I recently attended the Korean language learning school at Sogang University in Seoul. It lasts for about two months and is 4 hours of intense study Monday thru Friday.

I think it was really helpful. Let me give you some pros and cons.

Pros-
• excellent teachers and a "Korean only" classroom atmosphere
• If you study, you can learn a lot of Korean in two months
• excellent text books for real world conversation
• extra help classes for free covering vocab and pronunciation

Cons-
• expensive (for me it was) about 1 mil ₩
• difficult to fit in your schedule if you were teaching full time like me
• very intensive. I fell behind after the first week and never fully recovered

Overall, I would recommend it because I really learned a lot of new Korean from these classes. And I even made some good friends there in the process!

Here is a cool site that has some free goodies. survivalphrases.com This site offers a ton of languages but, of course, w are concerned with the Korean site. These are the same folks that brought you Korean Class 101 and they are really quite funny in these podcasts. They focus mainly on basic greetings such as "Hello," "Thank you," and "Where is the bathroom?"

Check this place out if you want some introductory phrases to get you going with Korean. As with korean class 101. there is a premium option. I tried this one too. This one was a lot cheaper than the 101 class. You can get a lifetime membership for 25 bucks. What a deal! Well the reason is you don't get as much content as the 101 class but what you do get is really good. Try this option if you enjoy the free podcast and want to expand you knowledge base concerning some introductory phrases.

This is the site that I use the most. It's Korean Class 101. This site has a lot of resources for beginners to the advanced. I wanted to try this site out and it has a free podcast to get you started if you don't want to pay any $$. I listened to the podcast for a few months and I really liked the personalities of the teachers. There is always a native speaker matched with a foreign speaker. The episodes are short and well done. They are good about reviewing each word and adding cultural insight during each lesson.

I decided to try the pay service out so I signed up for 2 year access to all their content. This was a whopping $240.00 but that actually comes out to $10.00 a month which makes it easier to justify. What you get for that is SOOOO much. You get a ton of podcasts that cover a wide range of topics (hundreds of them). You get PDFs of all the lessons which I like to print out to read on the subway or whenever I have time. You get a lot of other extras I can't recall as I write this but it has really been worth it so far. I'll let you know after the two years if it really made any serious impact.

If your not willing to pay for the premium service, I would highly recommend at least visiting the site and going through the free lessons. I think you will enjoy it.