DOI 10.55206/OZDD1498
Spas Rangelov
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea, College of National Strategic Languages
Email: spas_rangelov@hufs.ac.kr
Abstract: The article presents the author’s autoethnographic observation and analysis of his experience teaching regional-studies subjects in the Bulgarian-studies major at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Korea. The research covers the past seven years, which have been characterized by a number of changes and reforms at the university and unplanned events such as the global COVID-19 pandemic. The author examines the cultural peculiarities of teaching groups where students come from different cultures, as well as overcoming the communication challenges that various factors create. The article is practical and methodological in nature, presenting information related to academic communication in specific intercultural contexts. Teaching methods, changes in them, and the updating of curricula in an academic environment as a result of a number of factors are presented both chronologically and through the prism of university management and the organization of the teaching process for individual subjects.
Keywords: regional-studies subjects, Bulgarian studies, intercultural communication, communication in education, autoethnography
Rhetoric and Communications Journal, issue 65, October 2025