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The purpose of this paper is to find out what kinds of teaching and learning methods are suitable for those who learn Korean with specific needs and purposes not like those who study abroad in Korea with academic purposes. A group of thirty Chinese government workers participated in this study. They spent three to six months studying Korean. They wanted to improve their Korean in order to use it in their work places. Also their interest in the Korean popular culture motivated them to learn the Korean language. Therefore teaching methods should be geared to help them learn how to speak Korean according to different linguistic and cultural contexts. The learning of vocabulary should meet their specific needs and especially the learning of the culture as well as the learning of the target language itself should be emphasized. As there will be more people from other countries who would like to learn from the Korean movement for a better life(Saemaul movement) enacted about three decades ago, more studies of this kind are expected to be done.