About Authors
(in alphabetical order)
- Haewon Cho is a Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Director of the Korean Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She has coauthored several textbooks and reference books, including the first edition of the You Speak Korean! series, the Topics in Korean Language and Culture series, and Task-Based Business Korean for Professionals. When she is not teaching, she enjoys cooking, taking walks to explore her neighborhood, reading webtoons, and traveling.
- Emily Curtis holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and an Ed.D. from the University of Washington. teaches general linguistics, phonology and morphology at Western Washington University and is the lead author of Korean Hangul for Beginners. She is also co-author of the You Speak Korean! series (first edition) and Korean Grammar.
- Mijeong Kim is a Teaching Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Washington University in St. Louis. She has coauthored the engaging folktale-based textbook, Tigers, Fairies, and Gods: Enchanting Folktales from Korea, as well as Advanced Korean. Beyond academia, she finds joy in crafting quilts, and takes pleasure in narratives with happy endings and crime investigations.
- Soohee Kim holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Washington, where she taught Korean language, culture and literature for 17 years. She is the author of Korean Flash Cards, and the lead author of the You Speak Korean! series (first edition) and Korean Grammar. She also coauthored Korean Hangul for Beginners.
- Angela Lee-Smith is Senior Lector II of Korean in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She has coauthored several books for language learners, including the Korean for Overseas Koreans series, Open Your Ears Wide, and Enchanting Folktales from Korea. She actively shares her pedagogical articles through academic books and journals. With a dedication to teacher education, curriculum design, assessments, and material development, her pedagogical practice and research interests encompass the cultivation of multiliteracies, interculturality, performance, and project-based learning.
