Korean professor puts her job at stake to save Hindi language in Korea



Dr. Son Yeon Woo, a Korean native and Hindi language professor at Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS) in South Korea has put her foot down against the management that is hell-bent to drop Hindi language courses from the next academic session starting March.

Dr. Son who has been teaching Hindi to Korean students at BUFS in Busan since 2018, has refused to give her consent on the restructured curriculum, which dropped Hindi language studies to almost to its closure.

It is because of her refusal to give her consent as head of the Hindi language department, the university administration has not been able to release the restructured curriculum, which it was supposed to on November 13 initially. Later the date of declaration of the new curriculum was changed to December 28 but it could not materialize as Dr. Son stuck to her stance. Read more...

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