Time now for our "Life & Info" segment... where we focus on information useful for your everyday life whether you are in Korea or somewhere else around the world. <br />Today, we turn our focus to culture <br />And to explain what's going on in South Korea right now, we have our Won Jung-hwan in the studio for us. <br />Jung-hwan, what do you have for us today?<br />So Mark, before I go any further, how good is your Korean? And where and how do you practice it?<br />Wow that's pretty good Mark. <br />In fact, it is not so common yet,... but when I go around Seoul, I sometimes spot foreign visitors speaking the Korean language quite fluently. <br />Well nowadays, I could proudly say more and more foreigners are getting used to the language before they even come here,... thanks to the huge popularity of Korean culture and television dramas overseas. <br />But I always wondered,… how those foreigners "study" the language. <br />Indeed, to get a closer look into how foreigners do it, I went to the Korean Language Education Center at Seoul National University. <br />The institute was established in 1969 and aims to teach Korean language and culture to international students, intending to learn Korean language as a foreign language or their second language.<br />Over 28-thousand students from more than 90 countries have graduated from the programs laid out by the institute,... and the program invites some 5-hundred students every semester from overseas. <br />
