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Critical Foreign Languages Education Promotion provides opportunities for diversified and specialized education in order to cultivate competent personnel equipped with the command of critical foreign languages

Critical Foreign Languages Education Promotion provides opportunities for diversified and specialized education in order to cultivate competent personnel equipped with the command of critical foreign languages

Critical Foreign Languages Education Promotion provides opportunities for diversified and specialized education in order to cultivate competent personnel equipped with the command of critical foreign languages

Critical Foreign Languages Education Promotion provides opportunities for diversified and specialized education in order to cultivate competent personnel equipped with the command of critical foreign languages

Critical Foreign Languages Education Promotion provides opportunities for diversified and specialized education in order to cultivate competent personnel equipped with the command of critical foreign languages

Critical Foreign Languages Education Promotion provides opportunities for diversified and specialized education in order to cultivate competent personnel equipped with the command of critical foreign languages

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ABOUT CFL

CFL (Critical Foreign Languages) Education Promotion

Purpose
Provide opportunities for diversified and specialized education to the citizens wishing to learn critical foreign languages through establishment of educational foundation
Cultivate competent personnel equipped with the command of critical foreign languages
Background
Enactment and implementation of Act on the Promotion of Education of Critical Foreign Languages and Enforcement Decree of the same Act (’16.8.2.)
Establishment of the 1st 5-Year Basic Plan (2017~2021) for Promotion of Critical Foreign Languages Education
Increase in the demand for manpower with professional level of competency in critical foreign languages in preparation for expansion into and interaction with national strategic areas
Need for generation of new employment opportunities including overseas employment and business start-up to resolve the issue of youth unemployment
Need for expansion of information on strategic countries and preparation for diversification of international exchanges

5 Core Performance Indicators of the 1st Stage (2017~2021) of the Project

Development of
Standard Curricula
Development of
K-MOOCs
Publication of
Standardized
Textbooks
Compilation of
Dictionaries
Establishment of
Official Language
Proficiency Tests

Specialized Educational Institution for Critical Foreign Languages (2018~2021)

Specialized Educational Institution for Critical Foreign Languages (2018~2021)
Target Languages
Dankook - Chungwoon
University Consortium		 (Total of 4 languages)
Arabic, Mongolian, Portuguese·Brazilian and Vietnamese
Busan University of
Foreign Studies		 (Total of 8 languages)
Arabic, Burmese, Hindi, Khmer, Indonesian·Malay, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese
Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies		 (Total of 11 languages)
Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian·Malay, Iranian, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese·Brazilian, Swahili, Thai, Turkish and Uzbek

ORGANIZATION

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  • President of National Instirute For International Education
  • Steering Committee of CFL Education Promotion
  • Director General of International Exchange and Cooperation
    Exchange and Cooperation
  • CFL Education Promotion Team
    Phone +82-2-3668-1420~2
    Fax +82-2-765-9947
    E-mail cfledu@korea.kr

CRITICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGES

List of 53 Critical Foreign Languages prescribed by Presidential Decree

  • Europe
  • Eurasia
  • Middle East-Africa
  • India-ASEAN
  • Latin America
특수외국어 언어별 정보 현황 으로 중동, 아프리카, 유라시아, 중남미 순으로 표시합니다.
Middle East·Africa Arabic , Turkish , Azerbaijani , Iranian , Pashto , Dari , Hebrew , Hausa , Swahili , Zulu , Kinyarwanda , Amharic
Eurasia Kazakh , Uzbek , Kyrgyz , Ukrainian , Turkmen , Tajik , Mongolian
India·ASEAN Hindi , Urdu , Sanskrit , Nepali , Bengali , Sinhalese , Vietnamese , Malay , Indonesian , Thao , Brumese , Khmer , Lao , Tagalog
Europe Polish , Romanian , Hungarian , Czech , Slovak , Serbian , Croatian , Latvian , Belarusian , Georgian , Greek , Bulgarian , Italian Dutch , Norwegian , Danish , Swedish , Finnish
Latin America Brazilian, Portuguese

* Highlighted languages are promoted in the first stage of the project.

SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Dankook University

  • Languages
    Arabic , Mongolian , Brazilian , Portuguese
  • Phone
    +82-41-550-3118
  • E-mail
    dkslmap123@dankook.ac.kr
  • Fax
    +82-41-559-7848
  • Website
    http://www.dankook.ac.kr
  • Address
    119, Dandae-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

Dankook-Chungwoon Consortium has been selected as one of the Specialized Educational Institutions for the Promotion of Critical Foreign Languages Education by the Ministry of Education in 2018. The Consortium is organized by 3 departments of Dankook University (departments of Mongolian Studies, Middle Eatern Studies, and Portuguese and Brazilian) and Department of Vietnamese of Chungwoon University.

The objectives of the Consortium are as follows:

1) Positioning the consortium as a regional hub in the capital area and the central part of Korea for the education of critical foreign languages
2) Opening the new Renaissance era and securing global competitiveness through the promotion of the education of critical foreign languages
3) Establishing smart education environment system and providing online education services 

Chungwoon University

Dankook-Chungwoon Consortium has been selected as one of the Specialized Educational Institutions for the Promotion of Critical Foreign Languages Education by the Ministry of Education in 2018. The Consortium is organized by 3 departments of Dankook University (departments of Mongolian Studies, Middle Eatern Studies, and Portuguese and Brazilian) and Department of Vietnamese of Chungwoon University.

The objectives of the Consortium are as follows:

1) Positioning the consortium as a regional hub in the capital area and the central part of Korea for the education of critical foreign languages
2) Opening the new Renaissance era and securing global competitiveness through the promotion of the education of critical foreign languages
3) Establishing smart education environment system and providing online education services 

Busan University of Foreign Studies

  • Languages
    Arabic , Turkish , Hindi , Vietnamese , Malay , Indonesian , Thai , Khmer
  • Phone
    +82-51-509-5366
  • E-mail
    icfl@bufs.ac.kr
  • Fax
    +82-51-509-6787
  • Website
    http://www.bufs.ac.kr
  • Address

Busan University of Foreign Studies has established a specialized educational institution under the name of CFL(Critical Foreign Language). This project  includes 8 foreign languages of ‘Thai’, ‘Indonesian and Bahasa Malay’, ‘Vietnamese’, ‘Burmese’, ‘Khmer’, ‘Arabic’, ‘Hindi’, and ‘Turkish’. The Institute of Critical Foreign Languages(ICFL) under the supervision of The Organization of Critical Foreign Languages focuses on general operation and management.
The Main objective of ICFL lies not only on building educational platform for CFL base expansion and providing various professional education opportunities for critical foreign language learners, but also focuses on leading local globalization in Southeast Korea by fostering critical foreign language experts.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

  • Languages
    Turkish , Iranian , Swahili , Uzbek , Mongolian , Malay , Indonesian , Thai , Polish , Hungarian , Brazilian , Portuguese
  • Phone
    +82-2-2173-2843~6
  • E-mail
    cfle@hufs.ac.kr
  • Fax
  • Website
    http://cfle.hufs.ac.kr
  • Address
    107, Imun-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea

HUFS was designated an educational organization for critical foreign languages by the Ministry of Education and the National Institute for International Education with the enactment of the Act on the Promotion of Education of Critical Foreign Languages in 2017. CFL aims to open up ample opportunities for Korean people to learn critical foreign languages and to offer related courses that can be accessed easily by all who are interested. We will provide high-quality education in critical foreign languages by capitalizing on our expertise in foreign language education and proficiency assessment, high-caliber faculty, and close partnerships with educational institutions and prominent figures from around the world.