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This research centres on casual learners of Korean – those whose major is not Korean studies and yet are studying Korean. We examine the motivation of these people in learning Korean and their expectations with regards to cultural aspect in the training curriculum. In order to carry out the research project, we surveyed three representative training institutions with a total number of 500 learners and some trainers. We also examine the curriculum, textbooks that are being used in these institutions. Through the research, we are trying to argue that (1) there is a need to develop a separate Korean training curriculum for casual learners, (2) the cultural contents in the current curriculum are now linked to linguistic skill training and have not been made independently strong enough to meet the expectations of learners; (3) in order to obtain higher results in teaching Korean culture to learners, attention is needed to promote the comparative perspective between Vietnamese culture and Korean culture in cultural teaching.