Faculty of Korean Language and Literature

The mission of the Faculty, a centre of language and literature education and a training centre for writers and journalists, is to train competent specialists who are capable of solving theoretical and practical problems in the fields of literature, linguistics, national classics, creative writing and journalism.

It was separated from the Faculty of History in Juche 38(1949), was named the Faculty of Korean Language and Literature and became a college in Juche 89 (2000) and now returned to what it used to be.

The Faculty has seven departments, which includes the Literature Department, the Department of Korean Language, the Department of Screenplay Writing, the Department of Novel & Poetry, the Department of National Classics, the Journalism Department, the Department of Information Management and has the Office of Creative Writing.

It offer courses in Korean Literature, the Korean Language Studies, Film Scenario, Creative Writing, National Classics, Journalism, Archive Information and a special course for writers and journalists.

The main subjects include the Juche-based Theory of Literature, the History of Korean Literature, Contemporary Korean Literature, Modern Korean Literature, Ancient & Medieval Korean Literature, Orally-transmitted Literature, Literary Criticism, Dramaturgy, Screenwriting, Novel Writing, Poem Writing, Children's Literature Writing, Corpus Linguistics, Grammar, Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics, Lexicology, Stylistics, Korean Speaking, Network Journalism, Mass Media, the history of ancient publications, Metal and Stone Inscriptions in Korea, and Chinese Characters.

The Faculty of History has a staff of ninety lecturers and researchers including two academicians, one candidate academician and forty Doctors of Philosophy. Fifty of them have professorship or associate professorship.

It has about 1 000 students.

Introduction to Curriculum For Foreign Students

• Bachelor Programme
• Master Programme