The second half of the introductory Korean course at HMGICS (Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore), taught by Janel Yun. It continues directly from Basic 1A, which ran lessons 101–116 and got as far as reading Hangul and building a simple present-tense sentence.
The stated goal moves on accordingly: communicate in Korean about common topics in daily life, and gain an understanding of Korean working culture. 1A was mostly about being able to read at all. 1B is about being able to say when, how many, and whether it already happened.
1B meets twice a week — Tuesday 09:00–10:00 and Thursday 15:30–16:30 — where 1A met once. Sixteen lessons therefore take eight weeks rather than sixteen.
How these notes are split
One note per lesson, numbered as the course numbers them (117 through 130). Lessons 123, 131 and 132 were review and assessment sessions with no new material, so they have no note of their own.
| # | Lesson | Language | Work culture |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 117 | Sino-Korean numbers; -(으)세요 | Korean money |
| 2 | 118 | Native Korean numbers; 비음화 | Self-introduction, age, zodiac |
| 3 | 119 | Counters; 몇; N하고 N | Making a request |
| 4 | 120 | 첫째 / 첫 번째; weeks of the month | Public holidays |
| 5 | 121 | Past tense -았어요/었어요/했어요 | Special days |
| 6 | 122 | 에 vs 에서 | Provinces of South Korea |
| — | 123 | Review — 117 to 122 | — |
| 7 | 124 | Weather; negation with 안 | The education system, 수능 |
| 8 | 125 | Dates; 며칠 / 무슨 요일; ㅡ and ㅂ irregulars | — |
| 9 | 126 | Telling the time | 국 · 탕 · 찌개 · 전골 |
| 10 | 127 | V-(으)ㄹ까요? | Unique Korean food |
| 11 | 128 | -아요/어요 as a suggestion; N하고 같이 | Useful expressions |
| 12 | 129 | 그리고 / 그래서 / 그러면 | Useful expressions |
| 13 | 130 | Future tense V-(으)ㄹ 거예요 | Talking about future plans |
| — | 131 | Review — Korean tenses | — |
| — | 132 | Test assessment | — |
The 1B deck prints no dates. Its lesson plan has a Tuesday column and a Thursday column, but every cell in both is blank — unlike the 1A deck, which dated lessons 101–111. The dates on these notes are the stated twice-weekly pattern continued from the end of 1A, and they are a reconstruction, not something the deck states. The order is right; the individual Tuesdays may not be.
Find a topic
The course sequence is not the lookup order. If you know what you want:
| Looking for | Go to |
|---|---|
| 일, 이, 삼 — and why 만 is 10,000 rather than a thousand | 117 |
| Telling someone to do something politely — -(으)세요 | 117 |
| 하나, 둘, 셋 — and where they stop | 118 |
| Why 입니다 is heard as imnida (비음화) | 118 |
| Introducing yourself properly; age, 살, 띠 | 118 |
| Counters — 개, 명, 병, 잔, 마리 — and the five numbers that change shape | 119 |
| Arranging a meeting by message or call | 119 |
| 첫째 vs 첫 번째; the first week of the month | 120 |
| Korean public holidays and 국경일 | 120 |
| The past tense | 121 |
| 에 or 에서? | 122 |
| Weather vocabulary; saying something is not the case | 124 |
| Dates, 며칠, 무슨 요일; the ㅡ and ㅂ irregular verbs | 125 |
| What time is it — and which number system each half uses | 126 |
| Suggesting something — 먹을까요? | 127 |
| 약속 vs 예약 | 127 |
| Accepting and declining an invitation | 128 |
| Joining two sentences — 그리고 / 그래서 / 그러면 | 129 |
| The future tense; weekend plans | 130 |
What 1B assumes you already have
Everything in 1A, but four things carry most of the weight and are worth re-reading first:
- Reading Hangul at all, including 받침 and linking — 104 and 105.
- The present tense, -아요/어요/해요. Every new tense in 1B is built by swapping this ending — 111.
- Particles. 은/는, 이/가, 을/를 all reappear immediately, and 에 gets a second job in 125 — 106.
- Titles and speech levels. 책임님 and 부장님 are throughout the dialogues — 106.
The assessment
Same format as 1A: a 25-question test, sent by email after the course and required to complete it — 10 listening questions and 15 reading questions. Everything it can ask about is in lessons 117–130.
A note on the romanisation
Unchanged from 1A. Revised Romanisation in square brackets,
[an-nyeong-ha-se-yo], syllable by syllable, and where a spelling and its
pronunciation diverge the deck writes the sound in Korean brackets instead:
입니다 [임니다]. 1B leans on that second convention much harder than 1A did,
because most of what changes is now happening at the end of a word rather than
inside it.