Korean American Center — Attraction in Irvine

Overall: 5 Stars This group is great. The leaders and core members of this group make you feel welcome and you learn a lot here. This started as a Meetup group but now it is so different than any Meetup group you find. They offer three tracks you can go on depending on your level. They have a formal Korean Lesson track where they do Korean language classes from an actual teacher. This track is great for beginners and lets people have somewhere to start other than an expensive language school or at home in Orange County. They have an advanced-beginner Korean Learning track where they focus on more basic Korean conversational skills and more advanced grammar for people who want to improve their Korean beyond the basics. Then they have an advanced track called Korean Language Exchange, in which you will spend the entire time practicing speaking in Korean and sometimes helping Korean nationals to speak English.

The people: 5 Stars The leadership and the core members are very friendly and the rest of the group are friendly as well. They help you with whatever you need, but you are expected to participate as well. This group can get quite large so you may not be able to meet everyone, but they also hold after group hangouts directly afterwards in where you can meet more people.

The Korean Language Exchange: 4-5 Stars The reason why its not a straight 5 stars is because this group is all about what you put into it. What I mean is if you participate and get involved with the learning process, you will get a lot out of it. If you just attend and do nothing and just listen, you won't be getting the best experience.

Korean Class: 5 Stars These are great. Formal instruction in the beginner track and semi-formal instruction in the advanced beginner track. You get a lot out of it.

Organization: 5 Stars This group seems to really care about promoting Korean language in a non invasive way. You get to understand the language more, learn some interesting factoids on the way, and improve your Korean!

*All tracks are for adults only and focus on language exchange, Korean Lessons, and Korean...

Thank you to the Irvine Korean American Center for providing the community the opportunity to learn the Korean language and cultural history. The instructors are amazing. The center provides a unique language learning experience; from Fundamentals to extensive learning levels. Classes provide integrated cultural events; such as, Korean Game Night, Traditional artisan events like the beautiful Korean gift wrapping tradition of Bojagi; as well as, a variety of other hands on classes and events. Immersion trips to Korea and local community Korean cultural events are just some of the many highlights KAC has to offer. Thank you Korean American Center for giving the city of Irvine this monumental gift of Learning and immersion; helping to bridge and engage with the numerous cultures and languages our amazing city shares. M.B....

I had a really bad experience trying to learn Korean here. English is my second language and the accent of the lead teacher was strong and hard for me to understand, I messaged her a couple of times asking for guidance, and telling her that I needed clarification about somethings but I never got an answer. The younger teacher spoke very clear and she gave us many tips and ways to learn and understand the sounds. She corrected me when needed and helped me with the right pronunciation, she was amazing, unfortunately she was not in charge. The methodology is all over the place, I learned more from the book they asked to get that what I learn with the classes. I emailed the teacher about not wanted to continue because of these things but she never...