New member here, offering tutoring in Korean. I would love to see the Korean language grow in academia and am willing to support you all in your Korean learning experience. I have residency in Korea and accounts necessary to import books at a very low shipping cost and no import tax. Shipping is done by Fedex and usually arrives in 5 days. Let me know what you would be interested in and I can get it for you. The only thing I would charge extra is the international fee I get hit for using my credit card with an overseas company, usually 3% of the total purchase. Shipping is usually only $12-$15, and I’ve gotten packages as fast as 2 days.
Books I’d recommend for learning Korean:
연세 대학교 출판사 한국어 영어판 1-6 (Korean by Yonsei University Publishing, English Version)
Note: #3 switches to all korean about halfway through the book, and 4+ are all in Korean
Chinese Characters: A Radical Approach - James C. Whitlock Jr. - an AMAZING book for learning the roots of chinese based Korean vocabulary
Thats a great one, it’s on the list I mentioned above. Extremely basic, but it takes the most simple conversations and then breaks down explanations of all the grammar it had and the vocabulary and then gives you tons of examples with the grammar. The new ones are even a little hybrid workbook/textbook style. They even have a CD with all the conversations recorded by native koreans.
The reason I always suggest Yonsei University’s Korean books is because they were the first University in Korea to offer Korean courses for foreigners. They wrote the book on Korean Language education. The books don’t pace you but work as a reference and also as a sequenced learning tool as such the beginning of book 1 is for someone who doesn’t know anything at all, and the end of book 6 involves extremely difficult graduate student level readings and reviews.