A sixteen-lesson introductory Korean course run at HMGICS (Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore) between May and July 2026, taught by Janel Yun. One hour every Tuesday morning.
The stated goal: read Hangul, speak basic Korean, and understand how a Korean workplace expects you to behave. Those are three different skills, and the course deliberately pairs them — every lesson has a language half and a work-culture half, and they are usually about the same situation. You learn 안녕하세요 and, in the same hour, the angle you bow at while saying it.
How these notes are split
One note per lesson, numbered as the course numbers them (101 through 114). That mirrors the deck and matches how the lessons are referred to in class, so “what did we do in 105?” has an answer. Lessons 107, 115 and 116 were review and assessment sessions with no new material, so they have no note of their own.
| # | Lesson | Language | Work culture |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 | Syllable formation, 21 vowels | Formal greeting, bowing |
| 2 | 102 | 19 consonants | Giving and receiving a name card |
| 3 | 103 | Consonant + vowel syllables | Thank you, sorry, it’s okay |
| 4 | 104 | Final consonants, part 1 | Saying goodbye at work |
| 5 | 105 | Final consonants, part 2; linking | Hold on, congratulations |
| 6 | 106 | Sentence structure | Names, titles, the hierarchy |
| — | 107 | Review — Hangul | — |
| 7 | 108 | 제 이름은 ___입니다 | Self-introduction at work |
| 8 | 109 | 저는 싱가포르 사람이에요 | Appropriate work attire |
| 9 | 110 | 저는 싱가포르 사람이 아니에요 | Yes/no expressions |
| 10 | 111 | 저는 회사에 가요 | Seating by seniority |
| 11 | 112 | 자동차가 있어요 | 눈치 at the workplace |
| 12 | 113 | 책임님이 어디에 있어요? | Table manners at company meals |
| 13 | 114 | 언제 회의해요? | Korean Wave |
| — | 115 | Review | — |
| — | 116 | Test assessment | — |
The deck prints dates for lessons 101–111 (5 May to 7 July 2026) but leaves 112, 113 and 114 undated. The notes for those three carry the following Tuesdays, which is the schedule continued, not a date the deck states.
Find a topic
The course sequence is not the lookup order. If you know what you want:
| Looking for | Go to |
|---|---|
| The vowels, and how a syllable block is assembled | 101 |
| The consonants; plain vs. aspirated vs. tensed | 102 |
| Reading practice words, C+V only | 103 |
| 받침 — final consonants and the seven sounds they collapse to | 104 |
| Why 한국어 sounds like han-gu-geo (linking, 연음) | 105 |
| Word order, particles, the six speech levels | 106 |
| 이에요 / 예요 / 입니다, and question words | 108 |
| The topic particle 은/는 | 109 |
| Negation — 아니에요; 네 and 아니요; 알겠습니다 | 110 |
| Present-tense verbs — 아요/어요/해요 and ㅂ니다/습니다 | 111 |
| The subject particle 이/가; 있어요 / 없어요 | 112 |
| Position words — 위, 밑, 옆, 안 | 113 |
| Numbers, months, days of the week, the particle 에 | 114 |
| Which seat to take in a meeting room, car, or lift | 111 |
| How to address a 책임 or a 상무 | 106 |
The assessment
A 25-question test closes the course, sent by email afterwards and required to complete it: 10 listening questions and 15 reading questions. Everything it can ask about is in lessons 101–114.
A note on the romanisation
The deck romanises with Revised Romanisation, and so do these notes — [an-nyeong-ha-se-yo],
syllable by syllable in square brackets. Treat it as a reading aid you should be
trying to stop needing. Where a spelling and its pronunciation diverge, the deck
writes the sound in Korean brackets instead: 한국어 [한구거]. That convention is
kept here, because the gap between those two is the entire subject of
lesson 105.