The Seoul Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology (aSSIST) announced on the 5th that it successfully held the '2025 Russian and CIS Korean Language Competition and National Council' from the 21st to the 25th of last month.
This event, hosted by the Korean Educational Institute in Almaty, Kazakhstan, consisted of a Korean teacher lesson competition and a student Korean speaking competition. Teachers and learners selected from six countries in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) participated in this event.
The Seoul Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology explained that the event was not just a simple language skills competition but also a place to examine and encourage the relevance and sustainability of Korean language education. In the teacher lesson competition, six Korean teachers who passed the preliminaries from their respective educational institutions demonstrated lessons, while the student speaking competition was divided into middle and high school and university sectors, with a total of 10 participants competing in the finals. Participants presented using practical Korean according to the assigned topics, demonstrating their understanding and expressive abilities in Korean.
The grand prize in the teacher sector of this competition was awarded to Ms. Kuttmanalr Kyz Nurguz, a teacher from the Korean Educational Institute in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Ms. Nurguz received high praise from the judges for designing a lesson that naturally helped students learn vocabulary by utilizing situations that students could easily relate to and encouraging them to construct sentences using word cards.
In the student speaking competition, the grand prize in the middle and high school sector was awarded to Kaiрат Tolebayev from School No. 110 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, while the grand prize in the university sector was awarded to Alina Mirlanbek Kyz from Central Asia Korean University in Kyrgyzstan.
Choi Yong-joo, president of the Seoul Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, said, 'Teaching and learning a language can become an opportunity to expand one's life scope beyond simple education.' Kim Hong-hwan, head of the Korean Educational Institute in Almaty, noted, 'This was not just a simple competition but an opportunity for participants to interact and enjoy together.'
The Seoul Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology plans to strengthen cooperation with Korean language educational institutions in the Russian and CIS regions through the K Language Business Group as a result of this competition. It also aims to establish a sustainable educational network through follow-up training and scholarship linkage programs.