King Sejong Institute San Francisco

I’m in my third week of classes for K10 Basic Korean – less than halfway through – and I’m proud to say that I’m no longer illiterate! (More like… semi-​literate. Soon to be literate.)
The building is really neat, the courses are a great value with a good class size, and teacher Eunice Kim /​is really talented!

I have been studying level 1 (absolute beginner) Korean for a little over a month now and am amazed how much I’ve learned. I studied independently using language books for 6 weeks before deciding to sign up for the class because I had heard King Sejong Institute provides a community and cultural experience on top of language classes.
And that is exactly what you get! It’s so much more than just a language course (which by the way, is fantastic. By the end of the first 3 hour class, I could read hangul — be it very slowly, but I could read! MUCH MORE PROGRESS than studying by myself for 6 weeks in ONE CLASS!)
There’s always events that you can go to, korean movie screenings, korean cooking classes, special cultural ceremonies, and it’s just such a fun place to learn that you make friends quickly who are also interested in Korean cultural and language.
I can’t recommend this place enough. I know that the price is a bit high at about $ 400 for a 4 month class — especially for recreational language learners (I just wanted to watch Kdramas without having to read subtitles!!) — but it is completely worth it. You learn so much, so quickly, and you gain more than just a language course.
I will be signing up for level 2 and 3.