✔ Contents of Research (2nd year)

✔ Contents of Research (2^nd year)

1.    Research Objectives (2^nd year)

(1)    The first objective is the raise the awareness and the standing of Korean studies from the academic aspects. This will be achieved through the research, the presentations and the promotion of the current project. Through this academic work, various materials in each country, concerning the other one, will be disclosed to the world.

(2)    The second objective concerns the education and the involvement in the project of the specialists majoring in Korean studies and those teaching them. Korean has just recently become a second language in the foreign language education at the Macedonian university and in order for its status to be raised to that of a department, a support from Korea (projects like the present one) and the cooperation of the scholars is needed.

(3)    The third objective is to encourage the Macedonian students to study Korean language and to support the associate researchers in this project through providing respectively scholarships and research benefits, which will motivate them and help them feel the necessity of Korean studies.

(4)    The fourth objective is the setting up of an international network between Korea and Macedonia. With initiatives of The Academy of Korean Studies, the foundations of the international network have been laid, but more active support and cooperation is required for the future.

2.    Contents and scope of Research (2^nd year)

Through those records from 1^st year, the researchers will get acquainted with each other’s country and will be able to research and develop the most effective method of intercultural communication. This method will be applied in education programs in Korean language and Korean studies. It will also play the role of a measuring stuck in assessing the relative importance of different policies when building the infrastructure for the enlarging of the foundations of Korean studies (This is the main objective for the second year of the research period.)

Based on a general methodology on establishing the foundations of Korean studies, the current research has the ultimate goal of aiding the founding of a major in Korean language (or a Department of Korean language) at the Macedonian university, for the promotion of Korean studies in Macedonia, their consequent development and expansion, and on the grounds of that, the intensifying of the exchange of human and material resources between the two countries.