This research aims to provide education balanced between tradition and modern culture in order to assist foreigners in enhancing their cultural capabilities and Korean communication skills.
For the main research, a review on previous researches on traditional Korean culture, the means to educate traditional rites and Oh Young Jin's 'Folklore Trilogy' has been conducted throughout Chapter I. From this examination, the necessity of traditional rites education and the adequacy of Oh Young Jin's 'Folklore Trilogy' as a education material has been confirmed.
Chapter II is focused on traditional rites featured in Oh Young Jin's 'Folklore Trilogy' and its characteristics, the main education material of this paper. Oh Young Jin's 'Folklore Trilogy' is the collection of 〈Festivity of the Maeng Family〉, 〈Baebaengi-gut〉, 〈The Ascension of Han-ne〉, which is one of the means to effectively introduce traditional wedding, funeral and ancestral ritual rites of Korea. In order to provide traditional rites education for foreigners, traditional wedding rites described in 〈Festivity of the Maeng Family〉, funeral rites in 〈Baebaengi-gut〉 and the portrayal of ancestral ritual rites from 〈The Ascension of Han-ne〉 were analyzed. The background of 'Folklore Trilogy' can be identified within Korean traditions in both time and place. 'Folklore Trilogy' can be recommended as an effective education material for foreign students on the grounds that it is equipped with folkish themes, has didactic endings to encourage the good and punish the evil, and shares the satire and humor shown in many traditional Korean literatures by caricaturing characters.
A teaching scenario has been built around Oh Young Jin's 'Folklore Trilogy' for traditional rites education. While providing in-depth understanding of Korean traditions for foreign learners is the main objective of this scenario, education for the backgrounds, characters, incidents, structures and compositions of story in each piece has been also considered. Extra curriculum of 12 weeks in total has been designed for high level general learners, 4 weeks for each teaching scenario of wedding rits, funeral rites and ancestral ritual rites. The 1st and 3rd week of a scenario will involve theoretical education, whereas the 2nd and 4th week will provide practical education through field experience studies. 2 theoretical lectures will focus on understanding the historical backgrounds of each piece, grasping the personalities and ideas of characters through text, and reciting the course of plots to comprehend the whole story. Activities related to idiomatic expressions and proverbs, debates and writing session using articles concerning the themes of each pieces were also proposed in the theoretical lectures. Watching movie, role play, and traditional rites related experience will take place in 2 field experience studies.
The significance of this research is that Korean traditions such as wedding, funeral and ancestral ritual rites are planted in the teaching scenario for extra curriculum to provide in-depth introduction to Korean culture by understanding traditional rites inherent within modern culture. Through this extra curriculum, foreign learners can compare traditions of their own country with those of Korea, while be provided with integrated Korean education of speaking, reading, writing, and listening through discussion, writing and role play. Efficient Korean cultural education which theory and practice are both properly utilized can be expected to take place when combined with field experience studies and cultural experiences.