 Hello, my name is Grace Koh and I teach Korean Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures here at SOAS. Welcome to my video. I am the convener of the Literary Traditions and Culture of Korea and I'm here to just briefly introduce you to the module today. So, this module is a 15 credit course, usually taught in term one. And as a level five module, it can be taken by students in the pre-final or final year of the degrees. It is one of the non-language Korean options for BA Korean and Korean Studies degrees, but it can also be taken as an open option by any student of other BA degrees. No prior knowledge of Korean language or literature is required as all texts of the course are in English translation. Any student interested in examining Korean culture and history through its diverse literary traditions is welcome to take this module. Now, the module is taught over 10 weeks and each weekly session consists of a one-hour lecture and a one-hour seminar. And each week there's a set of literary works and secondary sources assigned. And through them and through the classes, we examine Korea's rich literary heritage, culture and developments through the following syllabus, which considers the relationship between orality and literacy, history and literature, public and private, and memory and identity. So as you can see in the table, under the four broad topics that I mentioned just before, we will be looking at specific topics pertaining to them, such as vernacular and literary language, text and performance, and then historical realities and imagined truths, sociopolitical dimensions and literatures, networks of literary exchange and knowledge circulation between private memory and public history, norms, emotions and narrative voice, and finally, cultural memory and literary history. Through this syllabus, the module aims to provide students with the skills to read, analyze and discuss different forms of traditional Korean literature against past as well as present socio-historical context. In the lectures, the convener, I, provide key information and perspectives on the assigned texts and topics, while in the seminars, the students, you, will be asked to share your reactions to the readings in small groups, which form the basis of further discussion as a class. Now, faithful attendance and diligent reading preparations will help you to get most out of the lectures, to acquire knowledge, to content, and active seminar participation will help develop your analytical and presentation skills. Now, the summative assessment for this module consists of one textual analysis or reaction paper, due just before reading week, and then one group presentation in the last class session, and finally, one research paper due on the first day of the following term. For further details and information, please check the module webpage. Or if you have any questions, also please feel free to contact me on my email, gk5atsoas.ac.uk. Thank you very much for your attention.