The Korea Foundation organized the 2018 Workshop for Korean Language Educators in Asia at the National University of Singapore on July 27 and 28 to enhance the quality of Korean language education outside of Korea.

Held jointly with the International Association for Korean Language Education (IAKLE), the workshop was for teachers of Korean language in ten Asian countries and three Middle Eastern countries. Concurrent with the workshop, a program to improve professional skills was offered to visiting professors of Korean language dispatched by the Korea Foundation. The number of the participants reached about 50.

The workshop in Singapore was attended by many educators of Korean language in South East Asian countries including Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia. Southeast Asia is a representative region that has led the boom in Korean studies since the beginning of the 2000s. The number of universities that opened Korean studies courses went up from 29 in 2007 to 132 in 2017, showing a drastic 455 percent increase during a decade.

The workshop was composed of programs designed to offer practical assistance to classroom education abroad, including presentations on the status of Korean studies/ language education in major Asian countries, discussions on improvement, and special lectures on the most recent teaching methods for Korean language understanding applicable to Korean language education and on the development of teaching materials and evaluation questions in consideration of educational environment abroad.