02

    Meetings, Disagreement and Change

    4 lessons
    • How to Disagree Upward
    • Listening: A Korean Meetinglistening lab
    • Listening: Reading an Indirect Refusallistening lab
    • Speaking Lab: Raise a Problem With Your Bossspeaking lab
  3. 03

    Presenting, Working Life and the Interview

    6 lessons
    • Presenting and the Working Year
    • Speaking Lab: A Three-Minute Presentationspeaking lab
    • Workplace Culturefill blank
    • Writing Lab: A Difficult Messagewriting lab
    • The Korean Job Interviewinterview lab
    • + 1 more lesson

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

14 lessons across 3 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.

Practice as you go

Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.

A certificate at the end

Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.

Ready when you are.

Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.