고려인 청소년 및 청년들의 한국어 인식과 태도 연구

Abstract

This study investigated experience and willingness to learn Korean, awareness of the necessity of learning Korean, and important factors when learning Korean through surveys and individual interviews conducted on young adults and adolescents of Koryeoin living in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. A total of 113 people participated in the survey, and among them, 108 people(95.6%) have learned Korean and only 5(4.5%) responded that they had never learned Korean. Also, the 74 people(65.5%) who are currently learning Korean continued to learn Korean because of their plans to study abroad or to move to Korea, and their interest in Korean language and culture. Also, the survey participants answered 3 or more out of 5 points on average when asked about the necessity of learning Korean for young adults and adolescents of Koryeoin, and there were various reasons for thinking that learning Korean was necessary, such as plans to study abroad or to move to Korea, justification as a Korean, and in order to get a job in the local area. In addition, ‘professor's professionalism' and ‘speaking' accounted for the highest proportion of the questionnaire on the most important elements and areas of learning Korean, and these results were also consistent with the results of individual interviews conducted on a total of 10 young people and adolescents of Koryeoin in their 10-20s. Also most of the young people and adolescents of Koryeoin who answered that they had learned Korean studied Korean for less than three years, and among the areas of learning Korean culture, the importance of ‘popular culture such as K-pop' was perceived as the lowest compared to ‘modern society and culture', ‘history' and ‘traditional culture'. Through this, this study was able to find out the perception of young adults and adolescents of Koryeoin living in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan on Korean language, and based on the main results, this study suggested the direction of Korean language education in the corresponding area in the future.