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Preface

This book is the follow-on volume to Elementary Korean, published by Tuttle Publishing. For detailed background about the making of this textbook series, please refer to the preface in Elementary Korean.

Like Elementary Korean, Continuing Korean owes much to the comments and criticisms of several cohorts of students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and at the University of British Columbia (UBC), during the years 1990–2001. Likewise, Continuing Korean has benefited from valuable feedback on the part of numerous colleagues in Korea, Great Britain, the United States, and Canada. We have acknowledged most of these debts in the preface to Elementary Korean but would like to take this opportunity to record our gratitude to the following UBC Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Sessional Lecturers who have contributed in numerous ways to the making of Continuing Korean: Jee-Weon Shin (TA, 1996–1997 academic year); Soowook Kim (academic years 1997–1999; 2000–2002), Dafna Zur (1999–2000). In addition, Sunah Park Cho made numerous helpful criticisms during the years 1998–2000 while working as webmaster for the UBC Korean Language Program Web sites, Susie (Yunju) Cho and Victoria Wilding helped compile the glossaries and exercise answer key and Mookyung Kim, Soowook Kim, and Victoria Wilding proofread the manuscript several times. We gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and criticisms of Eurie Shin, Alexander Vovin, Michael Sinclair and Charles Danziger in producing the revised 2015 edition. Finally, we are grateful to Sunah Cho, Sun Hyang Jung, Ilsung Lee and Soowook Kim for providing their voice talents for the audio, and to Frank Ludwig and Al Farrell of Quantum Sound Studio and Frank Talk Publishing, Ltd., for their expert assistance in producing and editing the audio recordings.

We would be delighted to hear more feedback, positive or negative, from future users of this book. Please contact us at the addresses below:

Ross King

Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC

Asian Centre

1871 West Mall

Vancouver, B. C. (Canada)

email: ross.king@ubc.ca.

Jaehoon. Yeon

Centre of Korean Studies

SOAS, University of London

Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square

London WC1H OXG (U.K.)

email: jyl@soas.ac.uk