Ms Jeong Yoon Ku

Jeong Yoon Ku is an associate lecturer at the School of Culture, History, and Language and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Drawing upon her research background in applied linguistics, her current research investigates the representation of Korean food in the Korean government's promotional materials and explores how Korean food is perceived by diverse audiences in Australia.

In addition to her research activities, she has extensive experience teaching Korean language and culture at various levels and contexts, receiving recognition through multiple awards for teaching excellence (2016 ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Tutoring and 2015 College of Asia and the Pacific Award for Excellence in Language Teaching).

Korean Linguistics, Pragmatics, Language Teaching & Learning, Sociolinguistics, Multimodality and Social Semiotics