Soo-Koung Jun

By Soo-Koung Jun

As of 2020, in Korea, as 72.5% of high-school graduates go on to college and college period has an impact on the social development of Korean youth, it is very important to increase the sense of happiness of college students. However, there are new terminologies to express the situation in which how young people in Korea feel the difficulties in their lives, such as “Hell Chosun, 88-Dollar-Generation, N-Give-up-Generation, and Spoon-Social-Rank.” This chapter summarizes the factors related to the happiness of college students in South Korea, such as depression, interpersonal relationships, and self-efficacy, to suggest educational programs to promote the happiness of young people in Korea.

Part of the book: Happiness and Wellness

By Soo-Koung Jun and Sook Hee Ryue

In Korea, emotional intelligence is based on the concept and components proposed by John Mayer and Peter Salovey, and the model proposed by Professor Moon Yong-Rin is the most widely used. Moon Young-Rin defined the concept of emotional intelligence as the ability of mental process to evaluate and express one’s own emotions of others, to regulate emotions, and to use emotions in a socially adaptive way. 4 domain 16 factor model is the most widely used in Korea: Recognition and expression of emotions; Emotional thinking promotion; Use of emotional knowledge; and Reflective regulation of emotions. Emotional intelligence is reported to be deeply related to creative disposition and positively correlated with academic achievement. For healthy student education, the measurement, education, and training of emotional intelligence should be studied and improved continually in Korean society. Future researches to find out Koreans’ unique emotions and structure are hoped to continued.

Part of the book: Emotion Recognition

By Soo-Koung Jun

This chapter reviews the current operation of Korea Open Course Ware (KOCW) and Korean Massive Open Online Course (K-MOOC), which have emerged as Open Courseware in Korea and show the empirical research on the students’ opinion of usefulness and future participation willingness to K-MOOC non-credit program and the students’ satisfaction with an online program in N university. Korean OCW starting in 2007 has received content from universities and institutions, and shared educational materials in the form of videos, documents, or e-learning. Korea also started MOOC in 2015, like KOCW. The college students at N University highly recognize the usefulness of K-MOOC and have the willingness to participate in KMOOC program in the future. Both learners and instructors can use open courseware according to various purposes and interests, suggesting the continuous development of open courseware for lifelong learning in South Korea.

Part of the book: Massive Open Online Courses - Current Practice and Future Trends