Joowon Suh

Joowon Suh is a Senior Lecturer in Korean and the Director of the Korean Language Program. She is also the coordinator of the EALAC Language Programs. Prior to joining Columbia in 2017, she taught at Princeton University as Senior Lecturer and Director of the Korean Language Program.

In collaboration, she revised the KLEAR Integrated Korean Textbook Series and created both second and third edition of the accompanying workbook series. She also served on the task forces that created Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Korean (2012) and College Korean Curriculum Inspired by National Standards for Korean (2015).

She served as President of the American Association of Teachers of Korean in 2018-21. She is currently serving on the editorial boards of The Education of Korean Language and Language and Information Society and as a reviewer for L2 Journal, The Korean Language in America and Journal of Less Commonly Taught Languages.