Seeing the rising demand of learning Korean Language, KCCI announces to conduct TOPIK twice a year.

January 3, 2022

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03^rd January 2022, New Delhi: Korean Cultural Centre India announces to conduct TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) twice a year seeing the tremendous rise in demand of learning Korean Language. The online application for topic which opened today got filled in record time of 15 minutes.

This year 81^st TOPIK will be conducted on 10^th April, 2022 nationwide and will have test centers each in New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jharkhand, and Manipur. Due to COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing guidelines in India, each center will have limited number of seats.

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The Director of Korean Cultural Centre India, Mr. Hwang Il-Yong said, “It can be seen from Duolingo’s 2021 worldwide statistics that Korean is the seventh most popular foreign language out of a total of 19 foreign languages provided by Duolingo. Korean has also been named the fastest-growing language in India by Duolingo. Therefore, in 2022, we are planning to conduct TOPIK twice: Once in April (81^st TOPIK) and another in July (83^rd TOPIK).”

Today, the online application for the 81st TOPIK was filled up in a period of 5 minutes for TOPIK I and 15 minutes for TOPIK II. The TOPIK application was done online through Google Forms. The forms for each center were opened exactly at 9 AM and the seats for all the 5 centers were filled within 15 minutes.

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The demand of learning the Korean Language is increasing very rapidly due to the rise of the Hallyu wave nationwide. It was seen this time too when the TOPIK online applications were filled instantly. Centre had not conducted TOPIK for two consecutive years (2020 and 2021) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jawaharlal Nehru University – New Delhi, Hyundai R&D Center – Hyderabad, Telangana, InKo Center – Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Manipur University – Imphal, Manipur, and Central University of Jharkhand – Ranchi, Jharkhand will be the test centers for conducting 81^st TOPIK this year.